Young House Love

How many cuss words did you utter during assembly? Be honest. LOL

Fortunately this was a pretty low-stress aseembly night. So there were probably only a few "craps" in there.

We love crisp white cabinets with white appliances- the whole idea of a white kitchen is always so chic (plus it helps appliances blend in instead of sticking out). Of course you could go with a soft tan or a buttery cream tone too, but nothing gets us going like white on white! Especially if you go with textured marble counters (you can even go dark for high contrast) or even wood butcher block tops for a cottage chic look. Hope it helps!

Painting was the easy part, it was the taping that took the longest. We had a hard time because there is a curve in the wall that you cant see in this picture (in front of the toilet) so we couldnt use the laser level to keep our lines straight. Instead, we got a piece of paper and marked the edge of it with the correct height of our stripes, ... Read Morepressed it against the wall and made a dot on the wall next to mark on the paper and did this every few inches around the curve.. make sense? We did have to do a few touch ups to get rid of some pencil marks. It was worth the hard work though, we love it!

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Ha! We'd like to see Burger try to pick out the perfect color. Sheesh. Well, on second thought, that's probably not a good idea...

:) I was wondering if Burger was as opinionated as Macie!

Not about decorating usually, but he does appreciate whenever we add a carpet so he's got less wood floor to slide on.

You can either paint them all the same color for a super open and expansive look that we love or slide one square up or down the paint swatch to use a coordinating color that's lighter or darker for one of the adjoining areas. Then bring in fun pops of color and accessories to keep things from feeling too bland. Hope it helps!

That's what I thought. Thank you so much!!

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Yup, makes total sense. We don't have a tutorial for that yet but you might have some luck using a rag to hand rub the darker color over the base coat (once it's fully dry). If you keep a wet sponge or rag on hand you can blend it a bit and fade it so it feels like a more controlled application. And if anyone else has tips we'd love for them to chime in. Hope it helps!

Try checking out www.inthefunlane.com
She has a FAQ section and DIY archives... you might have to pick through the posts a little, but her info is helpful.
If nothing else, it's great inspiration - her pieces are amazing!!

Thanks so much for piping up with that tip Stacy! We definitely love www.inthefunlane.com and hope that Denise can find a lot of inspiration there!

Our weekend has consisted of using your tutorial on how to paint paneling. Goodbye 80's wood, hello crisp white! :)

We built Ikea furniture last night too!! Why did we start at 8:30pm though? Ugh!

Wow- now that's a crazy sale! Thanks so much for the tip!