Mammamel
08-18-2007, 08:37 PM
For years I have dreamt of redoing a kitchen around the old grist mill dishes my ma had when I was a kid. I have even collected a few to use as my everyday dishes. Blue and white has seemed to be my lot in life for decades. Recently I discovered something though… blue is NOT my favorite color! I am shocked! All my life I declared blue as my number 1. I have however discovered I was having a secret love affair with… RED! Now do not get my wrong, blue is still my number 2, with purple a close number 3.
I have had visions of my kitchen dancing in my head, and it is a red and white feast! LOL My plans include lots of paint, white dishes and red checked dish cloths, table clothes and towels. Red pots and pans and so on. I will keep blue in a minor role in the kitchen, as it now shares the bathroom with purple.
I plan to paint the walls bright white, make fabric doors for the cupboards. (This is my own design, and it works great in my head!) The idea is for the fabric to come out of the wood frames easily so it can be washed. (I do a lot of splatter cooking) The floor will be stripped down to the under layer, and given a new set of ply wood, which will then be painted white, taped when dry and checked in red. I figure if I use cement floor paint this should hold up, and at the same time give me the vintage 50’s floor feel.
I heard walmart has a set of red appliances, ours doesn’t but I am still hoping! Our toaster died last week, a cat broke my coffee maker last month, and the can opener died at least 3 weeks ago, so if I can replace them all in red, I will be dancin’!
My next project will be painting my big appliances. Stove, Fridge, washer and dryer with appliance paint. I will have to study on this one. I want to do this now, and then as we evolve the house (as cash permits) and do the structural changes, I will save for new, red appliances. I also want a red sink. I know I can do that as well, we just have to leave the house for a week so the enamel coating can dry (I will do my tub in dark blue at the same time) this means we HAVE to take a week long trip at some point! For some reason redoing the kitchen in red is really inspiring me and I am very fired up and want to begin NOW!
I do plan to get the wall paint next week, I am going to do them in bright white, and then the shelves of the cabinets will get a coat of red, so the white dishes show off on them. I plan to get rid of all the cabinet doors too, and find the perfect material for them.
The tippy top cupboards will become display areas for collected dishes. Serving bowls and pitchers and such if I get any. I still need shelves suitable for displaying my salt and pepper share collection (I inherited many from my mom form the 40s and 50s).
So now I will officially begin collecting red and white, linens, serving things (I plan to have white plates but serving dishes in any style that suits my mood) I want to have FUN in my kitchen and while I still love blue, red is much more fun!
I have had visions of my kitchen dancing in my head, and it is a red and white feast! LOL My plans include lots of paint, white dishes and red checked dish cloths, table clothes and towels. Red pots and pans and so on. I will keep blue in a minor role in the kitchen, as it now shares the bathroom with purple.
I plan to paint the walls bright white, make fabric doors for the cupboards. (This is my own design, and it works great in my head!) The idea is for the fabric to come out of the wood frames easily so it can be washed. (I do a lot of splatter cooking) The floor will be stripped down to the under layer, and given a new set of ply wood, which will then be painted white, taped when dry and checked in red. I figure if I use cement floor paint this should hold up, and at the same time give me the vintage 50’s floor feel.
I heard walmart has a set of red appliances, ours doesn’t but I am still hoping! Our toaster died last week, a cat broke my coffee maker last month, and the can opener died at least 3 weeks ago, so if I can replace them all in red, I will be dancin’!
My next project will be painting my big appliances. Stove, Fridge, washer and dryer with appliance paint. I will have to study on this one. I want to do this now, and then as we evolve the house (as cash permits) and do the structural changes, I will save for new, red appliances. I also want a red sink. I know I can do that as well, we just have to leave the house for a week so the enamel coating can dry (I will do my tub in dark blue at the same time) this means we HAVE to take a week long trip at some point! For some reason redoing the kitchen in red is really inspiring me and I am very fired up and want to begin NOW!
I do plan to get the wall paint next week, I am going to do them in bright white, and then the shelves of the cabinets will get a coat of red, so the white dishes show off on them. I plan to get rid of all the cabinet doors too, and find the perfect material for them.
The tippy top cupboards will become display areas for collected dishes. Serving bowls and pitchers and such if I get any. I still need shelves suitable for displaying my salt and pepper share collection (I inherited many from my mom form the 40s and 50s).
So now I will officially begin collecting red and white, linens, serving things (I plan to have white plates but serving dishes in any style that suits my mood) I want to have FUN in my kitchen and while I still love blue, red is much more fun!