Kitchen Dreaming Like A Mouse

I could spend hours looking at pictures of beautiful kitchens. 

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I love this one for so many reasons from the antique chandy to the toile curtains.

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This one has slightly distressed antique white cabinets and a custom range hood.

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A beautiful blue island.

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Have you noticed any similarities in these kitchens? They are all light and bright and airy. I have been longing to brighten up our kitchen. If you have been following me for sometime you may have realized I do not really share pics of our kitchen. 

Alot of people may call me crazy but I have been begging The Hubster to agree to my painting the cabinets.

Our kitchen is not very big and to me it is very dark.

We have the dark cabinets and Baltic Brown Granite. Last year we priced changing out the granite and it would have been well over $7,000 for just basic lighter granite. We are too practical and could not justify cahnging out perfectly fine granite at that price tag. 3 years ago I painted our kitchen SW Camelback which did not help with the whole cave factor so earlier this week I decided to repaint the walls as you may be able to tell from this pic. There are several testers going on in here!;) 

While trying to choose a new paint color to my surprise The Hubster asked me what color I wanted to paint the cabinets. I was in shock!;) Well one thing led to another pretty much like those "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie" books. New wall paint and the idea of painting the cabinets led to a trip to the tile store just to browse. 

We ended up coming home with new tile for our backsplash! This was so not in my plans when I had decided to repaint the walls.

The Hubster agreed the backsplash needed to come down.  It was not anything special. Just our floor tile set on a diagonal. 

Within 24 hours of The Hubster agreeing to the cabinet painting we had demolished our backsplash. Thankfully it came down fairly easily and we did not have to replace any sheet rock.

This adventure has been rather interesting. Our plans evolve and change daily. We do not really know what we will end up with. All I do know is that it will be much brighter in here! After several other plans we ended up with this design for behind our cooktop.

In the last three days we have been going non stop and I can not wait to share our makeover with y'all. The tile is 75% up as of right now. By the end of the weekend I hope to have it all up to share with ya on Monday. We have some other major changes as well planned for in here so stay tuned!;)

Hope everybody is having a great weekend! Thanx for stopping by.

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Write by: AN - Saturday, March 16, 2013