From Traditional To Beach Chic
$250
8 Hours
Easy
Our new house needed a kitchen "place"-lift.
After
We just moved to Florida from up north. I wanted our new home to be light and airy. I used Coastal Colors "Steel My Heart" "Summers Fog" "AHA" "Sea Spray" and "Rachael". I love the travel/Davey Joans Locker/Tommy Bahama Look, but I also like to change up color frequently. So with these tones it alows me to add pops of any color I feel...teal, coral, blue...even yellow.
Before
When we moved into the house it was very dark and traditional. I had enough of that up north and need a lighter feeling. The cabinets were in poor shape and afer we sell our house up north we will do a whole new kitchen, but this was a fun quick fix. Since I do this for a living it was easy and I had all the supplies. The counters were faux granite and easy to paint over with Coastal Colors Beach Chic Paint and their sealer Liquid Steel. I wanted the center island to pop out as a separate piece of furniture. (notice the pantry doors on left)
Voila! My Coastal Colors Kitchen. The back splash I just followed the pattern that was there with different shades of the Coastal Colors "gray-ieges" and sanded and sealed with Liquid Steel. Added my touch of art work on the top.
The center island now looks like a vintage server I may have picked up on the side of the road. A change of knobs really topped it off. She looks like she'd been sitting in an old ship.
I took the boring button knobs off pantry door and created these and hung twine tassels and seashells.
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Good for you...life is our canvas...please keep plenty of photos for After your new kitchen goes in....it will be interesting to see what you do next! MAC
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I love it we are moving from the north in a few years to the beach and thats how we plan on decorating... beachy not everyone things but from snow to sand means a complete new style love love the octopus !!!!!
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