Painting kitchen cabinets has become the go-to quick {and cheap} fix for a dated kitchen. No matter what your kitchen looks like, just paint those cabinets white and ~ voila! ~ you can say the space is updated, and won’t everyone just be racing over? Maybe… not. Here are two kitchen renovations. Both painted existing cabinets, one stopped there, and the other made some additional updates. Personally I think the space on the right looks far better than the one on the left {and so should everyone else who isn’t blind}. The short cheap squatty ‘backsplash’, the stark contrast between…
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someone is getting a new kitchen!
I have so many exciting things going on these days; one fun new project is helping two of my favorite people, Kim & Scott, of Yellow Brick Home, get started on their kitchen renovation. When I first met them they had just moved into their awesome new fixer-upper and I helped them get their sagging ceiling straightened up and figure out just the right changes to make the space perfect for them. So without a doubt I was ecstatic when they asked me to help them figure out how they could make the most out of this space. Here’s the…
aaand we’re done – phew!
Sometimes it seems like a renovation will never end. Ever. But it finally did for Doug and Lindsey and after we all took a nice long mental break from everything I got back over there and took photos and here they are! Sometimes I forget just how far we came… and then I look at the before photos again. Click here to see the before and after floor plans. The kitchen Pre-renovation, large but inefficient and too small… after, well… what isn’t different?! Under those new cabinet doors are the original cabinets- hard to believe – and the overall layout…