Kitchen Before and After

Ok, so I didn't take very many pictures of the kitchen before..by the time I thought of it, Chris had already started ripping out the floors, and the cabinet that lined the windows in the kitchen..he's too quick for me!

Ok, so I didn't save these very well, but you can get the idea of what the kitchen looked like...brown linoleum floors, and before we bought new appliances, it had a brown stove/microwave combination thing that was all one piece...

The wallpaper had tiny blue pineapples on it...I didn't even take a before picture of the dining room, but it had white carpet, which was destroyed with the girls dropping food all the time. The previous owners had painted over the wallpaper to help it sell, so we removed all of that, and painted the kitchen and dining room yellow.

I took these pictures to show off the floors.  This was the next step in our multi step kitchen remodel.  In a few years we'll come back and get new cabinets, countertops, and backsplash....If I really get my way, the upper wall between the dining room and kitchen will be gone..we'll see!

Here's a view looking from the kitchen to the family room.

Here's a view of the empty china cabinet..Chris still has to put one more coat of sealer on it in a few weeks after the grout has time to cure...so I'm still a little bare as far as accessories go for these two rooms!!  We decided to use reclaimed antique brick from South Carolina, and we love it! 

another view in the dining room..that's the wall I would consider getting rid of!  Some day we'll paint the wood to match the new cabinet's we'll get!

Not great before and afters, but you get the idea!