A kitchen spruce up!

One of the rooms in our new house that needs a lot of attention is our kitchen. We plan to re do it, but in the meantime it needed to be scrubbed up a little bit so we opted for the $100 kitchen face lift to get us through. The ceilings were yellow and the walls were a blue that made both Elliott and I downright queasy. So we took to the labor day weekend with our mission in mind. Friday we purchased all of our paint and supplies, came home cleaned up and laid boxes and paper so that we didn't make a mess of the floor and painted the ceiling. Elliott also spent Friday evening taking the cabinet fronts off of the cabinets to the left and right of the sink, a task that nearly sent him into a conniption fit because the screws had been painted over more times than we can guess. Saturday we sanded and puttied in the holes in the cabinets that nearly did E in- it's like they were never there, right sweetie? We cleaned up and painted the cabinet shelves and trim. Sunday was more and more and more painting. As was Monday until about mid afternoon when we began to put things back together. The following are some before shots... the pictures really do not do justice to the filth that was this kitchen.

Why a mirror... well we didn't know until we discovered the cracked plaster underneath. We puttied it as good as we could, sanded and painted and will get some help with it from an expert when we do the real kitchen reno.

This window was painted shut...

Next are some pictures throughout the weekend! Here is Elliott fixing the track on one of the drawers... another project that illicited lots of cuss words.



The dastardly job of cleaning the ceiling fan. G-ross. And look at how awful that ceiling was, ick.

 Gross cabinet interiors after Elliott successfully removed the stubborn doors.

Another shot to show how old and in need the insides of the cabinets were.

Finally, here is what it looks like now! Forgive the dishes drying on the counter I am still in the process of getting things washed up and in their new homes but was excited to share the progress.

And here are some more with better lighting (it was dark and raining before and I had all those dishes drying trying to put them away...

 Dooley really likes the new kitchen. Mainly because that is quite literally the only rug in the house right now... poor pup.

I also really love that we left the cabinet fronts off however, figuring out how to organize the cabinets was not easy! Sorry the pic is a little dark.

We worked our butts off and are really pleased with the turnout. For a hundred bucks it is not too shabby and we feel a lot more comfortable in our kitchen. Now we'll take the  next few months to figure out where our bigger upgrades will be but until then we have a livable, cookable kitchen!

Love to all.