Kitchen Makeover

UPDATE…I have no idea why the pictures are showing up blurry.  They are not blurry until I post them.  Sorry!

Recently, I told you about Jeff and his siblings doing a kitchen make-over for his Mom for Mother’s Day.  It is pretty much complete.  There are a few final touches to make, but I think it all turned out so good!

The before…

First order of business…tear down the layers of wallpaper! 

Tearing down the wallpaper was definitely a challenge!  After trying a few “solutions”, primer was applied and a new wallpaper layer was put up!  The original plan was to do a plaster on the wall and then paint.  Well, the plaster would not stick to the wall because of the wallpaper.  So, we found a paintable wallpaper that looks like it was plastered.  I had not ever seen that before and it worked GREAT!!!! 

 

Then, the painting begins! 

It’s kind of hard to see here, but we put cooper (metal-looking) plastic tiles up for the backsplash.  It turned out GREAT and was sooo easy!!!  It is kind of an expensive project (about $18 a tile), but really looks FABULOUS!  I am thinking that Jeff and I might do this in our kitchen sometime soon!

Starting to look better!!  I am loving the colors!! 

I am such a sucker for RED!  I love it!  My FIL was not so excited about having red in their kitchen.  But, he told me today that he really liked how it turned out!!   It really makes the room pop!

After some “coffee” decor, wall vinyl,  and new hardware was put in place…Ta Da! 

We put a glaze/stain mixture on the cabinet doors and drawers.  We are thinking we will go back and do the actual cabinets as well.  What do you think?

   

We are going to take family portraits and add them here…

 

For fun…side by side before and after!

Corene…I hope you LOVE it!  It was definitely a group effort and I think it looks GREAT!!!