One Room Challenge {Guest}: Carriage House Kitchen - Week 2

Week 2 already!  For those of you new to HGL, I'm participating in the One Room Challenge and recreating the kitchen of my historic carriage house in Newport, Rhode Island. If you've been following HGL on Instagram (@seasaltinterieurs) you'll know we're making progress!

Here's the plan:

• Remove upper cabinets
• Eliminate bulky beam, bad boxing, and moulding along back wall - replace with steel supporting brackets, low-profile box, and add new moulding around top of french door
• Swap multi-colored granite countertops for classic, honed carrara
  
• Run glossy white subway tile / white grout backsplash from counter to ceiling
  
• Add open shelving with wood brackets + under-mount LED lighting
  
• Remove beadboard from lower cabinets, add new shaker fronts + porcelain knobs
• Recycle fat, deep fridge - replace with new 24" bottom freezer model (ice maker!)
• Build 2 new pantry cabinets on either side of fridge
  
• Source 1 comfortable new bar stool
• Keep dual-fuel range, install new black door fronts
• Add sleek new microwave drawer to island, eliminate island bar at front to improve flow
• Pull farmhouse sink a bit forward, adjust plumbing, add new bridge faucet + ultra-quiet disposal
• Add new space for cocktail & coffee creation with open shelving, new wine fridge + storage
• Ditch 3 ugly pendants over island in favor of a single industrial fixture
• Paint everything white
• Hardwoods & hood remain as-is

Quick reminder of how everything looked when I purchased the carriage house in August,

and progress to date:

initial demo of kitchen, including built-ins/soffit to left, wrought iron railing/beadboard above

demo of back wall, weird beam revealed under ugly boxing

fussy beadboard fronts gone, beam replaced with steel brackets, new plywood base ready for tile

borrowed existing, too-skinny cabinet for new cocktail zone; building wider cabinet to replace

new twin pantries will surround new counter-depth fridge

new wider cabinet installed just right of the range, electrical work for under-mount lighting complete

new brackets installed and, together with cabinets, ready for matte lacquer (6-layer process!)

Fingers crossed marble and tile will be installed next week.  Big question remaining - will the new lacquered cabinet fronts be completed as well?

Stay tuned.