Home Project 4: Where Do We Begin?

You know how they say a picture is worth a thousand words? Here is what the kitchen of our house looked like when we bought the place:



That’s more like 10,000 words. 10,000 bad words. Notice the nice fruit border on the top of the wall on the left. It’s all well and good if you’re an eighty year old woman. But for us, the first and easiest step to update the kitchen was to remove that border and paint the wall with a color that wasn’t cream. Unlike our previous (and really horrible) wallpaper experiences, the border came off without a fight.



Bam. That was easy. Because the living and dining room of this house open to the kitchen, we tried our best to match the crazy yellow coming from those rooms. Green seemed to be appropriate (if possibly a little too punch-you-in-the-face bold). We also painted the doors white to match the white doors in other parts of the house. After a half a day of work, we made baby steps towards moving the kitchen out of 1977.