Creative Ways To Update Your Kitchen Using Paint

This is my storey of how I transformed my kitchen just past times using paint. It was outdated when nosotros moved in, together with I had null dollars to renovate it. So, instead, I got creative together with essentially painted everything inwards sight. If you're working amongst an quondam kitchen together with a pocket-size budget, this post volition hopefully locomote out you lot amongst tons of ideas.

If you're novel to my blog, allow me give you lot some background information on my kitchen. When nosotros moved into our house three curt years agone the kitchen needed some work. I was on a tiny budget, together with determined to transform this kitchen into a infinite I love. Since my budget was then small, I had to re-purpose a lot of what was already installed inwards the kitchen, equally good equally exercise the things I already had laying to a greater extent than or less the house.

When nosotros start moved in, the cabinets were already painted white, but it was a ugly white, then I repainted the exterior cabinets my preferred shade of pretty white. After that was done, I had to exercise something close the insides of the cabinets. The interiors were then gross together with dirty. I hated them.

To remedy the outdated interiors of the cabinets, I painted the insides the same white as I painted the exteriors together with I painted the backside of all the cabinet doors with chalkboard paint (seen here).

And since I'm obsessed amongst organizing, equally evidenced here, I labeled everything inwards sight.

Painting the insides of the cabinets made such a huge difference, together with the chalkboard doors genuinely made it then unique. It made the entire kitchen experience different. After that, I left the kitchen lone for nearly a year, knowing that I would eventually select to come upwards dorsum to it.

So that brings us to today.

The start affair I decided to tackle this yr was my piddling facial expression through bar area. This is what it looked similar when I start started. The homeowners earlier us did a groovy task amongst arranging the tile, but the colors weren't my loving cup of tea.

Back inwards Apr 2012, I tried to update it a piddling flake past times icon the tile together with coating it amongst some poly. That was short-lived, equally it chipped later a few months.

The 2nd fourth dimension around, I did my due diligence together with researched online. I discovered that in that location genuinely was a means I could paint the tile. I'm inwards dearest amongst the means it turned out. See how I painted my tile here.

Not exclusively does the painted tile facial expression great, but it's super durable, together with it's a breeze to clean.

And the earlier together with later is remarkable.

Painting the tile unleashed a whole serial of other projects. Isn't that ever what happens? Here's what the bar expanse looked similar correct later I painted the tile. It wasn't awful, but I had a vision. I knew that the wall color, chalkboard trim, together with chairs needed to live on changed.

I tested out a few wall colors, together with ultimately decided on a soft gray paint that I barbarous inwards dearest with.
If you lot facial expression at our kitchen earlier together with later pictures, the modify inwards wall color is difficult to notice. Seeing them side past times side below, you lot tin displace encounter what a large departure it is. In person, the kitchen feels then much fresher, together with the novel wall color is really noticeable.

I also decided to pigment the trim back to white.

Here is the trim back mid-paint. I got to relish the luxury of beingness sloppy, since I knew I was icon the walls when I was done amongst the trim.

And hither it is, all cleaned upwards together with finished, amongst the walls painted the novel color, too. It feels then fresh together with amazing.

I also decided to pigment my thrift store chairs silver.

It was a crazy move, but I genuinely shout out back it turned out great. Even Jesse noticed. And that is rare. He's used to me changing something on a daily basis, together with barely blinks an oculus anymore.

For nearly a yr I select been hoping to purchase industrial metallic element stools kinda similar these.

Source: Alexander together with Pearl

But at roughly $200+ a pop, the budget never allows. Something normally comes upwards that makes me seat my sweetness piddling industrial stools on the backburner. Then in conclusion calendar month I saw these together with had a flake of a lightbulb moment.

Source: Target via Apartment Therapy

I realized that I had 2 perfectly expert barstools that I could merely spray pigment silver. Since they were $5 thrift store stools, I felt similar I had null to lose. And it worked! They're no industrial metallic element stools, but they facial expression pretty cool. Plus, it adds an unexpected, fun vibe to the kitchen.

The flim-flam was to exercise super high character spray paint.

and to exercise several low-cal coats. It volition give them that super shiny, real-metallic look.

Here's a quick before together with later then you lot tin displace compare how much ameliorate it looks now. By icon the walls greige, the trim back white, the tile white, together with the bar stools silver, I was able to create a whole novel look.

The before.

together with the after.

The littlest details oftentimes brand the biggest difference.
What exercise you lot think? I'm yet drooling over the 'real deal' aka actual metallic element stools, but my solar daytime volition come. :)
In the meantime, I volition brand the best of what I have.

While I was inwards the icon mood, I decided I would pigment the wall betwixt the kitchen together with the invitee bedroom, correct adjacent to the fridge. It was a total unused space, precisely begging for me to mess amongst it.

After a few coats of chalkboard paint, my novel together with improved chalkboard wall was born!

I had Jesse assistance me install a piddling ledge for my chalk. We precisely went to the hardware store together with constitute a slice of trim back amongst a groove inwards it.

It's teach the perfect identify to write my carte du jour for the week, reminders, together with the occasional dearest note.

I decided to tackle a few other things that were bugging me, too. Remember my DIY knife block?

I loved that thing, but it constitute it's means inwards the trash later getting moisture together with warping inwards the sink. So, to brand do, I decided to honor an quondam drinking glass bowl at a thrift store together with spray pigment the exterior silver. (Don't pigment the inside....your knives behave on food.)

It's non a forever plan, but I figured I would present you lot anyways.

While I had my argent spray pigment out I also decided to modify out the decor over the sink. There was a free-floating shelf there, but my cats loved to jump on it together with brand things crash everywhere. So, I constitute a thrift store mirror I loved, together with painted it silver.

To encounter my tips on how to pigment a mirror to select dimension similar that, expire here. There's a flim-flam to it.

And those are all of my kitchen updates for today!
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