8 Feet More in the Kitchen!!

I have decided to put the upstairs laundry room into the master bedroom bathroom area and take out the laundry room on the main floor all together. We are adding a laundry room in a large utility room in the basement for Brigham and gusts to use. The great thing about this change is not only having the washer and dryer in my room - which I am going to love - but I can now add 8 feet to my Kitchen!!! I was also able to add a large corner pantry like the one I have in my existing Kitchen. I will upload the Kitchen design as soon as I can turn the pictures into a tif file instead of the current pdf.

New Kitchen - Exhisting Cabinet wall

The far bank of cabinets are about the only cabinets in the kitchen that will be remaining and staying in their original layout. The only change I might make is replacing the cabinet above the range to just a formal hood or a cocoa stained cabinet to compliment the new cabinets.

New Kitchen - 2 islands

While helping with Margaret Eastman's wedding and being so grateful for the 2 sinks and 2 islands to work on, Kristi Reeves who was also there helping said that the only thing her builder talked her into was having 2 islands and 2 sinks in her kitchen. She fought him a bit - but then agreed. She said that the thing she loved the most about her kitchen was the 2 islands and the 2 sinks! So I re-did the design a bit and was able to add a 2nd bar and a 2nd sink. Check this out.

New Kitchen - back wall view

Dan and I went through so many homes in the Utah County parade of Homes and in several of the homes we loved the long wall of cabinets, so we are trying to add that to our kitchen. The nice thing is that the back wall of our kitchen is 21 feet long and we are taking 19 feet of it to re-create this look. I am centering curio type cabinets on this wall since I am loosing my formal dining room and my curio cabinet. These cabinets will be done in a cocoa stain with a sand through - so it looks like a black stain.

Kitchen

The kitchen has had the cabinets refaced and the painter actually did a really good job on the cabinets. The counters a currently a black granite. We will keep some of the cabinets - move others into the laundry room and create a new center bar by moving others. We will also be using some of the black granite and on the new center bar and on a new bank of cabinets along the back wall of the kitchen - which you can not see in this photo - I am hoping to use a white or grey granite or marble! Watch for further postings and I will go into details about the changes and upload the kitchen design as I have two ideas in mind. I would love all the in-put i can get!!