Saturday, February 12, 2011

Just another Friday night...

My sweet husband ended up being gone for the night, so what's a girl to do when she's home alone with 4 kids on a Friday night?  Why paint her kitchen, of course!

My kitchen hasn't been featured on here yet...I've done quite a bit of work in there, but nothing to write home about, but I'm so excited about the mini-transformation I did tonight.  Originally, it  had some precious country blue wallpaper & wainscoting to match the cabinets.  All signs of the 80's have been stripped away, but it has been pretty basic tan (one of 3 tans from the same family I've used all over the house.)
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Since, for right now, I'm keeping the cabinets as is, I need to keep the paint on the lighter side to not make the room feel like it's caving in on me while I'm cooking.  I decided to step it up a notch, by adding some stripes using that same family of colors (lucky for me, I have extra of all those colors on hand, so this was an almost free project!)

How to:
  • measured the entire wall and divided by 5...I knew I wanted large stripes which would be 3 of the original wall color and 2 to paint
  • measured out all around the room and marked off with a pencil
  • connected pencil lines with Frog tape
  • checked and reapplied tape in a few areas...overall this method worked really well!
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  • took an almost dry PURDY brush and blotted all the edges with paint and then filled in (you could roll it, but I didn't feel like dirtying another thing to clean : ))
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  • immediately took off tape when finished
  • touched up a couple areas
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Really, this project took me about 3 hours (my kitchen isn't huge) and I even managed to make the kids some cookies mid-painting....ok, and clean up spilled milk. : )  I'm excited about finding some ways to add some color and pizazz to the busiest room in our house!  There will be more to come on this project!

Hope you enjoy!

3 comments:

  1. I love the stripes, Shera! You need to come decorate my house next...that is definitely NOT my gift, LOL.

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  2. I'd love to come to your house...I'll work for ginger snaps, OK?

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  3. I'll cook for you , too, just tell me what. :)

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