Interior: We made a new kitchen!

Do you remember when I made a post about our old-style kitchen? I told you we were renovating it and renewing it all. And I promised to show you how it all turned out. For some reason I didn’t get around to it until now, but here you go! We basically removed every single thing in the kitchen, including the floor. That floor was such a pain to remove as it was a vinyl attached with hundreds of nails and almost an impossible job. Renovating a kitchen took far longer than we expected, and we had to cook our food outside or in the livingroom for quite a while! But in the end it all came together. We designed it so as to get as much extra space and storage as possible (like creating many small extra shelves wherever we could), as it is a fairly small kitchen. Our house is old and crooked, so we had to make everything custom fit and in specific weird sizes and angles, but in the end we managed it.

We re-used the old objects which we liked, and combined it with some more modern elements. We have a sink, fridge, electrical stove and dishwasher. As far as possible we buy used/pre-loved things. Only thing we bought new was some of the cupboards. Except for that, every single little thing is second hand, also the lamps and curtains. It looks more modern than my personal preferences, but since we renovated it for possibly selling the house again in the future, it was all a compromise, and I can live with this.

In general we have been renovating our entire house, inlcuding isolating all of it, changing the door and all the windows, renovated the basement and built a new addition to the house, which consists of 2 rooms, and made a new porch. It is an almost 100 years old log house.

In the end of this entry you can see how the kitchen looked when we bought the house.

So I don’t normally allow the cats to be on the table, but Ori was still a kitten when I took these photos.
The kitchen window used to be behind the fridge, but we moved it to the middle of the room and removed the door.

Tons of herbs and dried mushrooms! And a ton of jars can be found in my house. All from thrift shops.

A Russian gave me these artworks.

I collect wooden spoons, here are some of them. The one with lilies are carved by the incredible Giles Newman!

I dry tons of herbs, but in my 13 layers herb drier, these are just for decoration. I’m not a fan of dusty teas 😉

The kitchen has been evolving quite a bit since I took these pictures and gotten even more personal, but this is the basic of how it looks.

Here you can see a picture from the renovation, and then pictures of how it looked when we bought the house (not my things, it all belonged to the previous owners):

What is your dream kitchen like?