Kitchen Remake Over Take Two

So most women seven months pregnant would be decorating a nursery about now if they haven't already done so. Since that would be my room, I had to focus my attention elsewheres. My mother-in-law has been painting her house and I tricked her into helping me paint my kitchen. The so-sad-she-is-pregnant-and-helpless-and-can't-do-anything really works so I better take advantage of it while I can. Last Thursday I cleared out the Coke stuff and taped it up. Now I have a red kitchen without any sign of Coke in it! Ahh!

Before:

After:

Now to decorate!

Thanks Sharon for helping me paint!

Tip: When your mother-in-law comes to help you paint. Make sure to pull out the fridge before hand and clean under it. Eeeww! So gross and a little embarrassing too!

Saturday Project

If you haven't heard already I am so sick of my kitchen decor. Everyone thinks that I love Coke when they see it. It was always supposed to be a fifties kitchen, you know with the cute checkered black and white tile, but instead it ended up looking like a Coke museum. I can't even tell you when the last time I actually drank a Coke. I mean, I have been pregnant/nursing/pregnant for almost two years so no caffeine has entered this body in that time. When it really comes down to it I actually prefer Pepsi to Coke anyway. I know it is going to be a long process since our budget doesn't exactly have a fund for a kitchen make-over right now {someday . . .maybe}.

Today I took my first step to changing my kitchen/dinning room. My project for the day was to recover my kitchen table chairs. This week I found fabric that matches my decor {hopefully not too matchy-matchy} and bought a new heavy duty stapler since mine went MIA and I was in business.

I love this table. It used to belong to my Grandma Knudsen. My family ate lots of KFC and played many different card games around this table. When I moved here to Vegas I inherited it, old green cushions and all. I wish I would have taken a picture back then. I updated it by painting it black and changed the seat cushions. Well the cushions were screaming Coke kitchen to me lately so I decided to pull an HGTV makeover.

Before:
{if you can't remember {Ugh. . .}}:

After :

{Ahh. . .}