After much deliberation, I decided to tackle the cleaning and painting the kitchen as my first home project. Cleaning and painting the cabinets and walls will allow me to move all my dishes and pantry items directly from the old kitchen to the new one.
The kitchen is a lovely shade of dusty pink. The shade covers the walls and cabinets, inside and out. The floor is the original 1952 linoleum. The ceiling is the same planked wood that is throughout the original house. The ceiling also has a skylight.
The kitchen layout is a little funky and will be a major project sometime in the future, but for now just painting everything a neutral white will suffice.
Here’s a little drawing (not to scale) of the current layout.
Other design elements of note in the kitchen:
There are mustard yellow curtains above the stove. Yes, above the stove. I have decided to call them “fire starters” because (pardon the gross-out factor) they are covered with years and years of oil and grime. I am amazed the previous owner did not start a grease fire. Seriously. They are absolutely disgusting. I was so excited to get rid of them.
The full wall of cabinets has a fold out table attached. You use the bottom cabinets as the “legs” of the table. Its cute, but its going to go.
The passage way to the dining area has a build in lattice partition. Also charming, but will be taken out.
