our kitchen

veni

vedi

vici

we purchased our home from its original owner. they had completed a redo sometime in the early 80s - but the kitchen had remained fairly original. complete with slide-out stove-top - which we perhaps foolhardily kicked to the curb. (it no longer worked.) the narrow kitchen upper cabinets had sliding pegboard doors. cool. but filthy. we replaced them with plexi. the counter top was a fab green and pink boomerang. very cool, but again had aged poorly and was replaced with baltic birch and white laminate counter tops. d rebuilt all the wooden cabinet doors and upper cabinetry, replicating them in the dining room. the carpet (!) and original lino underneath were replaced with cork. the 80s light fixtures were replaced with simple globes. the only real footprint change was moving the washing machine out to a newly created laundry room and building a breakfast nook where the dryer, and another door once stood. (details to follow.)

process::product

this is how it usually works. (aka the story of our master bathroom.)

i see an idea somewhere. (in this case sunset magazine)


d takes it to the extreme. (in this case tearing the room back to the studs and starting from scratch while the girls and i were out of town.)


we live in a state of chaos for a while. (in this case not too long - though at the time it made me crazy.)


and somehow, with his own hands he transforms the space into the vision. (in this case - well in all cases - making me very happy.)