My Grown-up Kitchen Re-do....

Last weekend, hubby and I decided it was time to paint the kitchen!

After all, we hadn't painted it in about 9 years.

We liked the color....

lots of people seemed to, but you know how it is

when you just need to freshen things up a bit.

It was time to rid the kitchen of all of my

cheffy stuff.  I had already

started doing so last year.

By removing the chef pictures

 that hung along the

big wall of our kitchen and adding a hutch.

Which we both love, but,

because of the size of the room

with 11 ft. ceilings, the hutch seems too small.

But, for now it works!

~Before~

For some reason, I could only find this

 old picture with the chef pic's.

So pictures were removed....

and many holes were patched....

and the painting began....

Am I going to like this?

Oh My....

What am I doing?

We started painting at about 7:30 a.m.

and finished at about 3:30 p.m.

Not bad considering all the odd wall spaces

to be painted.  But, I was in charge of doing

 all the cutting in and edging. 

Hubby did all the rolling. 

We worked well together for the most part!



~After~



These pictures are alittle dark. 

I didn't think I needed the lights on. 

It's not a sunny gloomy day!

As for my new kitchen....I am loving it!

We hung just a few pieces from before.

The wine holders on the wall are new....

3 years ago from Ikea, but never got hung.

Of course my Chef statue and my bread board

were definitely invited back!

Hubby spray painted my 3 tier plate stand

black for me, it was gold.

I bought 3 tannish colored plates

to compliment it and loaded it with

fresh fruit!

Next plan is to replace the old white microwave

with the matching stainless steel to go with

our fridge, oven and dishwasher.

The pot rack was re-hung.

And an old steamship menu was framed

and hung above the pot rack.

It's in french....

our french son is the only one in

the house that can read it!

I started collecting dish towels and such

about a year or so ago, with colors I  dreamt

of having in my grown-up kitchen. I knew I

wanted to do something in the

brown, mocha and carmel colors. 

But, still have some fun colors in there

to use as accents.  This towel is one of them.

I bought it at World Market.  Love the colors!

Our next project in the kitchen is to do

a tile back splash behind our

stove and microwave.

I picked this up yesterday at Lowe's. 

We both love it and it looks great with the color

we chose and the cabinets!

I picked this up at Pottery Barn

in the clearance area.

It was originally $29.00....

I paid $9.00!

Not bad and the colors match and the

peacock ties in with our dining room!

These faux plants are all over the Pottery Barn

store.  They are on table tops and under cloches.

This one was in the clearance area because the

terra cotta pot had broken and it was just the

plant in the styrofoam.  With pot it was

$12.00....without pot $3.97.

I had a pot!

 This is the color we painted our kitchen.

It's called Peat Moss

and it's Valspar paint I believe. 

It takes on different shades in my kitchen

as the natural light changes

or the light fixtures are turned on. 

 I am very happy with the turn out

and have gotten lots of thumbs up from

the family.  Now the bathroom off the kitchen

needs updating too!  Hmmm.....

what color will I choose?