Sneak Peak

Here is a sneak peak of whats been going on in the kitchen. It's not finished yet but when it is I will post a picture, until then let you mind work on these pictures.

Allure Flooring

 Ok so I know its been awhile but I've been busy. Here is a before and after of the flooring we decided on. Its Allure Vinyl flooring from Home Depot and it was the easiest thing I ever installed. You don't even need a saw. Just score and break, simple. Plus it was cheap and it had a 25 year warranty. Did I mention you can mop it! Yes I'm in love can you tell? I in the meantime did paint this room but we will wait for the reveal of that once the baseboards and furniture is in.

 For the kitchen I think I changed my mind about the distressing. Still going with black but for now I didn't distress anything.

The Kitchen Remodel

Ok everyone this is the dreaded kitchen, while yes it is Huge and I'm so excited, its an eye sore to me. The cabinet boxes are all covered with this wood contact paper because I'm sure the boxes are cheap compressed wood or something the like. The cabinet doors are real oak but standing close you can tell the contact paper and doors don't match. The part above the microwave is a third color. Don't even get me started on the counters....YIKES
So we will be painting the cabinets black and distressing the corners to look similar to this.

All the appliances are either black or Titanium so those won't be a problem. My counters are going to be done using ArmorGranite
in the Travertine color. So here are my questions for you wonderful readers. Have you ever used ArmorGranite? It gets great reviews but I can't find anyone that  has pictures. Also since my counters are cheap laminate I was thinking of using some molding nailed/glued on to get the granite look vs paint on laminate. Anyone done this? We will also be updating the molding throughout the cabinets top and bottom. Oh and the Kitchen walls will be a vintage green that is light to medium shade.

The top of the cabinets will have cans decorated with old vintage labels which you can easily find on Ebay at a small cost. I will have some other vintage items up there too of course ie crate, glass milk jars, old beater...