Kitchen Remodel - Day 1 (more)

Day 1 work is complete. The kitchen is gutted. Here's what it looked like at 8am. Notice that I have a few of the not so broken doors off to save them. I saw on a thrifty decorating blog once how they made a headboard thingy out of cabinet doors that had been painted and attached together. Not sure if I'll do that or not, but I'd hate to want those doors in a few weeks and not have them.




Here's how it looks now:
Farewell soffits and upper cabinets over the bar and peninsula.




Uh oh. I had really really hoped we that I wouldn't have to replace the kitchen floor anytime soon. It's the formica brand laminate floor. When the dishwasher broke (2 YEARS AGO) it leaked water under the floor and warped the boards :(. I was really hoping that when the cabinets were out that I could just pound them back together and it would be ok. I don't think that's gonna work. Now what to do? ARGH. Cause I really can't afford to replace all the floors yet and the carpet throughout the house needs replacing badly too. When the time came, I was gonna redo the flooring in the whole house to be cohesive.


I'm sorta needing a pep talk right about now too. Originally (before my life turned upside down) we had planned to get rid of the peninsula and the bar area & wall. We planned to extend the cabinets all down this wall to the corner, with a window seat. Then the opened up area where the wet bar used to be would allow more room for a farmhouse table.
But... I stuck with the original floorplan with the hopes of saving money on the flooring (and construction costs with tearing out the wall). I know it's probably the right thing to do given my situation right now, but dangit, I'm sorta wishing I had eliminated the peninsula and done cabinets down the wall instead. That peninsula always causes a bottleneck.
C'mon people, tell me it'll be an ok choice (i.e. lie).

Polka Dot checks out the gaps. (The floor is shiny cause it's wet. I couldn't stand how filthy it was and had to clean a little)


Oh and here's a shot of my countertop sample. On the left is the Sahara Blue that I drooled over and the right is the Kona Beige that they cut me a great deal on.