The "Other House" Part III -- Kitchen and Back Entry

We'll start this one with the back entry. The first photo, on the left, is looking from the original back door into the kitchen. On the right is the finished version looking from the kitchen towards the new back door. There are stairs down to the basement from just inside the back door, the shelf you can see is over the stairs. I'm not putting any pictures of the basement on-- it basically just holds the furnace and water heater.












I like this next picture because it shows the work in progress. Ray took out the walls in the back and re-built everything. The area you can see contains the back entry and what became the pantry and closet for the back bedroom. Where the wall is still in place is the back bedroom.
The kitchen wasn't in great shape, either. The stove was disgusting and the fridge still had food in it--leaving an unpleasant odor throughout the house since the electricity was turned off. In these pictures you can see the counter and cabinets. On the right you can see the doorway to the bathroom. On the left you can see the doorways to the back bedroom and the tiny random room.









This picture shows the other side of the kitchen. The windows were bad throughout the house. You can also see the old flooring.
Here is the kitchen now. First looking from the back entry. We put in completely new cabinets and counter-tops. Also, next to the stove we added cabinets and counter-tops -- it was a weird area, too skinny for typical base cabinets, but Ray made it all work. Originally there was nothing next the stove but some pipes that looked really bad. On the right you can see the new pantry doors replacing the old random room. Ray also put in some very nice tile. He did a great job on the floor. I really like the way the kitchen turned out. It is a nice-sized kitchen, there is a space for a table next to the windows and we maximized cupboard and counter space. The pantry is a good size, too. I spent quite a bit of time cleaning the stove and Ray scrubbed down the fridge (I couldn't clean that one, the smell was too bad).