Lake Kitchen: Don’t let those cabinets go to waste

This post is about the transformation of this kitchen

See the finished kitchen here.

I am not sure we would have put in a kitchen downstairs if we had not redone our main kitchen. In renovating that kitchen, we were left with a full set of cabinets and microwave. This downstairs area had only a cabinet in it, but it did have plumbing as it was probably originally intended for some sort of kitchen or bar.

Adding a kitchen downstairs radically changed how our summers flowed. With a drink fridge, ice maker, sink and microwave downstairs, as well as plate and silverware storage, eating and entertaining downstairs became a breeze.

The plumbing that was already here is actually what we ended up using to run up and connect the new plumbing for our sink upstairs.

Fridge

Instead of buying a special fridge, we actually just bought a regular mini-fridge and made sure it could slide out if it ever broke and that an outlet was easily accessible behind it.

Tile

I tiled and used a dark gray grout. Since the tile was on a mesh sheet, cutting it was easy, but still hard to get perfect, so I lined the edges with an end cap tile.

Sink & Faucet

My husband really wanted a bar sink. Really I would prefer a larger sink, but this mattered to him and it does leave more counter space. We do serve food on these counters a lot, so it was probably a good trade.

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