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The Great Kitchen Update!

Submitted by White House, Black Shutters

Since the kitchen is the heart of our home, we renovated the roombefore we moved in by:

removing a cabinet and added a dishwasher
removing the double oven and replaced it with that cabinet
painting the existing cabinets white
painting the existing knobs and hinges with oil-rubbed bronze spray paint
spray painting and installing a new light fixture
painting the room

After we moved in, we:

added new countertops to the kitchen
sold our green fridge and replaced it with a white one
painted the trim around the window white

Here’s the opposite side of the room where we removed the double oven, replaced it with the cabinet, and added new countertops. We also started painting the stairway for a future project.

Here’s the view of the whole room!

Total Cost? $229!

· Rustoleum spray paint in oil rubbed bronze, $5
· paint for walls and cabinets, $15
· Kilz Primer, $10
· Granite-look laminate Countertop: $130 at Menards
· Delta Faucet, new in an unopened box labeled 'as-is', $50
Hookups for the dishwasher, $10
· Light fixture, found on freecycle, painted ORB, free.
· Fridge, given to use by family, free
· Dishwasher, given to us by family, free.
· Hinges and knobs, existing, painted ORB, free.
· Rugs, new from Target but found at Goodwill, $9

· Labor, free! We did everything!

In the future, we’d like to:

replace the laminate tile with wood floors
paint the remainder of the trim in this room
paint the door in this room
paint the walls and above the cabinets a shade that is similar to the color of the tiles on the backsplash
replace hinges with new and add glass knobs

I haven’t posted on our kitchen in a while, but doing so makes me so excited. I love the transformation and can’t believe the difference between the two!

This project was contributed by one of our fabulous readers! We love to share your projects with this great blogging community. So, if you have projects from kitchen renovation ideas to small bathroom remodels, overhauled and repurposed furniture, spray paint updates you name it please send it in! Thanks for reading Remodelaholic!

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Budget Friendly Kitchen Remodel by Ritajoy

Thank you, Cassity, for inviting me to do a guest post on your {amazing!} blog. I feel incredibly honoured…
I’m Ritajoy and my blog home is Harbour Breeze.

I’m a wife and mom, and am so blessed to be living and working at a camp on the West Coast of British Columbia, Canada. After spending all my growing up years on the prairies of Montana, the waterfront view out my kitchen window still takes my breath away.
One of my passions in life is creating “home” out of a house…and doing so on a very tight budget!:) That is the subject of most of my blogs…{with a little sprinkling of family, recipes, and photography, too}.
Our latest reno venture was our kitchen. As with any project I start, the changes were prompted for some specific reasons:
1. I’m short!~ I could only reach the bottom shelf of my (hung too high) upper cupboards. It seemed a shame to have all that “prime real estate” in the cupboards unused most of the time!

2. The whole look of the kitchen didn’t fit in with the charm of this old, historical house. (And it wasn’t really my style, either…)

I pulled $100 out of the air as my personal budget challenge. The entire amount was spent on the first trip to Home Depot. Yikes!…
It turned out to be the best thing ever. It helped me to “think outside the box” and use things that I already had sitting around…
An old window and repainted dresser turned into our message center:

Curtains made out of painter’s drop cloth became “cupboard doors” for some thrift store cabinets. (And I love them so much I don’t think I want doors anymore!)