Country or Modern?

My husband and I are alike in many ways, while we were working on the house we had to make a lot of decisions.  I thought since the house was in the country, our choices when replacing items and painting should reflect the country style.  Since we had to pay so much in taxes, we had to economize on a lot of our choices, one thing we decided to do was keep the existing cabinets instead of replacing them.  We really wanted to tear the whole kitchen out and start from scratch, but we couldn't afford that now.  We settled on adding to the existing cabinets, finding exact matching put-together-yourself cabinets was not possible.  We found some that were close to the same color and style though.  So we based everything we chose on the cabinet color...well, kind of.

The pot drawers we added and the last section of Walnut Butcherblock

I had found the sink on Overstock.com, we wanted to get one that would last a very long time and decided on this modern style that is 16 gauge stainless steel...not your run of the mill Home Depot sink.

I make soap and planned on canning veggies we grow, I use big pans and one problem with divided sinks is not being able to wash big items with ease.  We also decided not to have a garbage disposal and to start composting more.

Because we had so many wood tones, and the kitchen looked kind of dark, we needed more overhead lighting and task lighting too.  This house apparently was built on a shoestring budget, pretty much everything that is/was in it was the least expensive materials or seconds.  It will take us awhile to replace everything that needs to be replaced, we mainly have done what we felt we had to do so far.

The track light replaced a single light fixture and the under cabinet lights brighten the room for additional task lighting.