Here are a few photos of my "design on a dime" kitchen makeover. It's a work in progress. I hated my builder-grade, orange oak cabinets from the 1990s, so I painted over them, and added some Ikea handles. I plan to change the backsplash to something more modern soon, and tweak things here and there. It would be nice to have some under-cabinet lighting. This entire "reno" cost a few hundred dollars. It's definitely worth it if you want to give your oak kitchen an easy update.
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After 20 years it was time to move out or make the home we love match our vision for our current lifestyle. 5 Months later we're almost there. We added 300 sf opened the kitchen to the family room and added an outdoor living room.
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Whenever I would tear kitchen pictures out of a magazine the cabinets would be white. We redid this kitchen for a fraction of what it could have cost to get my dream kitchen. The cabinets are oak and were professionally painted and glazed..for 1/5 the cost of replacing them. All appliances replaced added the backsplash and the fabric for the window treatments topped off my new kitchen...literally! The last picture is the "before".
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Our 14 year old worn and yellowed but structurally sound oak cabinets got a facelift. The space feels larger and much, much brighter! We used rustoleum kitchen transformations in linen, unglazed and espresso, glazed. The project took us 8 weeks. Still have floor to do but so happy the cabinets are done!
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While looking at spaces, I came across alletasdesign, who recently painted and glazed her cabinets. I've been wanting to do this for a couple of years and just didn't have the guts until I saw hers. My cabinets are nice oak cabinets but they are 20 years old and I can't afford a new kitchen so I decided toI paint my cabinets too. I put in new formica countertops (can't afford others and installed a travertine backsplash. The backsplash didn't come back to it's natural color which is a little disappointing but I'll have to live with it. I also painted my barstools because the oak color just didn't match. They are a little light in the picture because of the flash. I added a few minor updates to the cabinets, added some posts to the island, purchased hardware on the internet, purchased a new cooktop and voila, I have a new kitchen for a fraction of the cost.
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Today i changed a few things in my kitchen. I added the word "revised" to the things i changed. I hope everyone takes a look cause i do value the imput. We repainted the inside of our home last week. This is still a work in progress. I am looking to find a few accent things with red tones to add some color and accesorize. Yellow was my least favorite color but i love it now. I wanted a cheery kitchen.
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This kitchen slowly evolved from a dark, banged up mess to updated, but still too dark and finally light and much brighter cleaner feel. The before pictures are mid-way. We do not have any before pictures of the kitchen when it was still very banged up with kitchen carpet on the floors and cabinet doors that had seen much better days.
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It took about 4 months to complete my kitchen. I paint all the oak cabinets myself and had new Ivory Sukuri granite countertops installed. I wanted something different so I picked a grayish cabinet paint color by Benjamin Moore -1550 - Cumulus Cloud. My husband installed the backsplash and new appliances. Overall, we LOVE our new kitchen!
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I painted my oak kitchen cabinets with fresh white paint, added a tile back splash, granite counter tops and a warm wall color. My kitchen cabinets look fresh and new!
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New tile floor and back-splash, new stainless steel sink and accessories. Love red and teal, but hate the colour of the cabinets! Need help with cabinet colour and what style of handles. Will eventually get new stainless steel dishwasher, fridge and stove.
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Very small budget. We did almost all the work ourselves, including design and building the barstool, table/chairs and bench. We painted existing cabinets and added new cabinets and quartz countertops (no granite!! with wine rack for extra space and storage. It's part of an overall total house remodel, so we maintained the exposed, stained concrete floors throughout (very easy to clean. Cheerful, Earthtone colors with accent match the rest of the house. We just wanted it to look less "Kitcheny".
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I wanted a big farmhouse kitchen on a little budget. I saved by using open shelving on beadboard paneling instead of upper cabinets low cost industrial lighting on the ceiling plain white appliances #2 oak flooring inexpensive formica counter tops and lots of creativity. I added some yard sale finds including a big old glass door hutch and a center island that was an old hardware store counter. I got every thing I wanted and was able to do the whole kitchen for under $10K. My specialty is doing re-designs on tiny budgets. To see more check out my blog
It took a long time to find just the right color yellow for my condo redo-"clarified butter"-but now I need YOUR help going from here! Looks like too much yellow/white-I'd like to stay with warm pinks terra cotta and oranges to accent. Any ideas on countertops window treatment lights cabinet changes? Oh did I mention a LIMITED BUDGET!?
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As some of you may recall, we purchased our house last summer & I posed original photos of our kitchen last fall because we hated our yellow oak cabinets, outdated floor, and well, pretty much everything in the kitchen except for the good lay-out. Oh yeah, and we also had this very odd cut-out where our fridge was so we finally came up with a solution for that. So, here you go...these are our updates so far & obviously there is still work to be done but let me know what you think so far. Still need new counters, stainless steel appliances, new lighting, pantry door, trim, and some barstools and dining furniture.
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