Kitchen Makeover

Our kitchen makeover has been coming along slow, which is okay for us. It gives us time to save, shop and think about all the different things we can do and what we want to do. Last time we posted work we did to the kitchen was when we took down that very large, in the way, overhead cabinet. Since then we have painted the walls....

The curtains I found that matched the kitchen!

We painted the cabinets......

We put our things back up.

I found a shelf to put above the stove. Also found a wall spice rack at a thrift store.

Then it took us awhile before we finally decided on the counters. We couldn't take the large white counters anymore, plus we didn't like how they looked with the new painted walls and cabinets. Here are the large white countertops.

So we thought about painting them....nope - didn't want to mess with painting. Thought about tiling....nope - didn't want to mess with the surface of tiling. Finally we decided to use the peel and stick tile. It worked perfect! We love how it turned out. We got two boxes of tile and a sealer.

We put on 3 coats of the sealer. Shiny! But it didn't stay that shiny.

Here it is all done.

Sink finally back in.....YEA!!

It took about 3 days before we could use our kitchen again. That was a bitch but we really do like the outcome. The sealer had to sit 4 hours between each coat (we did 3 coats), then it had to sit for a full 24 hours before total use. It was worth the wait! Here are some side-by-sides.

Much better! We really like our countertops now! I also turned my curtains into half curtains by just folding them in half (ha). Anywho, there it is.