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Kitchen Before & After: Cheryl’s ‘Very Tight Budget’ DIY Redo

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Cambria Bold is the Managing Editor of Cubby, and one of Apartment Therapy Media’s first full-time editors from way back when. She was the founding Design and Lifestyle Editor for Kitchn and the Managing Editor for Apartment Therapy’s green living site, Re-Nest (RIP). After a few years offline and then working elsewhere, she’s back to share ideas about design, kids, and family life. It’s helpful that she now has two little kids and lots of thoughts about all those things. She lives with said kids and their father in St. Paul, MN.
updated May 2, 2019
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Despite a very limited budget, Kitchen reader Cheryl wasn’t going to let that get in the way of redoing her kitchen. With the help of her husband and some DIY skills (including building her own cabinets) Cheryl made a kitchen to fit her needs!

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Cheryl gives us the backstory:

My husband and I gave our awful old kitchen a DIY makeover on a very tight budget. We built our own cabinets and even made the counter tops out of 2×4’s, stained and gloss coated. The sink was salvaged from someone else’s re-do. We took out the upper cabinets and replaced them with long, open shelves. My old pantry was small but deep, making things hard to get to, so I purposely made my new pantry shallow, open, and floor to ceiling. Canned goods are only stacked two deep. The cup hooks above the sink were made from vintage garage sale silver plate forks and spoons which I hand stamped with phrases like Hot Java, Kiss the Cook, and Good Gravy.

Thanks, Cheryl!

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(Images: Cheryl for The Kitchn)

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