What color and/or theme is your kitchen done in?

[Batsinma Belfry]

My kitchen walls are the exact shade of blue as the background color ^ up there where it says "THE STRAIGHT DOPE". Except with a lighter blue sponged on top. I have white cabinets and appliances. There's a ceramic tile mural above my stove of a basket of fruit, and there's other fruity things in there, but it's not over done.

[Abbie Carmichael]

Apples.

Red ones.

[GlendaWitch]

At the moment my kitchen is done in plastic sheeting with earth-toned construction dust and natural concrete floors. We just tore out the floor, cabinets and counters this week.

In a few weeks (fingers are crossed), my kitchen will have black granite counters, stainless steel appliances, golden-reddish-brownish cabinets and maple-colored laminate floors. I haven't chosen the backsplash tile yet, or the paint color for the walls.

[gotpasswords]

Walls are sponge-painted - base coat is a reddish-rust color, with a salmon-ish light orange and "putty" beige-tan sponging. After we did it, we've had more than one visitor ask where we found such amazing wallpaper. Ceiling is painted bright white, and backsplash areas are the red-rust color directly over the sink and range, and the salmon color over the counters. We did the sponge painting with three cans of "oops!" mis-mixes from Home Depot, and as it worked out, the red-rest was a semigloss, so it cleans well. The other colors are flats. People just don't believe we spent only $15 for that paint job. :cool:

Cabinets are dark wanut-esque brown wood. Appliances (fridge, freezer, range) are white. The range and dishwasher have black fronts.

Floor is foot-square ceramic tile - light gray with wafts of pale blue streaks floating through.

Counters are a granite-style laminate.

This is an apartment, so we were powerless to do anything about the appliances, cabinets, counters or floor.

[BiblioCat]

The walls are painted Ralph Lauren "Harrier Yellow" but it's not the actual RL paint. It's Home Depot's paint tinted to match the RL shade. The RL paint was something like $40 a gallon and I got mine for much, much less.
It's a pretty color, a light medium yellow (but not pastel-y), and I have navy blue accents and navy blue curtains.
No real "theme," but I collect old glass milk bottles, the little half-pint size, and I have some of those out on display.

[Cub Mistress]

My kitchen and dining room are pretty much one room as only an archway separates them.The walls have a faux finish accomplished by putting a light tan glaze over cream painted walls and then taking off most of the glaze with those plastic bags from the grocery store. There is a hand stamped ivy vine that winds around the room near the ceiling. The floor is a faux flagstone vinyl sheeting. The curtains are tiers of Battenburg lace with the valance being a silk ivy vine. The overall look is Italinate and I am very pleased with it. I just put new cabinet hardware on this week. That was much, much cheaper than I thought it would be and looks so nice.

[AbbySthrnAccent]

IT's not really very themey but:

The tiles are called barely beige, the accent tiles are a dark green sometimes called spruce, hunter or forest.

The wallpaper has light and lighter beige vertical stripes that are about 4 inches wide. The border paper has a saying about seasons with a garden scene of each of the four seasons, it also has the dark green on the edges of the border and the beiges in the main wall paper.

The breakfast area curtains are dark green as well but the drop is only about two feet of the 8 ft windows, with plantation blinds behind. The cabinets in the kitchen and the table and chair set in the breakfast area are all blond/honey oak.

On of the in-laws has a yellow fruity theme and another has a watermelon everywhere theme.

[Kalhoun]

My walls are done in What the Fuck was I Thinking blue, with Oh Yeah, That Was Fucking Brilliant countertops. The floors are a pale shade of off white with How in the Hell Are You Going to Match That? blue grout. We have natural shellac on the beadboard, but that will change.

[Sattua]

Hmm. When I moved into my apartment, I declared myself transient and therefore not a candidate for any painting or wallpapering. Two years later, I'm starting to think it would be fun...

My dishes are blue-and-white Asiatic Pheasant pattern. So, I have lots of cobalt blue things--my mugs, drinking glasses, serving bowls, even trivets. On the walls I have Spode Blue Room plates (scored at TJ Maxx), evenly spaced in a grid so that it looks sort of like wallpaper. I also have a watercolor of oranges set in a blue toile matte, which ties together the blue stuff and the flamboyant fruit-and-flower-covered chintz of the seat cushions--the same fabric as the drapes and throw pillows and bar back in my living room, which is open to the kitchen. My dinette set came from a used furniture store, and is Georgian reproduction with a sort of light mahogany finish. My silverware is Godinger's American Repousse. I have white linen hemstitch napkins. My placemats are unbleached linen with a sari trim. I'm trying to do Late Georgian on a budget, I guess... sort of like, the grand days of ocean trade. I have a lot of blue-and-white porcelain in my living room too, and more Georgian reproductions, and basket-woven boxes, and Japanese watercolors. And an oriental rug.

[plnnr]

Natural maple cabinets
Stainless steel and black appliances
Medium-toned granite countertop
Yellow walls with white trim
LOTS of natural light there are windows everywhere

[Nutty Bunny]

Apples.

Red ones.

Our walls are white (damn apartment living!), but we have a red apple theme in our dishes and accessories.

We're really digging cobalt blue and stainless steel lately. We have a few pieces of a cobalt blue/stainless steel combo, like creamer and sugar container, salt and pepper shakers. My husband got a blue Alton Brown apron for Christmas. So now we have to get plates, towels, potholders, etc.

[Dung Beetle]

Actually we're in the process of remodeling. I have a white stove, refrigerator, and walls, and am leaning toward white laminate cabinets because they're cheap! I'm thinking I could go with a really clean, modern feel.
I'm also thinking that if there were anywhere in a house I could do a color, it would be the kitchen, so I'm trying to consider what I could live with as far as floor and countertops. I recently helped a friend decorate, and he wound up with a light wood/beigey/chocolately kitchen, because when it comes down to brass tacks, I seem to choose the "safe", natural colors. Still thinking.
This is a very timely thread!

[Furry Mongoose]

Ours is very "English Country Cottagey" The wallpaper is cream with (In my humble opinion) very tasteful pictures of herbs on it apart from a small area where there's alternate black and white tiles. The cupboards are all pine and the appliances are all black and stainless steel.

I'd be lying if I said it was anything other than cosy. (I like it anyway) :D

[Graycat]

Our house was built in the '60s and still had the original kitchen when we moved in at Christmas. Many of the ostensibley white areas (baseboards; plaster around the light fixtures, etc) were tobacco-spit brown. We spent a couple of weeks removing the orginal wallpaper from the wallboard, then washed and primed everything. The cabinets were pained white, but chipped and stained. We painted the walls yellow, the woodwork, including the cabinet bases orange, and the doors and drawer fronts red. The ceiing took three coats of white paint before the tobacco stain quit bleeding through. We intended to replace the cabinet hardware, but it turned out to be an off size, and we weren't up for trying to redrill all the holes, so we spray-painted them yellow. This got my husband on a roll, and he spray-pained all the new electrical outlets yellow and the baseplates orange. Our dishwasher was brown (the other appliances were white), so he pulled the panel out and painted it orange, too. For a while I kept expecting to come into the kitchen and discover that he had painted the refrigerator and stove to match.

The floor is still the og-awful pale yellow vinyl sheeting, and it's on our to-do list. We haven't decided how to update it yet. But I find my red-yellow-orange kitchen to be so cheerful, it lifts my spirits just to walk in.

[zephyrine]

White cabinets
White wall tiles
Dark grey floor tiles

I inherited all of the above, and they are too inoffensive to justify the expense of changing them. My input has been:

Aqua wall paint, and a vague leaning towards blue and/or orange in crockery and accessories, white marble topped bistro table and black wrought iron chairs.

What I really want:
Very simple art deco type pale wooden or white cabinets, pale terracotta tiled floor, jewel-colored splashback.

[Adoptamom_II]

Hunter green vinyl floor (which hides just about all crudola- I like that!) with aged long leaf pine wainscotting and green on green striped wallpaper above. Crisp white cabinets, black double oven, range tops and dishwasher front. Accent colors in deep, earthy reds and golds picked up in the bench cushions and counter top pretties. Crisp white ceiling with white ceiling fans and an antique, tiffany style light fixture centered over the table.

Speaking of our table, it's a one of a kind that Mr. Adoptamom built for me for our anniversary years ago. 7'x4' of wide cypress boards which he routed all of our children's handprints in. Bench seats that my father in law made seat up to 8 at a time, which makes it a favorite gathering place for meals, homework and family games.

One of the reasons we bought this house is because the kitchen is huge (18'x20') with plenty of room for our table, cabinets on three walls, and a fourth wall which my computer/desk/file cabinet resides on. The kitchen is centrally located, so it's easy to be aware of what's going on throughout the house. Even though I don't like to cook much, I love our kitchen :D

[dragongirl]

My walls are the same What the Fuck was I thinking Blue? as Kalhoon's must be. The rest of the kitchen is decorated in cows. I like cows.

[BiblioCat]

Speaking of our table, it's a one of a kind that Mr. Adoptamom built for me for our anniversary years ago. 7'x4' of wide cypress boards which he routed all of our children's handprints in.
Can I borrow your husband for a few weeks? I have a really long Honey-Do list that my husband likes to ignore.

[Ephemera]

White walls, dark brown cabinets, and avocado surfaces. I really don't like it but living in an apartment, I have to live with it. Bleh.

[Queen Tonya]

I redid my kitchen by accident sorta, chasing bad wiring. My friends and family leapt for joy, however, since ripping the walls out meant I finally had to do something about the harvest gold/dark paneled/wagon wheel light fixture 70s nightmare.

I now have maple cabinets and table, faux granite countertops, black and white vinyl flooring, and the walls are I bought grey but the shit looks light blue. The range, hood, microwave and fridge are black or black and white, and there are lights Everywhere! I have bad enough vision already, I don't need to lose a digit chopping celery, so every foot or so there's an under the counter type light, as well as two ceiling fixtures.

I bought the same dish design in plain black and another in plain white, sometimes we use just one but most often mix and match. I just got a groovy black and silver wall clock for my birthday, sort of looks like a tire wheeling it's way across the wall. :)

[Adoptamom_II]

Can I borrow your husband for a few weeks? I have a really long Honey-Do list that my husband likes to ignore.

I'd be happy to loan him out after he finishes my honey do list. Did you happen to notice that I didn't mention crown moulding anywhere in my post? LOL That's because it's been down for over two years now and I've quit holding my breath for it to magically jump up there and install itself :D

Fortunately, Mr. Adoptamom has many other qualities which redeem his perpetual "roundtoit" explanation.

[pravnik]

Well, I'm a bachelor, so, what what is my what in?

[LifeOnWry]

Walls are exactly the color of Baskin Robbins' Daquiri Ice - pale pale pale aqua. Floor is white tile with grey grout (well, it's vinyl, but it looks like ceramic). Red valances, black appliances (the appliances came with the house, so we worked 'em in), red & chrome table with red vinyl and chrome chairs. Chrome coffee-cup trivets hung on the walls by the sink. Old advertisements framed in black on the walls, assorted bits of milk glass and jadeite, and 1940s printed tablecloths and dishtowels here and there. Lots of people have told me the kitchen reminds them of an old ice-cream parlor, but it's really more 1940s-1950s kitsch.

[anu-la1979]

Grey-white marble flooring with a hunter green marble tile inlaid in a specific pattern.

Long, dark green corian countertops-not exactly hunter/forest green-hard to describe. Dark but verdant at the same time with that corian countertop look. Apparently you can sand scratches on corian.

White appliances

Honey oakey wood coloured cabinets with brass knobs

Light greenish paint

Lots and lots of plants

wall near the stove area has some original tile with grapes on it.

It's really pretty. My mom designed most of it but my dad had the idea for putting a pattern in the marble floors. I was a bit skeptical about the paint but these bright colours seem to be in now (they painted the new family room/addition lime and this light green in an "L" combination) and it does go well with the rest of the kitchen. Their colour scheme is neutral enough that they can repaint different colours if they get tired of it later on.

[StGermain]

My kitchen is half-done. I bought a 150-year old farmhouse, and the kitchen is the first room I'm working on. It's a good-sized room, about 15' X 17', but with five doors, a window and a fireplace there isn't much wall space. The walls, ceiling and floor are wood. The ceiling is beadboard and 10' high. The walls are 8" plank and the floor is 2" pine. The previous owner died at 99 years old, so she wasn't doing much updating since say...the '60's or so. I've stripped the paper and scrubbed the walls (a real pain as under the 4 layers of wallpaper was a felt paper) and painted the walls a lavender blue, exactly the same shade as the wild chicory growing in my fields. The woodwork, ceiling and fireplace are painted white. I have an antique white hoosier and a number of antique kitchen things (copper kettles, pitchers, cruet sets, etc). I've bought white cabinets (the kitchen had absolutely no cabinets when I moved in) but I haven't installed them yet. I've ripped up the disgusting ancient vinyl from the floor, but I need to either it or sand them and seal them.

StG

[Kalhoun]

My walls are the same What the Fuck was I thinking Blue? as Kalhoon's must be. The rest of the kitchen is decorated in cows. I like cows.
That particular shade of blue must have been on sale. I hated it from the minute it went on the walls. Oh...and it's been there for over five years. I'm such a slug.

[Johnny L.A.]

I guess my house is a "cabin" style. Maybe "craftsman". It was built in 1934, and has had a couple of additions made to it over the years. I bought it from my best fiend, who lived in it for two years and who did some work on it. The kitchen and dining room are one room, off of the living room.

The burgundy living room carpet extends into the dining room. The kitchen counters are L-shaped. The carpet goes from the end of the short leg of the counters to the left side of the door leading to the utility room and bedrooms. That is, it's curved on that side. The kitchen floor has black tile.

The cupboards are painted in "lotus yellow", which is a very, very pale shade of yellow. A short counter section sticks out from the left side of the sink. The kitchen side is lotus yellow, and the dining room side is old-growth yellow cedar. (I don't like the idea that it's old growth, but it was installed 70 years ago.) The wall opposite the counters/stove/fridge is also paneled in yellow cedar.

The wall opposite the end of the living room is darkish-purple. The narrow trim around the door to the utility area is white. The trim around the floors and ceiling is black. The white ceiling is hand-textured. That is, my friend made curves in it with a broom. It looks great! But he said it was a pain in the arse to do. There is a 12" dome light in the centre of the ceiling with a chrome bezel.

On the cedar wall I have a nautical chart of The Strait of Georgia. On the purple wall is a colourful, framed Tank Girl poster.

So you tell me: What style is it? "Bachelour Modern"?

[Philster]

Black/Brown Granite counters. Stainless steel appliances. Tan/earthy travertine tile backsplash. Maple flooring. Crown moulding. Nuetral wall color = sparkling amber. White blinds, white cornices....recessed lighting. Accents are wine colored....wine themish.

Lot's o' labor from me.

[Batsinma Belfry]

I've been looking at houses for sale online and about 50% have lime green kitchens. I like lime green, I don't like lime green kitchens. Hopefully it's a trend that's on it's way out, and by the time I'm ready to actually buy a new house, I won't have to redo the kitchen. But I have lots of cool ideas from this thread if I do.

[StGermain]

Hi, Jack!

Hillybilly Queen - Where are you looking? What kind of house do you want? Do you want acreage? I bought my farmhouse at auction and there are some great deals you can get that way. I got the house and 14 acres for $60,000. Mind you, it needs a good bit of updating, but for the price you can't beat it. (Also, I have a 3-bedroom house for sale in Smyrna, just in case you're interested. The kitchen isn't green, however.) There's an auction in Milton this Saturday for a Victorian home built around 1890 and 10 acres. The entire parcel is something like 164 acres, divided into 16 tracts.

Bye, Jack!

StG

[bat312]

Oh the beauty of my beastly kitchen. The theme is Hell. Hell’s Kitchen! Brick red (painted) walls and stove, black steam pipes, gray cabinets with broken glass doors, and construction lamps for lighting. I am still working on it, but look forward to decorating with demons and pitchforks etc. :eek:

I am thinking of doing a Heaven them for the bedroom.

[MissGypsy]

Wow, my kitchen seems really cheesy now... I have a lifelong Pillsbury Doughboy fetish, so mine's mostly blue and white, with Poppin' Fresh everywhere -- curtains, cookie jars, napkin holders, canisters, potholders, etc. I even have stuffed Poppin' and Poppie Fresh dolls in various sizes displayed atop my cabinets.

Other than that, it's a typical rental property kitchen, with white walls and dingy neutral flooring, with those nasty mustard-yellow appliances. At least my Doughboys brighten it up.

Side note: A guy I used to date did his kitchen in a Coca-Cola theme, and it was quite charming, albeit expensive. It looked like a 1950's soda fountain, basically.

[kittenblue]

To adequately describe the kitchen in this house would require photos, which I don't have. My sister tried to convince my mom that, since she needs to repaint, maybe it's time (after 50 years) for another color, but no, she likes it. Keep in mind that my parents built this house from a kit on a shoestring, and neither of them cared at all about decorating or trends or professional assitance.

The floor is a dark green linoleum tile. The countertops are a dark red laminate with silver trim.The lower half of one wall is a light knotty pine paneling, except it's not wood, it's some sort of linoleum sheet..in a couple places with little tears you can see the black, tarry backing...it's very unique. The walls themselves are painted a pale green that I've never been able to define. Sort of a spring green, with lime undertones. The curtains that are up now are a white and green and yellow chili pepper pattern, with a harvest gold sheer curtain.

The cabinets have huge sliding doors made out of sheets of plywood/hardboard...sort of a dark maple. The upper cabinets on one wall have sliding frosted glass doors, sort of like shower doors. The cabinets are all huge...much bigger than standard cabinets, which is good. But these sliding doors go straight up to the ceiling, and they are not attractive. The table is wonderful...a 72" round oak pedestal table my dad made...we've never used the extenders because the room is too small. Since it is an oversized table, my mom makes table cloths out of sheets. Not attractive sheets, either. They all try to pick up the green, but many fail (she makes matching aprons, too.

In addition to the giant table and four chairs (we always had to pull the table out from the wall at dinner time to make room...once the table's out, no one moves because there is no space) there is a microwave cart my dad built (lots more shelves), a TV cart and a smaller TV cart, and a small table that serves as counterspace and a newspaper stand. There is no dishwasher (we used to have a portable one, but when microwaves came in, we had to pick due to space issues) and no disposal, and every shelf is crammed full. The cookbook shelf was starting to sag, so she had to remove half the books.

My sister absolutely hates the red countertops, but there is so much stuff piled on them you really can't see the color. I hate the green. I would prefer a cobalt or french blue, and the linoleum walls have to go. But it's not gonna be soon.

[CanvasShoes]

Well, I don't have a kitchen right now, being between living arrangements :D

But my former kitchen, and all of my stuff, which is currently packed away is predominently a muted wedgewood blue with accents of butter yellow and cobalt.

Think french country. Some of the stuff I've recently sold to finance my trip back to AK, but I've kept my key peices, which are inexpensive antiques.

[AbbySthrnAccent]

Side note: A guy I used to date did his kitchen in a Coca-Cola theme, and it was quite charming, albeit expensive. It looked like a 1950's soda fountain, basically.
We have friends with a Coca-Cola theme also. A sign or two and a bottle collection. She's not overdone it though and it's a neat look.

[Queen Tonya]

I think the Poppin Fresh kitchen sounds great, cute even if it might verge into cheesedom. He's a happy little chef dude, I bet it's cheery and fun.

My former neighbor had a mouse theme in her kitchen, she'd been collecting them for years and had little grey mousies everywhere. Bit of an odd choice for a kitchen, and rather bland as all accessories were greys and pastels to coordinate with the mice hordes.

I was astonished to visit her recently and find she's rethought the entire mouse thing and now has a kitchen painted half tangerine and half teal, with Maxine (http://pages.tias.com/6207/PictPage/1922146512.html) accessories everywhere. Who knew there was that much Maxine stuff out there?!

[TVeblen]

I won't bore anybody with the various back-and-forth reuses of rooms in my house. It's a Victorian--1874--so I can't fathom how people with really old houses make the least livable sense of 'em. Let it suffice that the room was once used as a kitchen along the way, and made the most sense to use it that way again.
Okay, so I'll explain...feel free to doze off...
Originally there was a summer kitchen built near but separate from the house. That's long gone. The "other" kitchen built into the corner of the house, and that's what I've reused. It was very Victorian, with very tall windows on two sides, three doorways, and nary a "free" wall in it for counters, sinks, etc. (When the damaged wood floor was ripped out the imprint of the old cook stove was still imprinted on the subfloor--of bird's-eye maple. But don't ask about the scraping, sanding, etc. process.)
I adamantly refused to have "decorator" kitchen. I wanted it to look and feel as homey as my grandma's kitchen, but function well for cooking. A local carpenter, a genuine artisan, built cabinets to-scale throughout. (The double-sashed windows are 6' tall.) There are two tiers of glass-fronted cabinets above--8 panes per door--kitchen and pantry, with solid doors on the cabinets below.
The original wallpaper, umpteen layers down, was black and green. Urk. Not that my current color scheme won't horrify future generations.
Finally getting down to it...
The cabinets (not great wood) are primed and painted a rich pumpkin color. The skirting boards, window and door trim are painted a rich, dark cream color. The walls--actually relatively little space--are papered in a Williamsburg print, predominantly dark cream background with a medium-sized figures of pumpkin and taupe, with small accents of sage and slate blue. It sounds gaudy but if anything it's understated in the scale of the room.
Every danged bit of it was created from scratch but the finest compliment I ever received was from a preservationist who congratulated me on 'renovating' it so sensitively, because it looked just like his grandma's kitchen.
Which was entirely more information than anyone actually wanted to know...

Veb

[vivalostwages]

Off-white/beigish walls; white tile and grout for countertops; light brown wooden cabinets; very pale tan or dark beige curtains/valance; off white and usually gray (!) tiled floor.

[LifeOnWry]

My former neighbor had a mouse theme in her kitchen, she'd been collecting them for years and had little grey mousies everywhere. Bit of an odd choice for a kitchen, and rather bland as all accessories were greys and pastels to coordinate with the mice hordes.



My sister-in-law collects Elvis stuff and horses. She has the oddest kitchen I have ever seen, but somehow it's so "her" it works. Her former roommate was into cows in the kitchen, so for awhile it was truly bizarre, but now it's just... odd.

[FairyChatMom]

The house we take possession of on July 31, the reason for UglyFest (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=263715), was built in '75, decorated in '77, and unchanged since - at least in the kitchen.

The bottom part of the walls has been done in Z-brick (it's a thin brick veneer). The top of the walls is papered with mushrooms on a field of orange and yellow. The same paper is used on the shelves of the chocolate brown cabinets. The countertops are a pale green speckly laminate, well-worn, and the floor is a bright green vinyl. The stove is black, I think, and the fridge is white. No dishwasher. One small window. Fluorescent light in the middle of the ceiling. Stunning.

Our plan is to remove the wall between the kitchen and the family room, move the wall between the kitchen and the living room about 3 feet into the living room, and relocate the doorway between the kitchen and the dining room. We picked out shaker style cabinets in maple. The countertops will be a light neutral laminate. The one window will be replaced by a double window, so I'll lose some wall cabinets there, but we're adding cabinets along the relocated wall. My appliances will be bisque (that's the new almond, I guess) and the floor will be DuraCeramic in a white/grey stone look. Initially, my accent color will be green, but by having a neutral background, we can pick almost any accent we want as we tire of what we have.

[twickster]

Light gray walls, medium gray cabinets, dark gray counters, white trim. The table is a '50s chrome number with a gray and red design in formica (scalloped edges and a coffee pot at either end). The clock is an Elvis design with the legs swiveling back and forth as the pendulum.

[matt_mcl]

Same decor (white walls and cabinets, grey tiles and counter) as when we moved in. Except more grime.

[MrDibble]

White tiled walls with occasional black diamond tiles for accent.
Ash veneer cupboarding with "moss granite" Melamine counter tops.
All appliances white.

[chela]

Ah a completed kitchen, only took close to 2 yrs!

We started with the floor, a Perigo laminate, wide plank amber oak. Add white "Euro" style cabinets, several have glass fronts and there are pantry cabninets too, we have tons of storage, can hide the toaster, coffeemaker, crockpot, blender the works! The glass is slubbed (?) it looks like raindrops are streaming down the glass. Granite counters and full backsplash, called Verde Butterfly, Its a large grain stone, looks black/green w/ pearlized 'feathers" with flecks/veins of gold and red when viewed up close. From a distance the counter looks almost black. On the walls we have a Heather Sage with white wood trim. The handles for the doors finally came in, we have from Hafele a somewhat retro silver matte c shaped handle with texture bumps where the fingers grasp. All white appliances. Oh and funky curtains from NYpillowsanddrapes (http://www.newyorkpillowsanddrapes.com/show_item.php?item_id=89&cat_id=59)
SOmeone mentioned a Hoosier Cabinet. I have a Seller's, in original condition, but it's in my LR, as it doesn't fit in this kitchen. BUt it holds our CD's and kids board games.

[MsRobyn]

My kitchen is done in ugly. The cabinets are yellow, and of course, they show everything. The countertops are barf-gold, the floor is white, and there is a fruit-intensive border that isn't too bad, but it doesn't do much to enhance the look.

Robin

[bashere]

Our kitchen is done in early poverty with hints of 10-years-of-neglect with a charming single-mother-of-five-children splash around the windows. The floors are thick black rubber-like “tiles”, sort of a linoleum but cheaper, the cabinets (and I use the word advisedly) are white coated plasterboard and “oak” wallpaper on the facing. The one appealing feature of the kitchen, a brick bread oven in the wall separating the kitchen from the dining room, was covered in one inch thick plaster, presumably in order to turn the chimney into a squirrel, mouse and fly sanctuary. There are interesting touches, such as the “it doesn’t get cold here in CANADA so let’s not actually insulate the outside while” motif (you may have read about this in Architectural Digest) and the “nobody cooks here so no need to vent the stove” touch, mention by, I believe, Martha Stewart. The ceiling is done in grease-fire yellow (well, we’ve cleaned the actual grease off, so its just the stain, which is similar to nicotine-yellow, but uglier); the walls are a similar color, with accents of “let’s mix latex and acrylic paint over each other”.

Thankfully, the oak to make the cabinets is sitting in the basement, so this sad state of affairs may change one day, as long as the house doesn’t get listed on the national ugly register.