"Before" and a looooong time in coming "After"

Happy New Year! I thought this day would never come. And now the moment you have all been waiting for...

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Before (yes, that is floor tile on top of Formica- puse green Formica that was rotting inside and made the kitchen smell like rotten potatoes):
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After:(We built the wall out next to the oven cabinet. The beam that took the place of the load bearing wall sits on that new little wall). I love having a place for all my paper products now... napkins, tin foil, paper plates and plastic ware etc. Need a new box of ziplock baggies? Right here above the double oven.

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I know some of these shots do not seem to match up. We didn't do that great of job standing in the exact same spot for the "after" shot. Are we done? No, not quite yet. We are right now in the process of putting up the back splash. Hopefully it won't take another six months to post those shots.

At the risk of it looking unorganized and messy (in real life it doesn't look like this; I have made some changes and of course we open one cupboard door at a time) here are a few shots of the fun features of our kitchen.

The refrigerator is our original (= free) but the pantry cabinet next to it was one of the added cabinets. I am still tweaking the how and what I am going to store there.

The drawers below the induction cooktop are wonderful. Middle drawer has the cooking/stove items and the bottom drawer has most of the baking items. To the left of the cook top is the three tiered pull out spice rack. To the right is the vertical cabinet for the cookie sheets and such.
We have a pull-out drawer type cabinet for garbage and recycling. It is awesome to pull it out just enough to wipe of the counter junk right into the garbage (and/or sink when appropriate- love that). A cabinet for the Bosch. It tucks away when not in use...
... and pops up into a locked position when ready. It stays plugged in all of the time using an outlet inside the cabinet. It is nice to have a home for this since we use it so often it used to just stay on top of the counter.
All of the doors and cabinets have a slow stop close so they don't bang shut. The drawers pull out to full extension and of course the lower cabinets have pull out shelves.And Jason threw the following pictures on here because... I don't know. These are some of the tools I know how to use now I guess. Pat- I am cutting the blocks for my nativity in this shot.