OK, so we decided to make some changes to our kitchen to make it a bit more user friendly, some stuff we wanted to do when we built, some stuff we seen after it was built and wished we seen prior. We are happy with the look and layout and the counters and cabinets, it is ideal and the house is around 7 years old so no reason to remodel...

We sat down and made a list of what we wanted to add and or change.

The refrigerator was ontop of the list, our current unit is an Frigidaire side by side with water and ice on the door, and we hate it. I had a Samsung in our old home and we loved it, so we are going to get a Samsung French door unit.

Next is stove, we have an electric flat top push in, we are not happy with, I prefer full gas, since we have a built in electric oven that we use for the most part. I also want 36". To fit a 36 we need to change out an 18" cabinet with a 12" and I am going to have a custom butcher block made for the 12" cabinet top. Our stove is island mounted so we also never had a hood.

So of course we need a hood, I am going to do a telescopic down draft.

Them are the largest parts of our changes. then there is a bunch of little stuff...

-under the cabinet lighting, we didn't do it when we built, there was so much to do...

-pot filler

-back splash, I like the glass mosaic, and it was our original plan, but my tile contractor was hard to even to get him to do the baths and floors never mind a backsplash, so we ended up with a plastic splash, and we said we would do it after... well now its after..

-tv taken off top of cabinets and installed on a tv lift of some sort

So my budget is around $7000 I don't want to spend much more than that on a freshen up, lol..

SO, now that's the story, heres where I am right now... (I typed that last week, lol, just never posted it)...

The fridge was delivered Saturday, we got a great deal on a black Samsung

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Samsung-25-5-cu-ft-French-Door-Refrigerator-in-Black-Stainless-Steel-RF260BEAESG/300197063  its that one except it has water inside and an ice maker, which I didn't really care about but the above model was out of stock so they gave us the better unit for the same price...

I also installed the under cabinet lighting over the weekend and the pot filler, I bought the down draft, and I have an appointment for the granite contractor to cut the counter top for next week.

The tv lift is on its way, I bought the mosaic tiles (that will be last), and the stove should be here in the beginning of the week. (went with a thor 36")...

So I spent the budget lol, so far with potfiller, dacor down draft, back splash materials (75sq feet), refrigerator $1000, stove $2750, gas lines, water lines, fittings, counter top cutting $150-200, lighting $100, butcher block counter top $100.

I have been taking pictures and will post them when I figure out how to do that, I was hoping to get the bulk of everything done before the holiday, but the cabinet I ordered is going to take 6 weeks... So that will come and then after that is in I will do the backsplash...

I think I enjoy this stuff too much, lol.. My wife didn't want me to do the project because she says it takes too long for me to "get to it", so we got some prices of local contractors, the least expensive was $5750, and we had to buy the tv lift, pot filler, vent, stove, fridge, backsplash tiles, cabinets, lights, etc, that was just labor, nails, glue, wire, tubing, etc!!!! So labor was the entire budget!!!!!!!!

Stay tuned for more updates..