Kitchen Makeover Progress…

I have a confession to make.  Up until last week, my kitchen looked something like this:

I carefully edited the pictures so you didn’t know that half  the kitchen was still painted Benjamin Moore’s Dill Pickle Green!  Although the picture makes the green look sort of psychedelic, I really love that color.  I guess I was having a bit of a hard time letting it go…

Eventually, however, I just had to bite the bullet and get the paint out again.

When I fell in love with the beadboard wallpaper,  I realized I could finish off my “green wall” the way that I had originally dreamed.  The real beadboard was beyond our little budget, but the wallpaper made it do-able.

So…here is the before…

And here it is now…

(Have I told you lately that I LOVE Wall Doctor’s Beadboard Wallpaper?  It so looks so real!!!)

Another Before…

After…

This mirror was a gift from my friend Karey.  She made it by stamping on a painted dollar store mirror.  Isn’t it neat?  (Thanks, Karey!)

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I must tell you that my inspiration for this wall came from the Old Painted Cottage’s Dining Room.  Her pictures are copy write protected, so I can’t show them here, but if you click on her link, you can see her most amazing kitchen/ dining room.  I have studied and studied (and swooned over) those pictures…

I also fell in love with Restoration House’s newly renovated kitchen.

Oh…those shelves!… and the beadboard!… and the fabric cupboard door!…  I’m pretty sure she and I would be friends if we were neighbours…

My husband and I contemplated making some long shelves similar to those…but in the end realized that was beyond what we could accomplish at this point.

So, I dug out the 2 shelves that I bought last Fall (with my curtain fabric!) in Ikea’s “As Is” department.  They were just 5$ each (Can you believe it?).  I’ve just been waiting for the perfect place to put them up…

So, now…I’m happy to report…my kitchen is no longer a “split-personality”!  It’s all blue…And I don’t regret painting over that green at all… Whew!

Linking up to:  Thrifty Decorating, My Repurposed Life, Christina’s Adventures, Romantic Home,      Pink Postcard, Funky Junk, I heart Naptime, at home with k, my uncommon slice of suburbia