Facelift - Part 1

There's a few areas in my life that need a facelift

(almost including my face too! lol but i'll wait 30 more years for that!)

One of those are my kitchen/family room.

Don't get me wrong,

I love my house.

But there are a few design flaws.

It's a big ole open house

with awesome huge ceilings and tons of room.

But the smallest rooms in the house are the MOST used.

The kitchen and adjoining family room.

I could be wrong,

but knocking off one of the 6 bedrooms

to add to the kitchen/fam room would have been beneficial.

But since that is not an option,

I reverted to redecorating.

I decided to lighten & brighten things up.

Previously I've always used the dark colors

browns, burgundys, olive greens, tans.

Lately the rooms just seemed so dark and drab.

They needed some perking up.
On a very limited budget!

I've despised my kitchen cabinets since I moved in.

So that was the first thing that had to change.

Especially the lovely NON matching cabinet hardware.

When I first walked into this kitchen,

I was severely confused.

Somehow I had taken a wrong turn an ended up

at the Home Depot cabinet hardware show room.

The interior designer that staged the house prior to us buying it,

took the mismatched hardware 10 minute trend too far.

And I've lived with it for almost 4 yrs!

(cmon I meant to change it, but had a baby 6 wks after move in!)

So I took on the biggest task first.

And of course that's the one that's still not done!

But here's a preview...
(and yes this is the WORST you'll ever see my kitchen! lol)

Hopefully it'll be finished by the end of the week.

Or I'm going to lose my sanity from the disheveled mess!

And from painting the SAME DANG thing

8 different times

with 8 different substances.

But it'll all be worth it!

Right?!

Please tell me so...!!