Dining and Kitchen Reveal

I am going to do these before and afters a couple of rooms at a time.....in part, because I don't want to write one mega long post. Also, because I am not ready to takes pics of some of the rooms yet. Still too many things I want to do.

Dining Room Before: Beautiful arch and wood trim, small door into the Butler's Pantry and another small door into the kitchen.

After: We kept the arch and all of the trim. Opened up the doors leading to the kitchen. There are still some things I would like to do in here. I ordered fabric for window treatments. I may eventually add a rug for more color. (ignore the one dead bulb in the light fixture. Truthfully, I hadn't noticed until I saw the picture).
A little closer. If you have been to my house(s) before you recognize the empty frames. I have been moving them around for 6 years. I considered not using them in this house, but I still like them. There used to be one cream one and two dark brown. I decided to paint them all the same color. You can't really tell in the pic, but they turned out to be different colors, since I only painted one coat and they were different colors before. I decided I like them that way. Maybe I will take a close up before and after of those later.

Remember this? I bought it at a thrift store in Fort Worth.

I really like the way it turned out. I wanted to leave the stained back in order to make my Vietri dishes more visible. I added some of my grandmother's seashell collection and a few of my aqua colored pieces.

Kitchen Before: Remember the exposed water heater?

Narrow cabinets (and I mean narrow. No way we could have fit a dishwasher or new sink). We did love the subway tile, but weren't able to salvage it and add cabinets.

After: We had new cabinets designed that would mimic the design of the original cabinets, but we brought them around to the side wall too. We stayed with white subway tiles and black granite tops.

We had a wall of cabinets built to camouflage the water heater and add storage around the fridge.

I also ordered some fabric to make a cafe curtain for the window over the sink. I really love the simplicity of the white, black and wood. It is so clean feeling.

What do you think?