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Written by patty on January 4th, 2010Let’s turn the wayback machine to 1999, when selling some of our priceline.com friends & family stock gave us the capital we needed to score this house of ours. As I’ve mentioned before, the kitchen was nothing short of a minor disaster.
Behold.
Yeah, lots of white. But if we look closer, we see that the white refrigerator is obstructing the path to the back door. We see that the white cabinets are made out of particleboard and formica. And we see that the white walls are actually a nasty, grimy off-white devoid of any personality whatsoever.
10 years later, what’s this we see? Why, it’s… it’s… it’s… Personality! And a fishbowl! A folding door that blocks the cold wind that blows through the pantry, even after paying thousands of dollars to winterize this sieve of ours! A counter top! Gray paint that’s far closer to green than we ever imagined! Target tchotchkes atop Home Depot’s very best assemble-these-yourselves cabinets! Crown moulding! And art!
Not to mention those IKEA cabinet pulls. Hot damn, I loves me some IKEA.
I could post more pictures, like the stairs before (drab gray, coming to an awkward turn for the final three steps) and the stairs after (refinished and now straight, ending in the mud room that now houses the refrigerator so we can actually walk through the kitchen), but taking those after pictures would require first picking up the post-apocalpitc Christmas mess.
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So much style I don’t know where to start! Seriously, it looks great – amazing what a bit of color and creativity can do. And I loves me some IKEA, too – too bad it’s over an hour away …
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We once had a white kitchen. Then exposure to florescent lighting tinted everything a dirty yellow.
White kitchens are the devil’s playground, girl.