Green Kitchen

So, many of you have heard the incredible story of the kitchen we found at Green Demolitions. Here's the summary: GD raises over $1M/year to fund substance abuse treatment in CT by reselling donated kitchens. Most of them are fairly large country & suburban kitchens. Rarely do they get anything modern or apartment-sized.

So, the night before we were to meet with Erin (our architect) to go over the contractors' bids, we were desperate to find savings. Steve went to bed and THIS popped up on GD's website at about 11:30. I stayed up until 2 am measuring and scheming. At 15' it was EXACTLY the width of our desired kitchen but L-shaped where our drawings called for a straight line. Still it looked gorgeous in walnut & black granite.

At 9:30 am we were in Erin's office sweating until GD opened. We called at 10:00 sharp and found out the kitchen was still for sale and the price had dropped further! But they wouldn't hold it for more than three hours. Erin was great and agreed to hotfoot it up to Norwalk with me to check it out in person. A couple hours later I asked him what his gut said and he answered, "I don't think we should fight this."

So this is the "before" photo of our recycled kitchen in the original owner's Manhattan apartment. Fingers crossed that it will look this good in our space in a couple months. The appliances were not included.

The open shelf & microwave hang between the fridge & upper cabinet in the back left corner. The island's got a 24" hole where the wine cabinet used to be. We're putting in a drawer & trash pullout. Nice shoji-inspired doors in the back, similar to the Raydoors we just ordered.