Last year marked the beginning of my home remodeling project. I decided to start in the kitchen and get that part out of the way. Here is a picture of the kitchen looking from the den.
This shows the cabinet that was installed over the breakfast bar. There was only about 24" of clearance between the counter top and the bottom of the cabinet. When you were in the kitchen you felt that you were isolated from the den. To see into the den you had to bend over the cabinet and be careful not to hit your head. Unfortunately, I failed to start taking picture until I was well into the project.
Here is one of the first pictures I took of the remodel project.
As you can see, I have removed the cornice board around the top of the cabinet. The original was plywood that had been wallpapered. It looked like crap. I framed the top in and after rewiring the under cabinet lights so that the wiring was behind the cornice board I covered the area with 1/4" sheet rock.
This gave a much smoother appearance to the top of the cabinet area.
We also installed a new LG Dishwasher:
Here is the before and after pictures of the original windows over the sink and the replacement windows:
As we came into Jan of 08, things begin to take shape and come together. The following are some pictures of the finished kitchen sections:
New recessed lighting was installed along with new counter tops.
