{"id":21547,"date":"2020-03-20T15:36:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T15:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.homedepot.com\/?p=121181"},"modified":"2020-03-27T17:58:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T17:58:41","slug":"kitchen-renovation-with-drawer-microwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homeimprovementblogs.com\/hg-blog\/kitchen-renovation-with-drawer-microwave\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitchen Renovation with Drawer Microwave"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Your kitchen is where delicious meals are created, and pleasant family time is spent. Gina Matsoukas of Running to the Kitchen transformed her kitchen to a more bright and lively space with help from The Home Depot. Check out her entire remodeling process and the new appliance used to modernize her kitchen.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\"Kitchen<\/p>\n

After living in our house for 10 years with a career change halfway through that requires me to be in the kitchen all day long, we finally bit the bullet and decided to renovate. The dark cherry cabinets that closed the space in from the rooms on either side of the kitchen had to go. To get the open feel and additional light that was number one on my priority list, a major structural wall had to come down. It was a major undertaking (and if I never see another microwave meal again, it will be too soon), but many months later the space is exactly as I envisioned it: bright, light and airy. It\u2019s the perfect balance between function and aesthetic.<\/p>\n

Before<\/h3>\n

\"Kitchen<\/p>\n

The kitchen is located in the center of the house. The only window above the sink faces east. The dark cherry cabinets and the wall separating it from the southern exposure of the formal dining room (to the right in this picture) was a very dark space. On a rainy day, it would almost be pitch black in the kitchen in mid-afternoon!<\/p>\n

The \u201cmust-have\u201d list was a long one. I figured if we were going to do this renovation and spend all this money, it was going to be exactly what I wanted. But in the end, there were really just four things that carried the most importance:<\/p>\n