Our new kitchen is white.
Blindingly white.
White walls, white cabinets, white appliances.
White, white, white!
White, white, white!
And while I kind of like soothing white motifs in living rooms or bedrooms, kitchens are supposed to be colorful, crazy messes because goodness knows cooking/dinner-time is always a colorful, crazy mess.
So slowly I attacked the whiteness.
Put up shelves to display my bowls and cooking books.
Displayed my colorful, patterned aprons.
Hung up pretty prints we scored for $6 and $3 dollars.
However, those stupidly white cabinets were still driving me crazy, but as a renter, we can't paint unless we want to lose our security deposit. No, thank you!
I begin researching alternatives by googling "pretty sticky stuff for decorating cabinets" (no joke), but to no avail. Thankfully, Meredith came along, and showed me the light - contact paper, she said. Use contact paper.
So I did. Here's our cabinets before:
And here's our cabinets after:
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| While not the prettiest or most color-coordinated kitchen, I love the hodge-podge look. |
All it took in-between was a few dollars spent on Amazon, a ruler, a box cutter and a Spencer to measure and cut that paper in a straight line because an Erica sure can't do that (seriously, I can't).
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| Couldn't have done it without him. |
The quickest, cheapest and easiest DIY turned my cabinets from something I loathed to something I love.
Bless you, Meredith, and bless you, contact paper.
Ooh, and that's fun patterned contact paper! Love it!
ReplyDeleteIt looks great! My kind of kitchen.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree! Contact paper is some great stuff! In our apartment, we have a bar, so the last cabinet had this weird white end to it. I covered it with chalkboard contact paper and now that's where I write my menu every week! The only thing I might have done differently in your case it to extend the contact paper upwards on the larger cabinets to line up with where the paper ends on the smaller cabinets for the sake of symmetry. But great pattern and an instant uplift, regardless!
ReplyDeleteOh nice! I have a chalkboard where I write the menu too, and I love it. I actually like the asymmetrical line. Spencer asked if I wanted it to be straight across, and I said, nope. But a great idea nonetheless - so thanks!
DeleteI LOVE it! So cute
ReplyDeleteWe used some granite-looking contact paper on all of our countertops in our old apartment (all meaning the 12 square feet we had total...) and it helped out SO much. I never thought to use contact paper on cabinets though. And the chalkboard contact paper idea? Brilliant!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea!! Oh, the possibilities!
ReplyDeleteYou have CUPBOARDS in your kitchen? Lucky stinker!
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