We are in the process of redoing our kitchen to fit our style. Currently, our house is full of builder standards and builder upgrades (what a joke). I don't have any pictures of it right now but when we moved in to our house we had linoleum flooring and the small kitchen had a HUGE island in the middle that was basically "in the middle" of everything. I know a lot of people love that, but for us it was clutter. A HUGE piece of clutter.
We removed that and then we had this random cabinet next to our fridge. We didn't get the upper cabinets with it, just the base. That's builders for ya. So we knew all along we wanted to do something different in our kitchen/dining area but we weren't sure what. Once we took out the island, the random cabinet made no sense at all. It looked terrible. We took it out and went with a piece of furniture instead. I love the direction we're going in now!
After
Before
The "fitting". I had to see it in the space to decide what color to paint it.
Our kitchen after we took out the existing cabinet.
What we started with. *** I should note that the house is FAR from complete, for example, the cabinets you see in the background will soon be white with black countertops. So don't judge anything how you see it because chances are, I think its just as tacky as you do and its scheduled for removal :)***
After! 
(Look at Reagan being such a good big sister!)