Kitchen Mini-Makeover

My journey brought me to my kitchen.  It's a room that I basically haven't touched in about 10 years.  We did a complete renovation of the room 10 years ago and it is something I never want to go through again. Ever.  It was turmoil. It's a story of a contractor who stole thousands of dollars from us and left us without a kitchen for 18 months.  When I say no kitchen, that's exactly what I mean...there was only 2x4s to look at.  I don't ever want to repeat that again...trust me.

So here I am in my kitchen, that is now starting to look a little dated...10 years exactly.  It's almost like a time capsule.  So a plan started to hatch on giving the kitchen a little update.  

I did have a little help or push in that direction.  It started about a year ago when we came home from a week long vacation to a flooded kitchen.  Let's just say that wood flooring under water for a week is not a good thing.  It never recovers...no matter how much you hope it does.  It dies.  My flooring died.  (Insert the sound of a faint bugle here)

This past weekend I started with my mini kitchen make-over.  Flooring was a must.  It was not going to be wood this time!  And since I was not going to do any changes to cabinetry or appliances that left only one other option:  painting the walls.  


So here are the pictures of the finished mini-makeover.  There are no before pictures.  The previous floor was so scary that I didn't want to frighten you.  

No more scary looking floor!  Yay!

Another view of the pretty new floor!

And another!  I am really surprised that the floor space looks so much bigger now.  Big plus for me!

And for the big surprise!  My new wall color!  Yes, not everyone will paint their kitchen walls red, but I did!  Hehehe!  And I love it!

As you can tell, there is not a lot of wall space in the kitchen.  It's mostly cabinetry and tile.  So I think  a big bold splash of color is amazing in this space.  

   So after this little makeover, I have decided that sometimes little changes can have huge impact!