Our house is more than 30 years old and so the layout is not as open as the new built modern homes. There are walls dividing each room blocking natural light, making the space feel enclosed. The kitchen is in the middle of the house, sandwiched between the family room and the dining room. It is also in an irregular shape which limits where you can put your appliances. There's a giant wall with fake cabinets that acts as a divider between the family room and kitchen. Not really the open concept that I love to have. I groan whenever I see our fake melamine cabinets in our kitchen; they are also not very space efficient. On the other side of the fake cabinets is actually where we put our TV, and it restricts the size of the TV due to the space allocated in the design.

Without further ado, let me show you how our current kitchen looks like.

{View from the hallway, it is a irregular shaped kitchen}

{urg...look at that awful incandescent ceiling light}

{limited counter space with cabinet doors falling apart}

{Kitchen Reno Diary} 

Inspiration board 

Before and after