Kitchen Complete

For a few weeks now we've been enjoying the newly remodeled kitchen at the Alexandria house, but I got carried away by some business travel that distracted me from posting an update.  So here are some photos I took last weekend while Mary made brunch for us (and Tessie helped).

First, of course, is the new row of cabinets that runs along the wall where the doorway to the dining room used to be.  We had the stove moved out from the corner and moved the door over.  Now all the traffic stays to that part of the kitchen and there is a lot more work area.

We also had to move the fridge as part of that plan - shown here, it is now on the opposite wall.  So not only is the triangle more compact, you can open the doors wide to get a look inside, and there is still room for cabinetry above.  Now it's a little known detail, but after the returns were installed to house the fridge, Mary went back to the designer to work up some details on the enclosure, settling on buying a few more cabinet doors and having them mounted here for the finished look.

I'll skip the pantry for this post, but it is a nice area with additional storage.  Mary has organized me into this space for my breakfast preparations.  And she also organized me into this space to feed the dog.

Then we have the sun room.  We finally reconciled the closets that had been built back here - the area was originally the back porch of the house, and our neighbor has told us childhood stories of playing back here.  We took out the old door and then centered a new sliding glass double-wide door on the wall.  We've been using this room for summer dinners and breakfasts since we moved here in 2003, so this little makeover is going to be well used.  Second view is looking towards the bump out window, which we kept for all the plants.

Tomorrow I will post about the big project going on upstairs in the house.