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DIY Kitchen makeover reveal

I am SUPER excited to share my DIY kitchen makeover today. The kitchen is definitely one of my favorite rooms in my house. I’m so happy with how it all came together.

Here’s a pic of the before so you can get an idea of how it looked when we moved in. We have done A LOT!! Amazing difference, right?!

Last year we got the granite counter tops, painted our cabinets and added crown molding (tutorial here). We also just finished the subway tile back splash. I am in LOVE with it!

Let’s take a tour shall we? 🙂

DIY Kitchen Makeover

kitchen sign

Here’s the “Eat more cake” sign I made from an old cupboard door.

These are my cute flour and sugar jars. I found these jars at a thrift store and attached chalkboard labels to the front of them to dress them up.

I LOVE green apples, so I thought it would be fun to display them in this bowl I got from my wedding. The bowl had been sitting in my garage and it now works great as my fruit bowl.

I also have some mini red apples displayed in this piece I found at a thrift store. I spray painted it blue and then distressed it to bring some color into my kitchen.

I had the hardest time getting a good picture of this window with the light flare, but I love this spot the most. I made the basket light fixture and curtains which give my kitchen a unique look. I will be posting the tutorial for those curtains next week.

I found this plant at Ikea and love the pop of color it adds to my windowsill…especially for FIVE bucks!

I’m also loving my new stainless steal appliances and cute little bird salt and pepper shakers. I found those at Pier One. How cute are they?!

Limes are so pretty aren’t they?!

I thought it would be fun to display my soaps on a cake stand. I have way too many cake stands… but can you ever really have enough? 😉  I love the look it adds to my kitchen!

Fresh lemonade anyone? 🙂

So what do you think?! Thanks for reading! Have a great weekend!

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  1. You win my cutest curtains award! and I love that the fleurs are black! The kitchen is beautiful!
    –Katie

  2. Your kitchen is gorgeous! You really did an amazing job with all of the little details. It has all come together just perfectly.

    1. haha we totally are! Love those little birdies! When I saw you post your subway tile tutorial I didn’t even bother posting mine… yours was fabulous! Great minds think alike. 😉

  3. It’s just beautiful! Trying to convince my husband that we should paint our cabinets but he’s afraid they’ll look ‘painted’ (as in brush strokes, I think). Any times for how to get them to look professional? I saw a new product at Lowe’s for kitchen cabinets (I think it’s a type of varnish that allows you to deepen the wood color) and didn’t know if you used something similar? Love the crown molding too!

    1. I used a paint sprayer which I definitely recommend.. but I have heard good things about the cabinet transformation paint. If you sand your cupboards before and do thin coats in between you want get any marks. It’s definitely worth investing in a paint sprayer or borrowing one. Saves time too! 🙂

  4. Looks great! I think some fake cakes are in order for the cake stands above your cabinets. Could be a cute project. Maybe use a round cardboard box and cover it with polyurethane sealant as the icing?

    1. Hi Janine! Sadly I forgot to take pictures, but all I did was clean it off and give it two coats of Robin Egg Blue spray paint. Then I used 80 grit sand paper and lightly went over the edges to give it the distressed look. I’ll try and post a tutorial with another piece soon. You can also check out this post with distressing tips: http://www.iheartnaptime.net/chalk-paint/

  5. Oh my goodness!! I love every.single.detail! My kitchen looks a lot like your old one, and this has inspired me to start thinking (ha! gotta take it slow!) about how to redo it. Thanks for all the tutorials!

  6. Your kitchen redo is very nice great job. I love your eat more cake sign it is very cute.
    Did you get the chalk board labels at Lowes? I can’t seem to find them anywhere.

  7. I love this! I am looking for other decorating ideas for our newly remodeled kitchen! I need to get another cake stand for that look! Love all the color with the displays of fruit too.

  8. Did you paint the inside of the cabinets and drawers? Did you use a brush or spray? What color is that? It looks great! So fresh and updated.
    Thx!

  9. Your kitchen looks fabulous!! I love every single detail! You are amazing. Did you get your drawer pulls from Lowes, specifically the decorative ones on the drawers beneath your sink? Thank you!!

  10. oh my gosh, i love EVERYTHING about your kitchen upgrades! could you tell me where you got your kitchen knobs & what finish they are?? thanks!!

  11. Did you add the board and batten (is that what it’s called?) to the wrap around counter?

  12. I want to update my kitchen and it is exactly the shape of yours. If you don’t mInd me askIng whIch brand cabInets.are those and how much did your cabinets cost?

  13. Can you include the cost when you post a project. I just feel any project can be incredible but an incredible project on a poverty budget speaks volumes….

  14. Love it! where did you put/is your fridge?!?! My kitchen looks just like this – but we have the fridge where the island/outreach is and would love to add that – can’t figure out where to put the fridge!!

  15. my kitchen lay out is like yours, and i’ve been wanting to paint my cabinets too. Mine are laminate Not real wood, I wonder if they’d paint up nice like yours?

  16. Where is your fridge located out of curiosity. Our kitchen is set up similar, and are looking to re-do our kitchen- we do not have the peninsula but want to add one OR a larger island and just trying to figure out what would work best. Thanks.
    It looks beautiful!

      1. Hi! Just about to do our kitchen and your cabinets/counters/appliances are very similar to what we want. AND your tile floors are exactly like what we currently have. We don’t love them and thought we would have to change the floors to make the rest of the kitchen come together, but seeing it in your kitchen looks pretty good! Did you consider putting down new floors? Are you happy w/ the floors? Thanks!

        1. Hi Holly! We no longer live in that house, but we were happy with the floors. I think I would have liked a darker woodlike tile or flooring better, but it worked for what we had money for at the time! 🙂

  17. I know this post is from forever ago, but I finally found the time to do my kitchen and wondered where you got the little decorative black pieces on the drawers under the sink, I love them!! Thanks so much!

  18. Did you post a tutorial for those curtains? I love them but am new to sewing and need guidance 🙂 If there is no tutorial, a brief explanation including the size of window, size of fabric pieces and any other helpful hints would be great! Thanks!

  19. I would love to see more pics of your beautiful kitchen! My kitchen is the exact same layout and almost exactly the same design I would like! 

  20. I’m in Gilbert, AZ and we live in the same house!  I almost fell over when I saw this 🙂  It looks amazing!!  

  21. What type of paint did you use on the cabinets, the paint store I went to recommended an oil based paint, but I don’t want to have to wait several a days in Between coats, if possible? Thank you! 

  22. I love your kitchen!  Whatis the brand and. Color of your paint?  We are redoing our kitchen in a couple of weeks and I still haven’t picked my colors??

    1. I got the paint at Lowes — I don’t recall the brand — and the color was called Sandy. 🙂

      I love painting samples on every wall, each about the size of a poster. That way you can see how the light changes throughout the day without committing to the whole room just yet. 🙂

  23. Was it hard going from a regular hood to an over the range microwave? We are thinking about doing the same and have no idea how to do it lol