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This kitchen makeover is at a 1910 Victorian owned by Cotty and Jason. The beautiful home has lots of charm, but needs plenty of tender loving care. The new homeowners have already started to strip the painted woodwork on the main floor living and dining room and are now anxious to make the kitchen look great.

The kitchen features birch cabinets, but the rest of the design is circa 1970 and somewhere along the line the kitchen lost its charm. The layout is all wrong. The appliances don't fit in the space and right now there's no room for a dishwasher. The goal is to work with the existing cabinets and bring the kitchen back to its original beauty with all of the updates of today.

In the second episode of this Victorian makeover the custom-built cabinets, created to match the existing woodwork, are installed. The old counter and windowsill are taken out to get ready for the new soapstone counter. The underlayment is prepped and then a genuine, natural linoleum floor is installed.