Kitchen...

 

The kitchen needs quite a bit of overhauling. It's hard to see in the first picture but the ceiling drops one foot from the other room over the kitchen area, has fluorescent lighting and hanging cabinets. The way the kitchen cabinets are designed it really closes off the kitchen from the rest of the large room.

 

 

 

This is a VERY rough draft idea of what I want the kitchen to look like. I want to remove the the counter where the sink is and create an island and put the sink there with the dishwasher. We will take the ceiling up and add canned lighting.

 

In this picture you can see we have taken out all the upper cabinets to start working on the ceiling. It looks better and opens the room up already. I will work on the cabinets while my husband does the ceiling. (I definitely got the better end of that deal)

                                         Another view of the dropped ceiling and ugly light.