Here's a sneak peek inside the little yellow house, finally! One of the things I loved about the house the most when first looking at it was it's potential. Fact of life: Potential costs money and time and I overestimated both. It also helps to have a clearly defined sense of direction which I took my sweet time deciding on. Fortunately my mom finally came into town and made everything all better. We were able to pick colors and get to work! So enough yakking, here is the kitchen before.
In daylight it was really pale and didn't do a whole lot for the wood color. I actually like yellow but knew it could be better.
Here's after, I just love blue and wanted to bring out the cabinets more and even painted the ceiling a light beige-tan-brown color. Unfortunately the lovely blue brought out an unlovely blue-ish purple in the 1990's laminate, but that's just going to have to wait.
The kitchen opens up into this room....sometimes called the dining room (what we think it was meant to be), the den, the fireplace room, the room with Chase's toys, soon to be called the Christmas tree room. It's long and awkward but it's the room that people gravitate towards. I've had the hardest time figuring our how to lay it out and have moved furniture at least 6 times. But I still love it and love the huge fireplace so here is before...very brown and the brick blended in the cabinets and the wall color was a pale beige. Blah.
And after 17 paint samples and three days of family labor....After! Sooooo much brighter and bigger!
Here's the slave labor hard at work...
Grumpy didn't complain because Chase got him plenty of "Grumpy juice."
I love how the two colors look together!
Chase was so sad to see Mimi and Grumpy leave because all the good spoiling went with them.
Looks beautiful!
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