Our Kitchen Update in Our New Home

We finally finished our big kitchen renovation! We’ve been working on this since before we moved in a year ago, and we are thrilled with how it came together. Here are all the details, as well as “before” pictures so you can see the full transformation.

Last year we moved from Dallas, Texas to St. Louis, Missouri. We bought a house with plans to renovate it, and we’ve spent the last year changing almost everything. We started with painting the whole house white (we used the color “Whisper White” from Behr for almost every room), and then added a pool in the backyard and renovated the entire kitchen and laundry room. Our most recent project is finishing the basement, and I’ll be sure to show you that when it’s done.

I’ve shared peeks of the kitchen on Instagram stories over the last few weeks since our renovation was completed, but it’s time to show you the whole thing with details of the stone, appliances, and designs we chose. So here are all the details for our kitchen renovation!

Our Kitchen Renovation Before and After

When we bought the house, it was actually really beautifully done, but it was very much not our style. We debated on how much to change, and ultimately decided that small changes in the kitchen (like paint) were not going to give us the look we wanted, so we gutted the whole thing and started from scratch.

We changed the island from a two tier to a flat surface, moved the sink from the perimeter to the island, extended the island, swapped the cabinets for full ceiling height cabinets to maximize the space, and extended the cabinets all the way into the table nook to create tons of extra storage. They also had a wine cabinet and two refrigerated beverage drawers, which we didn’t need since we don’t drink alcohol, so we removed those and added large cabinets with pull-out drawers for appliance storage. We keep our air fryer, rice cooker, Ninja Creami, crockpot, and other smaller appliances in those cabinets.

I could not be happier with how it all turned out.

What we ended up keeping from the original kitchen

We changed A LOT of the kitchen, but there were a few things we decided to keep and repurpose:

• Two dishwashers. One was on the perimeter and one was in the island. We moved both to the island on either side of the sink. This made way more sense for loading and unloading dishes.
• The kitchen sink. The original house had a gorgeous copper farmhouse style sink and we used that in the renovated laundry room.
• The microwave. We changed it from one side of the island to the other..nothing major there.
• Steam Oven. It’s not necessarily something we would have added, but since the original kitchen had it, we worked it into the new design and it’s nice having options for cooking!
• The oven hood. It was such a gorgeous piece that we wanted to keep it. But it was a dark wood that didn’t work with the aesthetic of the kitchen, and it was distressed wood, which also didn’t match the look. So we filled in the distressing and painted it dark gray, and it turned out so beautifully.
• Wood floors. The floors are a gorgeous dark wood, and I love that it gives a dark, rich base to the very light kitchen. We definitely wanted to keep these original floors, especially because the rest of the main level has them.

We sold all the old appliances on Facebook Marketplace and purchased new appliances.

What the kitchen looked like when we bought the house

A year later, here’s what it looks like with fresh paint, our furniture, and a full kitchen remodel:

SOURCES: 

• Wall color: Whisper White from Behr
• Cabinet color: Whisper White from Behr
• Dark gray hood color: Pencil Point from Behr
• Countertops: HanStone in Matterhorn
• Cabinet Handles
• Pendant Lights by Hinkley
• Barstools from Pottery Barn
• Kitchen Table
• Chandelier above kitchen table
• Similar Kitchen Table Chairs
• Pebble Ice Maker
• Wolf Microwave
• Thermador Double Oven and Stove
• Thermador Fridge
• Thermador Freezer
• Wolf Steam Oven
• Thermador Warming Drawer
• Countertop Vase from HomeGoods
• Countertop branches
• Small prep sink faucet
• Main sink faucet
• Pot filler
• Anthropologie striped plates
• Green plastic tumbler cups from Amazon
• World Market dark blue plates
• West Elm pink glass bowls
• Anthropologie pink glass cups
• Green pasta bowls
• Living room leather armchairs from Eldoe Finch
• Gray sectional
• Leather throw pillows on the couch
• Gray rug (literally hides everything and has held up so well – we’ve had it for 6 years)
• Similar Coffee Table

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