Kitchen Tour

When we decided we were going to build a house the kitchen layout was my first priority. Our house at the time was perfect for us except the kitchen was extremely small and had very little cabinet or counter space. For two people who love to cook and host it was very frustrating to say the least. I took my time and put in a ton of effort to create the kitchen of our dreams

First thing was getting a ton of counter space. The architect helped put a plan in place that included two islands in addition to two of our walls lined with granite countertops. I knew I wanted a white kitchen (my husband was reluctant at first) so we chose a dark granite to off set the bright white features. My husband picked out the tile backsplash with the dark grout. Now we had the bones of the kitchen in place.

Next, the details. I wanted a gas stove, farmhouse sink and a pantry. Now we needed to be a little frugal because we had just taken on this huge project of building a house from scratch. We have a plumbing store in our town that has a “garage sale” every year and we were fortunate enough to find two farmhouse sinks for $25 each. We also found two sinks for one of our bathrooms for $5 each. I went to an outdoor flea market later that summer and found these doors that came out of a school cafeteria in a small Oklahoma town. These would become the doors to our pantry. The last detail came from an idea from my mom which was to put in a pot filler. I honestly don’t know what I ever did without it!

This kitchen has given way to so many family gatherings, romantic meals for two and of course canning the harvest from our summer garden. I feel so fortunate every time I get to create a meal in the kitchen of my dreams. In future posts I’ll extend the tour to other parts of our country home!