Our Kitchen Remodel Part 1 - A Hutch Cupboard...

As I've been hinting - we've just remodeled our kitchen.  

There are still unfinished areas -  but operation 'move everything

 back into the cabinets' is finally finished as of today.

Since we changed the layout of our kitchen a bit - I had room to do

 something 'different' at one end of the cream painted cabinets.  

I did this... 

 Inspired a bit by this...

Via Better Homes & Gardens/Pinterest

Here is a glimpse of this same area 'before' and 'during' 

the mess of deconstruction...

And now - I have a pretty and safe place for my 'fancy' dishes...

(which I actually use fairly often - call me 'old fashioned'.) 
This is not a separate piece of furniture - rather just
standard kitchen cabinets from Kraftmaid that we 
put together to look like a 'hutch'.

When arranging things on shelves - it's good to vary heights and

 leave some blank space for the eye to rest.  My 'hutch' doesn't have all the 

blank space it should perhaps - but the dishes are in there and I'm happy!

Formerly they resided in the glass doors wall cabinet you see here.

  They were crammed in there! 
(Just trust me when I tell you our former kichen was very cheap and showing much wear - 

photos can lie!)

Glass dishes do not show up well in dark cabinets.  

So we put in a light colored back wall.  White doilies also help...

The few depression glass dishes I have were from my mother.  

So of course - they are special to me...

I would have liked to fit a desk into the kitchen but there wasn't enough room.  

Turns out - the bottom of this cupboard may serve us well as a

 computer/telephone center.

I'm sure I'll continue to play with what goes where - 

but I'm truly enjoying my new 'hutch' cabinet.

More kitchen pics in the days ahead!  ~Joyce