Category: Kitchen Remodel

Of all the rooms in our house the kitchen is the one in most need of a facelift. Unfortunately our budget is tiny, well, now with the pandemic our budget is zero, so we can’t do all the things I would like to do. So I had to start small with the remodel and with items we already had.

I should note that the previous owners of our house were VERY eclectic with their decorating. Around the ENTIRE kitchen is a border of butterfly, flower, and chicken stickers.

Here’s a photo from the real estate listing:

Above the stove she glued rooster tiles in the shape of a triangle.

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The previous owners had also used white Duct tape to cover the shelves and the paint was old and yellowing. So I removed the Duct tape, decals, and filled in the many nail holes (so many things were hung on the walls…see listing photo above).

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Here’s the before and after pics of the kitchen window area:

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Our next project will hopefully be painting the ugly pho-wood paneling a soft-grey colour. I’d also like to paint the bottom cabinets the same colour as we painted the cabinets in the bathroom. I’m not sure if we will redo the flooring. That was another one of our plans but I’m not sure if we will end up doing that now. Our timeline for living in this house is now shorter (hopefully) than our original plan so I don’t know if we want to spend that much money. But we will see.