okay so this was the kitchen right before we moved in last year as you can see it's
pretty much unfinished and this is what it looked like as soon as we were handed
the keys so a lot of chrome but we didn't like that so here's what it looks like now
echo turn off kitchen echo open kitchen shades okay
in today's video what we're going to be doing is we're going to be adding some wood slats
to the top of the cupboard so in the kitchen uh usually what we've what we've done so far
is uh add some wood slats to the living room to my workspace and to the bedroom so the plan
uh when we got this place last year was to add you know wood slats throughout the house so we want to
kind of give this house some kind of a theme and so now we're onto the kitchen so we found you know
this empty space that we couldn't do anything with right above the cupboard and decided you
know we're going to add some wood slats there up until now we've also done some other diy work you
know in the kitchen here to enhance the space in general and i'll get into that as soon as we're
done you know adding the wood slats to top of the cupboard but let's not waste any more time i'm
excited to get this done let's have some fun y'all let me know down in the comment section what you
guys think about it and if you guys are working on any projects of your own especially in the kitchen
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earlier on we also changed out the chrome style handles with something with more walnuts and gold
to fit the aesthetic of the house this was a very quick and easy process that only required
a phillips head screwdriver the addition of the wood slats also helps make them stand out better
we also added three bars tools with a walnut finish to further complement the handles and
the overall walnut aesthetic again the bar stools replaced ones we had brought over
from the old place that didn't quite fit with the new theme i find that these are also super modern
and gives the kitchen a more luxurious look we also had automated blinds installed throughout
the house including the kitchen and this is one of my favorite things to use in here now
budget blinds which we ordered the roll of shades from sent a technician over to do the
mountain but i ended up setting up the hob and shades to be controlled through apps like home
kits and alexa the roller shades come with a black fascia which works very well with other
blacks within the kitchen they can also be voice controlled by siri alexa and google's assistant
one of the automations that i've set up allows the shades to open up at 10 am and close at 10 pm
daily which i find to be very convenient in our quest to get rid of all the chrome finishes
in the kitchen we also replaced the faucet we replaced the one that was on there with
one from kraus which comes with a no-touch motion sensor to activate the flow of water
i love the hands-free feature amongst other things like the ability to now take off the faucet from
its mount and use it in sort of a detached mode the matte black finish also goes well with the
blacks from the face shell on the shades and the slat wall above the cupboards installation
is going to be very easy if you're used to doing diy projects around the house already
the house came with recessed lights installed in the kitchen already but they weren't smart
or app controllable so i switched them out for some you know four inch smart recess lights
from halo i then went ahead and grouped them all up for easy control alexa turn on kitchen
if you already have recessed lights installed in your kitchen switching them out would be pretty
quick and easy if not the only difference in installation is you'll have to drill holes in
your ceiling to fit the recessed lights the smart lights also have multiple scenes and modes with
different light effects and more they can be set between 2000 and 5000 kelvin for different color
temperatures they're also dimmable between one and a hundred percent each recessed light can
also be controlled individually which is great for even more control alexa turn on island lights
okay the amazon echo show five was here when we got it but i didn't like the speakers on them
very much so i ended up adding a sonos one to the kitchen it's also got amazon's alexa
built in so in order to prevent it from going up at the same time as the echo show i've given
them two different wake words one i've given echo and the other one i've given alexa alexa
what's the temperature of the house right now it's 25.5 echo add pineapples to shopping list
pineapples added to your shopping list i use the sonos in the kitchen mainly for listening music
and the sound quality is amazing the echo show on the other hand is great for small tasks
like adding things to my grocery shopping list viewing cameras around the house and checking
on the status of other smart devices like locks and more echo add pineapples to shopping list
pineapples added to your shopping list echo show me front door camera
okay give the room a more modern look i changed out the covers for the power outlets from ones
with screws visible to ones without screws visible this was just as easy as changing out the chrome
handles on the drawers and only required a phillips head screwdriver as well i also added
some smart led light strips onto the cupboards to add some ambient lights to the space these ones
are from nanoleaf and they can be controlled by app or voice which makes them very easy and
convenient to use i've got an automation setup where they're dimmer in the daytime than they are
at night the method of application involves using 3m tape which comes you know already on the strip
so make sure you already know where you're putting them before you stick them on there the last thing
i added was a motion sensor light switch to the pantry area to avoid having to hit the switch
every single time i'm in there the one i've got installed in there is called a lutron maestro
and it works very well you can set the timeout period for the light between 1 5 15 and 30 minutes
depending on how long you want the light to stay on for i set mine to one minute since i'm never
in the pantry too long at this point we'd reach somewhere and things were starting to connect
everything started to look great you know the walnuts the black and also getting rid of as much
chrome as we could now the kitchen's got a good amount of walnuts and black to match you know the
entire aesthetic of the house let me know down in the comment section what you guys think about our
little diy project here honestly i'm happy about it hannah's happy about it but i'm pretty sure
things are not going to remain the same forever so we will be doing upgrades in the future but for
now things are looking great and i'm really happy with the results as times change as tech improves
i'm going to have to you know keep on upgrading but but that's all i've got for you guys in this
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