Kitchen Design Ideas

We are going to design our kitchen layout and pick out our cabinets tomorrow. Here are some ideas of what I'm thinking.

Let's not forget the "before" picture...

We plan to keep the layout of the appliances the same and just remove the random peninsula over in the corner and add an island. Something like this:

Here is my "inspiration board" I put together for our contractor so he could get a better idea of what I wanted. 

1 - Want to use a dark brown/espresso color for the island cabinets

2 - White or slightly off white for the rest of the cabinets

3 - Paint (Sea Salt by Sherwin Williams) Currently have this color in our sun room and just love it!

5 - White subway tile for the main back splash

4&6 - Accent back splash for over the gas cook top. Love Penny Tile!

7 - Accent wallpaper for the half-wall

8 - Granite: Want a grey granite with specs of brown/black/white in there. 

And here are a few pictures I just love!

I was a little worried our kitchen would be washed out by using a tile with white cabinets but this picture proved me wrong.

Love everything about this kitchen! 

This gave me a good idea of what our layout would look like. Also love the glass cabinet doors on either side of the window. Almost makes that window look twice as large.

This is the look we are hoping for with the half-wall we are cutting down between the kitchen and den. We want to still keep some division in the space but keep a full sight line.