What I love most about Nikki’s kitchen makeover is that it really shows how much you can customize a builder-basic tract home. We both live in Arizona, the state that invented cookie-cutter homes. Our state color is beige. Our state flag doesn’t exist because the HOA ruled against flags. Our state motto is “Mi Casa es Su Casa (because we can’t tell whose is whose).”
But Nikki really managed to break out of the same-ol’ same-ol’ mold, not just with her kitchen, but her entire home. Every last detail looks custom-made. The whole shamdangle is simply fantastic, and it inspires the heck out of me! There’s a lot more to see on her blog Grand Design, do check it out!
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22 Comments
Cherish @ My Cup of Tea
March 24, 2011 at 6:10 PMI love this makeover!
The Grandy's
March 24, 2011 at 3:53 PMI seriously look at your blog every day, I love all the before and afters. It never gets boring! Thanks for featuring my kitchen!
rachel
March 24, 2011 at 4:17 PMBeautiful! I LOVE the ladder!
Joey
March 24, 2011 at 4:18 PMAs a 5th generation Arizonan I am weeping at your description of our beloved state. Did I mention they are tears of laughter?
Beeyooteefull kitchen. (That’s how we spell it in AZ)
alison
March 24, 2011 at 4:50 PMNow I understand the state motto!!
What an inspiring transformation. I live in a cookie cut-out, and I feel that it is boxing me in–every day! Working to spread out.
Single Stone Studios
March 24, 2011 at 5:03 PMThat ladder is SUPER COOL!
Jenny
March 24, 2011 at 5:14 PMPure Awesome-ness! And… I love that the appliances aren’t stainless. Not that I have anything against stainless – it’s just nice to see a standout kitchen without stainless. 🙂
Michelle L.
March 24, 2011 at 5:24 PMit’s gorgeous! I love that she didn’t spend tons of money, just worked w/what was there, but a total transformation.
Arizona jokes – hilarious!
Allyson & Jere
March 24, 2011 at 5:42 PMThat is ALL KINDS of awesome! Love the ladder hanging from the cieling. Sigh. I love clever people that make beautiful homes.
Allyson & Jere
March 24, 2011 at 5:42 PMThat is ALL KINDS of awesome! Love the ladder hanging from the cieling. Sigh. I love clever people that make beautiful homes.
Allyson & Jere
March 24, 2011 at 5:42 PMThat is ALL KINDS of awesome! Love the ladder hanging from the cieling. Sigh. I love clever people that make beautiful homes.
asnipofgoodness
March 24, 2011 at 5:50 PMYou crack me up!
Marie
March 24, 2011 at 8:39 PMVery nicely done and definitely not “cookie cutter” anymore.
A urora
March 24, 2011 at 8:42 PMlove the befores & afters, but really enjoy your commentary, too!
beautiful.
Stephanie
March 24, 2011 at 10:39 PMThis is the best description yet that you have ever written! Crackin me up. I am going to go check out her kitchen, she did a beautiful job that is for sure.
Tanja @ Postmodern Hostess
March 24, 2011 at 10:51 PMToo busy laughing at your AZ joke to see the makeover.
Oh, wait, that’s a nice after!
🙂
Jana
March 25, 2011 at 2:12 AMYou are hilarious.
Jane
March 25, 2011 at 3:11 AMThat whole first paragraph had me laughing! After my husband and I had been in our new home for about a year I woke up late one night to feverish banging on the front door. It was my husband, but he had been doing the same thing next door for 20 minutes wondering why I hadn’t opened the door for him. Sadly, our house was two story and the neighbor, who thankfully wasn’t home, had a single story. But that is how much the houses looked alike.
Love the after shots! Time to take a look around both of your sights!
Kyle-Michelle-Kaylie
March 25, 2011 at 4:06 AMso funny! before i read the paragraph I thought “this house is in arizona” then i read the paragraph and it was. it just screamed arizona. (im from az btw) soo funny. kitchen turned out amazing!
Desiree
March 25, 2011 at 2:31 PMYour commentary cracks me up! I love your blog so much and it’s one of my first stops every morning!
Keep up the good work and I love this kitchen!
Kymberly Foster Seabolt
March 26, 2011 at 1:44 AM“Our state color is beige. Our state flag doesn’t exist because the HOA ruled against flags. Our state motto is “Mi Casa es Su Casa (because we can’t tell whose is whose).”
Best lines EVAH!
I will be remembering those for ages and laughing each time I do.
As for the kitchen. Are you SURE that’s the same house?
Beautiful and so different, it’s truly amazing.
**Mumzy
March 29, 2011 at 5:30 AMFunniest lines on AZ!!! Still laughing!!! LOVE the after!!