The House Project - The Kitchen

As most of you know, Shawna and I bought an old Victorian home last fall. The house was built in the late 1880's. We took possession of the house on August 28, 2007 and spent the next 10 months doing nothing else but re-modeling. We did most of the work ourselves. We got the upstairs bedrooms done in November 2007 and moved into the house. We then started on the downstairs and with the exception of two rooms (laundry and mud-room) we have pretty much all the inside completed.
I will be posting pictures of the before and after for each room. I hope you enjoy looking.

This is the before picture of the kitchen and the cabinetry. No, these original cabinets have not been torn up, this is what they looked like when we bought the house. In this picture I have already removed the original island and torn out the cabinet to the left of the stove and what covered the original brick chimney.

This is the after picture. We had the chimney torn out and the refrig. now sets in its place. With the help of a good friend I built the cabinets, the new island, the counter tops etc. Shawna and I did all the work that you see with the help of family and some other good friends for an evening or an occasional afternoon, but mostly just me and Shawna. Quite a transformation!


This is the north wall of the kitchen as it looked when we purchased the house.


This the after picture of the north wall. I moved the sink from the island back to its original position on the north wall under the window.

This is the west wall as it looked. I have already torn out a bit of cabinetry to the right of the refrig. which is what the white area is.


These two pictures are the after, of course. We built a computer deck in what was the corner and opened up the area where the refrig. was setting.