Last weekend I took our kids on our final campout of this year. We camped in Maine with friends from church and had a marvelous time. My wife never comes on this jaunt. She proclaims it "too peopley" as there are more than 100 of us who gather there. So she stays home and it is her time to use as she wishes. This year, she decided to surprise me by painting the kitchen walls. I present to you the before:
Essentially our entire kitchen was unpainted knotty pine, probably installed by my grandfather. There was one wall that had only horsehair plaster. We had enough reclaimed wood to put wood up there to blend in with the rest of the walls. It is not that I hate the walls. It is just dark. And we have new white upper cabinets that we want to install next.
Now, the after!
The entire kitchen is painted this creamy french vanilla color. The lighting is presently unchanged in the space so you can really tell how much brighter it makes things feel. It was an amazing thing to come home too. The two uppers that you see best in the first picture are the two cabinets we are replacing. The niche area in between is going to be filled in. A cabinet bridge 12 x 30 will go betwen the two uppers. The uppers will also be about 4 inches higher as they are so close to the counter level that turning on the light switch and the disposal is awkward. The remainder of the space between counter and what is left of the odd little niche will be greenboarded and tiled. Tomorrow my wife and I both have the day off from work so we hope to work on the cabinet install.
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