Kitchen Paint Colors

Given the hatred we had of our old kitchen color (spearmint lime, anyone?), we bought samples this time, and painted them throughout the kitchen. We're planning to look at them throughout the day, and decide which one we like best in all lights of the day. 

Honestly....I don't really like any of them. The husband likes the green one (you can only really see it on the white wall).

So I really don't like any of them, I'm going to comprise and say that we'll go with the color he likes. Hopefully we'll get this painted tomorrow night (today is our anniversary so we're going out to dinner!) 

First Coat of Paint

The first coat of paint is up! I've also starting putting items back in the cupboards (thank goodness!). I'm so over living out of boxes and piles of stuff. This is the progress to date:

Kitchen Update

Sometimes, I think my husband hates me. Example: last month, I decided it was finally time to paint our kitchen cabinets. Now, our kitchen cabinets are in surprisingly good condition, they were just ugly oak, faded and dated. So, they needed a face lift. As well as painting the cabinets, we planned to replace the florescent light fixtures. Here is the before (pardon the messiness):

And here comes the part where I'm pretty sure that Alex hates me. After we took down the plastic cover on the drop ceiling, I wanted to see what was behind the drywall. Because, like always, I had this ideal picture in my head about what we were going to do. This is what happened....

 After, Day 1:

 After tearing down the entire drop ceiling, we had a bit of a freakout (which is understandable). But, while having this freakout, we could already see how much nicer the kitchen was going to look. The cabinet doors are all down and in the garage to be painted. We used Rustoleum Cabinet Transformations in Autumn. It was a lot of work (degloss, two coats of bond paint, glazing and then the top coat). All in all, we thought it teared out well on our test door. It changes the color, but still retains the look of real wood. 

 You can still see the grain.....

More to follow....