New Kitchen!

So I know I have a lot to catch up on blogging. But those posts about Christmas and Tess' birthday, etc. are going to have to wait for now, because I want to share some in progress pictures of my new kitchen!!

For those of you that don't know, my kitchen has white cabinets, white tile floors, and blue walls with a yellow accent wall and yellow trim (not my color scheme - the way it was when we bought it). For a long time I've wanted to paint my kitchen a green to show off the cabinets, etc. and it needed some serious painting to update it! My whole kitchen is dusty and grimy - literally, and gross. It is now the cleanest it has probably ever been!!

So for Christmas this year, my mother-in-law and husband gave me an awesome gift! They were going to pay for me to have a new kitchen, but not only that, they were going to do the work too! Verlyn, my father-in-law, is a handy man and can do many home improvement projects very well, and is great at painting, and so is my mother-in-law. They do lots of stuff to their house themselves all the time.

So we went to Menards and I picked out the green I wanted (after first picking out the green I really ended up hating, so good thing Menards returns paint already tinted). And I picked out tile for a backsplash that they were going to install also. So the painting is done, except the back door and the tile is up on one wall, minus the grout. But here are some before pictures (but after they started filling in holes) and some in progress pictures. The green IS a vibrant and bold green but it's not as bright as the pictures make it seem. Plus the paint was still fresh, so it wasn't darkened up like it is now. I LOVE it! Can't wait for them to finish it tomorrow.

Testing out the paint color - but this is the before picture of my window walls.

Before picture of looking down the stairs and the back door.

Before picture of my refrigerator and stove wall

Before picture of the counter and wall behind the counter and sink.

Before picture of behind the oven and counters

A HILARIOUS attempt at a picture of our gift giver and me. This picture CRACKS me up!

2nd attempt - again this picture CRACKS me up, cause I look like a giant and she a midget. ha ha.

There we go - 3rd times a charm. Me with my mother-in-law and gift giver, Holly.

The decorative glass tiles that will be mixed in with the other white tiles....you'll see.

My new green kitchen, now if you see it in person it is actually much darker than this, not as bright. I think it's my flash and the kitchen overhead light combo.

Hard at work.

Painting is done...tile can begin!! Don't you love it?!?!

Tile in progress.

New tile behind the sink!! Awesome! Still needs grout - but get that done tomorrow.

The first wall of tile done, minus grout! Beautiful! A whole new kitchen!

Done for tonight, but they were here working from 9:30 am until 8:30 pm. That's a long day of work. So they'll be back tomorrow to finish the tile and grout and any finishing touches, but I'm so excited about it!!