Kitchen

While we were up in Utah for the month of October, we brought our cupboard doors and drawer faces with us to refinish. Ryan's fabulous sister, Kristin has started a business called Navy Bean Lane, (check it out, it's amazing!) and she refinished furniture, cupboards, redecorates, crafts, and is just one of those people that you ask yourself, "How does she do it all flawlessly?" Answer: I still don't know. She is very very talented, that's all I know! Anyway, she helped me, by pretty much doing the whole project for me. Her hubby Kasey was awesome too and spent a lot of time working on them as well.
It was a big decision for Ryan and I to decide which color to paint the kitchen cabinets. We wanted them to go with the 'warm and homey style' but also tie in something fresh. Also, another dilemma was the black appliances. We didn't want them to blend into the cupboards, but Ryan didn't want to do cream....big decisions here people!
We finally decided on a charcoal grey, with a deep chocolate brown glaze to tie in the 'homey warm tones' that the rest of the kitchen has.

Before. 

During.
(This was the day we got home from Utah after a month of being gone.
Yuck. not what I like to come home to!)

During.

DONE!

We are so happy with how it turned out. The new hardware looks great. The rug gone looks a lot cleaner. And everything looks like it matches now (appliances, counters, clock was painted, decor...etc.)

What do you think?