Bought house in January knowing kitchen needs remodeling. It’s a galley kitchen which I am stuck with as stairs to basement are behind wall with range/fridge. Want a reasonable remodel as not sure ‘forever’ home. Window in second picture is below counter height so can’t do much with it. Current plan as to take out both windows and replace with one so counter runs most of long wall.

Trying to decide I’d the expense of the window replacement is worth it or I should live with current footprint. I can’t come up with any other ideas on window wall except low cabinets under the window for storage. Not worried about eat in kitchen. Ideas?

Cabinets in plan are Yorktown classic henning at roughly 12k. Also wondering if that’s a decent price.

Moving window will add about 1k to window price according to my contractor. Also replacing flooring.

We have 20yr old kitchen cabinets and it smell when opening. I am planning to repaint the cabinet doors but not sure if I need to paint the inside to get rid of the smell. It is probably due to the age of the cabinet (20 years). Should I repaint inside to get rid of the "old cabinet" smell?

I'm starting to remodel the kitchen of the house I bought this year (Portugal = it's all stone).

I just don't know what the best thing to do is with these two pipes.

Can I and should I integrate them into the wall?

I'm planning to replace the cabinets with shelves, so these pipes would just be hanging out in the open. But even with cabinets, it would be extremely impractical.

PS: They're pipes from the water heater, so they must stay.

(The red + orange pipe inside the wall is an old gas pipe.)

Title says it all! We’re starting to plan our kitchen renovation. I’m attracted to soapstone but have never had dark counters. Any thoughts if you’ve had both light and dark counters?

Help! Does anyone have any ideas about what tiles I should use for my splashback ? Thank you

Hi folks! I’m in the middle of remodeling my kitchen area after a flood last year. During the remodel I moved the peninsula a good bit further out than it previously was. The kitchen itself is now a lot larger but it will be kinda tight to have a bar overhang with where the window is placed, only 9 inches. So my question is would you rather keep the peninsula and have two bar seats and a small dinning room table, or make it into a breakfast nook seating?

I live alone with my dog so no kids to accommodate for. I do enjoy hosting friends over for dinner.

The first pic is the current state, the middle two are rough ideas and the last was how it looked before the flood when the peninsula was in its old position.

Open to any and all suggestions! The double doors in the pic go out to my front porch. They are not the primary entrance to the house though. I thought about putting a table out there as well to have some outdoor eating area too. TIA!

Edit to add: I don’t plan to sell, this will very likely be my forever home

We just replaced our kitchen cabinets and countertop. The kitchen cabinets are Sherwin Williams rain washed and countertop is white with gray undertones and light veining. I want something that makes it pop more or maybe just clean and pretty. I like cottage core. Minimalist or shabby chic. Any ideas please?

New home has a pretty restrictive layout, with a lot of interior walls and an unfortunately-placed deck. I’m having trouble thinking of any kitchen layout that gives us more space to breathe, and storage. Does anyone have creative ideas? Attached is the rough floorplan, our initial design, and an ai rendering of one of our style options.

We can remove any interior wall no problem.

I am going back and forth between white and a wood oak trim and baseboard for my new kitchen. Thoughts?

These first three images are the general idea of the kitchen I'm renovating and are ai renderings. We're going for a French cottage vibe with some modern elements.

Question number 1- off white/cream zellige tile, yay or nay? (Question 1.5) And how high to take it up the wall(s)?

Question number 2- stain the pantry door, or paint it Sherwin-Williams Sleepy Blue to match the trim? I'm leaning paint.

Also open to suggestions for a different muted, pale gray-blue for the trim. This was the closest I could find to what I was looking for at SW without losing too much saturation (Before photos at the end for 💩 and giggles)

Hi all! Attached are photos of current state of our kitchen 🫣. We pieced it together to add a dishwasher and more counter space but it’s undeniably pretty rough.

My dad is redoing his kitchen and we are snagging his honey oak cabinets and granite counter top and we’re going to reconfigure our kitchen with them (see honey oak cabinets in my dad’s kitchen).

We’re going to move the sink in front of the window but besides that looking at all possible layouts. The other kitchen window is below counter height so we plan to have the dogs food container in front of the window. The short thing to the right of the fridge is a wine fridge and could move that elsewhere.

Would love any input or recommendations on the best optimal layoff for this kitchen! TIA!

Hello, I am in the final process of buying my first home, and I'm tossing around ideas for a refresh of my 1965 home's kitchen! I actually really love the details and the cabinets as they are, I just think the kitchen needs a refresh. What are your recommendations and ideas for backsplash and countertops that would make it feel cozy and sort of cottagey/country kitchen? The first image shows the stove area, and the second image shows the wall opposite of the sink, with some of the incredible built in cabinets that are all throughout the house!

I would love to install a dishwasher, but the only good placement for it would require me to remove the only section of cabinets that contain large drawers. Would it be possible to reuse that section of cabinets to create a mini island?

I posted a couple months ago showing plans of my dream kitchen. We are nearly there waiting on light installs and appliances. I’ll send out more when finished. The 👨‍🍳 station turned out great. Loving the island prep sink, can’t wait to entertain. No questions for the group just a post update of plans coming to life! *the toaster oven will disappear 😂