By james art The “Reliance” star brought her fans along as she and husband Steven Wiseman installed cabinets, drawers, countertops and hardware in the space
Jana Duggar shows off her brand new kitchen!
The I rely on The 34-year-old star offered an inside look at the process of installing all the finishes in her kitchen, which she’s renovating with new husband Stephen Wiseman, in a YouTube video shared on Sunday, October 20.
She begins the update by showing footage taken before she married Wissmann last August, including the cabinets just starting to take shape, and explaining how their current makeshift kitchen works.
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The Duggar Makeshift Kitchen
“So since our kitchen looks like this,” she says as she pans the camera around the empty space, “this becomes our kitchen.” She lands on their temporary installation, which is equipped with a frying pan, coffee maker and utensils.
“I cook my food in here and we end up doing all the dishes in here,” she adds, walking into the bathroom where she washes and dries everything. “I’m so ready to have an actual working kitchen again. We hope to have it done within a week or so.”
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The bathroom where he dries all the dishes
The video then cuts to her filling large gaps above the cabinets with wood filler as she talks about the renovation process.
“They say you do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life. It’s so true. When I work on projects like this, I really feel in my element. I love the challenge of expanding my skill set and figuring out how to do new things.”
She continues: “All the work and effort feels extra rewarding this time because this will be the home Stephen and I will live in together after we get married. It doesn’t get any better than that.”
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Wissmann prepares the cabinets for painting and installation
Before painting the cabinets, Duggar explains how her now-husband has done commercial painting jobs in the past, so he’s adept at using a sprayer. She also notes how his parents came to help and that “having those extra hands really helped speed up the process.”
The “perfect” color they chose, Duggar previously noted, was an “affordable beige.”
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Wiseman paints the cabinets
After all the drawers and cabinets are painted, Duggar and her husband get to work fitting them into the empty spaces. “I think we’re a great team,” she captioned the clip in white text followed by a pink heart emoji.
The countertops arrive and are bolted into place, and Duggar reveals the “modern and simple” gold hardware she’ll put on the drawers.
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Duggar installed the gold hardware on the drawers
She then reflected on how difficult the process of renovating a home is, but how it will be worth it in the long run.
“Fitting in a whole new kitchen was definitely a huge undertaking, especially since we did a lot of the work ourselves with the help of family and friends. But it’s so rewarding to see this project come together,” she says.
“I imagine it will be much more meaningful to use this space in the years to come, remembering all the hard work and effort we put into making this space what it is.”
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Duggar shows off the finished cabinets and countertops
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The newlyweds also added: “I’m really looking forward to decorating this and making it a home. I just want everything to feel cozy and inviting. I’m really looking forward to this part of the project. I can’t wait to see how it all comes together.”
Duggar, who is the oldest daughter of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar’s 19 children, first revealed to PEOPLE that she was moving to Wiseman’s hometown in Nebraska from her native Arkansas after the couple tied the knot in August.
“He has a little house that we bought that we fixed up and got together, so it was fun,” she told PEOPLE at the time.
Since then, Jana shares an inside look at the renovation projects she’s worked on alongside her husband, father and siblings, including some of the unexpected challenges they’ve encountered in the process.
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