Cottage KITCHEN RENOVATION: Before/After - Ep. 221 

We now have a Meadow House Design & Layout downloadable document, which you can find here: bit.ly/3vRQszE

It is rare, if not non-existent when I see a renovation that I don't find things that I would do a bit differently, but I love every bit of this renovation. It has elements of English, Scandinavian and Japanese aesthetics but brought together in a sense of integrity.

This is my dream kitchen! Green cabinets, butcher block countertops, hidden fridge, open shelves, the farmhouse sink. It checks off nearly every mark of the list I had in mind for my kitchen. Ironically, I had to make due with using bead board with an existing kitchen set, it helps but truly this kitchen is my goals lol. Truly inspiring, might get me more interested in carpentry.

Sander must be so proud of his craftsmanship. Everything about the Meadow House is just darling.

You know if Sander made it, it's going to be beautiful and it's going to last a very long time!❤😊

I am not typically a " green" fan but this kitchen is stunning and I love the simplicity of the open cabinets, they look modern but very cozy. Beautiful job!

Sander did an excellent job! I can't believe that's his first kitchen renovation and in making cabinetry. Wow...the thoughtful and careful attention to details and smart, creative solutions for the smaller space and storage are very impressive. I love the colors and the copper, plants, pottery, farmhouse sink...well...I love it all! Well done, Sander!👍 Thank you, Summer.❤

Has a Dutch name, comes into a standard size Dutch kitchen and calls it really, really small and stresses the need to use every part of it to be able to cook in there. Believe me honey, your ancestors were dreaming of a kitchen this big! And yes, it's wonderful to cook in there. And you even have place to sit and eat in there! It's a rather spacious kitchen :) That said, it's absolutely lovely. The green adds to the cottage feel. The warm wood, the copper/gold accents all give it a luxury cozy feeling. Well done. When the fridge and freezer doors look like the cabinets, it all comes together and gives a calmer look. Otherwise it sticks out like a soar thumb.

You guys did a wonderful job with that kitchen! I'm a retired electrician that probably worked on over 200 kitchens ranging from simple to ultra high end. This is the best use of space I've ever seen. And stunningly beautiful!

I love the green. It's all so pretty. I think a Dutch door on the back would be stunning as well. ❤

Between Sanders’s know-how and Summer’s eye for design, it’s stunning. Nice job!

Really beautiful. Love the colors. That green is gorgeous. Very good job. 🎉

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I'd love to see a materials list specifically the paint colors.

I absolutely love the shade of green you have chosen, it’s beautiful to look at & also has an old world charm. You have given me ideas for my kitchen that badly needs updating.

This is such gorgeous work and full of so much charisma and personality. So many renovations I see are the antithesis of this - boring, empty and most importantly lacking any sense of comfort and home. I look at this kitchen and I see a place that someone can truly live and be happy in. I can’t stress how much I love this work. Excellent job!

The corner cabinet revolving around without the post is so cool. The kitchen looks lovely.

This man is a keeper! You make a great team

Awesome kitchen, great design and build.. and I can only imagine the money saved by building and installation . I appreciate the thought of the tile layout on backsplash being a tile Mason. Thanks for inviting us along.

Wow what a beautifully designed and executed kitchen!! I truly love all of the details and colours. Sander you could be a kitchen designer!

This is the most beautiful kitchen I've ever seen!

Absolutely heavenly.

I love every detailed design you implemented in your kitchen. MY FAVORITE detail has to be the hidden compost, under the cutting board with a camouflage pull out drawer...GENIUS!!! If I ever build my own house, that WILL be a design steal from your amazing creations. Thank you for sharing!!!

So well thought out and planned to perfection. It's a work of art. I LOVE the hidden side drawer for the compost cuttings. Very clever.

Sander, thank you for sharing one of your passions and talents. Amazing. You both have 'nailed' the teamwork journey. Hopefully you both will enjoy many, many healthy and happy years together. Thank you Summer for sharing all your talents, time and energy that you put into this channel.

Such attention to detail, Sander! What a craftsman!

Sander, a job very well done! You are very meticulous in your design and your workmanship is at masterclass level. So very proud of you.

Your meticulous attention to detail is commendable! I bet you impressed the heck out of your cabinet-making neighbors. My engineer son would approve 😊.

Dream kitchen, cozy, efficient and love the light coming in with green. Great job! Love how you made the fridge look like it’s a built in pantry❤

Beautiful! One tip: if you are cooking regularly on that stove, get rid of the copper utensils behind it. Back in the 80’s copper was in and so i had some hanging in my kitchen be side the stove very similar to what you have behind it. Unless you want to be constantly washing them, any grease in the air sticks like crazy to them creating a powerful grimy dust magnet. My porcelain decorative items never collected the grime my copper stuff did. Likely some chemical electro weird thing. Don’t know. I just wasn’t up to washing and polishing it all weekly…yes weekly. Mind you this was just when I got a microwave and didn’t use it much so the stovetop was used very frequently. If it’s an Air BnB or guest cottage just remember to check them 😉 Watch your channel pretty regularly and this year made some pollinator wildflower box gardens to hide a chain link fence. Here’s a giggle for you…. I bought and planted milkweed seeds in amongst for the monarch butterflies knowing I won’t get plants until 2024. Afterwards I noticed that the dang things grow wild EVERYWHERE in the ditches here 🤣🤣🤣 . Question: do you know of a unique winter friendly catmint that is different than the common blue kind which for me grows and spreads like a hot damn. The are always humming with loads bees and I want more but maybe a different color, size …. Thanks for documenting this transformation. Pretty cool!

Just awesome ❤. These guys are two perfectionists for sure.

Love, love, love, beautiful home

Impressive! Definitely a professional not a DIY guy 🥰

It's all ADORABLE!

This is my dream aesthetic. I’m trying to design a similar look in my new home but saving money by leaving all the dark brown granite countertops but painting the wood.

Beautiful!!! ❤ The green is so easy on the eyes.

sander is a super man. He is so talented and perfectionist 😊 he knows how to do everything 😮

Your kitchen is so lovely and quaint.

No matter the ‘slip ups’, Sanders did a fantastic job. Made with love at Flock.

Very creative. You guys, mainly Sander did wonderful job.

You put your sink in on my birthday ❤

Darling Lil kitchen! ❤❤❤

Excellent use of space! Adorable, functional kitchen anybody would be proud of. That crooked shelf on the right would drive me crazy though 😬

I smiled non-stop thru this whole video! You two are a great team! Dream kitchen for sure‼️❣️❤️

What a lovely kitchen!!

This is the most perfect kitchen I have ever seen. It screams home. Absolutely beautiful. Genius. Subscribing!

OBSESSED with this kitchen !! what a dream.

That kitchen is perfection.

❤🎉 One of the most beautiful kitchens I have ever seen. I love every inch of you did incredible be very proud. This is so stunning

Beautiful and thoughtful customization!😍

Your kitchen came out so beautifully - well done, Sanders. And the cutting station is a brilliant design!

Love the hidden fridge! Kitchen turned out awesome.

I love color, detail, and texture so I really enjoyed seeing what you have done.

Love your green with the copper and terra cotta, it’s a gorgeous kitchen.

Beautiful work 🎊

This is the cutest, tiniest little cottage kitchen. I know where Ithaca is, I live on the border of Pennsylvania and New York, it is like an hour and 40 minutes from here, my Dad goes to book sales there.

That cutting station!!!

I love everything about this kitchen 🥰 I've been getting my place ready for a for sale sign, I plan to have an Amish shed built to spec for home conversion. I'm saving this video to copycat, it is just so lovely, not to mention efficient. The color is even my favorite 😊

So nice to all the attention to detail. Very rare anymore. Just LOVELY ❤

BEAUTIFUL JOB 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

I love your cozy kitchen. Dream it and just build it . Just create it. It's so pretty! WOW

This is adorable. I love it! Love the color as well. It's so warm, homey and inviting

Nice work! I really like the compost bins and side drawer for them at 16:37. When cutting produce, etc., make sure to use the back side of the knife and not the cutting side to scrape the scraps into the bins so that you don't dull your knife edge. The upper cabinets look nice, but without doors the contents will collect more dust and may get splattered by oils, etc. You also can't hide anything, so everything has to appear tidy all the time. However, those are all personal choices.

Looks beautiful ❤

😮❤ Love, love, love the final results. Thanks for sharing! You are all three so smartly creative. Can you share links or info of a few highlights, such as paint colors, lazy susan, green dishes, green pots & pans. These colors are beautiful and have influenced me to refresh my tiny cape cod kitchen in Ohio.

Thank you for this additional information on the kitchen build. It was very interesting and again highlighted Sander's attention to detail while designing the overall space as well as the individual pieces. So nice.

With the price of cabinets these days I would defiantly build my own. You did a great job! People also under value the availability to retro fit old cabinets when remodeling. A few years back we bought RTA cabinets from Conestoga Cabinets at the time it was the right choice for us, but while on their website I learned if I had an old cabinet system and wanted to keep my boxes and paint them (I used what Sherwin Williams suggested at the time for cabinet paint) I could have Conestoga custom make new draws and doors get the slow close hardware with them and have them color match and professionally painted by Conestoga in the Sherwin Williams paint for a perfect color match. Our project was a cabin in the woods project and we were painting 70 year old existing cabinets and adding RTA to the kitchen this how I utilized the Sherwin Willams paint in our project.

I love Christmas.!Traditional red and green mostly.Your red countertop and green cabinets make me think of Christmas! Its like perpetual Christmas in your kitchen. Love it!!!!!

Love the green. Gee, looks a lot like the green I used for accent in my kitchen. 🥰

I love the chopping/compost setup! So many thoughtful details.

Beautiful well done ❤

Oh my this is beautiful

So well designed and made! Your Meadow House is wonderful! 😍

Gorgeous!!!

So beautiful!!! Can't wait to see the progress on the common house as well :)

So inspiring! Beautiful work

I love your design❤ Everything about it. Great Job Sander😁

Amazing job! You all outdid yourselves with this project.

I just came across your channel and was immediately drawn in by your name. I grew up in the Finger Lakes region, so I just had to check it out! And your craftmanship in this kitchen is absolutely fantastic! Well done! Looking forward to checking out more of your videos! Blessings to you all!

spectacular! i would paint the back door the same color as the cabinets.

That is the most beautiful kitchen I have ever seen.

Beautifully designed kitchen. And aesthetically very pleasing as well.

Wow! Very impressed with the attention to detail. The result is excellent!

Absolutely beautiful! Wonderfully done!

Beautiful kitchen. Great job!

So beautiful!!! Thanks for sharing!

Beautiful job!

It looks beautiful. You did a great job. It really shows your talent for details.

Beautiful and well designed craftsmanship, Sander. What is your next major project? I am so looking forward to what is next!

Beautiful work!

BBBBBEEEAAAAUUUTTTIIFFUULL!!!!👍💜

Skills and beauty. Well done!

Very talented! It looks beautiful! I am a big fan of green, any shade. So peaceful. Thank you for sharing. Love it !!

This is me mentally adding that cutting station to my dream home design.

Beautiful

Love the hidden fridge and green color!

Thank you for sharing your beautiful vision and work. Very soon I'm remodeling a kitchen of a similar size. I will take inspiration and refer to your video again.

I absolutely love this kitchen! Great work.

This litchen is a piece of art!