There are a number of major design fail in the "after" kitchen. The green tilework is atrocious, the white tile island looks cheap and conflicts with the green tile, is that a cloth wallpaper? In a kitchen!? All those open shelves will get greasy and dirty and messy. The color scheme is bizarre and incoherent. The new handles on the cabinets are so obviously cheap additions.

It's not a unified or coherent kitchen and it's made even less functional. It looks cheap, it looks badly designed, and it looks badly thought out.

Anonymous wrote:The original kitchen was completely soulless, generic and boring, the redone kitchen is definitely much better, even if it isn't what I would have chosen.

No, there’s still no soul, but now there’s also limited functionality. Do they never sauté anything? You know what grasscloth does with aerosolized fats? It absorbs them. Who wants to wipe down that janky island? Vertical tile is great, but having lived at a rental property with horizontal tile on a countertop, NEVER AGAIN. And who seriously wants fewer places to store things? I resisted getting a food processor, but now that I have one I love it and I would like for it to live somewhere in the kitchen, same thing with my stand mixer. Where is the pantry-type storage? Gah, now they have soulless and stupid.