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    Sungrown Kitchen » In My Kitchen

    Published: Jun 8, 2015 · Modified: Sep 13, 2023 by Meryl Downing Leave a Comment

    The Sungrown Kitchen Upgrade

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    This is our old house, with our kitchen updated in 2015!  See the before and after of our tiny kitchen renovation, on a tiny budget. Painted cabinets, new butcher block countertop, new sink and subway tile backsplash!

    Newly remodeled kitchen with butcher block counters.

    Love to Cook, Love your Kitchen

    It's easy to love cooking when you love your kitchen, and ours was in desperate need of an upgrade!  The renovation that started out as "let's just paint the cabinets," is finally complete.  We did a little more than that. 

    New butcher block countertops and stainless steel dishwasher.

    We did paint the existing cabinets and replaced the hardware, new counter tops, new subway tile back splash, and a new sink and faucet.  We couldn't be happier with how a little upgrade and a lot of hard work turned out.

    Here's a Before and After...

    Before picture of stove area with old oak cabinets.
    The updated kitchen with painted white cabinets, new black hardware and butcherblock counters.

    The handy work was mostly done by my husband, who is far more talented than I knew, and kept the mini renovation pretty budget friendly.  I did paint cabinets through a lot of afternoon toddler naps, but he did all of the heavy lifting.

    A before photo of the kitchen with the old floor to ceiling tan oak cabinets.

    The before and after says it all, I don't miss the green counter or the floor to ceiling oak.  I am loving cooking in my new kitchen, I don't have to be so careful to crop out the background in my food photos!  

    Kitchen renovation with new white subway tile backsplash sink area.

    It's light, it's bright, it's still tiny, but I love how it turned out.

    And a fun memory of "during."

    Kitchen remodeling during the process, a big mess!
    Small kitchen upgrade with undermount sink and white subway tile.
    Knife and Cutting board on the new butcher countertop in our new kitchen.

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