How To Decorate Generic Apartment Kitchens
by
Brenda @ Cozy Little House
(IC: blogger)
I moved into this four-plex in April 2014. In just over a year, I had redone the kitchen twice. Two totally different looks.
This is how it looked before I started below. I had a problem. There were no hook-ups for a washer/dryer, and I really wanted to have that. So I had them come get my stove, that you see below, and I ordered a European-style washer/dryer in one unit. Not stacked. In one unit. I ordered it from Austin. You hook a hose up to your sink to get water.
I moved the refrigerator to where the stove once was, and slid the new washer/dryer into the refrigerator's old space, so that it would be closer to the sink.
This is how it looked before I started below. I had a problem. There were no hook-ups for a washer/dryer, and I really wanted to have that. So I had them come get my stove, that you see below, and I ordered a European-style washer/dryer in one unit. Not stacked. In one unit. I ordered it from Austin. You hook a hose up to your sink to get water.
I moved the refrigerator to where the stove once was, and slid the new washer/dryer into the refrigerator's old space, so that it would be closer to the sink.
I took the cabinet doors off, because I wanted an open look. And I started painting everything.
Here you see the washer/dryer in one. I had not yet painted the kitchen island white.
Since I no longer had an oven, I had to find ways to cook food. I purchased a Breville Smart oven, which had fantastic reviews. It has a convection option, so you can cook a casserole, a cake, pretty much anything.
This was my first kitchen redo. I used black contact paper to cover the counters. And black and white checked contact paper on the dishwasher (that I do not use) and for the back splash.
Now to Decorating Kitchen Update
I grew weary of that look. The cabinet doors went back on because there was just too much going on. And the black contact paper was getting scratched up. The black and white checked contact paper was coming down.
Here's another angle. The chickens are also decals I received in exchange for a review from another place.
I painted the $40 butcher block island I found at an antique mall white.
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Published January 27th, 2016 12:45 PM
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Kathy Thornton on Sep 18, 2018
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Seriously, what kind of an apartment do you live in? The apartment places where I have lived would NEVER ALLOW the kind of changes that you have made. NONE of them, you could get evicted. No washers and dryers allowed, not compact, nothing. Your suggestions are completely unachievable for most rental apartment properties.