BEFORE AND AFTER - Kitchen Remodel Designed in a Click Consultation

I’m sharing a great before and after kitchen remodel today from one of my Designed in a Click consultations.

This consultation was done about a year and a half ago, it takes awhile to remodel these days, you know! I was excited to receive these finished photos last week of their kitchen. They are really happy with their results and I can certainly see why.

They did a great job!

Before Remodel Images

Space was really tight between the island and refrigerator, making the overall layout not very functional.

They wanted to keep the wood floor, so the walls were best to leave as is. (They were experimenting with paint colors there on the wall.)

In the new kitchen, a built-in desk was not needed. They wanted new windows too.

design dilemma questions

1) How can I place my appliances, island and pantry so that I can efficiently use the space? (They didn’t need the desk anymore.)

2) What style new window and window treatments should I install?

3) Where should I end the backsplash?

They were going to keep the wood floor, but everything else would be new.

My response:

I think it will be most cost effective to try to leave the footprint the same, therefore I don't think you should modify the pantry. I do think you could do a more narrow island, something custom, to get more space there on both sides.

I also think you should relocate the fridge to the desk area and move the wall ovens to the space where you have the fridge. You get in and out of the fridge every day more often than you get into the oven, so that will keep your greatest activity over on that side of the island. Your cooktop could then be centered in the wall space there.

It looks like you have a standard depth refrigerator, I would definitely go counter depth. Even just a few inches helps on those and they feel more "built-in" looking. Your wall oven then will feel less intrusive over there than your fridge does now.

I think doing these changes will make you feel like you have more room and will give you a more functional kitchen without shaving off some of that pantry. It looks like a nice, roomy pantry, which is always nice to have.

See my sketch, below.

Sketch of kitchen to be remodeled. carlaaston.com

If you feel like you want to investigate the pantry modification, then I'd move that wall back about one foot. It feels rather like it is encroaching on the kitchen alot, but again, you need to weigh the cost of the floor patching, sacrificing space in your pantry, etc.

If you did this, you could locate the door more to one side and do a barn door, that is rather nice for keeping a door swing out of the space. I see you have bi-fold doors there, I imagine they are a little cumbersome going in and out of all the time.

Here’s how the kitchen remodel turned out

They flipped the refrigerator and oven locations and shifted the cooktop down the wall a bit. That helps some with the busy cooking area of sink/cooktop/refrigerator on one side of the kitchen and leaves the slightly tighter side of the island with the pantry and ovens.

I love the taller windows and the cabinetry to the ceiling. It adds so much height and creates a really light, open feel in this kitchen.

The backsplash tile goes to the ceiling too, around the window and looks like they opted for the slab backsplash at the cooktop.

With my email, Designed in a Click consultations, you can take what you want to use of my suggestions and make changes as you wish to get the exact look you want.

The fridge flipped to the other wall and the ovens moved over by the pantry. The taller windows look great and really open up the space. carlaaston.com

Love the taller windows and the pendants look good here too. The ovens are located now on the tighter side of the island instead of the fridge. carlaaston.com

Basically they flipped the locations of fridge and ovens and shifted the cooktop down the wall a bit. carlaaston.com

I really love how their kitchen turned out and was so glad to get these pics! If any of you out there have used this service of mine and competed your project and wish to share too, please send me your photos. I’d love to see. :-)

Want to see some more Designed in a Click consultation results? I have another one below.