Love your Kitchen Week Recap

"Love your Kitchen Week" turned into Love your Kitchen Month. Our kitchen has had a lot of changes.

First: A deep cleaning.

Second: New Paint. We had our whole apartment professionally painted (paid by our landlord). It is amazing how paint can even make your furniture look good. Our house feels clean and fresh. The biggest transformation was in the kitchen. The ceiling, cupboards and walls used to be a light blue. The ceiling and cupboards are now white and the walls are an off white. We are happy that the blue is gone.

Third: I put new contact paper in almost all of the cupboards. Who knew that this would take FOREVER?!!! There used to be a blue floral pattern from the early 80s. Now it looks so clean and bright in there.

Note the clean, white contact paper, NOT all the pots and pans shoved into a tiny cupboard.



Last and definitely not least: Our new kitchen table. We should have taken a before picture. We got this table from Justin's parents. It was a neighbor's craft table. Justin sanded off all the craft paint. He used polyurethane for the table top and and antique white on the legs. Justin did an awesome job. Now we just need more chairs.

Love your Kitchen Week

This picture of my kitchen was taken last November. It looks pretty much the same right now, except dirtier.

I am declaring this week LOVE YOUR KITCHEN WEEK. My kitchen is in desperate need for love. I'm not talking about doing the dishes or wiping down the counters, although that might be a good place to start. I am talking about cleaning out the fridge, taking things out of the cupboards and wiping them down (I might even replace the 80's contact paper), and maybe even cleaning my oven. GASP! Okay I will probably not clean my oven because I refuse. But if you would like to join me please do. I'm starting today and will be done by Friday. Because I don't want to clean on the weekend.

***Update: Last Tuesday I cleaned out my fridge. It looked better than ever. On Wednesday I looked in there and a root beer bottle on the top shelf got to close to where the cold air comes out and broke open. Root beer is on every single shelf and pooled at the bottom of the fridge. I felt so discouraged that I was going to have to take everything out and clean it all again that I actually made NO progress in my kitchen last week. So I guess I should get on it this week.