It has been 2 months since I last posted a picture of our kitchen. Yes, I realize it is the day after Christmas and I should be doing the obligatory Christmas post. However, I worked yesterday so Mike took the kids to his mothers and they spent the night (whoohooo alone time, I slept until nearly 8am and no little voice is begging me for food or to play checkers at 8am, but I digress!) ...along with my camera full of pictures. Back to the kitchen. In case you need refreshers on what it looked like, go to the October 28th post. We have been debating about what to do with the backsplash. Certainly, glass subway style tiles was what we originally planned. We bought some and looked at the process and returned them! We just aren't that handy and we sure don't want to spend money hiring someone. Plus, for the time being, we can't replace our golden oak colored butcher block laminate on the counter top. It made little sense to put up pretty tile backsplash and keep ugly counter tops. A great solution came up. Heavy duty kitchen wallpaper. We got beadboard-look wallpaper. It is really thick and textured and paintable. My parents showed up a few days ago for a quick visit. After 1 hour of work with them showing us what to do...it was done! We painted it the same as the cabinets. It isn't perfect. There are some tiny bumps and seams that you can see if you are looking for flaws. But, I think that generally people will walk in and be like "Wow, that beadboard looks awesome as a backsplash!" Cost us 20 bucks for 1 roll and looks great. The best part is that it isn't a permanent solution. In a few years, we can get new counters and new back splash with out wasting dollars.
The wall color has been a stumper! Previously, it was seafoam green. I did not want a country looking kitchen, but a simple, clean, traditional yet with a slight funky twist. We started painting the walls a gray color to help it look more modern and sleek. Ugly! It looked like silly puddy and too washed out with the off-white cabinets. Mike suggested a darker green. I was very nervous about darker green. Until I saw this picture on Pinterest. So, a darker green is what we went for. It looks so fun and the color is really rich.
We are copying this kitchen pretty much exactly (minus the beautiful glass front doors, the non-popcorn ceiling and the modern and super expensive appliances).
Next up: take down the 2 long fluorescent tubes that are the light fixtures,put up lovely and funky light fixture maybe like this one
and get a new sink, sand and stain the existing wood parquet floors from orangy oak color to a darker brown, and install the over the stove microwave we bought on sale the day after T-giving.
Let's see, judging by our current progress, it will be 2015 when we finish :)
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