Sneak Peek: Kitchen
Hi Loves,
This weekend was a bit action packed and a bit relaxing. For months now I’m been toying with the idea of re-doing our kitchen floor.
Our floors in the kitchen are nothing to write home about. They were wood, but full of water stains, uneven color and yes when Bear was a puppy he decided to chew through the floor:
Here is the damage Bear did:
For months I went back and forth with what I wanted to do. I loved the idea of white penny tiles, but hated the amount of $$$ it would take to make that happen. Then I thought of painting them, but that seemed like a really long and hard home project and since it’s impossible to get oil based paint in NY I didn’t want to settle for another paint that would chip off easily.
A couple of weeks ago after hours of research and trips to home improvement stores I bit the bullet and got some paint!
Here is the before:
Check out where everything in the kitchen went:
Living Room:
Dining Room: You can even see a peek of our headboard thats to get upstairs and get covered along with the rest of the bed and our cabinet doors that come off in order to paint some trim. Pretty, right?
We started at around 10pm on Friday night and went to bed around 1 am. Then back up at 7 am and we worked did an additional coat before we left for the shore.
Here is a bit at the after:
Bear had to check it out and give his approval:
*Some of you may remember, but my kitchen walls actually use to be that color, which means a couple of weeks ago in preparation for the floor paint I had to repaint all of the walls in the kitchen!
DIY steps for painting a kitchen floor tomorrow. 🙂
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My living room is one of the rooms that evolved drastically from when we first moved one. Originally I painted the walls chocolate brown and did accents of white, blue and orange. That lasted maybe 2 years.
Our dining room sat empty for months. Okay maybe it was empty for just a handful of weeks and then we couldn’t take it anymore and put in a folding table and plastic outdoor chairs, but in my mind that was still empty.
On the main floor of our house we have a Florida room. Being that it’s a Florida room it is a considered a 3 season room, because there is no heat in the room. The previous owners used it as an indoor patio with outdoor furniture and it looked like this when we moved in.
amazing!! loves it.
OMG! The floor! Fabulous!!!
So amazing! LOVE IT!!!!
What a great colour choice for the kitchen floor! I absolutely love it! So glad you decided to go for it!
Gorgeous – your cute knobs really pop now!
Why is it impossible to find oil paint in NY? Is there a law against it or something?
It looks gorgeous! What a bold move — it definitely paid off!
WOW, I'm so excited for you. What a wonderful design choice. Also-looking forward to seeing your bed once it is finished.
What kind of counter tops do you have? I see they're black, are they stone?
Wow so much fun, what a pretty color choice!! Are oil-base paints against the law in NY ?
i avsolutely love it! i have been contemplating painting my floors, and you are swinging me in that direction!
i avsolutely love it! i have been contemplating painting my floors, and you are swinging me in that direction!
So happy you guys are loving it.
Due to green laws you can't buy oil-based paint in NY.
Oil-based paint is really the best choice though for painting something that is heavy traffic.
The kitchen was actually a complete gut job so everything is new in there. I wanted soapstone countertops, but we ran out of money. So we used laminate from IKEA for $130!! So an inexpensive fix that gives me the look I wanted while we save $$$ for the soapstone.
I LOVE IT! That's my favorite color!
Fabulous!!! I can't believe you have taken on all these painting projects yourself. Way to go!! Those painted floors give the kitchen new life and remind me of Tory Burch's kitchen floors. Tres chic!!
Omg, I absolutely love it!!! I adore the color and it looks fab against the white cabinets. Nice work!
OH MY GAWD. Love it!
Btw, is that table cloth by Waverly? I bought an under-bed storage container from Burlington that has the same exact color and pattern.
Love, love, love, LOVE! I wish I was much more articulate so I could really express how much I LOVE IT! Gosh, LOVE!
I am breathless with that color!!! You are the second blogger who has painted their floors, so now I am getting inspired! I have to wait for my husband to go back out of town so I can do it. He get's nervous when I start projects :}
It does look fabulous though……
Sherry
LOOKS AWESOME!!! Love this look and the color!!! I love our painted kitchen floor, but I think it would look even better on the planks.
Is your sink Ikea by chance? Been contemplating one similar from there and would love a rec. Thanks!
Love That color! Can't wait to hear about the steps…I would have been scared too! It seems like such a huge project. Turned out Great!
holy moly, this is stunning!
Wow, looks so great! You made the right decision by painting them. Love, love, love the color.
That looks fantastic.
ps. I have the same tablecloth. Yay Homegoods.
I am dying over this!! jealous, jealous, jealous!! Seriously, they look absolutely fabulous.
OMG is this for real?!?! I LOVE LOVE LOVE it! It looks AMAZING!
LOVE it. It looks so fresh and beachy! It seems like it also pulls on the color that you painted your dining room chairs. Cute, cute!
I LOVE IT. I am a nut for turquoise anything. It just looks so bright and cheerful, yet cool and calm at the same time.
Awesome! Can't believe you can't buy oil-based paint! Maybe marine paint? It's incredibly heavy-duty, and NYC IS surrounded by water!
I've been researching painting my linoleum kitchen floors… I'm excited to hear your process!
awwweeessssommmmmmmmmmmmmme!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love it!!! Just saw apple green floors in Country Living and wishing I had wood floors so I had an excuse to paint them 🙂
woah, love what I see so far!! They are a great color and I cant wait to see everything back in there because I love it already!!
holy crap – it looks SOOOO good! i have been thinking about painting the parquet floor in my kitchen, and i think this might have convinced me to do it.
I love it!
I love this! What a fab colour 🙂
WOW – how daring and how beautiful!!! i love anything turquoise and am so impressed how it looks covering up a wood floor!
Wow, it looks great, I love the color!
It looks so great. I love the turquoise color. I want to do this with my kitchen and entry floors so badly but I'm worried about the resale and what other buyers that don't "get" a painted floor will think. Good for you for painting it though.
I love your newly painted floor. What a great job you did! Beautiful color.
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Your kitchen looks fantastic! Great job, C!
Totally transforms the room!
Sooo lovely 🙂 Job well done. Some improvements are so worth the pain no?
Love this!! And your DIYing right about to a vacation has me inspired!
A big risk that t-o-t-a-l-l-y paid off. LOVE IT!
that looks great!
All I can say is W O W !!!!!!
Stepping into a project like this you should be rewarded. I can only imagine what you went through before you actually took the jump….and don't you just love when it turns out perfect!! Or even more perfect than you thought!
BTW – I saw the paint on the "butt" pic….I would be green from head to toe!!
Stepping into a project like this you should be rewarded. I can only imagine what you went through before you actually took the jump….and don't you just love when it turns out perfect!! Or even more perfect than you thought!
BTW – I saw the paint on the "butt" pic….I would be green from head to toe!!
Wow! What an amazing DIY! It looks great!
Your floor is GORGEOUS!!
your floors look great! i wish mine were wood so that i could paint them too.
Wow, I am in love and would be so excited to accomplish this!!
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Wow! It looks great! Nice job.
the floors look so great! wonderful color choice!
It looks great. I have been doing a bit of that myself.
-Rene
Hi Camila, I came to your blog through Johns Journal who's home you are featuring this week & I am so glad I did!
What a fabulous blog! I am so impressed with your new kitchen floor!
I just wanted to ask where you got your coffee table from? It is exactly what I have been looking for…and I am really hoping they ship to the UK!
Hi Camila! I found you through Design Sponge's article on your painted floors. I was actually wondering where you got your white Kitchen Island with the drop leaf? I've been looking for one similar to it. Any help would be great. Thanks!
This is fantastic and you’ve just inspired me to paint our balcony floor, since our lil’ pup did some damage to it!
Lovely finding you!