Link: White and Gray

Anne at the City Sage blog posted photos of her kitchen update, and it looks just great. How funny that I have the exact same tile on my kitchen counters!

I've been putting off painting the kitchen, mostly because I really don't want to do it myself, and I also don't want to have to pay someone else to do it for me. But when the time comes, I will absolutely go for a white and gray color scheme like this, I love it.

And, I decided to take out all the tile that serves as the backsplash first. I got a quote for replacing the counter tops, and covering the backsplash more than doubled the price. I'd rather just have painted wall behind there. Before we get to that point, though, I'll have a showdown with my husband about the countertop color. He wants dark, I want light, maybe we'll flip a coin. A double headed coin, so I will be sure to win.

via: The City Sage

Kitchen: In progress

I'm probably about half way done with dying the grout in the kitchen. The dark grout on the left is what we have been living with for four years. The whitish on the right is one application or two of the grout dye. And those are my big feet.

The process is pretty much crawling around on the floor on my hands and knees with a toothbrush, brushing some 'grout renew' liquid into the grout areas. Then, I wipe it off a little after 5 minutes or so, and end up having to make two or three applications. The kitchen isn't very big, but it's easier to do it in sections so that I can move around while it's drying. Like most things, I'm doing it kind of half assed as well, but I like the way it's turning out.

Kitchen: Before

Our galley kitchen is small and not particularly attractive. Ugh, that hardware is ugly. The countertops, yuck. It is, apparently, a great place to park your little bike.

Anyway, fixing up the kitchen is a long term (and big $$) project. We decided not to replace the cabinets, or the floor. *Sigh.* Step one is the tile grout on the floor. We can have the backsplashes torn down, hardware and counters replaced (we're thinking PaperStone or recycled glass), and the cabinets painted. Eventually. Making it work, people.