Before and After Kitchen pictures...

The first three photos are before I painted and decorated. It is a very old house with out-of-square corners, and an odd shaped kitchen, so I didn't want to spend much money to update it. We tore out the old cupboard hanging on the wall and the one underneath it. We put them beside the road for free, and they were gone within an hour. I LOVE my old farm table. When I saw it at an antique shop, it was covered with grease and oil from old tools. Somehow I saw the potential under all the grime. It looks so nice painted my fav blue shade. The chairs are painted a shade lighter and the edges are sanded.

So we don't have a vent for the stove....that would have been some thousands with the construction of cutting through the ceiling and our roof. Needless to say, we don't cook bacon in this house!

Above-notice the duck tape holding the edge of the ancient countertop on!

The cupboards are darker than the photos show. I LOVE my new quartz countertop-the only countertop in my kitchen. We were very happy with the company that installed it. They measured the space digitally-and it's a good thing-nothing was square. We may replace the stove next year.

My camera is old and not taking good photos inside these days. There's a better picture of the valance we made further down in the post. I bought old tongue and groove boards, all gloriously chippy and beautifully colored old paint. Cut them in different lengths, glued them to a board and then screwed them to the top of the windows. That's all the 'curtains' I have in the kitchen. I'm not a curtain person.

 Thanks for stopping by...We still don't have the floor painted, but we have the paint. It will be that lovely rusty orange that will go well with the blue table.