kitchen cabinet shopping & selections | 1970s home renovation
This is the year of the kitchen makeover and I am so, so excited about it. Every house we have lived in has had a kitchen that was too good to completely redo. We’ve always been fortunate to have solid cabinets, a great layout, and good bones, so I have always focused my attention on cosmetic changes. I was ready to gut a kitchen, though, and design one from scratch with what I choose. This 50-year-old kitchen gives me the opportunity to go kitchen cabinet shopping for the first time ever. Let me say, any room that is as hard-working as a kitchen and lasts for 50 years was well done. These cabinets are solid wood from the back to the sides to the shelves and they are still sturdy. But, the kitchen is getting tired. Most of the drawers on broken or on their last leg. The finish on
