kitchen - almost there...

I think I've made you all wait long enough. Even though we're still not completely done with the kitchen, we made really good progress over the weekend and I am too excited about it to not share some pictures. Here is where we were on Friday:

On Friday night we started staining the floor as soon as we got home from work. We put down one coat of stain on the floor, went to a late dinner, and came back and put the second coat on. It was a late night, but completely worth it because we needed to let the floor dry overnight so we could paint on Saturday.

We watched the OSU game on Saturday (well, I watched, Mike gave up/got angry and started priming the kitchen in the third quarter). Here's the kitchen with the floor stained and the walls primed:
We were able to get 2 coats of paint on the walls on Saturday too. Then, this morning, we got up and put the first coat of poly on the floors. We ran some errands, came back, and put the second coat of poly on. We should be able to put the last 2 coats on tomorrow night, and then let the poly completely cure while we take a break for Thanksgiving. Here's what the kitchen looks like right now:
I love how the floors turned out, and I am also really liking the wall color. We're planning on bringing some more color in with some of our kitchen accessories, so I went with a nice medium gray for the walls. It looks much better in person, it looks like of washed out in the pictures. I even like the red door now! And for you super observant people, we painted the window but haven't gone back to scrape the paint off the glass yet. And the bottom of the dishwasher has primer on it, woops... but since we're more than likely getting a new dishwasher soon, we're just leaving it alone for now. The dishwasher was the one appliance we didn't really look at when we bought the house or during inspection, and of course, it's broken.


There are still a lot of little things left to do, but we're getting there. We have some open shelves that we want to put on the wall between the door and window, and some other shelves for the wall that the radiator is on. We also need to put down some type of baseboard. We have 2 cabinets in our basement that we had in our apartment that we're planning on painting white and using for extra storage. But it's finally coming together and we're so happy with how it's turning out.
Random fact about our kitchen: We had to buy 19 new outlet/switch covers for this room. 19! Needless to say, we just went with plain white plastic ones. We still need to go back and switch out the switches (ha) for white ones, but there's no hurry on that...

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8 Responses to kitchen - almost there...

Mom and Dad said...

WOW! The kitchen looks fabulous. Nice work. I really like the floor. It all looks like a brand new kirchen. Now..what's cooking?

Rachel said...

It looks SO good! I loooove the floor. Great job!!

it is everlasting said...

It looks amazing! I love the floor!

Kristin said...

The kitchen looks wonderful....I love the floors!!!!
Kristin

Unknown said...

It looks beautiful! I never would have thought to do a floor like that. Brilliant! Very nice!

Jen @ RamblingRenovators said...

Looking good! Can't wait to see more progress.

Katie said...

Thanks for all the nice comments!! Hopefully it won't take too much longer to finish up... now I just need to find the time :-)

jennifer said...

I just came across your blog and I love the floors in your kitchen! They are very unique and interesting..good job!

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