I could just move in - really, so lovely.
Love the Hicks - there is one coming to live at my house too ;)

Just fabulous. What a wonderful kitchen. GREAT JOB. I bookmarked this because there are so many useful ideas. Loved the utensil jars hidden in a drawer. And your stacked crown is fabulous. (One KD suggested we consider adding beadboard to our ceiling in order to even it out instead of trimming the crown pieces. I don't know if that will work or not. I have a 1920s house. Nothing is even! But I do love the look of the beaded ceiling anyway even if we have to trim crown.) And I have to mention- all those pillows in the dining area are so pretty and that space is really inviting. Thank you for sharing.

I think my kitchen is the opposite of yours, with my java cabinets and Montego Bay paint, lol! But I love how light and airy your kitchen is, looks perfect in your house! The glass cabinets are beautiful, and the walnut accents set the white off nicely. And the MOP is just stunning. If mine looks half that good I'll be happy!

Congrats on finishing such a great kitchen. It's -really- nice. I'd vote for paining the shades walnut and putting them back up. Nothing says you have to lower them, but they would look nice sitting there.

Love the kitchen, very similar to what I am planning right now. I am in the Milwaukee area. May I ask what part of Wisconsin you are from. I could use some contractor suggestions. Thanks.

Just lovely and LOVE the utensil jars in a cabinet!
Can I ask where you got your lovely eating area small table with the pedestal legs? I have been looking for one such as this but all the small kitchen tables seem ugly by comparison.

Beautiful! It is absolutely striking! I love the black background hangings by your table! Are they scrolls or paintings? I would leave the windows without any adornments. I like them the way they are.

Thanks so much for the nice comments everyone. We are just loving it and as many of you pointed out one of the best parts is all the function. It's a small kitchen in a small house and one of the things we've learned is that you really have to make the storage count.

Katy-Lou: About the glass, I think your husband may be partly right ... the effect is probably lessened vs. it being on a window, but it's still quite nice. I was looking for something different than seeded but not as clear as just plain glass. This hit the mark.

Kirkhall: The floor is 20-inch porcelain tile. When we purchased it, it was called Sardara, but when I went to buy a few more pieces to patch a couple areas it was under a different name, but still made by Mohawk. I think with a little Internet searching you'd still be able to find it. I think the color is Island Brown or something like that. I'll be perfectly honest about the floor: We picked it entirely for durability. We have two Newfoundland dogs who traipse in an out several times a day and it get very dirty. To preserve our sanity we went with something that can hide a good amount of dirt.

We still love the tile, but if we were doing the tile as part of this part of the kitchen project, I think I would have very seriously considered some of that wood-look tile.

Autumn 4: If you look at the before picture you'll see there used to be four little drawers there and I remember thinking when we moved in that they were so weird. It turns out they were great little places to stash things. I liked the look of three better so that's why we changed the number. The first drawer has dog meds/syringes, etc., the second has gum and mini phonebooks and the third has the ever-important wine and bottle openers.

A few other notes: I forgot to mention that the glass knobs turned out to be mini versions of the glass door knobs we have in part of the house. We grabbed the glass door knobs from my grandmother's house before it was torn down and we're slowly replacing the knobs in the house with them. And when we redid the upstairs we put in reproductions to match those. I didn't realize the cabinet knobs were mini versions of them but when they arrived it was rather serendipitious.

As for the whole white kitchen thing, we don't have kids and I understand they can be a bit messy, but I can say with a certain degree of certainty that few things could be messier than 275 pounds of hair black (often muddy and always drooly) dogs and really it's not anything a damp sponge can't take care of.

Wow! I love your kitchen! The glass cabinets really make it for me! The banquette looks cozy and perfect and the black background of the botanical prints just makes it all "pop"!

I am another one that designed my kitchen around the mop bs rather than Waiting to figure it out when I was finished. I'm knee deep in our renovation and hope mine comes out half as pretty as yours! Congratulations and enjoy!

Beautiful....I especially love the utensil pullout....so clever!

I love your kitchen so much! I love the style of the cabinets, the finished furniture sides of the cabinets, the beautiful crown molding so the cabinets go to the ceiling, the beautiful stainless steel appliances, the crystal knobs mixed with the handle hardware, the gorgeous backsplash, and all the very useful storage pull-outs! Thank you for sharing.

It is like a morning on the beach, fresh, gentle, idyllic. Simply lovely. The walnut accents are inspired, the backsplash is dreamy. Enjoy it forever!

You totally stole my heart with this one. I had to look at these pictures 2 or 3 times. This is a stunning kitchen and I am stealing some of these ideas (i LOVE that utensil holder drawer thingy) for my next kitchen. What can i say about the backsplash that hasn't already been said...it is just simply perfection. Well done.

Just beautiful ! Everything ...I love the contrast when you get to the breakfast area. I would leave off the blinds too...the light is just so pretty. Great job. c

Congratulations on completing the journey on your refresh. Everything looks fantastic and I hope you are taking great pleasure in the results. I especially love the utensil drawer with pullout and the glass sided cabinets.

Beautiful! Great choices, it looks warm, airy and inviting all at once. I love it.

I think I would put the shades back up for balance and staining them is a great idea! Your home is beautiful, you have such a knack for making it all work together, it's perfect.

Gorgeous! Classic, classy, and clean. One thing I've learned from your kitchen is that it can really work to find the single thing you love (mop backsplash) and plan around it. I'm not sure I've found that thing for myself yet, but am going to be turning over lots of "rocks" to do so. Thanks for the gorgeous pictures!

For anyone considering the utensil drawer, I used Vollrath bain maries for the stainless "cups." Vollrath is wholesale only but you can find their stuff through restaurant supply stores and sometimes Amazon. I believe the ones I got are 5.5" in diameter. They are really meant for salad dressings, etc. on a salad bar, but they have the lip to hold them in the drawer.

This post was edited by wi-sailorgirl on Wed, Jun 5, 13 at 10:40

what a lovely kitchen! great idea for the utensil holder. my kitchen is gutted at the moment but mine will be white too so seeing this provides more anticipation. :)

LOVE IT! Your backsplash is stunning and I'm sure it will be a new trend here on the forum. The whites all work so well together. On the shades - I'd leave them off if you don't need them for light control or privacy. I need my shades to deal with the west sun at dinner time.

And of course I love your pendant! I have two Hicks pendants over my dining table and they are definitely polarizing, as you said. My daughters still can't stand them. I don't care how many times I've seen them - I'm sure nobody in my midwest suburban world has them.

Thanks for sharing your kitchen with us!

If I hadn't just finished my kitchen, I'd be saving yours for inspiration. I love both the quiet white working side and the slightly more exuberant eating side. Both sides look both beautiful and functional. Wow!

WI-Sailorgirl, I have loved all the pictures I have seen of your remodeled home. You have vision, a great sense of proportion, beautiful color sense, and exquisite style. Your kitchen is just perfect. I love the Mother of Pearl, your use of glass and light, the touches of rich wood, and the explosion of nature in the eating area. On top of that, your detail photos give us good ideas for storage. Your pull-out with six utensil canisters saves so much space compared to a stack of drawers for the same items.

Can you add some photos showing how the cooking and eating areas tie together?

Your outdoors renovation and garden areas around the porches and patios have always been a favorite of mine.

Thanks for sharing! Love it! Absolutely stunning. It gives a clean but inviting, warm feeling!

The section next to the dishwasher is darling! I love love love the pullout for utensils. Those details make the kitchen!

Duplicate Post.

This post was edited by Julia4326 on Wed, Jun 5, 13 at 16:21

Thanks for coming back around and answering my question. Every time I look at the pics I spy something I missed before. :) Enjoy!

Duplicate post - sorry.

This post was edited by Autumn.4 on Wed, Jun 5, 13 at 18:58

love your kitchen! and I think the white is beautiful and classic.

I saw that utensil pull-out drawer on a picture on houzz, and now i'll have to double mark it, knowing that you love it and it functions well!

how do you enjoy your walnut butcher block? showing a lot of marks? giving me some good ideas ;)

Your old kitchen was beautiful - I would probably have lived with it forever. But your new kitchen is definitely much better. Really lovely, better function. So many nice features. Good work! Congratulations.

Beautiful kitchen! Great job!

Just beautiful!

What are the botanicals above your eat-in area? I really like them.

Wowowow! Fabulous. Oh, that pantry!

Hi! I love your kitchen! It came out beautifully! Were you stressing on here for a bit over your choice of countertop? I think I remember following your posts about which quartz to choose...well, regardless, you chose the right one!!

I love your dining area, I love the color of the chairs and all the colors you pulled in there.

Is your island just a freestanding table or is it bolted down?

Wow, great job!

This is my favorite part of being on this forum, watch people transform their kitchen and bath. I love the shimmering backsplash. Congratulations on your new kitchen.

OMG.....I am speechless. Your new kitchen is stunning. I love the brown detail on the hood and that backsplash is gorgeous!!! I am staring at your seating area, we were going to try to do a banquette but part of ours would be in front of the slider. Seriously I thought is was a picture out of homes and gardens, like another inspiration picture you put up. I would not cover those windows, beautiful exposed and love the dark trim on door that ties in with the hood. I have to tell you that I am rethinking the mullions on my glass now, your glass doors are amazing, i have to ask about that type of glass. I know this is a silly question, but where did you get the art work behind the seating in dining area?

Hi gang,

I'm hoping to try to get a picture that sort of shows how the space ties together. It's really pretty small. I think we measured the entire kitchen including the eating area at 250 square feet.

For those who asked, the botanicals are vintage educational posters. I got them on Etsy from a seller called Bonnie and Bell. She's in the UK, but shipping to the U.S. isn't too bad. That wall over the banquette was blank for three years while I found the right thing to put there!

Homebuyer23, the island is freestanding (came with the house though). Technically the walkways between it and the counters are much smaller than anyone on this forum would recommend, but it works just fine for us. We're able to open the dishwasher and the oven but you can't walk around one or the other when they are open. I think the small size of the kitchen works in our favor for that; it's not really a big deal to go around the island (38"x34") the other way. And it is HUGELY helpful to be able to slide it around if you have to move something. In fact I did a lot of that when I was taking the pictures.

When we were replacing the top of it we were without it for about a week and it was awful. I prefer to do all the prep work there because it's a little lower, about 34" high. My husband, who is much taller, likes to prep on the counter. All in all it works out well.

I think someone asked how the walnut is holding up and the answer is great so far. I think it's about 6 months old now. We oil the top, which I prefer because if something does happen it is much easier to fix (just a quick sanding and re-oil). The only downside to oiling it is that you have to be careful when you lay paper on it as it will get oil spots if left there too long. The walnut is a little softer than I realized it would be. The one mark on it is from the bottom of a wine bottle that was set down too hard, and I was surprised that would leave a mark. We have always used cutting boards so we don't cut directly on it.

Also, a couple people emailed me with questions but both have their settings set to private so I can't respond. If you were one of them, change your settings and email me again ... I'm happy to share info!

Hi Sailor- I remember you posting a picture of those cool glass door pulls and it's nice to see where they're living.
And that would be in white kitchen heaven!

Oooh la la your kitchen is beautiful from top to bottom and if you had a paint snafu one would never know it.

The backsplash is absolutely gorgeous!! What a star; just stunning. Would love to see how it shimmers in some different lighting. Could you possibly share a few more pictures of your kitchen jewelry?

I'm intrigued by your over hood cabinet. Would you mind posting a picture of it open? I've never seen anything like that. I love that style of hood, but don't want to give up the little bit of cabinet space I have there now and what you have looks like the perfect stylish compromise.

Love your door profile, cabinet crown and lighting over the table. The lovely seed glass especially in the side panels- genius. So much eye candy. The ceiling is special; if an open space, did you carry it through the ajoining room(s)? How high are your ceilings?

Thanks for sharing.

This post was edited by island on Fri, Jun 7, 13 at 21:46

It is beautiful. There are so many details I love: backsplash, walnut accents, glass cabinet sides, interior organizers, pendants above table, etc. It must be a pleasure to walk into that space every morning.

wi-sailorgirl - Your kitchen is just lovely! I love all of the details in your kitchen...the molding, hardware, your tdf ceiling. And the light you get from all of those windows! I am definitely a fan of the Hicks pendant!
It's such a funny coincidence that I just recently did a white kitchen w/mop backsplash and edgecomb gray walls too.
Hope you are enjoying your fab kitchen! :)

What a beautiful kitchen -- the tile is stunning! And so is everything else in it. Really, really gorgeous -- I'm swooning here!

It looks terrific! (it looks like a full-on reno!)

Sailor forgot to mention, LOVE your banquet area!! The wall hangings and pop of color in the pillows are perfect!

I'm hoping to incorporate a banquette seat in the angled nook area of my kitchen and would love to know more about yours....
Was yours built by your cabinetmaker?
Does the seat have a back or just loose pillows?
Is there storage below?
Can you please provide the dimensions of the seat, specifically seat height and depth?

Funny, I have those exact chairs with a rectangle table, both solid natural maple. The chairs are so comfortable, solid as a rock, but I've been hating on them thinking too big and country looking. Can't wait to remodel and haul them off to the Goodwill, but now I see yours and Wow I can't believe how cute they look in color!! Now I think I'll hang on to them and try painting first!
Did you paint yours and if so what type of paint? Thanks for the inspiration!

Oh almost forgot, I love the look without any window dressing. If you don't need the shade for privacy, I'd leave it off. It does not look unfinished.

Hi island.

Our banquette was built (several years ago) by the same guy who did our cabinets. There is no back on it ... just loose pillows, which we sort of toss around depending on how many people are actually sitting on it. It does have storage. There are sliding doors on the long front of it (this is not easy storage to access but it's for the cookbooks I pull out once a year, etc.) and a "morgue" drawer that comes out from the end (where we keep all the dog leashes, collars, etc. Super handy storage!).

I will take some measurements tonight or tomorrow for you, but I recall that the seat is about 19" tall after the cushion is on. I made the cushion extra thick, 4 inches, and raised it up a little because I prefer to sit a little higher at a table.

The chairs came with the house and I sort of painted them on a whim. I used Annie Sloan's chalk paint, which was OK, although I'm not sure it was any better than any other kind of paint, other than not having to prime them first. They do seem to be wearing well though.

Hope that helps for now. More to follow.

Hi Sailorgirl, I already commented on your fabulous kitchen! Simply divine!

We are getting ready to install our MOP and I was wondering the exact grout and thinset you used. We are going to put 1/4 inch board behind it to even out the wall and make it come out a bit since its so thin and the Calcutta pencil liner is too thick next to it. Please share details.

Also, how deep is your banquette seat? Thanks so much for your help.

Sailor - I looked at your kitchen on my phone - but had to see it on the "big screen"
Zowie - it is gorgeous! I love everything about your new kitchen. Love your cabinets, your knobs, your BS (always good to grow our ABB alumni club), and of course your banquette!
Congratulations - now for a KAW pictures!!!

Sailor - I looked at your kitchen on my phone - but had to see it on the "big screen"
Zowie - it is gorgeous! I love everything about your new kitchen. Love your cabinets, your knobs, your BS (always good to grow our ABB alumni club), and of course your banquette!
Congratulations - now for a KAW pictures!!!

Beautiful! I especially love the glass sided cabinets and the gorgeous backsplash. I intend to install a wet bar in our family room next to the doorway from the garage. I was considering glass upper cabinets and maybe the glass sides too would really help keep the visual feeling open when you walk through. Thanks so much for sharing.

I know this post is old but I really love your kitchen.

I love color and I love this kitchen. I especially love your banquette-green is my favorite.

So gorgeous! We are about to replace our butcher block countertops, and I'm wondering how the Caesarstone has held up -- I've seen comments on various threads about it chipping. We also have Cloud White cabinets, so I originally found your kitchen when I was looking at countertop colors. I was concerned that the least expensive color wouldn't look great, but yours tells me otherwise -- as long as it's not a chipping factory. Thanks in advance for any wisdom!

Even though this thread is 8 years old, it must be Kismet because this is exactly the inspiration picture I need for my kitchen "refresh." I desperately want to switch out my white counter tops for grey and do a shiny glass tile backsplash. I've already got a similar looking floor . . . My cabinets are oak though, same design. Not sure painting them would be a good idea, so not sure I could pull off the total look . . . I love white kitchens and that would be my dream, but I'm not really up for ripping it all out.

I love your amazing reno and attention to detail.
My question is- what material is your cabinetry, please ?