Less pink. AKA the great kitchen redo.

Have you ever just had it with something?  I hit my breaking point last Thursday with my kitchen walls.


They were pink.  Pepto-Bismol pink.  Part of the pink was covered in maroon sponge painting.  It was hideous.


Here is what it looked like before:

Painting the kitchen is one of those things that we have always been meaning to do but could never get up the energy.  Well guess what, I found the energy!


Did I mention that the valances on the windows were green gingham with vines and berries?  Totally not matching the Pepto, BTW.


Here's a close up of the sponge painting if you were still on the fence about it:

Very 1989.


So I went to town painting over the Pepto pink.  Here is the same view with the new color:

It's amazing what a little paint can do.  I used to hate the counter tops, but now I realize that the pink was unfairly coloring my opinion of them (pun intended).  I kind of like them now.


I got rid of the three valances as well.  I mentioned to my son's teacher that I was going to repaint the kitchen and she said she was also painting her kitchen this weekend.  She was painting it green to match a wallpaper border that was green gingham and vines with berries on it and she just needed to find some valances.  If that wasn't a sign from God, I don't know what is.  I brought the valances to her when I picked up my son and she was thrilled that they would match what she was already planning to do.  Win-win!


The best part is how cheap it was. I went to Home Depot and was surprised to find the perfect color in their clearance/mixed wrong paint section for $12, regularly $25.  Add $8 worth of painting supplies and masking tape and this was a $20 redo.


AND, it was such a small job (two backsplashes and one small wall) that we have enough to paint our master bath the same color as well.  It is currently a turd brown color.  I will post again when that project is done.


Dont get me started on the vomit orange that the hall bath was painted.  We fixed that three years ago thank goodness.  The people before us must have had a lot of stomach issues, that's all I'm saying...


On a side note, the countertops looked so good without all of the stuff on it that we also decluttered most of the kitchen.


We got rid of 34 pieces of rubbermaid storage containers with and without lids, 3 ice cube trays, a pitcher and 6 glasses, empty jars that we were saving for no reason, dull knife sets, old tongs, old baskets, old spatulas, gadgets and gizmos that we never use, and bunches of expired food and spices.


It looks awesome and it feels great!