After living in our townhouse for five years, Terry and I finally decided to update the kitchen. The owners before us had taken really good care of the house, but they hadn't replaced any of cabinetry, countertops or flooring. It was all original to the house, which happened to be the model home in the community back in the early 80s. Needless to say, the faux butcherblock laminate countertops had seen better days and the pale parquet floors were chipping away. We were initially just going to replace the floors and put in new hardwood in the kitchen and then replace the carpet in the living room with hardwood as well. But of course, you start thinking about one thing and it always leads you to other things. Like, if we had these beautiful new hardwood floors, won't it just highlight how hideous our countertops are? But we can't put pretty new countertops on these ugly cabinets, right? So, we took a three step approach to our renovation, beginning with painting our cabinets. We then replaced the countertops with a quartz countertop. Then finally, we installed new brazilian cherry hardwood floors throughout the main level of the house. I am excited to say that our renovation is complete! View our pictures below.
Here are the before pictures:
The beginning of the makeover. Let the painting of the cabinets begin:
Finished cabinets:
Gone, Baby, Gone. The countertops are removed:
Voila, new countertops:
The finished kitchen with the new floors:
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