I can see that there was an attempt to update this kitchen in the past. The counters were nice, the cabinets had received a distressed paint job at some point and the backslash was newish. However, the only explanation I have for the adjoining dining room is this: ketchup-fight.
Luckily J. has a condition known as Design OCD and wasn’t happy until the whole things was gutted and streamlined and gorgeous. And now I reeeeeeally want to paint all my window frames black.
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Amie
March 27, 2012 at 10:23 PMoh my. That ketchup paint was horrendous! Someone did that on purpose??
Jillian {Her Split Ends}
March 28, 2012 at 12:49 AMQuite a a big transformation…love the counters…what material??
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Real Life Hannah
March 27, 2012 at 10:04 PMOh. My. Goodness. That dining room was…bad. It looks a million times better now!
P.S. LOVE your blog, I stop by everyday, and your commentary cracks me up!
BronsonBloopers
March 27, 2012 at 10:39 PMYea, I would be itching to re-due the kitchen too haha It looks so modern now!
ladyhawthorne
March 28, 2012 at 12:50 AMGeez, now I’ll have nightmares about that fugly dining room!
Charlene
March 28, 2012 at 3:42 AMTotally gasped out loud when I saw the ketchup kitchen. HORRID! Love the ‘After’!
suzyq
March 28, 2012 at 4:03 AMgreat job!!! cannot beat black windows – so happy I painted mine black
hugs,
Suzan
Jae
March 28, 2012 at 12:01 PMThanks for featuring my kitchen. LOL. “expired ketchup” I never thought about it like that but I guess I can’t disagree! That’s funny. I still maintain it looked better in person. (I know, I know!)
Jillian, the counters are granite (kashmir white).
Kim
March 28, 2012 at 3:30 PMI was having trouble imagining what the ketchup fight look might be, but, WOW, what an accurate, hilarious description! I wanted to paint our windows black during our kitchen remodel but ran out of time. I think they’re fabulous and I’m adding that to this summer’s list! But, I’m thinking about going with grey now instead.
Mom2Five
March 28, 2012 at 7:33 PMThat dining room really did look like someone actually smeared ketchup on those walls. Yikes. The after is soooooo much better.
Kelly
March 29, 2012 at 1:00 PMWe lived in a ’50’s house with all the windowsills painted black,(Hollywood Glam Look) and it’s true that once you go black, you never go back – not because we loved them, but because it was impossible to cover that paint up – it had to be removed with paint stripper (lots of fun inside a house).
Make sure it’s what you want before you do it.
Becky@DoodleBug
March 30, 2012 at 4:01 AMThat may be the strangest “before” paint job I’ve ever seen. And that’s saying something, because I used to work in theatre and paint over other artist’s scenic paint all the time. I am seriously impressed…
with the after picture, of course 🙂
Pour Girl
March 30, 2012 at 2:07 PMThat room looks like a crime scene! Why would anyone purposely do that (and then keep it)??? Great fix 🙂