The First Big Reveal: Kitchen

{The First Big Reveal!}

Yup, here it is! The kitchen nook, reveal!

Keep in mind that it's lacking a lot of home decor, but to be honest... I'm SO not at that place in my life yet. LOL. I have an entire garage full of unpacking still. lol.

Here is the proof!

(please do NOT enlarge this photo!)

K, so here are a couple of before's...

And here is the process...

PRIME IT

PAINT IT

We used an AWESOME grey blue called Dockside, by Sherwin Williams.

Normally I wouldn't spend the extra money, on such expensive paint, but SERIOUSLY it was the perfect shade I was looking for... So I just did it.

Ta-Da!

So... Notice the baseboards and the windows. I've always wanted to do something great with them... so off to that project!. lol

We are kind of a mess when we paint...

{AMAZING Cheap Faux Baseboard Tutorial!}

First... become BEST friends with one of these.

Until this project, I hadn't really had much experience... but now... I'm a champ!

(yes... that means that the backfire in this baby doesn't completely scare me anymore... lol)

When we were at my parents house a couple weeks back, and I told my Dad we wanted to bulk up the baseboards, by putting an extra piece of trim in, and painting in between, he gave us this piece of wood, to be our guide! Great idea! This baby has been a LIFESAVER!

Ya, it looks kind of funny, when the board is just up... but watch the process!!!

Nail gun it up, with a few nails, using your scrap piece of wood guide...

Have your hubby figure out all the angles for bay window baseboard...

(this is a LOT harder then it sounds)

More Nailing.....

Lots of this great stuff.....

Some MORE of the Spackle, to hide the huge gap, for when you measured wrong for your hubby to cut... oops

Some Primer....

2 coats of Semi Gloss White.........

And TA-DA!!!!!!

Chunkier baseboards!!!!!! Isn't that SO GREAT!

I think so! Seriously, the molding for just this nook only cost like $6 bucks! Do you LOVE that!?! It seriously changes your entire room! We are continuing this throughout the family room and hallway.

See this piece of molding... Yes... it was expensive, but well worth it, because these poor kitchen windows needed some attention.

Sorry I have no tutorial for this.

Because my awesome Dad and hubby figured it ALL out.

Oh, Aubrielle helped too. lol.

Drum Roll Please!!!!!!!

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Ta-Da!

There it is!

The windows, the baseboard, the blue, the table.....

(please let's take a moment and soak it all in.... yes.... even the light fixture hung up higher by a bunjee cord, and the clunky metal trash can....) LOL.

It's so .... fresh, and clean, and beeeeaautiful!

Ya...The blue in this pictures looks SUPER blue... and is really NOT that blue, but I had to bump up the lighting, during editing my pics, because it's such a hard place to get a true picture!

I love it... and I'm so happy that WE did it!

See! So exciting to show everyone these things!

I can't wait to show you more!

And I have LOTS more!

Oh my gosh... Cason and I decided tonight what we're going to do in the girls' bathroom, and I seriously CAN'T WAIT! It's gonna be SO cool, I hope. It's kind of a risk, but I'm SO excited to see how our plan turns out!!!!!

Check back soon!

PS. we got that AWESOME rug at IKEA, for like $90 bucks! Can you believe it!? I was looking EVERYWHERE for this style of rug. They had one at Pottery Barn, but it was like $550 for that size! Every time someone see's the new look, for the first time, almost always they say...

"OH my gosh, it looks so much bigger in here, is that a different table? What makes it look so big in here now!?"

...ya, maybe the paint, but really I think it's the larger rug. :)