After

Who: Micheal and Christina Hochella
Where: Fairhaven
What: Complete interior renovation

Another view of the finished kitchen. "The kitchen cabinets were originally brown and we refinished them ourselves by sanding, priming, re-painting, and finally adding a few coats of urethane," Michael says. The Hochellas also took off the old laminate countertops and installed new laminate ones with the look of dark wood, as "granite was way too expensive for us at that point," he says.