Since Summer and I started looking for houses, I have emphasized to her that I want to have a kitchen (I am the cook) that is open to the rest of the house and not cut off from all of the festivities. I always remember hangin’ in the kitchen with my mom while she was cooking when I was a kid, and as I got older we always hung out in the kitchen because that is where the food and beer are…what else do you need?

When we found this house, my only real concern was that I didn’t like that the kitchen was closed off from the rest of the house with a normal bedroom sized door. The rest of the house was/is perfect with big open rooms and high ceilings…but the kitchen needed some love. So, what did we do? We busted out the wall going into the kitchen and put in a new header all the way across to the center load bearing beam.


Picture of the Kitchen entrance BEFORE


Picture of the Kitchen entrance AFTER

Now, when you walk into the house, you will enter the Great Room and see right into the kitchen, out the windows over where the sink will be and see the mango trees in our backyard. I am stoked.