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Originally Posted by Kathianne  I would love to be able to 'do' my kitchen, just can't afford it. However, I just had it painted and it's gorgeous! Sort of an olive green, with white ceilings and woodwork. I had the cabinets painted white, though I would love to replace them. I am putting in wood floors, in a few weeks.
I have all white appliances and they go well with my look. My friend just redid her kitchen, which is large, from floor up. Over $50k. All stainless appliances including a Subzero fridge, and she is not happy. Because 'fingerprints' bug her, she wishes she had gone textured, white or black. Her husband is not going to let her change those appliances, ever. She is over 60! |
It's amazing what a little paint will do.
The kitchen part of my great room/kitchen addition is fairly small. I have a wall and a half of cabinets and a pretty huge island which has room for two counter stools. The fridge sits to the side. I painted the kitchen part a deep burgandy color before the cabinets went up. It really came out great. It was a lot of work because it was all new drywall and plaster skim coat. It took two gallons of paint to do that one small area. Painting any room a dark color always takes several coats to get the rich look you're going after, but the new plaster just sucked it right up. It took 8 coats of paint, but boy, it really came out great.
I painted the living area part of the great room a sand color. That only took two coats. What a difference it made.
The day I painted the kitchen Lenny, the crew boss, came back to install the cabinets. He had this young guy with him. I never knew when they would show up, but once the drywall crew and plasterers were done, I wanted to paint the room. I knew it would be a hell of a lot easier to do it before they hung the cabinets. They thought I was nuts. When they showed up I had only the first coat of paint up.
It was red. It was awful. It was like this bright, reddish pinkish hideous color. But I've painted rooms a dark color before, so I knew the first coat would look awful. I had faith. They made cracks the whole time.
But even they admitted that it looked really cool when it was done. It was the perfect color as a backdrop for the maple cabinets and black granite counters. I couldn't have picked a better color.
Too many people are afraid of dark paint, or putting any kind of color on the walls, but what a difference it makes in a room.
White cabinets against an olive green wall must look really great.