Here's a 'before' photo of the kitchen. That wallpaper will be disappearing. The horrible wallpaper on the door will be going as well. That same wallpaper covers the walls in the hallway, where it's already falling off the walls - as if it agreed with its intended fate. The stuff on the door will be harder to get rid of, it's really stuck on there. That icky light-brown faux-wood trim painted around the door panels will be on my list of things to be got rid of as well. The door itself is a lovely solid wood paneled door. As for the doors on the cabinet to the rear of the door, well, I may just take them off completely. I'm not sure what's under that contact-paper. But the drawers of course will be staying, so I hope it's not too awful. I'm not sure what color to paint the walls. The woodwork will be white, and perhaps those cabinet doors and drawers as well, or, if the doors get junked, maybe a bright color inside the cabinet. The room faces south, so there's lots of light all day.
Lots of luck getting that contact paper off! If you can save the cabinet doors it would be a good thing, because they can keep the place from looking too cluttered and also keep the contents cleaner. I'll bet you can figure out how to get contact paper off if you google it! You're going to have lots of fun with this place!
ReplyDeleteFun, yeah, that's it. (grin) We just heard from the electrician and he's going to start next Thursday, so we'll be on our way to the new house on Wednesday! We'll be staying in the little hotel in Beaumont for at least a couple of nights, since there will be no electricity in the house. This is the place we stayed for an extra night when our fender-bender, or accrochage as they say here, held us up for a extra night on our last trip. The folks there are very nice, in fact the cook drove us to the garage the next morning. And they have wifi!
ReplyDeleteWe're off to uncork a bottle of very good Blanquette de Limoux, which we bought a few days ago, knowing that we'd soon be celebrating. Salut!