{"id":348306,"date":"2025-12-17T16:13:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/before-builder-grade-after-designer-made-designs-by-michele-rose\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T16:13:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:13:02","slug":"before-builder-grade-after-designer-made-designs-by-michele-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=348306","title":{"rendered":"Before: Builder-Grade | After: Designer-Made &#8211; Designs by Michele Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" data-setdir=\"false\">\n<div>To say this stunning kitchen reveal is a long time in the making is an understatement. This project has been in the works since 2022. Remember the story I posted about the traumatizing accidental fire? If you missed the June 29, 2022 post, <a href=\"https:\/\/designsbymichelerose.com\/fire-hazard\/\"><u>Fire Hazard<\/u><\/a>, you can read it <a href=\"https:\/\/designsbymichelerose.com\/fire-hazard\/\"><u>here<\/u><\/a>.<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: 16.0016px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: 16.0016px;\">For Michele, there wasn\u2019t anything <\/span><i style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: 16.0016px;\">wrong <\/i><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: 16.0016px;\">with her kitchen, but there wasn\u2019t anything special about it either. 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