Back Door Friends

The room that is now our kitchen was originally a breezeway between the main house and the original 1798 kitchen. Around 1900, the breezeway was closed, and the kitchen was relocated to that space, with the original kitchen used for storage.

 The first photo shows what our kitchen looked like when we bought the house in 1989, which was obviously not what attracted me to it.

It took a year; this was the result of the first makeover.

Roughly ten years later, we did it all again. Hubby added beams to the ceiling, replaced the cabinets, and installed granite counters.

I saw a cup rack through a window at a kitchen design shop in Florence. As soon as we returned home, Hubby removed it from an armoire to replicate the look.

Initially, there was a loft over this space. Hubby removed the floor boards and made them into the kitchen floor to match the house's heart pine floors—remember, this had been an outside space. The kitchen island was one of many purchases at Green Front Furniture.

Please visit a more recent post to see what the kitchen looks like today.