It's official. My family is outgrowing our home. After a lot of consideration, planning, and house-hunting, we decided to just add-on to what we already have. A bedroom and two small bathrooms is what we decided, because we need the extra room and a bathroom re-do above all else.
While we were discussing all this, we started toying with the idea of re-doing the kitchen.
"One day when we get the addition paid off..."
"If we have any money left after our add-on...."
We nonchalantly rattled off "somedays" at each other every time the topic came up.
As we got closer to working on our add-on, I started looking for decorating ideas on Pinterest (because decor before the foundation is poured is totally normal, right?)
As I was looking, I saw where someone had used pallet wood to re-do a wall. I loved it. I showed it to the hubs, and we started researching what it would take to do something like that in our kitchen. We could just do it ourselves, you know, real quick-like, and give it a little update, then do cabinets down the road in the future.
Because have you seen our kitchen?
No?
Let me let you peek.
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| Is that shower board above the stove, or is it just really awful paneling? Either way I'm pretty sure it belongs in a bathroom... |
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| The cabinets are solid, and very functional...but not so pretty. Someone made an attempt at the wallpaper, but even an act of God isn't getting that glue off, believe me. I tried. |
I inherited this mess, mind you. I did not make it. It came with the whole husband package as-is, no warranty, no maintenance plan. Half-attempted to be fixed at some time by a former owner, and abandoned. I can't blame them. I'm not certain they didn't cement that wallpaper to the walls.
As we perused Pinterest to figure out how easily we could (or could not) apply the pallet wood, hubs mentioned a corrugated metal backsplash. Sounded interesting.
Search.
OOoooooohhhhh!
I found a corrugated metal and barn-plank wall!
That would be SUPER easy, and SUPER inexpensive, right?
Sure!
And so, our DIY Kitchen Renovation 2015 has begun.
There have been bumps along the way, most of them at 3am or with 3 children standing in the work-space screaming about 3 different things (they say bad things come in 3s right? I'm buying that), but for the most part it's gone well....and we've done it ALL! BY! OURSELVES!
So stay tuned for all the crazy shenanigans, and for the BIG REVEAL, coming soon to a blog near you.
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