Remember I mentioned that I wasn’t very inspired by my kitchen?
I LOVE the size, and that there’s plenty of counter space and storage even with no cabinets on the top in most of the kitchen. I even counted and I’m sure we could have 6 people comfortably working on different things in the same kitchen.
The point is that the bones are good; it just needed some updating.
Now updating usually comes in the form of a renovation which I am not a lover of for two reasons: 1) extreme mess and lack of control…… and 2) renovations cost a lot of money. Apparently a good rule of thumb is 1/10th of the house’s price which is super crazy. But that’s my opinion.
So then I happened upon a green kitchen on Instagram and I was like OHHHHHH, I LOVE THAT.
Dion had some reservations that it would be too green (is there such a thing?!) but trusted me.
I was busy picking out the exact green when I saw a navy blue kitchen and I thought OOOOH now that’s lovely.
I showed him and he was much more into the navy.
I just wanted COLOUR and non-boringness so I was game to try the blue.
You see, I love The Nester’s advice. She said once, “if you hate something anyway, there’s no harm in taking a risk”. So true.
We ended up painting the walls and ceilings white and the cupboards are now NCS S 6030-R90B Seaside Breeze.
Best of all, we all LOVE our new kitchen. And the very best news is it cost just a fraction of a true renovation.
Other small things we did…
- replaced the mixer
- put up shelves
And the minute we’ve saved enough money, we’ll redo the flooring. In fact, if you have flooring people you’d recommend, please tell me in the comments. I only have two quotes which are both far too expensive.
Some more photos of my navy kitchen:
Have you ever painted your kitchen cupboards?
What colour would you do yours?
PS The blue kitchen pics were taken in midday sun so the light was very bright. The kitchen looks a bit darker at night.
