Our Small Kitchen With Hooked up Residing Space

By now you understand that we deeply consider {that a} home all the time evolves to work with a household’s altering wants, however I’d say this kitchen and hooked up sitting space are as shut to utterly achieved as ever. The truth is over the past two years they’ve held fairly regular – we did replace the kitchen mild to my dream chandelier that appears like bubbles at a seaside sundown. And earlier than that we lastly settled on the suitable seating that match completely into the seating space. However yeah, since then… settled! Blissfully so! Apart from a number of tiny accent adjustments like a brand new toaster that I obtained for Christmas. We shot the photographs for this publish earlier than that… sure it takes us half a 12 months to write down these large posts generally.

Since our previous kitchen posts don’t replicate these updates, we figured this up to date kitchen rundown made sense. We additionally thought sharing what works for us would possibly assist others with the same house as a result of it feels remarkably environment friendly for our household. We spend a lot time on this room, and it meets SO MANY capabilities (hanging out earlier than college, consuming and cooking meals, storing all of the cooking & serving stuff, a spot for the grown ups to hold after we entertain whereas the children run upstairs and do crafts, play video games, or watch a film, and many others).

Video Tour

And since a video actually feels prefer it’s price a thousand phrases (and nonetheless photographs!), since you possibly can so significantly better visualize strolling by way of the house, right here’s a video walk-through of our small kitchen with the hooked up dwelling space. It feels so good to have two loveseats in there after wrestling with the best way to greatest deal with the sitting space for the primary few years of dwelling right here. It’s that dang bed room doorway (and entrance door) in the course of the sitting space that made issues difficult for some time.

A Really Multi-Operate Area

It’s becoming that they name the kitchen the center of the house, as a result of ours is actually in the course of our flooring plan and it truly is the spot the place all of us collect in the beginning of the day and the tip of the night time (often lounging on the sofas or taking part in a household sport on the kitchen desk). To not point out coming collectively for meals in right here too.

This room can also be the principle entry level for our household – no formal lobby right here! It even has our laundry space and homes all of the backpacks and jackets too – no laundry room or mudroom both! The porch off the kitchen is available in clutch for us by holding all of our out of doors cooking provides and our grill (in addition to a closed cupboard for a bunch of our footwear). Right here’s a full tour of our kitchen porch.

So yeah, it’s a workhorse of an area and we’re very grateful for all of the makes use of it fulfills.

Kitchen Earlier than & After

Since we love a earlier than and after, let’s begin there. It is a earlier than shot of the window that we later reworked right into a door that results in the tremendous purposeful kitchen porch we talked about above.

Right here’s an after shot from the identical angle:

If we need to rewind to the primary few weeks of dwelling right here, that is how we positioned issues after we initially landed. It wasn’t nice, nevertheless it labored whereas we gained our bearings and discovered extra about what we needed from the house.

And right here’s an after shot from that very same POV:

Right here’s one other earlier than shot from February of 2020 after we first laid eyes on this home (see ALLLLL of the earlier than photographs right here):

And right here’s an after from the identical perspective:

Yet one more, simply because we are able to’t resist. It actually has come a good distance in right here:

This shot isn’t as huge (sorry stairs!) however right here is an after picture from that very same angle:

We actually love how the sitting space is absolutely open to the kitchen. I can’t let you know how typically there are folks hanging round whereas another person cooks and all of us chat). We additionally actually like having a eating desk as a substitute of an island (we had island seating in lots of our earlier properties and actually like sitting in precise chairs and taking a look at one another’s faces as a substitute of all sitting in a line dealing with the identical manner).

Really all of that’s subjective, so I point out these elements to not say they’re any higher than one other manner of doing issues, however simply to remind you: it’s not bizarre to contemplate the way you need to stay and eat and work together in your house and make it work for that. Sure, even when the remainder of the world loves a kitchen island and would possibly let you know it’s possible you’ll be “hurting your resale worth” by forgoing it for a desk. Developments come and go (bear in mind when two islands have been trending?! It actually does get wild), however determining the way you need to stay in your individual house actually is priceless. Talking of which…

A New Chandelier

Second of silence for the chandelier that discovered me on Pinterest. Really, that algorithm is unmatched.

We took these photographs ages in the past – actually greater than a 12 months in the past I feel! We discovered all of those flowers discarded on the bottom in a public strolling path behind a marriage venue close to our home. So we grabbed a bunch and texted all of our mates to return rescue them too!

And naturally, we couldn’t resist snapping a bunch of photographs and video with our kitchen all decked out with contemporary florals!

Persistence Pays Off

I nonetheless bear in mind so many neighbors stopping by after we purchased our home and saying “we walked by way of this home! We simply couldn’t see the best way to make it make sense!” I’m so grateful that we walked in and instantly felt the pull to repair up this home. We simply felt prefer it oozed with potential – even with earlier than photographs like this:

This is similar view now. Small homes can positively stay bigger with a bit rearranging, brainstorming, and naturally that priceless reward of time! We didn’t choose the suitable spots for all the pieces instantly (like this awkward stage the sitting space went by way of). It took us 2 years to lastly begin a correct kitchen reno, however now at 12 months 5 right here, we’re absolutely settled and really feel like we’re coasting.

So give your self a while and absolute permission to see how issues give you the results you want over the months and years that you simply stay someplace. Really, our largest piece of house recommendation can be: by no means rush right into a kitchen reno! That point to essentially be considerate about the way you need a room to perform for you, and what you’ll really use (versus what the world tells you “ought to be in a kitchen or sitting room”) actually is priceless.

Trying Past The Kitchen

One final thing! One other problem that we encountered with this kitchen is that it appears to be like proper into our bed room. To keep away from awkwardly taking a look at a mattress or closet, we added storage and floating cabinets so it will appear like an extension of a dwelling space.

You may see extra peeks into our bed room within the video tour above, together with glimpses of customized built-ins and DIY fire mantle we made. You can even see full bed room tour right here.

Extra On Our Kitchen Reno

I do know I coated quite a bit at present, so listed below are the entire hyperlinks associated to this multi-year (and multi-room) renovation:

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