Full Kitchen Renovation with Relocated Appliances

This kitchen was original to the house and had reached the point where patching it would have been throwing good money after bad. The homeowners wanted the room to work differently, not just look different, so we took it back to bare studs and started from the layout.

The biggest change is one you would not notice unless you knew the old kitchen. The range moved from one side of the room to the other, which meant a new dedicated circuit run for it rather than reusing the old one. The dishwasher moved too. Those two decisions are what turned a tired kitchen into one that works, and they are also the reason the walls had to come open.

With everything stripped, we put in a new window, ran the new electrical, and boarded, taped and mudded the room back up before any finishes went near it. New laminate flooring runs through the space and ties into the rest of the main floor, so the kitchen reads as part of the house instead of a room that got done separately.

Cabinets and appliances are all new, with oak laminate countertops over them. Paint, trim and hardware finished it off.