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Аpartment design renovation · June 21, 2022

How I Designed My New Kitchen

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Jully

Hey all! My name is Julia, former college student and a home decor enthusiast who loves DIY home improvement projects and finding creative ways to decorate any living spaces on a budget. Recently moved from my dorm to my new apartment which I renovated from scratch and I am here to help you with tips & tricks about home decor/college and more 🙂

In this blog post, I am going to give you more details and insights into how I designed my new kitchen.

How I Designed My New Kitchen

The kitchen has always been one of my favorite rooms because I love to cook as much as I love to eat haha. I’ve always dreamed of one day designing my home’s kitchen to my taste and needs. Well, this is now a reality!

When I bought the apartment, I knew I would have to do a major restructuring of the rooms and knock down some walls. I wanted to have a big living room and kitchen in one. So I got to work and started the big renovation.

How I Designed My New Kitchen

1. Before the Renovation

Let me first start by showing you what the room looked like originally when I just became the new owner of the apartment.

As you can see, this is a small bedroom that we had to merge with another one to create one big living room with a kitchen. Therefore, we had to knock down the separating walls to make the place larger.

How I Designed My New Kitchen - before the transformation image

2. During the Transformation

After we removed the separating wall, we had to run pipes from the bathroom to the area selected for the kitchen.

This was necessary so we could use the sink, dishwasher, washing machine, and dryer. You can see more of this renovation process below in the photos.

installing the pipes
connecting pipes

After we connected the two rooms, connected the pipes and made the main changes, it was time to start furnishing the kitchen.

As you may already know, I’m a fan of darker colors, so I chose the kitchen to be not in the standard light shades but something different and outside of the box. I focused on the combination of graphite and wood.

Another wish of mine was for all of the appliances to be built-in into the kitchen furniture because that makes the design cleaner. I also really wanted the kitchen cabinets to be opened by a push system.

image of the new furniture
Me being happy about my new kitchen
Almost finished with the kitchen furniture, look how happy I am!

3. After the Transformation

All small details and decorations in the kitchen are in matte color as well as the sink and faucet.

I chose to position the washing machine and dryer under the counter, which was one of the best decisions I made because they are nicely hidden which contributes to a cleaner look.

design ideas

The built-in appliances are the refrigerator, freezer, dishwasher, microwave, hob, and oven. So yeah, every single appliance needed for a functional kitchen is well in its place.

The square footage of the kitchen area after the transformation is now 95 ft², and the countertop’s dimensions are 67″ x 24″. It’s not something big, but gets the job done perfectly!

renovation ideas

Below you can see what my kitchen looks like now. I’m constantly looking to change some small details as improvement, but basically this is the design of my new kitchen.

I think it turned out wonderfully and I was really happy to recreate it exactly as it was in my head.

How I Designed My New Kitchen - after the transformation
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So apparently you can fall in love with a house th So apparently you can fall in love with a house that doesn’t even have walls yet..... is that a thing or just me? 😂

(concrete floors / muddy footprints / pipes sticking out of nowhere)
It’s giving: 30% chaos, 30% rain, 40% “trust the process”.

I walk through the entrance like “ok, future me, remember this” - the half bath that is just pipes, the laundry that’s still a puzzle, the pantry door where groceries will sneak in, the living room that already feels like movie night even though it’s basically a skeleton.

Then there’s the terrace view. You step out and suddenly all the noise, dirt, rain = background. Hills, trees, sky...... kind of looks like a desktop wallpaper that hasn’t fully loaded yet but I’m obsessed.

Upstairs via LADDER (gym membership who?) to bedroom / office / bedroom combo. One room for sleep, one room for work, one room for views that are honestly doing 90% of the emotional support right now.

(save this for the “before” / next time we’ll hopefully have stairs and less mud) 💭🏡✨

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Second floor - DONE! ✅ I can’t even begin to tell Second floor - DONE! ✅

I can’t even begin to tell you how giddy I am right now (bursting-at-the-seams kind of excited, you know?). The moment is finally here and I get to share it with YOU my ride-or-dies! ☀️

First of all... can we talk about how the house is finally starting to look like an actual house?! (Like, is this real life or am I manifesting too hard?) And second — THE VIEW. OMG. The kind of view that makes you go “okayyyy, the wait was WORTH IT.” 📸🛠️

And yes, we kept going through the doom-and-gloom weather and the monsoon-level rain because... what’s that saying? When it rains, it pours — but make it aesthetic,right?!(Honestly, who do we think we are?) 🪜

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Two days ago we had nothing but an empty foundation, and now? All the rooms are just… THERE. Magic?? Nope — just the dream team working faster than I can say “where did my Virgo perfectionism go?” 👀

They were so quick and organized that even I — yes, Miss Overplanner 101 — was impressed. In just a few hours the house started sprouting like a mushroom (in the best way possible 🍄✨).

I’m honestly screaming — can’t wait to see what’s next. (Walls? Windows? My Pinterest board finally coming to life???) Stay tuned, because this is getting REAL. 🏡💖
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