The title of my blog begins with Joy. I can truly say that it is joyful to have our home freshly painted and about as clean as it can be. The process was quite a lot of work but it is finished in the interior and we are happy with the results. As you know Grayden cut the half wall between our kitchen and dining room to open up this area. I'll start by showing you the before and after photos of our kitchen and dining room.
I'm so happy that we were able to get the cabinets painted. As you could see in the before photo the cabinets needed refreshing. Having them painted was an easy option instead of having them replaced as it would have been very expensive. I decided to have the top cabinets painted white and the bottom cabinets painted the same crimson red as the color of our dining room and living room. Easy..right? Not really. The white was no problem, but boy was the crimson! The painters painted the bottom cabinets and my heart sank. Do you know that when crimson is a gloss it is PINK? Yes it was pink!! I could not have pink cabinets. Grayden and I went to the Sherwin Williams store and talked to a wonderful man that really knows his paint. He helped us stay with the same hue but came up with a color that would match the dining room and the half wall in the kitchen below the chair rail. This was quite a tense time as I really had my heart set on the crimson bottom cabinets. With his help we chose Wild Current for the bottom cabinets and the painters painted the bottoms again. Whew--it worked!
We wanted to replace the hardware on the cabinets as part of the new look. Well, that proved to be a challenge as they no longer make hardware that has the same spacing of holes as our cabinet doors have. The painters told us they would fill and drill new holes. We decided against that as we were not sure how they would turn out. So we ran our old hardware through the dishwasher and then proceeded to prime and paint the old hardware. I am very happy with their look. This hardware is by far much heavier than any we were able to find in the marketplace. Sometimes things happen for a reason.
Having the cabinets white we needed to go with another color instead of white for the walls in the kitchen. I chose a color that had a slight tint of eggshell. It turned out a muddy color of mauve that looked terrible. Oh no! So back to the paint chips. When you change paint colors you pay more, but I just could NOT live with this color. So I chose another shade of white with a small tint of gray for contrast. It was perfect--Nebulous White.
The dining room and living room are the same color that we had before. I just couldn't change this crimson as I love it so.
We decided it would be a good idea to brighten up some of the rooms.
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Our bedroom before and after.
Thank you for sharing my Joy of having our home painted. The painters will finish our exterior as the weather permits. This is the first time in 43 years that we have had the inside and outside painted at the same time. We have had 17 days of rain out of the last 17 days. Today is a gorgeous sunny, windy day, but frost is expected to the north and west of us tonight. What strange weather for this late in the spring. Are you doing any painting or renovations this year?
