The kitchen before and in progress

One of the things we really like about the new house is the kitchen.  Its good sized.  It's open to the dining room (kinda) and the cabinets are solid.  We saw potential-LOTS of potential.  We plan to open the wall between the dining room and kitchen, pull up the floor and tile, paint the kitchen cabinets, new counter tops and updated appliances.  Here is the beginning of the process.

Here is the view of the kitchen from the dining room.

We took out the top cabinets and started taking down the wall.

We also started taking up the floor.  Three layers, the top two are peel and stick tiles.  Right now the half of the floor we have removed is a bit like fly paper. 

Standing in the kitchen here is the new view into the dining room.  WORLD OF DIFFERENCE.

View of the kitchen from the dining room.