great reno. I can see why you're excited.

Beautiful remodel. What are your wall to wall dimensions and the dimensions of the countertop? I'm in the early planning stages & trying to get ideas. Thanks in advance for any help.

Looks beautiful !

Great transformation!

Nice! Great job and selections

Please, the colour of the cabinets?

I don't know. For me, I prefer the before. The after is kinda dark.

Not my taste... To dark & bland... I prefer the before... :D

I like it. I see that you took the after picture later in the day which maybe why it looks darker to the other posters. Did you add under cabinet lighting? That would show off your gorgeous backsplash.

Beautiful job! Love those drawers!

looks really cosy, for a really beautiful picture clear the island ,just like houzz does.(just a tip)

NICE!!!! Looked like June Clever (Beaver's Mother) kitchen before.

Wow! We just checked with my wife the posts and they are really nice. We were not expecting for people to like it that much. We'll try to answer some of the questions.

We did pretty much everything by ourselves (it took us 4 1/2 months to do it, after work and weekends, mostly).

Size of the kitchen area is 23f by 17f (on the picture you can see the kitchen area only, 11f x 17f) on the other side of the picture we ended up creating a pantry wall with the same cabinetry color 17f wide by 10f tall....lots of space)

The island size is, and I think we went a little bit over board with it, 4f3 wide by 9f9 long. We are tall and we never liked small spaces but this is a HUGE island, we love it though. The counter top was going to be marble but the slabs were cracked and the installer told us to better returned them so that's what they did and we chose to use quartz.

The color of the cabinets? Gray? We bought them at IKEA and customized some portions of it, not much. We decided to buy the base cabinets first, really good price, and then we tried each one of their panels and we liked this one, there are white ones too but coming from the white cabinets before we wanted a change.

Motupeg, that's exactly what's going on, we took the picture at some point before going to bed and it was really dark. We never thought that somebody will really pay attention to it. We do have a TON more natural light now, the previous kitchen had a couple of walls and it was blocking most of it. The before picture was a little bit touched (digitally, that picture was taken for selling ad of the house) and also we changed the laminate that it had much lighter in color with dark brown porcelain (Florida Tile Cayman Red) so that darkens the room just a little bit compared to what it was before (we replace the total 1200sqft of laminate/plus old tile with this new porcelain)

We need to finish a couple of things, like the cover on the vent hood adding hardware doors (most of them are in place now) and installing the lights (under cabinet, inside the cabinets and on each drawer) and then we will take a picture with everything were it is supposed to be :), more Houzz like it.

We are REALLY happy with the outcome of the project.

We used Houzz a lot and if we can help with anything we will be glad to answer any question you might have.

Thank you all for your kind comments!!

Great job!

What a change!