Goodbye 70's Man Cave, my new kitchen just moved in!

So I love the new kitchen in our weekend home. It is 95% finished. The only thing left is the hardware, the range has to get a piece that Maytag forgot, and the washer and dryer still have to have some electric work done to get hooked up. But the essence of the kitchen is complete. The floors look fabulous, and it all came together and opened up the space. Tom Mayone, our contractor and Roland Greene our plumber did a fantastic job constructing the vision I had. They are top notch. 
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Here are a few before and afters cuz they are so much fun to see

The success of the kitchen has highlighted some problems that we think were masked by the fugliness of the old kitchen. For instance: the bad paint job near the ceilings and beams that my poor husbo broke is back paractically on a rickety old ladder doing. Also- the grain of the wood paneling with the paint in the livingroom isn't really cutting it for us anymore, though we do love the paneling in the dining and hall.

That paneling in the livingroom is a different material and just doesn't look as good painted.

The biggest ick now, is that built-in shelving in the livingroom handmade by the previous owners or some randome 13 year old boys they may have hired. It's more busted than Britney on a binger, dirtier than John Mayer's bed, and falling apart faster than Meg Ryan's latest face job. (sorry Meg, but Susan Sarandon rocks it way harder than you and she is 15 years older) After you see the clean, solid and well constructed kitchen, it makes all the small issues we had in the other rooms stand out. We are going to temporarily paint it the built in white to "blend" in more so you don't stare at it right away, until we can get a new one built that looks good. And yes, we may end up drywalling that area. We will keep the other areas with the wood.

Priorities, Priorities though...we have SOOO many projects and only so much dough.
pics coming soon!