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Butcher block and subway tile

Existing cabinets, everything above them new. Butcher block tops, a white subway backsplash run wall to wall, and floating shelves where a cabinet used to hang.

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Counters + backsplash
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Kitchen
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Finished kitchen — butcher block counters, white subway backsplash, floating shelves

The cheap way to change a kitchen

The cabinets in this kitchen were solid oak and in good shape. Replacing them would have been most of the budget and none of the difference — what was dating the room was the counter and the wall behind it.

So the tops came off and the cabinet boxes stayed. Butcher block went on, which wants a proper seal and a slow start but gives you a warm counter you can sand back in ten years instead of replacing. The backsplash is white subway run wall to wall, up past where the old one stopped.

The upper cabinet beside the window came out for a pair of floating shelves. That's the change people notice, and it cost almost nothing.

Counters off, cabinet boxes staying
Counters off, cabinet boxes staying
The run before the new tops
The run before the new tops
Backsplash starting at the window wall
Backsplash starting at the window wall
Tile over the sink run
Tile over the sink run
Around the corner
Around the corner
Up to the range wall
Up to the range wall
After — the sink run
After — the sink run
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Materials
Butcher block counters White subway tile Floating shelves Existing cabinetry (kept) Undermount sink

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