Before & After: The Kitchen

So, I thought I would show you some pictures of the progression of our kitchen.  I would say the kitchen is the room in our house that we have done the most work.

What it looked like when we moved in...Yikes!

We started painting everything the day we got the keys to the house!  

What it looked like most of the time...

Then we finally added granite countertops (to say I hated the white tiles with brown grout is an understatement), new hardware, and a bookcase at the end of the peninsula. (The first picture shows the newly built bookcase.  We decided to add it since we were updating the countertops.  That's why the countertops don't extend over the bookcase in the above picture.)

And now...

Ikea Kitchen - Really?!

Can you believe this is an Ikea kitchen, a Southern Living Ikea kitchen at late?! Isn't it beautiful. Read more and see more about it here and here.

Delightful Mini Kitchen

I'm really enjoying this mini kitchen that was posted on Design*Sponge yesterday. I'm loving the green and blue, of course, and the mini industrial range. Also, the tile that's not only the back splash, but the counter too. Oh, and the blue painted in the cabinets. There really isn't much I don't like about this kitchen.

The rest of the house is also just as delightful, check it out here.

Lonny Love

This is my Lonny love image from the latest issue...

What's your Lonny love image from the current issue?