Please excuse the long delay since I’ve posted – we’ve had so much going on and a few surprises (all good!)…it’s been two months since my uncle started working on building our kitchen cabinets. He hasn’t been working on them constantly for two months, but has made a few trips back and forth from Houston where he stayed anywhere from 3 to 10 days at a time working on them. Right now he’s almost done! He just has to skin the pantry cabinet (put thin walnut plywood on one side) and cut and veneer the doors and drawer fronts. Then, my lovely husband Mike and his talented friend and coworker Tory will finish staining the cabinets and put a coat of sealer on.
We’re SO pleased…we really never anticipated we would have such a beautiful, modern, custom looking kitchen and we feel so lucky to have family members to help out! So, if you’re in the Houston area and are looking for a cabinet builder or even just some remodeling work on your home…let me know and I’ll get his info to you. He’s so meticulous and hard working.
I’ve uploaded a few current photos of the kitchen as it is now. Check out our awesome modern apron front sink! It’s huge and I can’t wait to use it!
We’re back to square one with the kitchen backsplash…we were planning to do a Heath tile but the tile runs $70/sf and we just can’t afford that…so if anyone has any ideas or suggestions please let us know! We’re thinking something simple, modern, probably ceramic tile but we’re open…
Also, we’ve been researching countertops for a long while now. We were about to settle on the Foavanza countertops (very much like silestone) from e-counters.com, but then we decided to go by Lowes and Home Depot before we made a final decision. It turned out Home Depot was having a special sale on just a few silestone options, and one of the options that we loved but thought was out of our price range was available. Normally in group E, it was $55/sf but the special brought it to $39/sf. We couldn’t pass it up, so we decided to go with it. We ended up with Blanco Maple from silestone. The photo in the link doesn’t do it justice, but it’s mostly white with tiny specs of neutral grays and clear…Here is a pic of a rather cool kitchen that I found on google images with Blanco Maple counters…
And a closeup of the countertop material…
This is the area that we have set aside to be a little bar where we can place a few barstools…
This is the kitchen view from the entry…
A nice view of the awesome grain of the walnut.
This shot below has a view of our new sink!
Below, our pantry area!
Another view of the kitchen.
looking from the back wall towards my office.
Countertops are to be installed sometime after the new year, and then we’re onto installing the wood floors (we’re waiting on a few samples and should make a decision with regards to that soon). Once we have the floors in, we’ll be moving back in upstairs! I thought that day might never come.
