Dining Room Remodeling

which grew into a Kitchen Remodeling...

This is the dining room wall before the construction started. Two little rooms, side-by-side, and the kitchen was pretty dark with only one window. That wallpaper in both rooms HAS to go...

This is really starting to open the two spaces up! I've got to finish the mudding job and then I can start installing the new countertop. Hole in upper left will hold a wine rack recessed into the wall, using space in the kitchen that was inaccessible from the cabinets. Hole in lower left will house a pull out cabinet utilizing even more wasted kitchen space. This large area is bordered on one side by the dishwasher and a cabinet with a door about 8 or 9" wide. It was a totally unused volume of space.
Oak trimmed wine rack installed.
First layer of particle board for the pass-through counter. Laying out the tile pattern was a real pain with all the cutouts and the irregular shape of the countertop. I used 6" tiles with a 2" border in white and a 3/4" stripe of black that I cut out with my tile saw. The black has a sort of mossy texture so it is not just stark black and it looks good with the new sink.

Moving right along here!

I pulled the soffits down and made a shelf space above the cabinets to store the things you only use once in a while. This way I can find them and they are up and out of the way instead of taking up valuable cupboard space. I put a nice little piece around the edge to finish it off and to hide the shelf edge. The room is painted in Java, a nice brownish grey which really works well with all the wood and the black and white appliances and counter. I bought a new sink which looks like black granite, using white accessories  to match the countertop tiles. I used a single stalk faucet with a pullout head that also turns into a sprayer with the push of a button. I also installed lights under the cabinets which, used with the white counter and backsplash, really light up the room! I'm thinking about painting the dishwasher and refrigerator doors to make them fit in better... I built the light fixtures out of oak to match the existing cupboards and made stained-glass inserts to match the tile. The only problem with using white glass is that the lights are not as bright as they could be.

	This is the wall opposite the sink. I built shelves out of oak to match the cabinets. Still need to build a holder for the paper towels and something to hold aluminum foil, plastic wrap, etc.

 

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