My wife and I have been restoring a 1776 colonial for the last 4 years. It had once been abandoned before suffering a 1970s renovation. We have successfully transformed a couple other rooms and center hall before attacking the kitchen. Its taken about 15 months of our spare time to build all the cabinets, moldings, and woodwork. The only thing we kept was the ceiling (but it too had repairs). Everything else was gutted. The floors were salvaged from a 1790s cape, stripped, cleaned and planed. The cabinet casework is maple plywood with poplar facing and drawers and doors. All the woodwork is hand planed. I gave in to hiring one contractor – a plumber. With my reputation for plumbing my wife was relieved.
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Kitchen ready to demo
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Laundry area behind the doors
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Honed granite counters and sink
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Tiger maple counters around the stove. My wife insisted. She protects it when cooking.
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Small pantry cupboard
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I am really impressed with the level of detail in the design and execution of your kitchen remodel. I lived through my parents doing a really bad kitchen in a late 18th century house in New Hampshire. The scale of the paneling in your cabinets is first rate. It really looks like a continuation of the paneled wall around the fireplace in another late 18th century house I lived in growing up.
Your kitchen remodel is beautiful. What paint/color was used for the cabimets?
Thanks,
Peter
Its really awesome