Kitchen renovation reveal

I am so excited, nay, thrilled, to be showing you these pictures. Bud put up three shelves this weekend - two in the butler's pantry, one in the kitchen, and I looove the outcome. Since we had to buy butcher block in island size blocks, we had plenty leftover for the shelves (+ a bunch of extra cutting boards!)

These pictures are probably excessive, but if you love looking at other people's redesigns as much as I do, you'll understand :) Tomorrow I'll do a breakdown with links & prices in case you're researching a kitchen renovation yourself.

Here's what the kitchen looked like before.

And here's what it looks like now.

 

The old butler's pantry.

The new butler's pantry.

And some other pictures.

Have you ever done a major renovation? It was as stressful as people say it will be - and ours was only one room! Having people in your house, making constant small decisions, rolling with the punches (our contractor broke our original cocktail room sink, but then I decided I prefered the counter top without a sink in it after all :).

And here are the first two kitchen renovation posts: part 1 & part 2. And, if your're curious, our original house tour & some kitchen inspiration.