One Room Challenge - Cottage Kitchen Makeover Reveal!

We are done!  This kitchen for the One Room Challenge was a close call!  I went into it confident that we would be done well ahead of time and for the first few weeks we were doing great!  Then the momentum kind of stalled out but we wrapped it up just in time.  Just a reminder the One Room Challenge was dreamed up by Linda, at Calling It Home, as motivation to complete a room on a tight deadline.  It has grown into an event that features 20 bloggers and design influencers and allows linkups by anyone with a blog, and House Beautiful serves as a media partner.

This is our fifth time participating with a guest link.  We have also done our laundry room, our front porch, our son's room, and our master bathroom.  I would not say that this kitchen was our most labor intensive but it was certainly our largest space so far.  We started with a circa 1990 kitchen and all that signifies.  Oak cabinets, nasty sheet vinyl floor, basic and boring lighting, and a need to keep a desk space, a piano, and a reading spot in here.

We started by removing some of the upper cabinets, and changing the placement of others.  Then we installed a beadboard backsplash and gave EVERYTHING a coat of paint.  Installed some open shelving, and put glass inserts in some upper cabinet doors.  Then we laid a tile floor, installed some bamboo blinds and switched out all the lighting.  The space is sooooooo much lighter and brighter now.  It's my happy place.  We still need to get some drawer and door pulls installed but I'm happy with it for now.

Now I have to try to get the rest of the house back together before summer break so we can enjoy it!