Need inspiration for a kitchen renovation? Look at these before and after photos!

Are you considering renovating your kitchen? Here are some of our favorite before and after kitchen renovations.

Before highlights

• Cool Disco Lighting
• Grungy natural wood trim
• Red laminate counter
• Black backsplash
• Red fan hood
• Oak cabinets
• Mishmash of appliance styles and colors
• 1980’s vintage chairs and ottomans

After Highlights Photos: Liz Donnelly

• Light bright cabinets
• Antique pendant lighting (over the island)
• African mahogany island top
• Carrera marble countertop
• Great tufted leather swivel chair
• New stainless appliances
• New prefinished hardwood flooring

Wow, what a difference new cabinets and flooring make!

Notable items in the before shots…

• Green laminate cabinets
• Rough wood wrapped peninsula
• Groovy lighting
• Out of date…not vintage flooring
• Laminate counters…to go with the cabinets!
• Black appliances to go with…?

Ah…the after what a difference. Photos: Liz Donnelly

• I love these mushroom color cabinets
• The wood ceiling looks so much better when it is surrounded by painted cabinets
• New stainless appliances perk up the space!
• The quartz counters are fantastic too!
• It is so bright and light now

I love this kitchen transformation, it does not look like the same home…

Before…

• Too much oak
• Wall to wall cabinets excessive open storage…looks messy and busy
• Dated lighting, easy thing to change
• Hanging pots and pans bring the ceiling height down

AFTER… OMG RIGHT? Photos: Liz Donnelly

• We removed the French doors, and replaced two doors with one wide opening
• Notice there are no upper cabinets…light and bright
• We added a bank of windows and brought the outside in
• New light painted cabinets are Candlelight Cabinetry
• The green granite is fantastic. The homeowner had to make this last-minute swap when the slabs we ordered came in damaged! I love the result.
• The new pendants are Hubbardton Forge Lighting
• We had Paul G White order and installed the tile backsplash

One of my favorite before and after projects

• Dark cherry cabinets with brass hardware…1980’s special
• Boring brick fireplace
• White track lighting…dreary
• Black appliances…depressing

After…WOW Photos: Liz Donnelly

• New chic lighting
• Wonderful white Candlelight cabinets
• Bright wall color
• Amazing granite
• Wood breakfast bar
• View now the star!!

This before and after did not take much but the impact was huge!

• Replace appliances
• Paint cabinets
• New track-lighting
• Add the island

I love these after shots! Photos: Liz Donnelly

• I love the paint on the cabinets, makes the room so bright and light
• The new island was a great find, an antique English pine cabinet, made into a kitchen island.
• New range and fan finish the update look!

We also have kitchens that we did in homes that we built from the ground up, No before photos just after!

Photos: Jamie Salomon

Photos below: Liz Donnelly

I love looking back at before pictures, I appreciate the renovation results so much more when I see where we have come from!

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Happy January…we are bitter cold in Maine, I hope you are all staying warm!

Best, Celia