Virginia

In the mountains? It just seems like such an interesting home. Was it originally built to be a home? Is it very old?

My aunt and uncle live in an A-frame in rural SW Ohio, which my uncle built himself, and it was always my favorite house growing up.

Stunning!

Considering what you started with, you have designed and built a charming, bright and cheerful kitchen. Congratulations.

Looks terrific!

I love the pops of orange. Wonderful job!

Stillpitpat, surprisingly the house was built in 1979 in the suburbs rather than the mountains like these style homes typically are.

Wow!!! That is really impressive! What a fantastic job! Enjoy it. It’s beautiful

That was one weird setup before. I have to ask. Did those upper cabinets have working doors on both sides?

Love, love, love!

You did a terrific job with such a challenging space. The orange pops of color are perfection!

Wow, it looks 1000% better! Went from dark and dingy to bright and airy.

Michele, thank you and yes they used to open on both sides... they also hung through the light panel which was very awkward.

Interestingly, I shared your "after" pic #1 here a few months ago with someone who wanted to use orange in their kitchen.

I love unique spaces and creative ways to make the most of them. This kitchen would make me smile every day.

Are those fluorescents framed in wood? Beautiful. I have to modernize mine but have resisted losing light by putting in cans or staring at an open box that always looks like it used to have fluorescents.

Thank you Renee. Actually they are individual ceiling lights daisy chained together between the structural beams. The original design did have fluorescent fixtures but it only had three. We replaced them with more efficient LED circular fixtures and added an additional fixture to balance it out between the sections that you see in the pictures below. Luckily for us the wood sections fit the fluorescent light panels so we bought newer ones as the originals were yellow and dingy. We only painted the stained wood to white to make the room brighter

Well done!

Wow - what a difference! Looks terrific!

Thanks for the added photos and explanations. So helpful!!!!!!

It appears you 'stole' space from other rooms--could you elaborate with before/after floor plans?! It is amazing what just the white did to brighten the space.

Arcy_gw you are correct. I don’t have plans but I do have a few more pictures and explanations. We stole one of the two openings to the kitchen. We relocated the refrigerator to the old opening as it originally took up what little space we did have in the kitchen. We also removed our 3’deepx44”wide pantry so that we could have more counter space. Originally we had “very limited” cabinet and counter space with 4 total outlets inside the kitchen. Our microwave had an extension cord... now we have power at every single bay plus more

Nice job!

Love the pops of color!!! Amazing job!