My Kitchen Makeover

Here is my kitchen makeover revealed. Its nothing too exciting and it's taken a while to get done but with pretty much $0 budget and doing it all by myself, I'm pretty happy with the changes.

I'll just quickly run you through what's been done:

• First up; removed the: curtains, cork board, the two little round tiles which were stuck to the splash back tiles as well as a really granny looking tile as well.
  
• Replaced the brown plastic handles with stainless steal ones
• Put in a dishwasher
• Painted over the wood panelling
• Bought two white bar stools to go under the bench
• Plastered, sanded, plastered, sanded then painted the cork boards in the left over blue paint we have which ended up matching quite nicely with the ugly lino floor tiles
• Made a new blind for the window
• Bought and sprayed white a cute little birdy hook to be a tea towel holder (there was no place to hang tea towels when we moved in)!
  
• Painted my wooden branch in a light brown to match the blind

I think that's it... I still want to find a new clock for the wall to replace the one we've got and there are a few little things like that which I will do later but it's taken me quite a while to get it as far as it is with other projects on the go.

So here are my before and after pics (before photos taken at house inspection) after pics taken this morning (you'll see the high chair, formula tin and other bits and bobs as I wanted you to see it as we live, not over styled just to look good for the photos).

before
When I took that cork board off the wall it left a big square on the wall where it had been - not a great look.

after
Replaced by my funny chalkboard which says 'Both of us can't look good at the same time, it's me or the house'
I want to replace that little shelf that the phone sits on and put about 4 matching little shelves above it to display things on. I just have to figure out how to build and attach it.

before
I put our microwave into the cupboard above the fridge as the spot where the previous owners had it took up too much bench space.

after

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Our dishwasher.
I lived for nearly a year without a dishwasher (the hardest year of my life :) just joking. But we didn't think there was any space to put one in, especially since our bench tops are narrower than normal. But we had our builder make a little 'box' for it to sit in under the breakfast bar which isn't ideal but better than handwashing.

before
Ugly curtains for the 70s and drying rack hanging from the wall!!?!?!

after
My new blind I posted about a few weeks ago. And you can see the little birdies on the branch hook which was a cast iron colour when I bought it for $5 at Recollections.

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There are the weird tiles above the stove and next to the toaster.

after
The new kitchen knobs made a world of difference.

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The 'M' on the door which I painted the same blue stands for 'Minky' our cat as the laundry is his 'bedroom' :)
And that's the clock I want to replace (Glen wont want to hear that because he loves that clock).

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So there you have it my kitchen makeover.
I hope you enjoyed this little look into my home, and on some exciting news... my bro and sister in law just exchanged contracts on a house a few suburbs up from us. So I'll be helping my sister in law with her big plans for the place!!!! YAY!

Have a great day,