Last we left off we'd just painted our kitchen cabinets. This entire year we've been working on our kitchen, and after we painted the cabinets there were just a few other small changes that we wanted to make.

I'm excited to share with you where our kitchen is at today, it's truly been a labor of love. I've loved making these changes over the last year. It's been good to live in this house for a while before tackling this project. We were really able to see what changes we wanted to make that would add value to our home and make the biggest impact!

Before we get into all the changes let's take a look at what our kitchen looked like the day we moved in;

Our kitchen in this home was much smaller than our last, but I loved the dark granite and knew painting the cabinets would make a big impact in this space! Since the kitchen us a U shape, had dark granite and in the corner of our home our goal was to brighten up this space.

Below are a few images of our kitchen cabinets before we painted them and after we installed a white subway tile backsplash;

And here's the beautiful after and how our kitchen looks today:

I knew I wanted a contrasting pantry door, so I painted it with chalk paint. It was a quick and easy weekend project that makes a big impact I think. The magnolia wreath was a DIY and the "EAT" letters are from Hobby Lobby.

We had a cabinet that was detaching from the wall and it turns out our predicament was the perfect reason to get rid of them and add these industrial inspired farmhouse open shelving. There's tons of tutorials online to make these shelves.

I'm so glad we choose to do this in our space, it adds a little something extra and we get tons of compliments on them. It also gives me a great excuse to display some of my favorite dish and glassware.