My boring kitchen is due for a make over...asking for some ideas
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Hi, I have helped all my friends decorate their homes! My advice is to go with neutral walls, and use accessories for color. Here is why: you have waited a very long time to redo your kitchen. Don't get in a hurry. You can make decisions in layers. I love the idea of the lighter wall color for your paneling, because you will use this area so much, and it is bright and cheerful! Colors like blue, you can incorporate, later as accents after the walls, back splash, counters are done. I wouldn't do a design on your table top. But I like the suggestion of the dining table, black legs, dark top, or black legs, with a medium stained top, with no painted design to match your area rug. Simply because you will tire of the painted design in a year or two. Or, wait and do your table painting, staining for last, leave it as is for a while, while your room develops. You will need the table top anyway for a work top space for your projects. I like the white legs of your table as is, with the lighter top.
As your project evolves, your tastes and ideas will adjust and change. So, you also could make either a hand-painted on cloth art piece or on foam core to frame, a "look a like" squares from your rug. The squares could be smaller, or you could do a wall hanging with burlap as a background, and then find cloth remnants in the blue square you like. You could hang it on a dowel, with brown twine. (Available at dollar stores.)
You could shop thrift shops, for a tray w/handles: If you want to do your rug design, you could paint it inside the tray for your table! It could serve the same purpose, but not be permanent, and later, you could always paint the tray differently, or hang it on the wall with your square design feature.
You are making great choices! Take your time! Happy Decorating!!! Have lots of fun and don't stress.
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