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Sharing our kitchen remodel - finally complete!

4 years ago

Thank you everyone for your input through your posts and photos. We needed up choosing as we went and we are so happy with the outcome. I’m a beekeeper so there had to be a subtle nod to my bees in the final design. Before then after…hmmm looks like I will have to add more photos in comments…

Comments (31)

  • 4 years ago

    How exciting and beautiful! Enjoy

  • 4 years ago

    Love it! wow!

  • 4 years ago

    Gorgeous! Love your pendants!

  • 4 years ago

    How can I post more of the finished project?

  • 4 years ago

    Everything looks beautiful!

  • 4 years ago

    A few more

  • 4 years ago

    We refinished the hardwood floors, gutted the laundry and stacked the washer and dryer so we had more room. Relocated the door from its old location to bring more light through to the front of the house and gutted the powder room too!

  • 4 years ago

    I think my absolute favorite is the quartzite countertops - we found these and fell in love, but worried they were “too much” both in appearance and cost. So we chose another pattern. Then we felt like we were settling and would say “yeah that worked” every time we saw them. We wanted to walk into the new kitchen and say “we love it!” Especially when spending so much on the reno! So we jumped off the cliff and used them. And we are SO glad we did!

  • 4 years ago

    Beautiful! And the white appliances look stunning. So crisp and clean, especially after seeing so many "black stainless" on this forum. Your choices for everything are really great.

  • 4 years ago

    So gorgeous! Love the blue cabinets and the counters are -- wowza! Looks like your fabricator did an amazing job lining up the veins from counter to backsplash. Also love the nod to bees in your pendants. Congrats and enjoy!

  • 4 years ago

    thanks for clarifying the BEE reference. I thought maybe that double hinged oven was a little keeping hutch facsimile. I wonder if I'll ever have a laundry room like that...what splendor to have that ... have to eek out space for those rooms.

  • 4 years ago

    Absolutely stunning! Love the bee light :) What is the name of your counters?

  • 4 years ago

    Gorgeous! I like how the colors are tied in across the various rooms, and that countertop is marvelous.


    But what I'm envious of? The laundry room. How I wish I had a laundry room with an efficient layout, lots of counter and storage space, and a WINDOW! The only way I'm going to get all that is to move...

  • 4 years ago

    @jentstl they are fantasy Macaubus quartzite

  • 4 years ago

    Absolutely stunning and your counter fabricators did an amazing job with pattern matching your backsplash. Beautifully done all the way around. Tell us more about the bee lights! Where did you find them? They’re wonderful.

  • 4 years ago

    Gorgeous!! What color are your cabinets?

    Love love love that quartzite. Was it hard to get the matching grain on the counter & backsplash?

  • 4 years ago

    Wow. Just gorgeous! Congrats!! I missed the entire reno process, but it's a bright spot to see your completed home. So. Very. Nice. I'd say your counters are worth every big $ and delay you encountered (ha, no pun intended).

  • 4 years ago

    @jemimabean they are from this sketchy website I was afraid to buy from but it turned out awesome! They shipped on time and we’re all in one piece. They had other shapes as well. The only thing we didn’t care for were the odd light bulbs that came with them som we switched them out. The fabricators were AMAZING with the counters and backsplash and even fabricated a sink for the powder room! I found the link to the lights for you! https://unicun.com/product/honeycomb-pendant-lights/

  • 4 years ago

    @sara Mir the white cabinets are Sherwin Williams Rock Candy and we love them some said they look too gray and they do look gray next to a bright white but it was a recommended match to the GE Cafe appliances and it turned out to be perfect! The counters were an experience haha. We had chosen two slabs which the fabricator had said was enough then as we got down to fabricating it wasn’t quite enough. So we got VERY lucky and the stone company just happened to have ONE slab left and it was a book match to on of the slabs we already had - so it took some planning on the computer on their part but we were able to get almost all of it perfectly matched. Overall we are thrilled with how it turned out. So if you want something like this you need to ask for and find book matched slabs.

  • 4 years ago

    @Sara Mir I forgot to say the blue is Sherwin Williams Naval - it looks very different in different light and in photos.

  • 4 years ago

    @Sea Sea thank you and yes it was a crazy process. No one prepares you for how difficult it is to find slabs - the warehouses are poorly lit, they all tell you something different regarding material (quartzite vs marble) and you can’t ever see them on a horizontal plane which is very different than looking at them vertically in the warehouse. Then you pick your favorite and there is a list of people who have spoken for it and have it on hold before you. But what we found out was if you are ready to purchase immediately, have the fabricator call and offer immediate payment and you suddenly jump ahead of everyone who has it on “hold”. Many of those people hold things but find something different and never release the hold.

  • 4 years ago
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    So pretty! I love all of your color choices, especially the amazing quartzite. Kudos to your fabricator for getting those veins to line up so nicely!

  • 4 years ago

    Can I ask what floor stain you used and the color? I love it and need to redo my dining and living room.

  • 4 years ago

    Gorgeous!!! I love your countertops!

  • 4 years ago

    @Lynn - it is Absco stain in the color Kona. Thank you we love them too - however dark floors show EVERY footstep at first especially when the house still has a lot of construction dust. We tried SO MANY colors. We have red oak floors and it was hard not getting a dark that looked purple! We almost made a huge mistake with a mix of mahogany and ebony - it was very purple in some light but not in others. Thankfully we caught it in time!

  • 4 years ago

    The entire kitchen is gorgeous, but those counters are beyond amazing! Would you mind sharing where you found the Fantasy Macaubus? Also, I've seen White Macaubus - are those different names for the same stone, or is there a difference?

  • 4 years ago

    @grannysmith18
    There are several different macaubas counters white macaubas has a more linear movement - like stripes, azul macaubas is blue, etc we found our slabs at Francini but we had also seen some at the stone collection, call around first if you are looking it will save time and miles of walking slab yards ;)

  • 4 years ago

    Thanks a lo for the explanation. I don't really mind too much walking around slab yards - I might come across something I like..

  • 4 years ago

    Thank you!!!! This color is exceptional in your space.


  • 4 years ago

    Thank you everyone!