My Wife, the Kitchen Magician

Start with the lower left picture, with my wife and our contractor looking over the kitchen when we bought it.
Move clockwise to the "in progress" picture, then feast your eyes on the finished product.

The kitchen was less than inspiring when we purchased the home, and the tile floor had to go. New wood flooring throughout cured that. The popcorn ceiling had to go. A very talented guy skip troweled the entire house in 12 hours, and only charged $1,600 to do it - a fantastic price for an even more fantastic result. The kitchen had an adjoining breakfast room. Breakfast rooms are so 80's, but the house was built in 1988, so "out with the old, in with the new". Gone was the "pass-through" and replaced with a wall, where additional cabinets could be placed, and the breakfast room became "the office". The old dishwasher....gone. The old microwave.....gone. The old garbage disposal.....gone. Granite replaced the counter-top, and a new sink and hardware replaced what had been there since 1988.

When I said "sure, go ahead and make this place yours" my wife took my word and my wallet to the test. The new cabinets feature pull out drawers, and after two months we still have empty space for storage. The new refrigerator has exactly what she wanted, and what mama wants, mama gets.

The whole place turned out just perfect