Kitchen Project - step 3

So we're moving along slowly, but slowly with our kitchen project.  The next step is tearing down a wall and opening up another.

Here is the before view from our living room.

Here is the same wall, but from the kitchen.  I felt like the kitchen was too closed off and isolated, so I wanted to open up that wall. 

Then there was this funky half wall, that someone added to the house.  I cannot imagine why.  It made our dining room feel smaller, and we couldn't walk around the dining room table.  So good-bye wall and our plant holders :)

So here's the new view from the living room.  I LOVE being able to see out of the kitchen and it feels so much bigger.

Here's the view from the kitchen.  The half wall is gone and we can walk around the dining room table now. 

Now on to painting and finishing the cabinets!  I can't wait until it's done.  Our goal was to get it all done by the end of the month.  Maybe if I really light a fire under my rear-end :)  But it needs to be done before baby girl comes, so I'm going to get busy!