Kitchen Makeover

While I was in Georgia last week, much of my time was spent helping my sister update her new house. We rearranged furniture in the family room and parlor, finished up the boy’s bedroom, and painted the walls in the foyer, parlor and kitchen.

We also started painting her kitchen cabinets!  Typically that’s a job no one wants to tackle, but with the new line of Caromal Colour paints I’m carrying, it’s really so easy!

Above you see a before photo of some of the cabinets. My sister’s last house was done in reds/yellows/greens and she wanted to go change to a more coastal feel with blues, browns, blacks, beige.

When I saw her new kitchen and found out the direction she wanted to take the new house, I instantly thought of Layla Palmer’s kitchen from The Lettered Cottage.  It seemed like a good place to start.

I showed my sister posts from Layla’s blog and she loved the look of her kitchen. If we hadn’t had so much work to do in other rooms of the house, we could have gotten all the kitchen cabinets painted. But . . . that didn’t happen. We were only able to get the ones around the range area started. Still, that was a big start and it looks so good that my sister and her husband are motivated to finish the job.

Working with the Caromal Colour paint made it SO easy. We did not have to sand and prime the cabinets. In fact, we didn’t even take the doors off (other than the two flanking the hood – we aren’t putting them back on). We just had to scrub the cabinets to make sure all the grime from cooking was off . . . that was it.

We applied the “peppercorn” black textured paint right onto the cabinets. We even painted over the hinges! We really could not believe how easy it was. My sister still has to finish sand the cabinets and do a little distressing before rubbing some poly over the cabinets to protect them but above you see our “After – So Far.”

Love the easy back splash we used behind the cooktop. Of course, there’s still more to do. She just has to find time in between home schooling her four kids, working from home and doing all the rest moms do!

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About Diana

I’m a busy working designer & home stager who gets a lot of joy & happiness helping clients transform their houses into homes they love. I blog as part of that creative process. In our “spare” time my hubby & I are updating our Cottage in the Woods that we share with our cats. I’m a Christian & look forward to someday working for my Heavenly Father, the Greatest Designer of all, decorating mansions in Heaven!

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