Hello again my friends! Yesterday, I shared the first installment of our current fixer upper’s kitchen. If you missed that and would like to catch up on the dated awesomeness, you can do so by clicking here.
Picking up where I left off, after we had the kitchen wall removed, the ceiling repaired, can lights added and sheetrock, we just left the room alone for a long, long time!
We did buy a freestanding range and centered it on the new kitchen wall (which was previously the hallway behind the kitchen) and added a temporary cabinet next to it for a little more cooking prep area. Let me tell you something, it was not easy to have this as a kitchen, ha!
But, I was just thankful to have what I had, and I tried really hard just to be patient until we had saved a little more money to renovate some more.
As you can see, the room beyond the fridge was completed before the kitchen. Up until this past year and a half I’ve been a full time hair dresser working from my home-based salon. The salon had top priority when we moved because I needed to immediately begin working in there. I’ll share those before and afters someday too. They’re major!
Ok moving on…the kitchen stayed in this state for over a year!
In the summer of 2015, we finally got to move forward on the floors. We decided to go with solid Pine 5″ wide hardwood throughout most of the main level.
Our installers told us that setting the new cabinets on top of the floor would be best, so we ripped out the rest of the cabinets. We scheduled the floors to be installed while we were in Florida on vacation since we wouldn’t be able to be in the house for about a week while they were being laid down, stained and polyurethaned. I was so anxious on the 10 hour drive home!!
I was so happy to have flooring in my kitchen again (even though that meant now I had no sink or cabinets haha)! In the next kitchen post, I’ll share our experience installing IKEA cabinets! Spoiler alert: we love them! Thanks for coming by!
Oh my! My hubbies said I had to see your site. Oh my goodness! The work you do is so beautiful! I am so impressed by your craftsmanship. The way you have renovated The Rose house and the house you’re living in now is so beautiful!!!
Thanks Judy!! xo
Hi Kayla,
I really like the dark-stained pine in the picture above that includes a pantry unit, light colored door, and a round clock. Can you please tell me if that is indeed pine, and what kind of stain you used? I’d like to do the exact same thing!
Thanks much,
Dane Udenberg
Hi Dane, yes the floors are pine and they used MinWax Early American stain. Hope this helps!