We are done with the interior of the kitchen at this point. The hardwood flooring has been installed and finished. It’s a bit in the distance, but, if you look at the doorway on the left side you will notice the tie-in area that I had mentioned in the last post regarding the hardwood flooring. It matched beautifully.

This is a unique almost minimalist design with regards to the cabinetry and island layout. Most of our kitchen remodels usually involve custom cabinetry, however, the budget on this project didn’t allow for that. These cabinets were ordered as standard sized base and wall units from one of our pre-built cabinet manufactures and offered considerable savings over our custom cabinetry offerings. The center island is heavily customized and I will discuss that in the next article.

You will notice a large post and beam in the middle of the room. We removed almost half of the back wall of the 1st floor of the house and replaced it with laminated beams after we had built the addition that extended the kitchen out into the backyard.

Here you can see the hardwood flooring partially installed. On this project we were going to be tying our new hardwood floor in with an existing hardwood floor. They met in a wide opening between the new kitchen area and an existing hallway. For this reason we did not go with a pre-finished hardwood flooring product, we finished it post installation to achieve the best possible match with the existing floor.

You will also notice a rough 2″x6″ frame in the middle of the room. As you will see in an upcoming post, this frame allowed for the creation of a raised area of the kitchen island that serves as a “breakfast bar” type area. Notice the rough plumbing withing the frame as well. By putting the rough plumbing there, as opposed to up-through the base-cabinet unit that would house the sink, it allowed for more storage area underneath the sink.

At this stage we are about halfway done with this project. Sorry, no pictures before this point.