oh my gosh welcome to our brand new renovated kitchen i know this is like such a long time
coming it's as new for me as it is for you literally just in the last few days
the final touches were still being made we just got some floating shelves that door back there
still has paint drying on it but i really wanted to show you guys where we're at and how incredibly
beautiful it is it's just such a dream huge huge project that we put all of our heart into so i
can't wait to show it to you especially knowing where we started and what a huge transformation
it's been so just to give you guys a little bit of background going back in time to the memory of
what our kitchen used to look like this was actually three separate rooms and we gutted the
entire area over here including demoing two major walls so over here in the past this section just
up to this door right here was the entire kitchen just from here on over to that wall and then
right here was a small breakfast room with these beautiful stained glass windows and then from here
to the door was a small laundry room and the thing is even with all of these windows because these
walls were blocking everything in the kitchen was really small and it was really really dark so we
took down this wall we took down this wall and even as soon as it was down to the studs
we just could not believe how much light came in and how beautiful it was going to be in order to
have the kitchen be able to hold up that weight we had to add a beam which is now recessed into the
ceiling that went from here to here as well as adding a little extra support underneath
in the basement one of the things that really makes the space is the floor tiles here
this is actually a porcelain tile but i've always had a dream of having a large scale
black and white kind of marble look tile i had so many pictures in my pinterest just thinking of
these ideas of how we could make that happen and i have to give credit to our interior design team
s11 design susie jason you guys are incredible they looked at my pinterest inspiration and really
designed it so much to be exactly what it is that i had envisioned and i just i don't i don't think
i could have done this by myself if you need an interior designer definitely go with them this
is our dining table it's not our big formal dining table but this is more of like a casual everyday
the family can just sit there kids have breakfast kind of table and i am so obsessed with this one
i love just a solid hardwood table i just wanted something that would last a really long time
and not have any pointy edges to hurt children so it also has a pedestal base that's been really
awesome because you don't like bump your knee on any hard corners these are actually just our
dining chairs from our formal dining table so they don't match the dining chairs i chose are still
on their way as with everything with our home purchase and renovations all products are kind of
very back ordered at the moment because everything going on in the world so we're still waiting on
those i love that now that this room is really opened up i just feel like everybody can really
enjoy the beautiful blue glass our house is almost 100 years old these are original to the house
and i just think they add so much character blue is so calming and it just matches everything so
i love those two pieces in this corner i have my favorite fake plant this is a little fake bird
of paradise it's very well priced so if you guys want to check that out i feel like it just looks
so cute no matter where we put it every time we move it to a new location ben and i are like oh
looks so good there so we're definitely gonna buy another one but i will leave the link to
this exact one in the info box below as well as the little plant stand in brass and then let's
just talk for a minute about this chandelier up here it's one of my favorite things in our entire
house it almost kind of reminds me of like an octopus i love this little droopy light situation
it's just such a glamorous piece and just really gives a lot of personality to our kitchen this is
the biggest island ever we just wanted one that kind of spans this entire space
one thing i did want to mention specifically is this countertop material it has a very marble
like look and most people would think that we went with quartz which is what we did in our old house
but this is actually a newer material that is made of porcelain and porcelain is very stain resistant
it's non-porous it's been super easy to take care of and i also went with a more matte finish
it's so gorgeous i'm so happy making that decision we went with a double waterfall design over
both sides every angle of it looks so stunning these cabinets are actually all custom designed
most of the storage in our entire cabinet situation are all drawers which i
love to pieces because i'm really short i've always had a hard time reaching things in upper
cabinets so we kind of decided not to it's been so gratifying just being able to reach everything
and having everything in separate drawers be very very organized so that is one thing that i really
really enjoyed i love the color of our hardware they just match so well with our fixtures so with
our faucets and everything we went with delta they have a champagne bronze color which i just
adore it's like not overly yellow gold i feel like it's a little bit more of a sophisticated
champagne gold kind of color i'm really really obsessed highly highly recommend that another
thing that i never thought i would have in my life is two kitchen sinks that again is something that
the designers suggested to do and at first i was like why would you need more than one sink but
after having this there are instances if ben and i are both cooking or i'm helping like peel some
vegetables while he's like washing something it's actually come in handy surprisingly more than i
would think i really passionately love it tilting over this way this is actually a brand new door to
our backyard having a glass door in the backyard i was like why would we need to change the door but
ever since we changed it it's been such a huge quality of life improvement because we have a
little dog oreo we let him go to the bathroom in the backyard and now if it's like a little
chilly outside or whatever we can just stand here let them out and just see what's going on
plus we do get a really nice view and there's so much more sunlight that comes in i really love
this door i wanted to do a little decor shout out to this beauty right here i actually just walked
to our backyard took some scissors and snipped off a couple branches from our olive tree stuck it in
this really cute little circular vase i love this face it's so so adorable easy decorations easy
florals just go get it from your own yard on this side you can see we have some floating shelves we
actually tried to decide between like i think three different wood stains but i really like
this light wood color i feel like it just added a lot of warmth to the kitchen which i really
appreciated since we do have so much black and whites in here that can be a little harsh a little
cold so i feel like the wood elements just soften everything up make it a little more inviting
without sacrificing that high-end glamorous kind of look still a work in progress of how we want to
decorate everything we just put a couple things up just for now this window right here above the sink
i wanted to mention it because we do have such a beautiful view to our backyard and there's also
some mountains back there which like growing up in kansas there was never a time where i could look
out my window and look at mountains so every day i see that i just feel so grateful for having that
view again it's just something i never thought i would have in my life before it used to be a not
very attractive aluminum garden window that didn't match the rest of the very historic wooden windows
in the house so we went with another traditional kind of window this is brand new but we kind of
modeled it after the existing windows and the space we have the one upper cabinet section
right here which is our pantry obviously we wanted that to be right next to our refrigerator
which i will point out the refrigerator used to be right here in the middle of the island area facing
here this used to be where the stove is and then that wall is where i think there were just upper
cabinets and like a little table kind of area we swapped everything around we put the refrigerator
where the old stove is and it feels very natural for it to be here because it's very central to
where we're cooking we can get to the sink we can get to the pantry we can get to the stove
and then we have our prep space this refrigerator not only is it so gorgeous but i feel like every
day we use it it just brings us so much joy this is from cafe appliances this built-in is so cool
because you can actually customize the handle so we went with this bronze tone which i think
just looks so nice with the delta champagne and then the hardware that we picked it really blends
everything together even though our stove our fridge our dishwasher and the sinks are stainless
i feel like it just pulls everything into a nice balance and it really really works i'm gonna take
a peek into our fridge we have fruits and veggies down there lots of condiments a lot of korean food
we love to cook korean food if you want to see what we eat i actually have a couple of what i
in a day videos that i will link in the info box and in that little up there area we are definitely
a family that loves to eat loves to cook loves to have that time together this is maybe my favorite
drawer right here which is my tea drawers i really like drinking hot tea which is also why right here
is my beloved zojirushi hot water heater it's just super convenient i think that's like the
biggest thing about being able to design your own kitchen is you can make it really
really convenient to your own lifestyle and that's just been my favorite thing
about designing our own space down here we have a built-in microwave also from cafe appliances
and this bronze handle once again looks so nice with all of the brass hardware that we have i
feel like we just always had the dinkiest little like countertop microwave for years and years and
years and years and i feel so spoiled having one that's basically like a little convection oven
it's been so convenient and just so so nice to use on this side we have our beautiful new stove
ben is the chef of the family so he definitely did a ton of research and this is just his dream
kitchen situation we also went with this really big sort of built-in vent and vent hood i did not
know this but if you go with an extra wide vent it has to be like bigger in the tubings within
all of the duct work so that was a whole thing but i think it looks so so gorgeous again with the
trim here we had it match our floating shelves in the rest of the kitchen so it kind of ties
the whole area together and again just makes it so much more warm and cozy i love that look
we put more of the porcelain material back here and mirrored it so that it gives this beautiful
tall effect which i'm just so obsessed with one of my favorite thing in all of our kitchens that
we've had that we've renovated is we put in a pot filler i love having a pot filler every time we
make soup or something we just turn that on fill our pot with water it's been so nice to have this
is one of our favorite little decor pieces but also a super functional utility item this is from
material kitchen absolutely love having this little set this is magnetic here so they just
slide in and out this is one of our favorite things that we have had in our new kitchen
and it just goes with the vibe of the whole space so it looks pretty on the counter too
and i kind of wanted to end the video with something i'm particularly proud of we redid
our spice drawer so we designed these little uh drawers next to the stove so that when we're
cooking we can just grab things easily because we don't have upper cabinets which is where we
used to sort of store a lot of our spices so now what this that's my mom that's okay my mom didn't
know we were gonna be doing this video other than this mom spice i decided to do a little
day project and redid all of our spices in these beautiful glass containers it's a food safe
container but what i really love about it is i just hand wrote the name of each spice on the top
and you can see the beautiful color inside it's so easy to just open this up and see exactly what
you need more than using like the tap tap motion to sprinkling the spices on we use like measuring
spoons and stuff so this is really convenient to just open up the jars get what you need put
it back and really be able to see everything at a glance in a really aesthetically pleasing way
so love that i think lighting is probably one of the most important things in making a space
feel really cohesive and really well designed so i already mentioned the mitsy chandelier we have
we actually have multiple lighting in this kitchen from mitzi the sconces that are back there have
a very art deco kind of flair it's like a round bubble with the black and brass you'll probably
be able to tell i like round shapes like that our pendant lights here are also very round but like i
said i'll link it in the info box below if you guys like the same pendant lights we put three
of them over here these actually come i think in a couple different sizes depending on your space
but over the island they just give such a bold design look but it's also kind of like a soft
shape with rounded edges and i'm just so into it i think that they are the perfect complement to
the space okay so i guess that is about it for our kitchen tour i really hope you guys enjoyed
watching let me know in the comments what your favorite part of our kitchen was or if you're
going through a renovation let me know i would love to hear about your process and especially
if it's been as crazy as ours has been in the last year thank you guys so much for watching my
videos and just supporting me you know this would not have been possible without you and i i think
about it every single day so thank you so much i love you guys and i will see you in the next one