:Designed Happy
  • Home
  • About
  • Happy Readers
  • Store
  • Home
  • About
  • Happy Readers
  • Store
Search

:DH House Tour: Our Modern Farmhouse Kitchen 

4/20/2015

3 Comments

 
Picture
A couple months back, we toured our nursery in the first ever Designed Happy house tour.  Now that Pancake and I have decided to sell our house, there may not be much time left for additional tours (insert sad face emoji here).  As such, I wanted to give you a tour of our modern take on a traditional farmhouse kitchen.
First things first, let's take a look at the old and new kitchen plans:
Picture
The kitchen plan when we bought the house
Picture
The kitchen plan after remodeling
There were a few things we wanted to accomplish with the space plan for the kitchen:
  1. Open the kitchen up to the dining room
  2. Make better use of the space in the kitchen
  3. Increase the amount of cabinetry and counter space
  4. Fit a large farm sink and 36" 6-burner professional range

From the old to new plans, you can see that the appliances didn't move much.  Really, the sink moving a few inches to the left was the only location change we made.  We did make the window above the sink smaller though.  That allowed us to add an extra wall cabinet to the left of the range.  We also opened the wall between the kitchen and dining room, which allowed us to add a large island.  When we were done, we went from 9 cabinets in the old design to 15 cabinets in the new design - all in the same amount of space.  Cheers to efficiency!

Would you like to see some before and after pictures?  I thought you might.  Let's start with a few pics of the old kitchen:
Picture
Sweet linoleum floors and microwave cart!
Picture
The one light in the kitchen was a pendant hanging in front of the frig.
Picture
Not great right?  It needed some love.  As you can see, it was a dark, private, inefficient space.  The cabinets, counters, appliances, lighting, flooring, and windows were all trash.  It was a total gut.  Here's how it looks now:
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Pretty great, right?  Thanks, I think so too.  Here's a rundown of what we're looking at/what changed:
  • Custom wood cabinets with soft close hinges, full extension drawers, roll-out shelves, lazy susans, spice pull out, and two-piece crown molding in a 2-tone color scheme
  • Cambria Torquay quartz countertops
  • Full height mosaic marble backsplash
  • Franke 30" farm sink 
  • Viking 36" 6-burner gas range with glide-out oven racks
  • Viking french door refrigerator
  • Microwave drawer
  • Restoration Hardware cabinet knobs and pulls 
  • Custom exterior Dutch door
  • Pella Architect Series wood windows with exterior aluminum cladding (maintenance free!!)
  • French casement window over the sink
  • New recessed and pendant lighting
  • New GFCI outlets

Sometimes I look back at the old pictures of the kitchen and have a hard time believing that it actually existed.  Our old farmhouse deserved a better kitchen than it had, and I'm so happy that Pancake and I were able to create one for it. 

If you're interested in finding the kitchen your house is destined to have, I'd be happy to help.

Bye for now.
TJ


3 Comments
Cindy
4/21/2015 09:10:30 am

Wow you really did a lot of work!

Reply
Rebecca W
4/25/2015 06:11:08 am

My sweetie and I went with our growing family to see your gem! Seeing the before pics I have an even greater appreciation for all your hard work and love that went into it! Hoping that we can be the ones to continue to make memories and love this home!!!

Reply
TJ link
4/25/2015 12:39:11 pm

Thanks very much, Rebecca! Glad you liked it.

Reply



Leave a Reply.

      Subscribe to happiness.....

    :D

    Archives

    April 2035
    January 2022
    January 2021
    January 2019
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    February 2016
    November 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    April 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014

    Categories

    All
    Addition
    Bathroom
    Design
    Gratitude Journal
    Happiness
    House Tour
    Just One Picture
    Kensington
    Kitchen
    Modern
    New House
    Nursery
    Recipes
    Remodeling
    Steal This Look
    The Veg Life
    TJ Monahan
    Video
    Welcome Home

Pages
Blog
Speaking
About

Resources
Houzz

TJ @ BOWA
Contact
Instagram

Email
Copyright 2014-2021 by Designed Happy, LLC         .
  • Home
  • About
  • Happy Readers
  • Store