after

before

after

love our Bluestar

and our kitchen sink!

so so happy with it all so far :)

for a little brooklyn kitchen, we feel like we enlarged it by double when we only moved the wall out by 2 feet and switched where the stove and fridge were installed - brilliant idea from our contractor who works solely with Ikea cabinets - he was amazing too. happy to answer any and all questions!!

Great job! Love your red Bluestar :)

Those are Ikea?! Wow. They are beautiful. It feels so much more open than before. I really like the corner shelving, it adds some personality to the kitchen. Enjoy!

Gorgeous! What a difference. I bet you love cooking in that space. Can you share more about your pendant lights and your backsplash?

Thanks!

Wow. What a gorgeous kitchen! Love the fridge/cabinet area... that just looks great and the glass uppers. And, durn it, that gorgeous counter top that is so, so lovely. Boy, if that would have worked in my kitchen, I'da had it.

Absolutely wonderful!!

Brilliant use of space and materials, congratulations and thank you for sharing the pictures!

It looks terrific and so much larger, too!

Wow, your quartzite is beautiful! Great job, looks so open and inviting!

Looks wonderful! I love your quartzite and the punchy red stove. Would you mind sharing the dimensions of your island and the aisle widths? Thanks!!

Looks great! Congratulations. I love the red BlueStar, the quartzite countertops and how the vertical handles all seem to coordinate so consistently and emphasize the ceiling height. The stacked uppers are great, too.

What is your aisle widths and your island size? (I think it may be helpful for others dealing with similar spaces).

Really lovely kitchen. Like so many of the other GWers, I love your quartzite!
You are so fortunate to have so much storage. Great job! Enjoy it for many years to come.

Drop dead gorgeous!

I only post in about 5% of reveal threads because if you can't say something nice don't say anything at all.

Wow! Fantastic transformation, I kept going back and forth between the before and after. What a beautiful difference. Are those Adel doors or did you paint Orsa? Love the leathered counters. You know, I won't be the least bit surprised to see your great kitchen featured in the next Ikea catalogue, you make them look fabulous! Congratulations on the whole result.

Wow!
Thank you all for such great comments. Will try and answer some of the questions asked. The stove is vermillion (not really red - attaching another pic which seem truer to its color - more orange - honestly we were terrified after ordering the color - a bit of what did we just do - but are so pleased with it). The backsplash is made up of long 2 x 8" subway tile and we used light grey grout. The doors are Adel and the pendant lights are from Rejuvenation (schoolhouse shade)

oops, forgot one thing, the dims for the island are 68 x 19 1/2" and the aisle dims are about 30 1/4" - hope that helps!

Beautiful space!!! What Ikea cabinets are those. They are really nice.

Carol

Love the way the tea kettle and the dutch oven play off the Bluestar, and your hood is perfect!

Thanks for those dimensions and aisle widths! We've got a smallish space (though not as small as yours), and it's really helpful to see what different sizes look like in practice.

Wow! What a lovely kitchen you have now! Everything is just perfect. Pretty and functional. Very well done.

Wow, really nice result!! Looks great...soothing and restful. Those quartzite countertops are quietly sexy -- what exactly does "leathered" mean...are they smooth, or textured? Or is that how the matte finish is achieved? Your countertops look so natural and calming, yet interesting.

Love the Adel cabinets, too!

Beautiful! I, too, keep scrolling back & forth. It's hard to believe it's the same space. I love your frig area & how you positioned your cabinet pulls around that area. Love the open shelving by the hood. Love your backspash. Everything just goes so well together. How tall are your ceilings? Great, great job, congratulations!

Wow! Beautiful transformation! Love those counters.

Your new kitchen is so beautiful! I love that you did the red range - it's a great splash of color in that gorgeous white kitchen! The counters are wonderful - I haven't seen leathered quartzite, just polished and honed.

The clean line of the cabinets stacked to the ceiling make such a big difference and I'm sure you're appreciating the extra storage.

Would you mind sharing the dimensions of your refrigerator? Is it integrated or just a counter depth? I'm refrigerator shopping right now :)

beautiful! i love the leathered finish on your counters. and love how tall your kitchen feels too.

What a great space!!! Everything goes together so beautifully, and you have so many cabinets! Do you have the wonderful Ikea interior organizers, too?

Great job! I'm going w/ IKEA cabs as well & it's nice to see how well they come out. Your choice of hardware works perfect & the color of the range gives it just the pop it needs. Bravo!

It's so TINY! And so well laid out. With tons of storage so it corrals the clutter.

I like it.

Some more answers to the questions:
Ikea cabinets are Adel.
Leathered surface is very similar to honed but it is more textured - we absolutely love it. We did need to seal it again after it was installed (they hadn't sealed it enough) but it is wonderful stuff. The ceiling height is 10 ft in the kitchen (that was the original soffit and to save costs we decided to keep it, and work with it, hiding the venting for the hood, etc.) the rest of the room is closer to 12ft. ceiling height. The fridge is 36" wide Liebherr - and no, it is not built in but it is counter depth (there is an annoying building vent that runs through the brownstone and is located on the edge of where the stove use to be...our contractor customized the cabinetry next to the fridge surround to compensate (making really usable space by the way). And @lazygardens it IS TINY (typical for Brooklyn apartments) but it certainly doesn't feel that way any longer!

Good grief, what a gorgeous job! I didn't even notice it was small because I'm captivated by the finished product :-)
What is in the island on the sink side? Drawers, cabinets, open shelving? TIA

Thank you @cluelessincolorado, the island has storage, drawers and a microwave...and at the end (you'll notice in pics above) open shelves to house my well and often used mixing bowls (originally thought to put cook books there, but we decided this was a better fit for our needs)

Beautiful transformation! You should be proud. i can see how it must be fun cooking in there now. Almost makes me want to move to the city to have a kitchen like that!
Enjoy!

So great! I love the pop of color the Bluestar adds!

stunning, really.

questions- which wall did you move out 2 feet?
-did you use the shallow 12" deep drawers from Ikea in the island? How did you shorten the base cabinets?
- how did you trim out the back and side of the island that do not have openings?
- how did you create the shelved area on the side of the island?
- was a cover panel scribed for the farm sink and applied over the doors?
thanks!

Great job, I love seeing beautiful Ikea kitchens and that really fabulous counter!!

Great job, I love seeing beautiful Ikea kitchens and that really fabulous counter!!

It's gorgeous and I love the way you have used all available space. I had no idea Ikea could look like that. How much fun would it be to cook on that stove!!!!

@scrappy25 answer to your questions:
which wall did you move out 2 feet? the wall between the kitchen and dinning room
-did you use the shallow 12" deep drawers from Ikea in the island? How did you shorten the base cabinets? We worked with an amazing contractor who works with Ikea products and knows how to customize them - if you are in the NYC tristate area, they go by the name Basic Builders - husband and wife team (Peter and Lissa) and I can highly recommend them - they were terrific!
- how did you trim out the back and side of the island that do not have openings? contractor used false doors on the back of the island
- how did you create the shelved area on the side of the island? contractor customized bookshelf to fit with cabinets and then put false doors on the sides
- was a cover panel scribed for the farm sink and applied over the doors? those are customized pull out Ikea drawers with Adel doors

hope this helps! good luck on your project!
thanks!

Wonderful. I loved your monochromic scheme livened with the fun element of your stove before and even more when I learned it was more orange than red. Delightful.

Happy cooking.

Beautiful transformation. Excellent job! Thanks for sharing, esp island and aisle dimensions for those of us with small kitchens.

Oh WOW...I'm super jealous of that BS. I so wanted to get a color, but had a hard time making it work in my space. I may have considered re-thinking everything if I had seen your reveal a few weeks ago. That has to be a dream to work in such an efficient and beautiful space. It truly is a case of function meets form!!