Add it to the list!!

That's right! Add the table & bench in the kitchen to the list of things that are finished!! My kitchen is now 90% complete!! All that is left is the side of the kitchen where we will be adding the tall floor to ceiling cabinets and window seat. Now if only we could find said cabinets at a yard sale or thrift store! That is the next step.

I decided about two weeks ago that instead of painting the Chevron print in yellow on the bench at the kitchen table that I would instead buy yellow Chevron fabric and a seat cushion and just cover the bench. A lot easier! I looked online and found this fabric. I ordered waaay more than I wound up needing, so throw pillows are in my future. lol! I'm also thinking about making seat cushions for the chairs in the kitchen as well, to match the bench, or maybe little pillows for the seats. We shall see what I get myself into next!

Anyway, here is the kitchen table & bench before I painted it...



And after I painted and upholstered the bench... (Hiii Clarabelle!) ;)



A little closer...



I can't even express how much I love it now! Completely different, isn't it? Yellow Chevron makes me a happy girl. :)

The Kitchen Reveal!

I'm back, I'm back!! :) First, thanks to those of you who tweeted, emailed, commented telling me I shouldn't give up on my blog as well as all of the sweet comments you sent along. It was much appreciated! And because of you, I'm back! :)

Before I went on hiatus, we finished the kitchen. Although we still need to add the floor to ceiling cabinets and window seat... more on that later. But for now, here are the befores (somewhat) and afters. I don't have any original before shots of the kitchen before we started this entire project due to my computer crashing and losing everything on my hard drive. But here is the basic idea, from an earlier post.
B Everything was white. Green counter tops.


The original back splash was OLD OLD tile from when Paul's parents lived here. A few years ago I decided I'd just paint it red (that was the theme). Then when I knew I was going to be redoing my kitchen this time, I ripped them off the wall.

(Once again, sorry for the awful quality. These were taken on my Nokia.)

After.

After we installed the beadboard backsplash, before the paint. See that spot above the cabinets that is spackled? It was a corner that served no purpose, so we closed it in.






Annd after everything was painted!







This is the area above my sink. It used to be a ugly mirror with glass shelves. Awful! My dad built this for me & I love it so much! This picture was taken before I moved the honeypot to the shelf above the oven.


Also, a couple weekends ago we were out doing our Sunday thrifting and I found this amazing mail sorter, something I've been looking for forever! This is the before.

And after I painted it yellow and hung it up. I love it so much!



So, that's the kitchen! I'm so happy with it. As for the floor to ceiling cabinets I mentioned above, they will look something like this...



Mine will be blue like the bottom half of my cabinets. And I'll probably add a coffee table in front of the window bench to make it more welcoming to sit on and be a little coffee break/socializing area. The problem right now is trying to find used cabinets like these. I've looked everywhere and sadly I haven't been lucky, but I'm not giving up. I'll continue my hunt until the day I have them!

Welp, that's all for now. Until next time! ;)

Befores & Afters

I decided before I do the big reveal of my new living room/dining room I'd share a few before & afters of a couple things I painted to match my new living room/dining room. First up is an old wood cabinet that I got from one of Paul's friends. I got it about 2 or 3 years ago and it pretty much just sat with the same things inside it in the same place. Mostly just wedding goodies & baseball memorabilia. I knew right from the beginning of designing my LR/DR that I wanted to keep it & paint it & really spiff it up a bit.

Here are some befores....



First I pulled the backing off by prying the nails out of the sides with a spackle thingy (I'm not good with terms, ok?) & also a hammer, which isn't pictured since that takes two hands. Ha!


Here is the back of it after I got it off. Ready for the fabric I wanted to use as a background.


This is the fabric I chose at JoAnn's. It was $34.99 a yard! I know, cray cray! But thankfully my mom gave me two 40% off coupons so it was allll good.


This is the adhesive that I used. I just sprayed the back board like crazy & then laid the fabric onto it & pressed it down into place, then hot glued the corners down so nothing was sticking out.


Here she is! All pretty!




Isn't she preeeetty? :) I love it!

Up next is a lamp I found at a local thrift store for 3 bucks. She was ugly & purple which to me is the worst color in. the. world. Yes, ever. HAAATE it. Anyway.





Here she is all primed & ready for paint! I decided I wanted to paint her a light yellow. Because yellow makes me happy. :)




This is with two coats of yellow paint. I did three or four.




Annnd here she is all finished! Light on. I don't know why the yellow looks so BRIGHT but the yellow I chose is actually a very light yellow, it's really pretty. The actual color is probably closer to the pictures above when I was still in the painting faze.


Lights off. Still looks SUPER bright but, like I said, it isn't this crazy of a yellow. It's the lighting I think.


And lastly a close up of the lamp shade that I picked up at IKEA. I think it's perfect for this lamp. It's so pretty on my yellow lamp. :)



That's all for now. I'll be posting pictures of the big reveal of my LR/DR in a week or so after my wall decal gets here. It's coming from Hong Kong sooo yeah I gotta wait! When I get that on the main wall, you'll get pictures, promise! Until then, hope you all have a fabulous weekend!

Hopefully some of you comment! I'd love to hear... err see what you think! ;)