Kitchen Update

You might have thought it was springtime in the M&M house a couple weekends ago.  Everything was cleared out of the kitchen and the fridge & stove were pulled out from the wall.  Usually that can only mean one thing... Spring Cleaning!! 
Except one of the things below is not like the other.. Behr Premium Paint!

I did a bunch of color sampling ahead of time.

Our kitchen stayed like this for well over a month while I watched how the colors changed throughout the day with different light levels.

I still wasn't happy with my 3 samples so I started over again with another set of paint swatches.

Once I finally picked a color, I got to work.  It took an entire Saturday to just clean.  As you all know, we do quite a bit of cooking in this house and so you can imagine the mess that has transpired over 5 years.  Who knew chili & pasta sauce could boil to the point of launching splatters on the ceiling?  I had no idea how messy our walls and ceiling were and I'm kind of a neat freak!  Wowza!

So what drove me to do all this work?  Being able to hang a magnetic knife strip in order to ditch our knife block in order to make room for our new food processor!  Call me crazy... I don't mind.  An organized kitchen is the only way I roll.  I'd also like for it to be modern, cute & swanky.  What?  You don't think the country blue Formica counter top accomplishes that? 

In time my friends. 


For now, I shall just paint.  By Sunday night, it looked like this:

My first impression was that the color had too much purple in the gray.   But, I think it helps to mute some of the craptastic country blue.  What do you think? 

Here are the shots after putting the room back together:

 I think the room does look a little more modern which was my primary goal. 

 I painted all the trim including the window frame and it just looks so fresh (I have to do the door yet) !

 It's growing on me.  I can't wait for new granite counter tops & new hardware on the cabinets.