The kitchen was a lovely white on beige on wood grain on wood grain on black theme when we bought the house. We are functional cooks (not foodies by any means) at this point, so the kitchen was functional, but bland.
Distinctly forgettable and not cohesive at all. We set out to fix that.
The flooring was the same stick-on cherry-look tile as the dining room and entry. To get it all out, we had to displace the appliances.
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| Apparently, the kitchen wasn’t always beige… |
The main paint color of the house (hallways, stairwell, etc) is a light gray called Zero Gravity. All of our room colors were chosen to coordinate with that. Also, the downstairs sight lines are such that you can see both colors for the living room, the hallway and the kitchen in one shot, so we planned all of those colors accordingly. The inspiration for the blue, teal, purple and gray for downstairs actually came from a photo of a succulent! Love them… wish I didn’t kill them… sigh…
I love this purple. SO much. I was shocked when hubs agreed to the suggestion.
The refrigerator covers this corner, but it shows how the colors play together.
The old range hood had a fan – that didn’t turn and made a terrible sound when you tried to turn it on. Out it went and a new hood with LED lights went in its place.
We weren’t planning to replace the kitchen appliances that conveyed with the house. But when your dishwasher stops washing dishes – more specifically, stops responding when you push ANY of the buttons – you get a new one! On Halloween. Our Trick or Treat was a new dishwasher that actually matches the other appliances! Side note to the kids out there: Adulting isn’t as fun as it sounds. I would have much rather preferred to spend $100 on candy and passed it out. But… dishwasher…
We also bought a cute new light for above the kitchen sink. Storage isn’t in huge supply in the kitchen, and Melanie suggested a pot rack might be just the trick. She was right!
So, here’s where we are:
We have more we would like to do in the kitchen, but it’ll have to wait.
Oh, you noticed the hole in the ceiling? Turns out the bathrooms are directly above the kitchen and one of those bathrooms had a problem that wasn’t detected by our inspection or the moisture meter (which is what happens when a dishonest seller turns off the water to a leaky toilet the minute the renter moves out, works on painting everything paper bag brown for weeks/months/?, everything dries out ENOUGH to be undetectable until you actually start to use said fixtures again… and then it rains in your kitchen!). The drywall really shouldn’t be replaced until we finish the bathroom remodel for several reasons, so it’s just a plastic-covered hole for now. We’ve accepted that (even though we don’t have to like it). Thank God for a house with 2 full baths!
Donita Westman 