The kitchen redo: Part two

First of all � some winners! The (random) winner of the Jewelry of Lav is April from CT and the winner of the Wuslu giveaway is NadiaAnac from Nadia�s Nest. Congrats ladies! Email me and I�ll get you connected for your goodies!

So I told you last week the fantastically amazing awesome news � I was picked by Amex to promote Membership Reward Points by using them to redo a room in our home � and that room is the kitchen. Gleeee!

I tell you what�our living room is piled high with kitchen stuff, but nothing is installed yet. With our NYC trip over the weekend, I was a little short on DIY time.  :)

This week I was asked to use 100,000 Amex Reward Points and I�m slowly but surely getting some projects going! (And I am so psyched about the changes!)

I showed you last week how I wanted to install crown molding throughout the kitchen:

Since our kitchen and family room are really a big great room, I got enough crown to go around the whole space. Last night I played around with my compound miter saw and some scrap crown and I *think* I figured out how to cut it. I am SO EXCITED!!

I tell you what, the corner pieces I usually use make installing crown VERY easy, but they can get expensive. Because of all the corners in this space, the corner pieces were going to be at least $150 � so figuring out how to cut the molding is going to save some major cash!

I think it�s going to take some trial error and a few bucks worth of crown molding, but I�m determined to get it � and I�ll let you know how it goes!

The next purchase was one I�ve been wanting to get for at least two years, probably more. I present to you�my new pantry door:

Well, kinda.  :) I�m a little worried about it because it�s millimeters too big. Like, just a teeny smudge. I�m hoping when I mortise the spots for the hinges, it will fit better. I�m a  bit worried about this one � really hoping I can get it to work!

I still need to get the film that I�m going to put over the glass to hide the not-always-organized-pantry, and I need to paint the door. In my head it�s always been black, but I�m not sure what to do now. White? Black? Fun color? The room will have accents of apple green and yellow, so I could do one of those colors. Thoughts?

The next purchase for this week was beadboard to redo the backsplash. I went back and forth between a cream tumbled stone in a subway pattern and beadboard. Our counters have plenty of color and texture to them, and I wanted to go as simple as possible � the tile was just WAY too much. (For me anyway.)

I covered our kitchen island in beadboard last year, and I was a little concerned it may be beadboard overload. But now that I look at it, it�s really going to tie the island and the rest of the kitchen together, which is a very good thing.

Then, today, I got a wild hair and started thinking about the demo of the original black tile � and realized I could totally just install the beadboard right over the tile. I know � craaaazaaay:

As I showed you last week, that tile is up there GOOD. I don�t mind taking it all down, but I do mind the mess, the time, and the likelihood that I�ll have to replace all of the drywall.

I have only made some cuts and leaned the beadboard up there for now, because I want to check on one more detail before I glue anything down with Liquid Nails. But just having a third of the black covered is already SUCH a huge difference � I am SO SO excited!!

I got some supplies to start the redo of our kitchen table � and I�m hoping to get to IKEA this weekend for the butcher block island countertop. (Yippee!!)

Otherwise, I�ve been slowly reaccessorizing the room � I got some cutie patoot flower pots from Home Depot to hold all of my herbs on the windowsill:

And today I went to Pottery Barn to look for some fun little accessories � fun little accessories that were wicked expensive! Geesh, that�s hard for me to do!  :)

Half the things I got are actually going back because they just didn�t work, but I did get a couple itty bitty metal pitchers:

(Of course I spray painted one. I couldn�t resist!)

And I�m sorry. But I�m a thrifty girl through and through. Right after Pottery Barn, I headed straight to Goodwill, where I found this little crate for a buck:

I spray painted it (still needs a little touch up) and added green to the front of the letters and it�s as cute as can be!:

The shelves were $4 finds at Goodwill a few weeks ago, and the rest of the accessories were from around the house. I still need to paint the shelves and the stuff on them will most likely move around a bit, but I love the way the they give the wall some depth. The art I had up there before never seemed just right.

It�s going to be a busy week Squeezays! I�m so excited and of course feeling so fortunate that I was asked to be involved in the Amex spring home makeover. Whoo!

So�because you all are SO HELPFUL  � I need your advice once again! What color would you paint the pantry door? Hmmmm? And has anyone out there successfully glued anything over existing tile? Am I crazy?

Don�t answer that.

Thanks in advance!!

 

TDC is one of five blogs picked to promote the Amex Membership Rewards program.
I have received reward points to use as I wish to redo a room in our home.