Our Beach House kitchen!!!

So, I'm back!!!....Boy has life been busy as of late....that and the fact that we have had major computer problems....Thanks so much to the ladies who responded to my last post!!!...you were SO helpful......anyway...we went down to our beach house over the Memorial Day weekend...(our family's official start to summer)...I plan on doing all of my blogging this summer on the BEACH portion of "from Beach to Burbs"....but, I wanted to give you a quick look at our kitchen...(I will show more detail soon) ....If you are new to my blog, you can go back and get some history on our beach house....Last summer was the first summer in the new house.  Although my husband and I worked hard planning every detail of rebuilding the beach house, I took special attention in planning the kitchen....I LOVE how it turned out and  hope you like it too....decorating to follow in the coming months.......



TADA!!!!....I LOVE this kitchen....It isn't huge, but turned out to be even more than I need....



My absolute, hands down favorite part of this room....my apron sink and fabulous faucet!!!!

This pantry is a close second in the fav department....I worked with the kitchen designer to come up with a solution to be able to fit the pantry in....I have one in the "Burb" house and couldn't imagine living without one at the beach....At home, I have a one piece pantry cabinet...in the beach house, I couldn't have the upper cabinet as deep as the bottom, so I came up with the idea to have it in two pieces and make it only a 12 inch depth on top....I added a drawer for storage that rolls out right on the counter........LOVE it....I put all of the cling wrap, tin foil, etc in there....cans and boxes fit perfectly on the top shelves of the pantry....

It took me about a year to finally decide to go with the Absolute Black granite....It was my first pick, but everyone said it would be so much work to maintain......I thought about it long and hard and in the end decided that I had to have it anyway!!!.....I knew going in that this kitchen would be higher maintenance than my kitchen at home, but I have had this look in my head for as long as I can remember for when we finally rebuilt the beach house......I'm glad I stuck to my original choices....I'm so happy with the way it turned out and I promise I'll shine it all up if you come over to visit...lol

Happy Summer and soooo glad to be back to blogging!!!
xoxo, Mariaelena

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