Before Kitchen & Inspirations

*This is a re-post to fix the blogger formatting issues I had this morning.

I removed the original post that was published earlier~ it also removed your comments.

Thank you so much to those of you who commented earlier- I did read them and appreciate them so much!

Blogger is making me crazy lately...

My apologies.*

 Many of you already know that our cottage was an old never lived in full time neglected vacation cottage

covered in dust & yuck for nearly 60 years  when we found it.

It took a lot of work to get it livable at first...

and then a lot more work to get it a little prettier.

The kitchen was not as bad as some of the rooms

but was most definitely in need of some big time love and attention.

When I first walked in the kitchen

I loved the old tall white cupboards and...

well, that was about all I loved.

Do you remember that I mentioned before I seem to have a gift and a curse
 for seeing 'potential' to a fault?
Where it should be torn down... I feel sentimental

Soo....

Since I promised you a tour of the before and after of our kitchen

 here goes with how our kitchen looked  before~

 Be prepared.
:)

The ceiling was unfinished- there was no crown moulding- 

just knotty pine boards that stopped where ever they did
the whole house was like this.
Apparently someone was in process of replacing ceilings with sheet rock
and pulled them off and left them that way.
The ceiling was unfinished sheetrock too.

There was a very nice ceiling fan with a super classy beer bottle pull for lighting.

Wow.
 Nope didn't keep that for sentimental value...
thought about it (jk)... but no.

 The old original hardwood floors had a lovely mottled green and brown
linoleum laid on top of it that had a cove baseboard finish.

Why?
I have no idea.

Not to mention the really interesting appliances that came with the house...
vintage but not in a good way vintage.
There were two windows- they were small and they were not completely installed.
 You could actually push on them and they would move a half an inch out like they were going to fall.

Lets just say it was a big mess.

But in that mess...

 I saw something.

I dreamed of a light filled pretty cottage kitchen 

with a touch of French flair.

Open cupboards and pretty details.

Hardwood floors, a dreamy farmhouse island and lots of character and charm.

I love old houses and working with the original to make it work in a modern world.

so this kitchen was a perfect candidate.

Here are some of my inspirations for elements in the remodeled space:

southern living

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Now...

just so you don't think that we are living with our kitchen looking like it started out...

here is a little snapshot of the kitchen as it looked several months ago...

I'll be sharing a tour of the kitchen as it looks now-
 as well as details on what we did, how we did it 

and just how we did it all on a very small budget ourselves.
Yep... it might have something to with being a little bit looney tunes..
:)

Stay tuned!!

See you tomorrow for Feathered Nest Friday!!

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