Our Kitchen BEFORE & AFTER

Kitchen Island Before - A lot of the kitchen was brown...brown cabinets, brown floor, brown table, etc. It needed some color.
Breakfast Area Before - There was a floral border along the entire kitchen. Ick! And the walls were all yellow with the chair rail.
More of the Kitchen Before....
Here is the Island while I was painting. You can see I also painted the upper part of the chair rail green. Already the color is improving things...

The Kitchen AFTER
Painted the island red and the strip over the cabinets. Painted the upper chair rail green and painted where the border was the same as the yellow below. Added a new light fixture over the island and bought some new fabric and covered the curtains that were there.

The updated breakfast area...new curtains, new wall hangings.

And new floor. We had the parkay floors in the kitchen too. Again, I was stressing over putting down the duracermic we had in our old house or going vinyl. They make some really nice tile looking vinyl now so we went that route. I like it so that's all that matters, right. :)

Next to do is the back splash...glass tiles from kopperwood. :)