Kitchen facelift (part 3)

When we first were planning out this third section of our kitchen facelift we had bigger plans.

The first thing was lightening up the walls, which I tackled at the start of the pandemic back in 2020.

After that it became clear that my biggest wish was for white kitchen cabinets. We landed on doing it ourselves with painting them and adding new hardware during the Summer of 2021. Then about 1 year later, we added our breakfast table to the adjoining room in the Spring of 2022.

Through it all we've tossed and turned on what to do with this last piece of our kitchen. Even when we moved in 4 years ago we questioned how we should/could utilize this extra piece of cabinetry: Office space? Pantry? Additional storage? What sort of storage?

We thought we could gut the whole thing and install a double pantry on one half of the wall and the other half we could place a work desk. Then the idea to gut it all and have a large walk-in pantry with trash and recycling bin storage, floated around in our minds. It's amazing to think that here we are 3 years later still sitting and pondering at this one measly section!

We have also been busy with my new role at church as well as starting the adoption process this year and one day I looked at the cabinets and then I looked at Chris and I decided that at the very least I wanted them painted to match the rest of the kitchen.

It feels wonderful having a complete and cohesive kitchen! And it feels even better having it complete before baby arrives :)