Revamping a Kitchen on a Budget With Pops of Lime
Lime green always reminds me of spring. It symbolizes rebirth and renewal and I really wanted to use it to add some fun accessories and color to our newly renovated kitchen.
Before the revamp the kitchen in our tiny little holiday home was was dark and dingy and and it looked even smaller than it actually was.
The bottom kitchen cabinets were badly water damaged in some places and while I would have loved to save them it just wasn't feasible so we had to rip them out. That floor also had to go unfortunately. Every time someone walked in the door, I'd find myself sweeping to try get rid of dusty foot prints. This is our holiday home for goodness sake!! Funny thing, when you start ripping things out you just can't stop, so we took everything out and started again.
The kitchen units are gone and the tiles are out and it already looks lighter :-) To make the room look larger, we chose a neutral color palette of white, grey and black. We replaced those dark cupboards with white melamine cupboards that we covered in wallpaper and put rubberized open shelving at the top. Best decision ever. Those rubberized shelves should last us a lifetime down at the coast and they are so easy to clean.
Adding some lime green accessories took our kitchen from dark and dingy to crisp, fresh and oh so funky.
All in all the revamp cost us under a R 10 000 (about $ 700) and it was worth every cent, especially if you compare the before and after. What do you think? Does it work?
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