Christina Applegate Just Updated Her 30-Year-Old Kitchen — and the Results Are Gorgeous

Updated on 5/27/2016 at 6:20 AM

If you've ever had to live through a kitchen reno, then you know how disruptive it is. That's why actress Christina Applegate put off updating her home's original 1985 kitchen for so long, living with what she described as a "godawful" space for years. Then her entire house flooded, and since she had to rip up all the floors anyway, she decided she might as well embrace the chaos and update the kitchen, too.

Christina called on Laurel & Wolf, an online platform that connects people looking to design their space with a marketplace of interior designers, to help. The Vacation and Anchorman actress partnered up with Laurel & Wolf designer Jessica Today to create a kitchen area that would meet the family demands on her, husband Martyn LeNoble, and their 4-year-old daughter, Sadie LeNoble.

The renovated space includes a convenient mudroom, dining area, and an airy kitchen. "It's so much nicer, so much more comfortable," Christina says. "It's a place now where we can celebrate as opposed to a place that we want to get out of as fast as possible — which is what it was like for me for the last 20 years of living in this house."

Check out the dramatic before and after shots and all the gorgeous details of Christina's Laurel & Wolf kitchen below.

Before: Kitchen

Christina's dated kitchen was original to the 1985 home, which predates Married With Children.

After: Kitchen

"I had a pretty clear idea of what I wanted the kitchen to feel like and look like, [but] executing that is obviously not in my forte. So it was nice to have someone to do the work for me," Christina says of the makeover process and working with Laurel & Wolf.

Christina says she loves to cook in the new open and bright space, and even described the flood that destroyed her floors and motivated her to renovate the kitchen as "lucky."

Paneled wood shelves tucked into the cabinets are the perfect place to display wineglasses, and the dark stain contrasts beautifully with the glossy white cabinets.

Christina was especially delighted by the mudroom Jessica created because she has a no-shoe policy in her house. "Before you'd come into the foyer, and it was just shoes everywhere, and it was awful. So now people can go into the mudroom and sit on a beautiful bench and put their shoes on."

There are plenty of nooks and crannies in these entryway cabinets to stash away mail, keys, and other trinkets that can create clutter.

Before: Dining Area

Sadie's artwork was the only thing brightening up this otherwise-dreary dining corner.

After: Dining Area

The space has been transformed. It's bright, modern, and cheery, with stylized Table + Dine furniture, a tufted bench, and a statement lighting fixture.