Kitchen update #7: Painting

The final stage of our kitchen remodel last year was to––finally––paint. For months we had chosen and debated a lot of different colors, essentially all green. K wanted a green kitchen and I didn't disagree. Part of me wanted a sage (read: muted, unsaturated, soft) green, but K was always favoring the bolder, darker greens. Spoiler: we ended up going with Magnolia Regal Leaf. For the ceilings, we went with the color we're painting the rest of the downstairs and ceilings: Magnolia True White. It's a soft white that looks absolutely beautiful–not too cold, not too warm, not too dingy, not too bright. Perfection.

I didn't really document it for this project, but before we could paint the ceiling I had to patch all the holes I had cut to run the electrical cable for the new lighting. With the drywall work complete, we could paint.

Then it was onto the walls. Yay, color at last!

After the tediousness of cutting in (although with no need to tape, heh), it was finally time to roll. Literally, like break out the paint roller and get some color on the walls. Besides finally making the transformation real, rolling on paint has the added benefit of going quickly. In an hour or so I was done.

I have to agree with K, given all the soft white walls we'll have in the downstairs and the central location of our kitchen, the bold, green walls stand out with confidence. There's also not a lot of wall space with the matte white tile backsplash and walk-through openings on two sides of the space. So it adds just the right amount of color, combined with the natural wood elements of the cabinet fronts we replaced a few years ago.

For inspiration long before we began work on the kitchen, we had narrowed down our inspiration to a single photo of a coffee shop…

The palettes we chose were intentionally similar to our inspiration, with the white tile and open ducting, dark green walls, and natural wood accents. The black ceramic tile floor just adds icing to the cake.