New England Farmhouse Renovation- Part 1: The Kitchen

February 2012

5 years ago this week, my 3 oldest children and I, embarked on one of the biggest adventures of our lives. We packed up all of our belongings, and moved in with my boyfriend (who is now my husband and there are now 4 kids!). The outside of the house looked a bit nicer than this when we first moved in, at least, it was all put together still. There used to be a porch on the front of that side wing on the left.

Right now, we only live in the Main house (the big part on the right). You walk in the front door and you are in the main hall, the main staircase is directly in front of you, to the right is a door to the living room, straight ahead is our current Dining room (can also be accessed through another door in the living room - to create a big circle) and in the very back corner is a tiny little room that we are currently using for our kitchen. The original kitchen to this house was in the side wing, just behind those 2 windows on the lower floor.

When you first walk in that door, farthest to the left (and this picture does NOT show the entire side wing, there's another window upstairs and down to the left that you can't see) you would be at the bottom of the "utility" stairs, to your left would be the Laundry and Mud entry, to the right was the kitchen.

Here's the Mud Entry and Laundry closet:

 "Mud entry" to the left of the main door. The white door leads to the garage, just to the right of that door is a TINY little corridor that was the "laundry" - Shown below:

The Laundry nook....


Here's an idea of what the kitchen USED to KINDA look like, after we started on the renovation adventure.

 When you first walk in the door and look right, into the "kitchen" this is what you saw, that door leads to the Main house

 Look toward the back corner and you can see where the cupboards used to be, that's the old counter top and lots and lots of tools and stuff

If you had continued through the mess and found your way in to the half bath behind the staircase you could look back into the "kitchen" and see this (to the right is the basement stairs, behind is the half bath)


I know this is a LOT to take in, so I'll leave it at this for now, and post more in a few days, maybe with some updated shots!