As you may know, I love to makeover our kitchen with paint. This, I believe, is the 7th time I’ve given our kitchen a makeover. To see all of the different looks, search “KITCHEN” here on the blog. These cabinets have been painted; red, dark blue-grey, shamrock green, cream, and white, and the walls have been painted several different colors as well. I think it’s fun to totally change up our home with paint, and dare I say, this newest look in our kitchen may just be my favorite one yet.
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If you missed my last kitchen blog post, then you can catch up HERE. This is where I shared how I Stripped off 4 layers of paint and Gel-Stained this wood stove mount. It too has been painted in several different colors over the years, but with 3 bottles of paint stripper and a whole lot of work, I was able to make it wood again.
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The finished stove mount isn’t perfect and for some reason it looks a little more blotchy here on camera than how it looks in person, but I have to say, I really like it! I think the dark wood is so beautiful and adds so much warmth to our kitchen.
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After I was finished with this wood stove mount project, I knew I wanted to paint the cabinets back to all white to add a pretty contrast against the dark wood and to lighten up our kitchen. The white paint I used was Valspar – Ultra White in a Satin finish. This is the color straight from the can, I didn’t even have to get it tinted. If you are wanting the brightest white possible, buy it straight from the can. This is how I always buy my white paint. I’ve used several different brands of paint too, and they all have the same bright white that I love.
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Our kitchen is on the west side of our home which makes it kind of a dark room. I was hoping for a sunny day when I took these pictures, but it’s been pretty gloomy here lately and I was too anxious to share this room with you so I did my best. This is another reason why I’m happy I decided to go with white cabinets, to lighten the room up a bit more.
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As you can see from the above picture, I also got some new curtains for this room. I picked out some long ones for the nook area and then some valances for the window above the sink. I am in love with these curtains and I feel like they add so much charm to our kitchen.
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I ordered two of THESE Valances for our kitchen window. These are a linen-Polyester blend in grey and they have a pretty leaf print on them which feel very tropical to me. Even though these valances are made to go on an individual window, I felt like I could get two of them and make them work for our 3 pane window and I think they turned out great!
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I chose valances for these windows because I really love my blinds. Our view out these windows is nothing pretty to look at, and so I like the option to adjust the blinds to let in as much or as little light and view as I wish. The valances just add a pretty touch so the window coverings are not just straight up blinds. Also, I have the option to pull the blinds completely up and hide them away under the valances.
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These valances are such a good price too and I’m really happy with them.
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I am equally in love with THESE matching curtains that I have hanging in this nook area of our kitchen. Arn’t they so pretty? I just blogged about this space not too long ago (Seen Here) because I wanted to share my new Pineapple curtain rod that my husband gifted me for my birthday, but at that time, I just had a piece of fabric hanging, which was cute, but these curtains are wayyy better!
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These curtains are also the Linen- Polyester blend in the Gray leaf pattern. They are a semi-sheer which allows so much light to come in (which is so welcomed in this kitchen) but they still give the windows enough privacy coverage. They are also a great price and you get two panels for that price.
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Something else I love about these curtains is that they have a couple of options of how to hang them. I chose to hang them using the tabs, but you could also hang them through the rod pocket or by clips.
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This pattern comes in several other colors as well, but I thought the gray would be a good neutral choice for me, especially if I decide to re-paint down the road, because let’s face it, I probably will. 😉 But for right now, I’m in love with this green on our walls. This green color is called Caldwell Green by Benjamin Moore.
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This green color on our walls feels so tropical to me and so I like how the leaf print in the curtains just adds to the look. You’ll notice the fabric that I covered our kitchen stools in also has a tropical look to them. I actually picked up that fabric in Hawaii.
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I don’t “decorate” much in our kitchen, but I did bring in some plants, and this faux palm frond. Otherwise, everything on our counters are things we use everyday.
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I’ve also made over the hardware on our cabinets and drawers using Silver Rub n Buff. I may write a blog post about it because I like how they turned out. It was my first time using Rub n Buff and now I’m looking for another project to use it on because I liked it so much.
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And then on this other side of the room, I added some wire baskets for all of our catch-all items, like bills, keys, phones, etc. and then I hung my palm tree picture on the wall in here to continue with the tropical theme.
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So what do you think of my Tropical Cottage Kitchen? or maybe I should refer to it as Tropicottage Style. Ha, I like that!
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