Kitchen tour... WELCOME

I am joinng Laurie  for my favorite project of 2009
at TIP JUNKIE
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I am joining this party to show off what paint did for my kitchen!!!

BEFORE

Welcome to a tour of our kitchen...
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Obviously you can tell the cabinets were painted
The stove was switched with our old flat top from our apartment
The tile was scrubbed BIG~TIME
We added bead board to the sides of the cabinets too... thank you Rhoda

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This is a picture of over our sink

I love our sink... it is the one thing I never want to change about our home

It is corian and super deep

It has a hot water dispenser too which is perfect for a cup of tea!

I am thrilled to have a space for my mixer! I see it all the time and I am obligated to use it more often!

I used our pfaltzgraff filigree pattern platter  and vinyl letters cut from my cricut to make this sign for over the sink

Bless Us O Lord

I used a command strip and an invisible plate hanger (large size) to hang this plate on TILE

Speaking of the tile

See the tile blocks that are a different color?

I painted those with the wall paint ~ they used to have partridges on them!

The area next to the stove is narrow

This is as you can see where the utensils and the knives are stored

My hubby is a DJ and I picked up this molded record clock (from a real record) at Target for 3 bucks!

I took the doors off the cabinet over the fridge and this is where I store my tea chest and tea accessory basket

Notice the piggie?

This was my in my grams kitchen for as long as I can remember and I inherited it! ... I love having  it in mine!

Also there was blue duckies on the soffit... we could not remove them so I sprayed primer over them and finally they were covered

This is the entrance to the kitchen from the side door

I have a basket for mail and I love the sign above it

You can see where I added the bead board wallpaper to the cabinets

This is heading out the side door... You can now see the bead board wallpaper... man do I love that stuff!

How about our portable dishwasher?

I gave up having a house with a built in dishwasher for a house with 2 amazing yards instead!

The poster you see is one of my favorites it reads

Food is love... cook with it and the picture is all foods that are heart shaped

It has amazing colors in it

The curtains you see is our sliding glass door to the patio to that amazing yard :)

My plan is to fill that wall with the plates with all kinds of crisp white plates and platters

This is the wall above our kitchen table

I love the botanical prints and the sign above reads WELCOME

since this is the first wall you see when you enter the side door to our home

Oh and the whole kitchen renovation cost 619... 500 of it was this floor!

I am so glad to have given you all a tour of our new kitchen

It is the room I am most proud of and the one that needed the most help

We knew that it had potential ...  not too bad for 119~

Here is the BEFORE

Another BEFORE

OH I am linking up with the shabby chic cottage  ~ I love this blog!!
oh and the lettered cottage too... luvre this one too