Kitchen - Before and After

Our kitchen is now 99% done and it looks amazing!   It is so much brighter and has the farmhouse look we were going for.   I can't believe we waited so long to make the updates.   In total we re-did the entire kitchen for about $250 (paint, tile and a new range hood).  The cabinet color is Ashes by Behr and the grout is Delorean Gray (I pretty much picked it out because it was called "Delorean").  I love the new kitchen so much and can't wait to start cooking in there more.

Before:  You can see the old wood molding around the cabinets as well as the lovely blue backsplash.  What makes the old backsplash even better was it was black tiles that were painted blue with painted on "grout" lines, ugh!  You can see we also briefly thought of a tin panel backsplash a few years ago and never took it down.  Yup, so this is what we lived with for the last four years!

 In progress: 

 After:

We just have a few minor touch ups left to do.  We need to re-paint the window frame and add a new piece of molding underneath it.   My husband also wants to make a mason jar light fixture for the center of the kitchen ceiling and we want to find a new rug.   

Shades of Gray

Our current cabinets are white, and by white I means slowly turning more chipped, yellowed and scratched up.   We haven't done much to the kitchen at all since we moved in four years ago.  Originally, there were large pine colored square knobs on all the cabinets.  Within weeks we bought brushed nickel knobs and pulls but never got around to re-painting.  There is also wood color molding around cabinets, it makes the kitchen look dated. The whole time we had planned on painting them white.  However, the other day my husband mentioned painting them antique white.  I wasn't too crazy about it, we have a lot of bright white and I thought it would clash.   When he went out to get some paint chips for the antique white he picked up some grays as well.   I don't know why we hadn't thought of gray before hand but we loved it!  We bought a few samples to try out,  two were too dark, the third was perfect, Ashes by Behr.   It wasn't too dark and not too light.   Our kitchen is open to the dining room and living room which are all painted a pale gray (Titanium by Benjamin Moore).   By painting the cabinets a darker gray I think it will really make them stand out.

We chose the color on the right:

Also, I will finally get to incorporate some white subway tiles, every kitchen with them looks amazing!   I think the white will help break up the grays in the kitchen (between the cabinets, stainless steel appliances and the walls, it is a lot of gray).   We also realized we had some black, gray and glass colored tiles left over from our bathroom remodel that we originally planned to use for a backsplash.   By splitting them up into two rows we will be able to make a border that goes around the entire kitchen.
 

My husband is going to start the kitchen next week,  can't wait to see what it will look like!