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Counters are white macaubas quartzite

Beautiful! So clean and spare, while still appropriate to the period of the house. And huge layout improvement.

Thank you, mcarroll16! Those were my exact goals! It is so important to me that I honor the history and period of the house.

Which can be so tricky with old houses. The kitchen layouts of our great-grandparents were often horrible!

Totally. I think they were geared more toward daily shopping and less toward storing prepared foods and snacks. The lack of a snack cabinet was almost as big a problem for us as the limited electrical capacity!

Interesting! What's really killed me in the more farmhouse-style kitchens (my parents are serial old-house restorers) is the big square room with the range far from the sink, often with no nearby countertop. It's really great that you had a galley layout to start from.

how many samples till you got that unique gray upper with weathered wood lower? success w a nice personal touch with your tones. thanks for the share . !!!!

Herbflavor - thank you! I was planning on gray uppers and lowers until the very last minute, and I picked out a weathered ash brown that had kind of a gray cast to it and I liked it. I was able to put the panels next to each other at Lowe’s and decided just to go for it. I’m not great at this stuff and was so worried about how it would all come together, but I am happy. The floor stain was a different story — that took a few tries and a very patient flooring guy!

Beautifully done! I liked the archway, but I can understand removing it. It added needed kitchen space and makes it feel open and airy.

Please tell us the brand and color name of the gorgeous backsplash tile.

And most importantly, how does the adorable fur baby like the new kitchen?

Thank you! We loved the arch and appreciated it for 9 years, but we needed counter and storage space. It was special but not practical.

Tile is Nabi Valor Deep Emerald Ceramic Tile from Tilebar.

Puppy loves the new digs!!

Beautiful!

Beautiful--you have so much storage now! And your before photos make me laugh, since they look so much like ours. We took out our arch too--it was bittersweet, but we needed the space (and at least in our case, it wasn't original to the house, but had been added in a 1939 remodel).