New Kitchen!

As with many of things in the house, our kitchen was one of the rooms I really wanted to fix up. I wasn't crazy about the yellow wall, blue countertops and wallpaper. 

The first thing I did was change the handles on the cabinets and drawers and just that alone made a big difference. The next step was one I did not enjoy at all...taking down wallpaper. Why anyone in their right mind would put this stuff up on the walls is besides me. So after much spraying, scraping and more spraying and scraping...it was off! I knew I wanted the color red so that was easy to buy and start on. Little did I know that it would take 7 coats of red to get the color that I was looking for. I did the walls in stages because it was more time consuming than I realized. I still have to go back and fill in a few spaces that I missed, but for the most part the painting is officially done...whew!

I was super excited to get the countertops, sink, faucet and dishwasher. Our dishwasher was horrible! I could get them cleaner myself by hand.

So...here are a few pictures of the before and after. I LOVE my new kitchen and the clean feeling it has to it!

This is the kitchen when the previous owners lived there. You get the idea. ;-)

 This is after I painted, but before the new counters, sink, faucet and dishwasher.

And...the final result! Much better, don't you think?

 My favorite part is the big, black sink. And best of all it has a DISPOSAL!!! I haven't had one of these in 10 years. No more nasty gunk in my sink! My kitchen clean up just got easier.

(For some reason the Japanese and Germans don't use these, but I was determined no matter how much it cost I would have one.)

 Here is the other side to it.

 I am in love with it!