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Kitchen Details & Sources

By Bre

So now that all the holiday dust has settled, and all those fun decor posts are done. Back to house stuff!! And onto a few details about our Kitchen Update. And I would like to remind you that other than painting and a few decor changes, there was no major renovation that took place! It’s amazing the power of paint, and how that alone can transform a room. We started off with our main theme to de-brownize the space. While the cabinets are white, every other surface seemed brown, and appeared to take over the room.

Before :

So when we moved in it looked like this. Pretty much a blank slate. Since the kitchen was the only room in the house that wasn’t painted yellow, this room was on the bottom of our list to tackle. So we lived with it like this for a 2 years.

Then last January, it was time to start tackling the kitchen. And while I would still love to put in an apron front farmhouse sink, and bead board on the ceiling, and new countertops, and rip up the floor and put wide farmhouse planks down. Those are major projects, and they still aren’t on the top of the list, so I call those project phase 3. I created this mood board as inspiration for an overall feel for the kitchen, and I’m happy to say that we got pretty close. So lets take a closer look at all the changes done for phase 2.

After:
We started by painting the kitchen Horizon by: Benjamin Moore. A perfect color with hints of grey, and putty, and overall blue, but not in your face blue, just subtle enough in the right lighting. Not a powder blue at all. We purchased two more white barstools, to match our existing ones. They are part of the Hemmes line at IKEA, I have not seen them online in a few years so I thought they weren’t making them anymore. Then on a trip to get some other things, I saw them in the store, and quickly grabbed 2 more. We also wrapped the island in bead board as well. 
We replaced the modern island pendant lights, to resemble a bit more of barn pendant lights. You can read about how I DIY’d that project here. We also installed corbels underneath the cabinets, to make them feel more like built ins and look like cabinets would back when the house was built. Along with also installing a bead board backsplash. 

 We installed a plate rack wall on an awkward little wall between the basement and bathroom doors. Sadly I do not have a tutorial for this, but we followed this tutorial very closely, with some slight modifications. Basically we cut a giant whole in the wall, and my husband pre-esembeled the whole piece, and then installed it into the vast open whole. And lots of white paint later, you have what you see in the pic below. (This was taken during fall, with a fall chalkboard and leaves, but it gets switched up quite a bit.)

We amped up our shelves to look more like the inspiration shelves from the mood board. This is what it looked like before:
I used the same boards that were already there. I had three of them originally, the third was just sitting in the basement. They are also from IKEA purchased years ago. For the brackets we used the same corbels underneath the cabinets, found at Home Depot. 
After:

Along with painting the kitchen, I painted the inside of the kitchen door (finally!), and created a wall size chalkboard, making my own chalkboard paint to achieve the light grey color you see below.

Here is a quick breakout of all the things we added:

New Paint : Horizon by Benjamin Moore
New bead board for Island & Backsplash
New Corbels for shelves and upper cabinets – Home Depot
New Pendant Lights – Lowes, faux finish diy’d here
Matching Bar Stools – IKEA (not found online)
Plate Rack Wall – using mostly this tutorial
Chalkboard Wall – tutorial here

So hopefully that answers most of your questions! And don’t forget to enter the HomeGoods Gift Card giveaway!!

Comments

  1. sandi says

    Love what you did! LOVE the BM Horizon Paint. It just sold me on painting my walls that color. My question is: What is the color trim you put with the Horizon wall paint? Your trim color is amazing with the Horizon Walls

    • Bre says

      Hi Sandi! I don’t have an actual trim color name, I just went into my local paint store, and told them I needed a bright white trim paint 🙂 Takes the guess work out of making sure you get the right shade.

  2. Denise Nolan says

    Make over is just beautiful. I’d like to know where you purchased the script paper on the kitchen wall? Or did you stencil wall?

    Hugs & Blessings,
    Denise

    • Bre says

      Hi Denise! I think you may be referring to my chalkboard wall? You can search for a post “making your own chalkboard paint” and see all the details.

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