it is kitchen remodel time the welcome back if you're new to my channel my name is jeanie
and i do a little bit everything on this channel from outdoor adventures to travel now
we're getting into home and plants um we just moved from minnesota to colorado and a brand
new house here part of moving and buying a new house is doing some makeovers and remodeling and
all the things to make your home feel like home and today it's all about the kitchen so we bought
a brand new house here in colorado and our home here was just getting wrapped up being built i
think they wrapped it up in about december for the most part there were still a few things
when we were out here meeting with our relator looking at the home that they had to finish so
it was a brand new build brand new house um so we did not get to pick anything in the house
because we bought it as is as it literally just got wrapped up being built and put on the market
so um we weren't able to pick cabinets or the counters or any details in the house we took it as
is coming from minnesota where we built our house it was a brand new house we kind of knew we wanted
new construction when we came out to colorado so when we saw this one um we're like heck yes
let's do it however because we weren't able to pick a lot of the things in our house before we
purchased it it calls for some updates so kitchen of course big priority here i have some footage
here of when we were touring this house with a realtor of what our kitchen looked like before
we got our appliances and all those things first thing we're doing is getting rid of those ugly
ugly countertops because you guys they look like vomit and they are the ugliest countertops i have
ever seen so they gotta go i've always wanted quartz counters because they are so gorgeous
and so that is what we will be doing to be throwing in some backsplash my old kitchen
in minnesota was white and i loved it i loved it however i'm in the season of change and i'm
loving the natural wood cabinets again and what i love about these cabinets is they're a light maple
wood and i love it i don't like the dark cabinets like so when i saw these and they were a light
maple i loved them and i'm like yep i can totally do this loving the cabinets so updating the pantry
door trim work just kind of doing all the things with this kitchen so excited to get started on
this remodel because kitchens are usually always the focal point of any house right and so it's
important to make it fit your style and my style has definitely changed from the shiplap farmhouse
vibe we had in minnesota i am so over that and now we got new styles going on loving like the modern
bohemian vibes plants warm tones just loving a totally different vibe nowadays start fresh
with the new palette so it's time to start making colorado feel like home i'll be honest colorado's
already really starting to feel like home so we have officially been living here for one full week
as we are starting doing some of these updates in our kitchen so please bear with it our house is
still kind of messy because we are literally still getting moved in the first project we are doing
in our little kitchen remodel is getting brand new drawer slides put in and that's what vince
is doing right now so we wanted to do those soft clothes drawers and i need to get handles on these
so when you open them and you shut them look at that you guys oh my gosh how fun is this project
man there's been a few food cusswords not gonna lie there's been a lot of a lot of anger once
it's in though it's really nice we're loving the drawer slides it's so much better the one thing
in the kitchen that i just drives me absolutely nuts is this bar it is a transition wall so this
is like drywall and then here's our cabinets and i just hate this transition so much so um we are
actually gonna just do a complete reframe of this entire bar and so we're gonna have a white bar and
then the cabinets will stay the natural color that they are now the maple so that's kind of our first
project we have to get this reframed before we can go order our countertops so um it's kind of
a priority because i really want my new countertop we are only going to be reframing it up until here
this side i'm fine keeping it we don't need to redo all that it's just this and then i'm gonna
just bring the transition all the way around so time to start ripping off the trim work
and another thing i forgot to tell you we're redoing all the trim work to on the main level
of our house i hate hate this trim work i love the standard plain a craftsman trim work just simple
i hate having like all the grooves and whatnot so we did it by some new trim work and we'll be
like reframing all the doors tram work is all taken off now we can start getting our wood
cut for the side and the front it is you guys we got the entire bar uh re-trimmed out
um for painting obviously we don't have all the trim on yet but we just used some mdf
board so that we could level out the sides it's gonna look so good now i'm just going to paint
this all white and then once we get our new countertops put on we can start trimming it out
to make it look beautiful i'm just using the bare ultra white paint i didn't get it
tinted or anything it's just the standard white paint that comes directly in the paint jug maybe
you guys there is the first coat looking good didn't have to worry about getting too close to
the bottom because it's all going to be trim but look at that that looks so much better already
compared to the transition that it was before it'll just kind of be looking like this for a
while until we get our countertops i'm really loving how it's looking thus far and it's not
even close to being complete next up check it out our door handles on the uppers vince got these two
installed already i love them so much absolutely amazing i bought these door handles off amazon
you can get different size packs so we got the 50 pack they were the least expensive option to order
them off amazon i looked at hardware stores like comedy polos and there's like six bucks a piece
like insanity so if you're interested in these these are super good quality and i'll leave the
link down in the description if you're interested guys they are all done hope you did fantastic i
love them so much and on our bar nice nice work the one thing i want to talk to you about is
my bulbs so our kitchen has a bunch of can lights um here above our kitchen area one thing i noticed
right away is during the day when the lights aren't on our cabinets are like a nice mellow
light maple color right and then as soon as it gets later in the day and we have the lights on
it lights up and they're like a deep ugly yellow it's all about your light bulbs so the builder
they obviously put in like a soft white yellow colored bulb into all the can lights which we're
making our cabinets look super yellow when the lights are on if you're wanting to change that
you have to get bulbs that are daylight they are a true white bulb and they are not yellow
it makes such a difference so we are on our way to order our quartz countertops how excited are you
very excited i'm really excited it sounds expensive and it's like our one thing we always
want is quartz and we're gonna get it done on this house so we'll be getting all the kitchen counters
ordered and then we're also gonna do bathrooms so we have two and a half baths uh we have two full
baths and then a half bath downstairs so um we're gonna redo all those counters too with quartz
countertops are ordered we went with a different actual material than what we originally picked out
i should say design so we originally were going to buy calicutta chloe for our kitchen um but he's
like we just got a new design in and he's like everyone's going crazy over it so he showed us
and yeah yep it's beautiful calacatta summit it's gorgeous so calacatta summit is going to be our
kitchen and then we have a white swan or calacatta white swan for all the bathrooms so courts will
be in all the bathrooms the white swan and they're coming out tonight already to measure it like he's
like i can come tonight at 6:30 i'm like yeah the sooner the better i know i'm so excited it's gonna
be so pretty and then he said it'll be installed and polished probably within two weeks so that's
so exciting this pantry door is getting installed it came early from home depot
this is the design i love i hate those arches oh my god it is so cute gotta get it painted white
that looks so much better everything flows better with the square i don't like the arch so
thinking we're gonna have to redo all the doors in the house and these are the doorknobs i picked out
for the doors um so we bought these at lowe's however i'm gonna order the rest online because
they are literally half the price online but we just wanted to pick one up so that
we could at least test it out and make sure we like it oh god those are cute
yep stinking cute this is not part of kitchen remodel but it has to do with the kitchen and
we're super excited about it so vince just went to a local farmer that's like what
right up the road yeah it's cool and we got some farm fresh eggs because we don't have
chickens in colorado minnesota we had chickens uh like backyard chickens um we didn't like
butcher our chickens we just had them as like pets and then they just gave us eggs
and so we have eggs from a farmer and they're colored and they look exactly like our ones from
minnesota i'm so excited they're only four dollars for a carton here they are you guys
i love it there's like easter eggers in here and i don't know all sorts of different breeds they look
like pens yep yep yeah you can tell which ones are young because they have the smaller eggs just like
it back in minnesota but we're not raising them it's a very very exciting day well tomorrow will
be more exciting but today is pretty exciting too because we are ripping out our countertops
so because we have to rip out counters and we won't really have like a full kitchen we're gonna
go get some chinese takeout to eat and then we're gonna start ripping good riddance but to the most
awful sink in the world it's like six inches deep it's awful goodbye
i don't ever want to see you again so we've officially been here about three and a half weeks
and yeah so three and a half weeks ago i was actually like getting all our stuff unpacked and
filling our kitchen cabinets now i got to unpack mulligan it's like we're moving all in again but
unpacking then repacking but obviously it's going to be worth it big day so exciting the counters
come today between 10 and 12 they'll be here um since we don't have a kitchen and all our stuff is
right there we went and got some coffees so we didn't have to like make a bunch of dirty dishes
and stuff so we went to the human being and they have really good coffee so um and they have the
chocolate covered coffee beans too but now just patiently waiting for the guys to show up you
guys these counters they're in they're absolutely gorgeous you guys they are so gorgeous but i'm
gonna be a little stinker and i'm not gonna show you right now i'm gonna give you a little peek
but that's all you're getting because it looks so good and i don't want to like blow the kitchen
you know it's like too early we still got other things we gotta do so
just a little peek that's all you get you gotta wait till the end for the final reveal there it is
that is all you get all right guys trim is going on the bar looks so good so we got our pantry door
here all trimmed out and um so what i like to do is i like to do three inch board on the sides and
then for a header i always go thicker so those are five inch headers um it just adds a little
bit more character and doesn't make it all like the same right so next up is the backsplash and
we are just doing some standard white subway tile and we're to do black grout so that it matches
the door handles so it gives it a little dimension and pop so we are not installing it we are hiring
so i'm going to do it that's just one job we don't want to tackle subway tile going in
it looks so good all right you guys the kitchen is done
i'm so excited to reveal the kitchen it turned out so better than i i ever expected it's it's
just amazing so i can't wait to flip this camera around and show you but first you
know the routine by now right let me remind you what our kitchen looked like before we started
doing this kitchen makeover all right are you ready for this let's do it maybe this is heaven
maybe that's just you i don't trust my judgment cause i'm just 22 when i just went to circles
do you feel the same
you guys i am absolutely obsessed with this kitchen i never thought i would like this
style of kitchen but i'm in such a different vibe nowadays i am loving everything about this kitchen
even though we didn't redo the cabinets it's all the little details that really make the kitchen
shine i know the quartz was one of the biggest updates and i i i love love this quartz i'm so
happy we got cards i've always wanted records when the installers were here putting it in
and i came down from upstairs as i was working and i almost fell over because i was like
coming from that ugly brown formica to this you guys it was quite a shock and it's gorgeous
and that's one thing when we're picking out our kitchen counters i wanted something bold and same
with the subway tile so we had subway tile in our last house i actually love the subway tile but i
wanted it thick and chunky grout and like made a statement so that's we did i went as thick as
we could with the grout and i did black charcoal grout i wanted to pop and the next thing i love
more than anything in the world in this kitchen is my sink the sink that was in
here before was literally like six inches deep like why would you even make a sink like that
this thing is enormous and it's so deep i don't even know how deep it is maybe like i don't know
almost a foot i don't know but it's crazy and a kitchen is not complete with a bunch of plants and
herbs i had to sprinkle around the kitchen add the greens because i love my plants and i love
my herbs because you can use them that basil plant right there we make some good pizzas with that and
pasta oh it's so good so definitely loving having those little pops of greenery in the kitchen i
hope you enjoyed this kitchen makeover and i hope i was able to inspire you and give you some tips
along the way so if you have any questions of course comment below and if you haven't already
be sure to go check out my other makeover blogs we've been doing bathrooms master closet master
bedroom there's been so much fun going on here and now we're working on our living room because we
finally got our couch so that's been a lot of fun so stay tuned i'm sure i'll vlog that too
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for future vlogs thanks so much for watching and we'll see you guys in the next video let's just
have it maybe that's just you i don't trust my judgment cause i'm just running 22. my heart is