Is it soup yet!

Well, it took me some time and some thinking but I finally found something a color I would love to live with on my kitchen cabinets.  Here is the picture I found in a decorating magazine.  So from here I headed over to the home improvement store (can you believe it - they are building a Home Depot right down the road from our house - we are so excited!), and searched the paint chips till I made up my mind on how to achieve that color.  I chose 3 colors - one a light taupe (Duron-8843M-Shallow Root), one a medium taupe (Duron-8844M-Brown Bark) and the other Duron-7914D - Pink Gardenia and lots of glaze.  I washed these on our cabinets and came up with somthing similar that I was pleased with.  Not quite as dark as you see here (on the cabinets anyway).

For the walls I painted them with the Shallow Root and then took 75% glaze and mixed in about 10% Shallow Root, 10% Brown Park & 5% Pink Gardenia and sponged it onto the walls. The walls were textured already and now they look like they were plasterd. I am really pleased. I painted the trim semi-gloss white. I broke the rules and used satin for the walls.

I picked out a border at my favorite wallpaper store - Sun Coast Paints.  It had magnolias & books and I just love it.  It also had a color in it that matched the cabinets exactly!  I painted the inside of the cabinets the pink color. It really looks good peeking out of the glass front cabinets. We will in the future put in some beveled & stained fronts. We have to make them ourselves.

I choose a polished brass handle, traditional, nothing fancy.  We are still working on these cabinets and have the pantry to create, so please return to see our progress.  But for now - let's talk about DECORATING COMPROMISES and see a little more of the kitchen.

 

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