Kitchen Update

Let's try this blogging thing again. : )

Our kitchen and dining room are basically remodeled except for the flooring and the yellow built-in bookshelf.  However, the yellow bookshelf should be repainted and retrimmed by the end of this month.  The flooring may have to wait until next summer because the bathroom remodel takes precedence this year.  (I've been documenting our demolition and such of the bathroom so far. You'll see more of that later.)  Anyway, back to the kitchen.

I really like the cabinets and countertops in the kitchen.  



I'm not a fan of wall-paper at all so our first priority was to take it down and figure out a color for the kitchen.

Difficult wallpaper removal project

 We experimented with different blues and greens before deciding on the green.  Plainview has had a drought the past two and now moving into three summers, and there is no lake nearby.  It's a very brown place so my first choices are blue and green for everything.

  

Removing the border wallpaper was not that difficult.  The flowered wall paper that surrounded the yellow shelf was extremely difficult.  I removed the difficult paper while watching/listening to home improvement shows.  I find them very motivational.  

The yellow built-in was a surprise for us because the previous owners had a china cabinet/hutch/or something in front of it.  It was a nice surprise (as opposed the scary wall that we discovered in our previous house).

The sort-of-finished project.  You can see the trim around the top and bottom and you can see the walls are completely painted at this point in the pictures below.  The big empty spot is going to be filled after we pick up our painting that we commissioned from one of our friends in Bloomington.

 Ta-da!