Built-Ins

Remember when we took ALL that wallpaper down after we bought the house back in March?? Well we have painted all the walls with a neutral color. YAY! We really like the built-ins upstairs, but it was all just so blah.  Here is a before picture (with the previous owner's stuff still in the shelves):

In all of its yellow glory!...

And after! (I had to shut the door because of the mess in the other side..)

 

Here is a full view

 

Brent put a fresh coat of white paint all over the wood and I painted the back the blue color.  We really like the way it makes the hand-made built-ins look a little bit newer (and cleaner)!

Super Easy Upgrade

Easy!! Yay!! Our house was built in 1966 and has a lot of 1960's quirks.  Our kitchen cabinets are hand-made, built-on-site cabinets, and they are definitely not perfect, but we are not planning on ripping them out any time soon.  We have heard the whole wall would probably come with them cause they're not simply nailed. SOO we have done a few things to try to make them livable.  The cornice over the kitchen sink was so incredibly dated, something HAD to be done.  Here it is before:

 

So country and old.  I decided that, since our cabinets have a lot of paneling anyway, maybe we could just cover it up with some plywood.  We went to Home Depot and bought some for about $4.

After some paint and a few nails, this is what the window looks like:

I'm so glad you can't see the top of the curtain anymore, and I think it looks so much less dated! What do you think??