I had meant to spend more time this summer painting, yet it seems that summer had all but slipped by me and I found myself surround by white walls still at the first of August. So, we painted the bathroom mid august, and planned to paint the kitchen over Labor Day weekend.
Our kitchen is probably the one room of our house I really disliked due to the dark red faux finish (with sand of all things!) so I was super excited to be painting it. This was our kitchen:
I was not really sure what color I wanted for the kitchen, but we like the retro 1950’s Diner idea, knew we would have to put white over the red to start, and while normally I want to avoid white, the red walls, tan cupboards and pink counter tops that had an ugly 1980s vibe to it made me feel like white washing the entire place so I could move forward from that. Fortunately Michael likes the white wash idea, so we agreed on painting white over the red, with a back splash (yet to be installed) of metallic to cover the entire wall behind the sink . This is the metallic back splash we are getting from home depot:
We toyed with the idea of painting the cupboards white but Michael also loves yellow and does most of the cooking so we opted to try yellow. Since we had to use spray paint (we used Krylon Fusion so that the paint would adhere to the cupboard coating) our choices of color was limited to two different yellows; it was either super pale yellow or super bright yellow. We bought the pale yellow first, but it looked too much like the off white color that was currently despised, so we return the light, got the bright, and ended up with a “mustard-like†yellow. Cleaning them was the biggest ordeal, so we only got the top cupboards this weekend and will have to finish the bottom half of the cupboards another time. We are about 2/3 done with wall treatments and this is what we have so far.
More painting pictures can be seen here