So, that’s the background of how we got to the place of starting a kitchen revamp (Part II) - we didn’t undo anything we’d already done but we did go ahead and expand upon what we initially planned. (Funny enough, after living with it for a couple years, it actually didn’t bother me as much.) It wasn’t even a question that had to be considered - we were going to have to change the cabinet color. I thought that varying neutrals from white and cream to tones of gray would coordinate and tone down the creaminess of the cabinets, but it had the opposite effect. But once the tile was installed in the kitchen, it was alarming how much it clashed with our cream cabinets. Not about the tile itself or the pattern. I wanted a stacked vertical pattern in the shower and asked for a stacked horizontal tile pattern in the kitchen to keep things a little interesting. if we were going to update our backsplash, it would be more cost effective to have the tile installer add the kitchen to the project so he could do both spaces together. I fell in love with the varying neutral tones of the tile we were using for our shower surround and thought it would go well in the kitchen, and 2. That’s also what drove the decision to proceed with the pool.Īnyway, when we were working on the bathroom and already had someone installing tile, 1. But then, 2020 happened, we started on the bathroom project after the flood (see that reveal HERE), and with the crazy housing market (increased home values, insane demand and competition, and costs of building materials), we kind of decided we would likely be staying put and just making our home into what we wanted (with limitations □ ). We actually thought we may have moved or may be in the process of moving by now so I didn’t know if more changes would ever happen. We still had one-day-wish-list items but I wasn’t planning that for any time soon. And, I think we achieved that! You can see that reveal after we switched countertops and made several easier cosmetic changes HERE. I wanted the kitchen to feel brighter but my primary goal was to still camouflage (while coordinating with) the cabinet color and backsplash. We upgraded our countertops to a pretty, subtle quartz, traded our small stainless divided sink for a big stainless single basin, switched our pendant lighting, changed our cabinet hardware to something more sleek, and lightened the paint to Edgecomb Gray - still a greige but lighter. We decided to make a few updates to make the kitchen a little more current, without giving it an overhaul. Without much natural light, they had a tendency to lean even more yellow, so I tried to keep bright whites away from them.įast forward to 2018 (almost five years ago from the time of this post). Also, I didn’t realize how dark it would be before we lived in our house and I wasn’t thrilled with the overall coloring - trying to brighten up the dark and make the cabinets appear less buttercream. The kitchen is semi-open and the wall that divides the kitchen and living room is structural. We have no windows in the kitchen so it stays pretty dark with the only natural light filtering across the breakfast nook and into the far side of the kitchen.Īlso to note - we have a small kitchen island and the bar is used more… but both are used daily. We had Perfect Greige paint on the walls, dark brown/black speckled granite countertops, and a muddy-beige travertine backsplash. A former history of our kitchen… we started with cream, raised panel cabinets with small(ish) hardware in the pewter(?) family.
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