Kitchen Makeovers: Before and After
Kitchen makeovers, updates, renovations, remodels …
Kitchen Cabinet Colors
Imagine having a stressful work week, then coming home to a neatly cleaned house. With a great aroma of your favorite food cooking, windows open because of the great weather, birds chirping… but you have BLACK and ugly furnishings, countertops, curtains and designs – yuck!
Where would you begin fixing it? How would you update your kitchen cabinets? After all, they are a mainstay in your kitchen. One has to know how to accentuate every angle, and turn a nasty situation into something that you can enjoy. A theme of a house is the storybook to its eternity. Furnishings, carpets, drapes and extras – everything surrounds how the cabinets look. From the carpet, to the curtains, everything has to match.
Why don’t you start by making your cabinets look great? Stained Kitchen cabinets come in all shapes and sizes. Black, white, cream, pastel and bright colors. How will you represent yourself as a classy individual? Cabinets and colors must be coordinated with kitchen color schemes. There are various mixtures and patterns that one may choose from, but why not start by going to your local hardware store and seeing the kitchen color schemes that they have to offer? By the time you leave, you will see that there are many designs and a wide pattern of colors, but you want something unique. Something fresh and clean and a great representation of yourself and what you are proud of. Go to the hardware store, spend hours there-looking, trying and putting schemes next to one one another to get a feel of what your kitchen could look like. Find the samples, design a template and get your kitchen color ideas, come home, sit down and look at what you have to choose from.
Your kitchen cabinet colors should be something you should be proud of. You should have plenty from the day. They will represent you from the dining room to the kitchen and beyond. It will be a base to your foundation, make it count. Once you have the kitchen color schemes that you are choosing from, pick a good kitchen paint color to start with. Base everything around that. After all, painting and design is going to be a big part of your life.
Cabinets, countertops, floor, curtains, they all will flow evenly and it will be relaxing to feel how it will be like when you are finally exhausted, but done with the project when you are finally able to sit at home, enjoying a nice cup of coffee on a Sunday morning, with the birds chirping and breeze flowing through your house, with nice beautiful kitchen cabinets, followed by a beautiful color scheme and soft curtains accenting the masterpiece you have worked on so diligently. Be proud, you have put thought into what you are doing, and now are the envy of the town.
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Kitchen Before and After pics from petit hiboux
I rather like the buttery yellow cabinet color myself, but petit hiboux is right that color just doesn’t go with the newer bright colors in the other rooms.
In the after shot – the cabinets have been painted white, the copper-colored hinges have been stripped back to the underlying pewter color, and the walls are bright blue. All good, but now the harvest gold fridge sticks out like a sore thumb and it’s hard to know what you could do with the spotty tile. Tile over it would probably be the best bet, if it’s solidly attached to the wall.
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Kitchen Cabinet Makeover examples
I’ve been wandering through the many kitchen makeover videos online, looking at what other people have done to their existing kitchen cabinets, since I don’t plan on ripping my perfectly serviceable (if ugly) cabinets out.
The kitchen cabinets in this video are very similar to mine – face frames with flat slab doors. These people painted the frames black, then glued pale birch veneer onto the door fronts and varnished. Looks great, though I would probably go with a light color for the frames instead of black. They also did a lot of other work but left some old countertops in place. Given that counters are one of the simplest things to change, that seems a bit odd, but maybe they have Stage II in mind!
Next, a low budget makeover on a kitchen that was really pretty good to start with. They changed the wall color from dark green to a light color, changed the faucet and the light fixtures, and the cabinet pulls, and bingo – what a difference!
Finally… well, to me, this is a “what not to do” makeover. Bright red floor, bright red door centers on white cabinets, bright red tabletop, and far, far too much fruity wallpaper. The final straw is the ugliest chandelier in the world over the sink. I wonder how long the homeowners kept it like this?
I’ll just have to remember to take video of mine when the time comes, eh. Still working on the bathroom right now though, sanding drywall mud <cough>.
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