Katherine Thewlis did not let being a renter cease her from tackling the kitchen in her 1,200-square-foot Johnson Metropolis, Tennessee, dwelling final fall. The e-designer and blogger was greater than able to say goodbye to many options inside the house, which included what she known as an Easter egg yellow hue, wooden paneling, and linoleum flooring. Nevertheless, provided that she would not have the ability to tackle a significant renovation, Katherine needed to get artistic. She wanted to maintain the kitchen’s authentic flat panel cupboards intact for storage functions however did give them a significant facelift. “I sanded and repainted them myself to match the wall paint coloration,” she says. “I needed it to have a built-in look. I bought some two-inch wooden balls as the cupboard knobs, which I painted to match the doorways.”
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Typically it is love at first sight with actual property, and that was very a lot the case for blogger and creator Melissa Coleman of the Fake Martha. When her husband noticed the Nineteen Seventies Minnesota A-frame on-line, they made a beeline for the property with their five-year-old in tow. They put in a proposal on the way in which dwelling and, Melissa satisfyingly acknowledges, “the remaining is historical past.” Minimize to a plumbing challenge, which discovered Melissa and her husband opting to barely bump out the kitchen to accommodate extra folks, add counter seating, and convey the fabric and colours updated whereas nonetheless paying homage to the kitchen’s authentic quaint roots. The colour palette was impressed by nature or, alternately, as Melissa half-jokingly notes, “that inspiration may be attributed to the neon inexperienced shag carpet that when lined the primary ground.” Although the colour of the painted kitchen cupboards grew to become a little bit of a saga, it was nicely price it.
