Kitchen Design: No cabinets

As most of you may know, we've been in the process of remodeling our home for about a year now.  It has been a long, s..l..o..w process - as in, we half finished a few projects here and there.

One of the biggest things that I had hoped would have been finished since last year was our kitchen.  But let's face it - I'm more of a planner than a do-er.  We had taken out the kitchen sink and most of the old, cracking tile that was still lingering on our concrete countertops and we had planned to re-tile the whole shebang and reface the cabinetry.  Well after getting down to the nitty gritty, I realized that the cabinets were in pretty bad shape and refacing them instead of replacing them would just prolong their demise.

But, in the real world, replacing all the cabinets in our kitchen will be COSTLY.  The price of cabinets is much higher than you would think and since we're not so handy, building all of it on our own would probably cost us a finger or two.

So, I decided to look for alternatives.  In other words, I googled "kitchen no cabinets" and remarkably found some new kitchen inspiration that would save me a couple grand!

Our kitchen layout is sorta like this picture above, except our sink is near the windows and the stove is placed in front of the plain wall.

I think eliminating the wall cabinets and replacing them with minimal shelving would be a great idea especially since those cabinets are usually empty anyway.

What do you think?  Are you more traditional and prefer wall cabinets?  Or would you dare to go bare?


♥ Duckie.

P.S.  I know I slacked on yesterday's outfit post.  I was just SWAMPED with work yesterday (and still am today).  Don't worry, I haven't forgotten your requests, I'll get them up soon, I promise!