I love the way your kitchen looks and I also love that most of your pans and dishware is second hand. Many older things are certainly better quality than newer things.
I have those exact cabinets in my house and they are oak and we had them made when we built our house 24 years ago and I too love the wood look. It looks outdated now but I don’t care they are solid wood not particle boards!!
It's a pleasure to see the kitchen of someone who actually cooks. It seems now kitchens are no longer designed for people who cook all their meals at home. They're pretty kitchens, but they just don't work. This one is pretty, and it works.
I love your kitchen! So bright and cheery. Also love how thrifty you guys are. Having someone in your life who knows how to install them must be wonderful. Yougys are. Eat match. ❤️
The sound on this video is really good. Whatever you've done works well! 🌄 "Not quite perfect" is really the best kind of kitchen, or so I think. Your cabinets are quite a lot like mine--they came with the house and are 40 years old. No need to change because they are still in great shape, and I also think that the oak is pretty.
Love seeing folks reusing instead of buying new....I agree, the newer stuff doesn't work as well in my experience. We lost our farmhouse to fire a couple years ago but were able to salvage a lot from it and that made it possible for us to create our 850 sq ft cottage that was comfortable and livable from the start. I agree about the gas stove too, love knowing if the power goes out we can still cook (tho we've added our woodstove for heat so thats a good backup). So happy to see y'all moving towards your goal. Happy winter!
Kitchen looks fantastic! Especially nice that cabinets will be able to transition to your new house when the time comes. I especially love the pot rack…how convenient is that! Visually brings the high ceiling down and makes the space feel more in scale😊.
I had these cabinets in my last house. I loved them. I used a product on them that I think was Refresh. People that would come over, would say, Oh, those would look good painted white! YIKES!!!!! Pick me up from the floor!!!!! UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH NO paint on real wood, especially oak, hickory, maple or walnut......................... I love wood!!!!!!!! I have hickory here. The pan rack is awesome!!!!!! This would always make a wonderful canning kitchen.
I think your kitchen is so cute. I love the antique strainer, scale and other stuff that reminds me of my grandmother's kitchen.❤ The wreath is beautiful and was so much fun to watch you make. ❤
I suspect the sky is the limit when remodelling. It’s an easy way to become the most expensive house in the neighbourhood A few years ago go, a buddy converted my lower cabinets to drawers - I thought my kitchen was functional before but this change was pretty mind blowing for me. The old cabinet doors were remade into drawers fronts, the drawer boxes were built out of mfd and I used some really inexpensive drawers slides. My advice is to make all the drawers 3or 4 inches deep. If the drawers get deeper as you go down the cabinet, the bottom drawer is 6 inches and it’s very easy to overload that size of drawer. It becomes very heavy to open and the slide needs to be heavy duty to support that weight. I know Ariel and Clay probably don’t need another project to work on, but if there’s time, this is amazing change to make. All of my lowers are drawers now except for the cabinet below the sink
Beautiful kitchen Ariel, so warm and inviting while being efficient. The only thing I'd suggest is for Clay to use his great skill and make you a Lazy Susan for the spices. :)
A lovely kitchen, dear Ariel! It must be wonderful to have more space, all well organized for a reasonable price. Most of what I own is also second hand and I love it because it is often quality stuff that does not suffer from programmed obsolescence 💙
Hi Ariel, used can be better than new. And you did fantastic. Kove your videos and love your hard working hubby. a very special person who is match to n every day. I love watching all the Work on your and Clay's hard work (i need to say it twice) because all the hard work needs to be highlighted. Please stick to using pre-owned. I have watched you forever.
Wonderful and affordable job you two did on the kitchen. You are both clever and so capable. It is now attractive, convenient and great to work in, though temporary! Better than many permanent kitchens! It does inspire me to make a few smaller changes in my own kitchen to make it easier for me to age in place! Thanks so much for sharing!
After all of this time it is so nice to see you having a more roomy kitchen workspace to create your culinary stores 😀 & a Great deal considering the price of things! I had the same cabinets in my old house and frankly, I liked them better than the new modern style. It looks wonderful!
I made a second apartment downstairs with mostly used stuff. I did buy a new double sink and tall faucet with hose. The extra cabinets went down to the barn to hold stuff. We did take one lazy Susan unit to the thrift store. Looks good to me!
Kitchens are meant for cooking in, this/your kitchen looks like it’s cooked in. I live in an area of central London UK where everybody has expensive modern high tech kitchens the A+ variety which are specially fitted and lit and cost many thousands, full of gadgets. I however removed all my modern kitchen my parents left and gutted the room. I have a modern tap, blackstone sink and induction hob with a small but very high tech performance oven that does everything. I opted for the old fashioned style but new larder cabinet cupboards which went with the long Welsh whole wall dresser which my parents had removed many years ago but which I kept and saved and have reinstalled - It’s 125 years old - and in I love my 2nd hand aged kitchen which is like no one else’s and which is easy and fun to cook in., it makes your kitchen look very modern 😂. My neighbours all thought I was nuts not have a ‘proper’ fitted kitchen but they love my old fashioned kitchen with its old stone worktops and dressers - funny that.
I, like you, like a kitchen where everything is a step or two away. I’ve cooked in a large kitchen and I hated it. I had to walk 10’ to get to the refrigerator from the sink and 5’ to get to the stove. Need something out of the pantry? Another 10’ journey to and 10’ back. Just the kitchen was larger than any bedroom or living room that I’d lived in. So inefficient and a waste of space. The kitchen I have now has the sink and stove on either leg of a corner triangle, the dishwasher is next to the sink and the fridge 2 steps beyond in the pass through “pantry” that separates the kitchen from the dining room. When we were looking for a house, every one for sale was over 2,000 sqft. by a lot. This one is about 1,700 sqft and has almost 4 acres and met his travel requirements to work. I would have liked it a bit smaller, but this has one floor living with 2 bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs for visitors.
Appreciate the tour and tips and tricks. I have the same solid wood cabinets in my hacienda home in Tucson, Arizona. Love them. I use Howard’s Restor and Finish Golden Oak on them as needed and they look great. Thanks Ariel. 🌵👩🌾🇺🇸💙💯🐾🦃🐓🥑🌱
I agree, I think it's beautiful, cozy, and functional. I would love that kitchen, and I'd even add some copper molds on the wall. Not a fan of the newer, more expensive but cheaply made stuff that looks cold and very impersonable, imho. Thanks for sharing💕
I love real wood! I’m redoing my kitchen cabinets myself as I won’t spend the money they want for pressed sawdust crap. I think your kitchen looks beautiful. I’ve been watching your channel for many years I love your videos.
I love your kitchen design with those beautiful cabinets. They stand out on the lighter color wall which is perfect for that kitchen. Enjoy your beautiful kitchen as you make more memories together with Clay. Merry Christmas to you and Clay.
I have oak cabinets and will never paint them bought my house brand new in 2002. I always laugh when I watch house hunters and they go in a house with Oak cabinets and say how outdated they are. They actually still put them in houses. I like real wood over painted. Mine are in excellent shape still I take care of them. I’m sure you’re glad even though I know you loved your tiny house a little more room has to be nicer. Building your new house will be exciting.
I have magnetic usb lights in my cabinets there super easy to mount and charge really helps find things in cabinets fyi I’m a retired electrician and thought about running power in cabinets then I seen these lights at home depot there slim and small but work great and not expensive to buy
I think your kitchen is great!!! I like the wood look to but I would probably eventually redo the cupboards but that's me...but it's your kitchen so whatever you like is what you should have
I lived in my old house without a kitchen all I had was some shelves that I put curtains over , a sink and a work table ,,, I lived like that for 10 years to save money to buy the kitchen of my dream hickory wood... well we were in homedepot and they were clearing out ALL their old kitchen cabinets for new stuff... I did not get hickory but man I got a whole kitchen upper and lower cabinets for 360 dollars ... sometimes you do not get what you want in life but what you get is just fine . 12 cabinets upper and lower ... they were like 75 percent off retail price . The only thing is we had to travel to three different stores to get all the cabinets we needed ,,one store the girl was even our neighbor she said that all the other stores were out ... well we did not believe her and traveled to the different stores to find the cabinets. The counter top we just used some porcelain floor tiles we got cheap also at homedepot ... it looks hood but I do have those cracks wher food gets stuck ... someday I will get a smootehr counter top
Looks great you have more cabinets than I do very functional kitchen and doesn’t look bad even with the countertop I’m all about saving money on second hand things and making it work and always told my house looks nice I think your does as well good job you both did as usual you both are very good at thinking things thru and then working to get it done
Aerial, thanks for sharing your lovely "new " kitchen. Am curious, though, as to the measurement/foot print of it. If you said, I missed it. I wish you a lot of happy cooking.
GREAT buy on that kitchen! You just watch, the oak look will be "all the rage" in a couple of years as people grow tired of that cookie-cutter "modern farmhouse" look with white cabinets and gray walls (yawn)...BTW, no judgement as my own house has white cabs and gray walls!😁
I can tell you right now the electric stove is great because we had one like that it was so good. Now I have a gas stove and it dont bake as good as our old electric stove did. The new one cooks slower it must not have as good as insulation.
Ariel you amaze! Your oak cabinets really give the space a warmth. The plants create a sense of calm. What year did your parents get married? I was just wondering what year the kitchenaid was made. Great job installing cabinets Clay!😸
What do you do for your food supply for emergencies? Glass canning jars can be damaged in a number of situations. Do you have dry goods, dehydrated food, long term buckets-some are in sealed "tough" plastic buckets? The packages are individual in them. Do you have a cache (pipe or trash can)? Poor NC the latest case in point. Many were people that prepare and homesteaders, it all went down river for many. Do you all have a plan? Worried about yas too. Can you share your ideas? And do you have a network?
I was thinking that is an awful lot of pots and pans for two people...but...if you are in a "if you do not make it, you do not have it" out in the country scenario, you need those to make the things everybody enjoys. How spoilt are those that live 20 minutes from that big natural food store!
I love the way your kitchen looks and I also love that most of your pans and dishware is second hand. Many older things are certainly better quality than newer things.
Perfect kitchen..........most important....it is very functional. and I just love your abilities to get things second hand.
I have those exact cabinets in my house and they are oak and we had them made when we built our house 24 years ago and I too love the wood look. It looks outdated now but I don’t care they are solid wood not particle boards!!
It's a pleasure to see the kitchen of someone who actually cooks. It seems now kitchens are no longer designed for people who cook all their meals at home. They're pretty kitchens, but they just don't work. This one is pretty, and it works.
The overhead pot rack seems like a huge help.
I love your kitchen! So bright and cheery. Also love how thrifty you guys are. Having someone in your life who knows how to install them must be wonderful. Yougys are. Eat match. ❤️
Your kitchen is wonderful ❣️Your contentment is super too♥️♥️♥️
Nice set up for doing your cooking and canning, etc.I really enjoy your channel.
The sound on this video is really good. Whatever you've done works well! 🌄
"Not quite perfect" is really the best kind of kitchen, or so I think. Your cabinets are quite a lot like mine--they came with the house and are 40 years old. No need to change because they are still in great shape, and I also think that the oak is pretty.
You look beautiful in your kitchen, your blonde hair complements with the oak cabinets. Clay is da man for putting it altogether 👍👍
Love seeing folks reusing instead of buying new....I agree, the newer stuff doesn't work as well in my experience. We lost our farmhouse to fire a couple years ago but were able to salvage a lot from it and that made it possible for us to create our 850 sq ft cottage that was comfortable and livable from the start. I agree about the gas stove too, love knowing if the power goes out we can still cook (tho we've added our woodstove for heat so thats a good backup). So happy to see y'all moving towards your goal. Happy winter!
Maybe because of the addition of cabinets and pots etc but your voice is much easier to understand! It doesn’t have echo effect any more! I like that🎉
Kitchen looks fantastic! Especially nice that cabinets will be able to transition to your new house when the time comes. I especially love the pot rack…how convenient is that! Visually brings the high ceiling down and makes the space feel more in scale😊.
You're videos are like circling the wagons to a calm, sane way of living.
I had these cabinets in my last house. I loved them. I used a product on them that I think was Refresh. People that would come over, would say, Oh, those would look good painted white! YIKES!!!!! Pick me up from the floor!!!!! UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH NO paint on real wood, especially oak, hickory, maple or walnut......................... I love wood!!!!!!!! I have hickory here. The pan rack is awesome!!!!!! This would always make a wonderful canning kitchen.
Love it when we can recycled things! Your kitchen is not only functional but very charming!😊
I think your kitchen is so cute. I love the antique strainer, scale and other stuff that reminds me of my grandmother's kitchen.❤ The wreath is beautiful and was so much fun to watch you make. ❤
I agree with you, Ariel I do not like my electric stove. I’m much prefer gas.
Clay put up the pot rack ,& the knife magnet. He did a great job hanging up everything 🥰🥰
Your kitchen is really lovely. It's great when there is a real story behind each item.
Love your kitchen.
That is a great working kitchen!
Kitchen is lovely! Not a thing wrong with it. Looks comfortable to work in. Most kitchens now days is for looks not function.
Hello! I love your kitchen too! The plants & oak & price- gorgeous. Wel done, you!
Wow looks absolutely perfect. Yes I am excited about your New Kitchen. A remarkable kitchen all the hanging pots 👍👍😁
It is a beautiful kitchen Ariel and I like wood too. I like reusing and recycling stuff and make something new,especially from wood! 👍
Congrats and Enjoy your culinary daily experience
Looks fantastic! Congrats,to you both!
I suspect the sky is the limit when remodelling. It’s an easy way to become the most expensive house in the neighbourhood
A few years ago go, a buddy converted my lower cabinets to drawers - I thought my kitchen was functional before but this change was pretty mind blowing for me. The old cabinet doors were remade into drawers fronts, the drawer boxes were built out of mfd and I used some really inexpensive drawers slides. My advice is to make all the drawers 3or 4 inches deep. If the drawers get deeper as you go down the cabinet, the bottom drawer is 6 inches and it’s very easy to overload that size of drawer. It becomes very heavy to open and the slide needs to be heavy duty to support that weight. I know Ariel and Clay probably don’t need another project to work on, but if there’s time, this is amazing change to make. All of my lowers are drawers now except for the cabinet below the sink
Beautiful kitchen Ariel, so warm and inviting while being efficient. The only thing I'd suggest is for Clay to use his great skill and make you a Lazy Susan for the spices. :)
A double decker…
Maybe you could make a shortbread type item in the snowflake pan. Even if not, it is really cool!!
I love your Kitchen : )
A lovely kitchen, dear Ariel! It must be wonderful to have more space, all well organized for a reasonable price. Most of what I own is also second hand and I love it because it is often quality stuff that does not suffer from programmed obsolescence 💙
Free is always good 👍
Hi Ariel, used can be better than new. And you did fantastic. Kove your videos and love your hard working hubby. a very special person who is match to n every day. I love watching all the
Work on your and Clay's hard work (i need to say it twice) because all the hard work needs to be highlighted. Please stick to using pre-owned. I have watched you forever.
Wonderful and affordable job you two did on the kitchen. You are both clever and so capable. It is now attractive, convenient and great to work in, though temporary! Better than many permanent kitchens! It does inspire me to make a few smaller changes in my own kitchen to make it easier for me to age in place! Thanks so much for sharing!
We had a spot like that on our cabinets and bought a sheet of oak veneer and now looks like new. Love your makeshift kitchen!
Your kitchen is beautiful. I love that twine and scissor holder.
I think your set up is beautiful looks like a remodel not temporary ❤❤
After all of this time it is so nice to see you having a more roomy kitchen workspace to create your culinary stores 😀 & a Great deal considering the price of things! I had the same cabinets in my old house and frankly, I liked them better than the new modern style. It looks wonderful!
I love your kitchen.
I made a second apartment downstairs with mostly used stuff. I did buy a new double sink and tall faucet with hose. The extra cabinets went down to the barn to hold stuff. We did take one lazy Susan unit to the thrift store. Looks good to me!
I love thrifting. Nice kitchen set up!
You could cover your counter tops with Formica. It comes in 4x 8 foot sheets
Kitchens are meant for cooking in, this/your kitchen looks like it’s cooked in.
I live in an area of central London UK where everybody has expensive modern high tech kitchens the A+ variety which are specially fitted and lit and cost many thousands, full of gadgets.
I however removed all my modern kitchen my parents left and gutted the room. I have a modern tap, blackstone sink and induction hob with a small but very high tech performance oven that does everything. I opted for the old fashioned style but new larder cabinet cupboards which went with the long Welsh whole wall dresser which my parents had removed many years ago but which I kept and saved and have reinstalled - It’s 125 years old - and in I love my 2nd hand aged kitchen which is like no one else’s and which is easy and fun to cook in., it makes your kitchen look very modern 😂. My neighbours all thought I was nuts not have a ‘proper’ fitted kitchen but they love my old fashioned kitchen with its old stone worktops and dressers - funny that.
Very pretty, Ariel! I love the wreath too.
I, like you, like a kitchen where everything is a step or two away. I’ve cooked in a large kitchen and I hated it. I had to walk 10’ to get to the refrigerator from the sink and 5’ to get to the stove. Need something out of the pantry? Another 10’ journey to and 10’ back. Just the kitchen was larger than any bedroom or living room that I’d lived in. So inefficient and a waste of space. The kitchen I have now has the sink and stove on either leg of a corner triangle, the dishwasher is next to the sink and the fridge 2 steps beyond in the pass through “pantry” that separates the kitchen from the dining room. When we were looking for a house, every one for sale was over 2,000 sqft. by a lot. This one is about 1,700 sqft and has almost 4 acres and met his travel requirements to work. I would have liked it a bit smaller, but this has one floor living with 2 bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs for visitors.
Appreciate the tour and tips and tricks. I have the same solid wood cabinets in my hacienda home in Tucson, Arizona. Love them. I use Howard’s Restor and Finish Golden Oak on them as needed and they look great. Thanks Ariel. 🌵👩🌾🇺🇸💙💯🐾🦃🐓🥑🌱
We saw an old sign for Howard's Restore and Finish in an antique store in Stillwater, Minnesota today!
I agree, I think it's beautiful, cozy, and functional. I would love that kitchen, and I'd even add some copper molds on the wall. Not a fan of the newer, more expensive but cheaply made stuff that looks cold and very impersonable, imho. Thanks for sharing💕
At some point I need to update my 70's kitchen, and I love the idea of the pan rack! It's a great idea for a smaller kitchen
Overall, a kitchen needs to be functional. Yours has the bonus of looking good, too.
I love real wood! I’m redoing my kitchen cabinets myself as I won’t spend the money they want for pressed sawdust crap. I think your kitchen looks beautiful. I’ve been watching your channel for many years I love your videos.
I love your kitchen design with those beautiful cabinets. They stand out on the lighter color wall which is perfect for that kitchen. Enjoy your beautiful kitchen as you make more memories together with Clay. Merry Christmas to you and Clay.
I have oak cabinets and will never paint them bought my house brand new in 2002. I always laugh when I watch house hunters and they go in a house with Oak cabinets and say how outdated they are. They actually still put them in houses. I like real wood over painted. Mine are in excellent shape still I take care of them. I’m sure you’re glad even though I know you loved your tiny house a little more room has to be nicer. Building your new house will be exciting.
Nice kitchen for the money.
This is so cool
Love your kitchen. It's amazing what we can do without and make due with what we've got.
I have magnetic usb lights in my cabinets there super easy to mount and charge really helps find things in cabinets fyi I’m a retired electrician and thought about running power in cabinets then I seen these lights at home depot there slim and small but work great and not expensive to buy
I think your kitchen is great!!! I like the wood look to but I would probably eventually redo the cupboards but that's me...but it's your kitchen so whatever you like is what you should have
Merry Christmas ❤😊
Love it! I prefer sturdier wood cabinets, too. Don't care what the current trend is.
You are such an inspiration ❤
I lived in my old house without a kitchen all I had was some shelves that I put curtains over , a sink and a work table ,,, I lived like that for 10 years to save money to buy the kitchen of my dream hickory wood... well we were in homedepot and they were clearing out ALL their old kitchen cabinets for new stuff... I did not get hickory but man I got a whole kitchen upper and lower cabinets for 360 dollars ... sometimes you do not get what you want in life but what you get is just fine . 12 cabinets upper and lower ... they were like 75 percent off retail price . The only thing is we had to travel to three different stores to get all the cabinets we needed ,,one store the girl was even our neighbor she said that all the other stores were out ... well we did not believe her and traveled to the different stores to find the cabinets. The counter top we just used some porcelain floor tiles we got cheap also at homedepot ... it looks hood but I do have those cracks wher food gets stuck ... someday I will get a smootehr counter top
Looks great you have more cabinets than I do very functional kitchen and doesn’t look bad even with the countertop I’m all about saving money on second hand things and making it work and always told my house looks nice I think your does as well good job you both did as usual you both are very good at thinking things thru and then working to get it done
Looks amazing !
Aerial, thanks for sharing your lovely "new " kitchen. Am curious, though, as to the measurement/foot print of it. If you said, I missed it. I wish you a lot of happy cooking.
GREAT buy on that kitchen! You just watch, the oak look will be "all the rage" in a couple of years as people grow tired of that cookie-cutter "modern farmhouse" look with white cabinets and gray walls (yawn)...BTW, no judgement as my own house has white cabs and gray walls!😁
What are you doing to rodent proof the tiny house when it's unoccupied?
I can tell you right now the electric stove is great because we had one like that it was so good. Now I have a gas stove and it dont bake as good as our old electric stove did. The new one cooks slower it must not have as good as insulation.
Agree with you👍I found the same- it’s gone and I have an electric multi function oven now 😊
I wonder if the oven thermostat needed replacing in your gas stove. Those are fairly easy to replace.
Ariel you amaze! Your oak cabinets really give the space a warmth. The plants create a sense of calm. What year did your parents get married? I was just wondering what year the kitchenaid was made. Great job installing cabinets Clay!😸
What do you do for your food supply for emergencies? Glass canning jars can be damaged in a number of situations. Do you have dry goods, dehydrated food, long term buckets-some are in sealed "tough" plastic buckets? The packages are individual in them. Do you have a cache (pipe or trash can)? Poor NC the latest case in point. Many were people that prepare and homesteaders, it all went down river for many. Do you all have a plan? Worried about yas too. Can you share your ideas? And do you have a network?
I was thinking that is an awful lot of pots and pans for two people...but...if you are in a "if you do not make it, you do not have it" out in the country scenario, you need those to make the things everybody enjoys. How spoilt are those that live 20 minutes from that big natural food store!