101 kitchen makeover projects on the go....

I'm looking forward to the next part of the kitchen makeover: re-spraying the fridge, and spraying the dishwasher and washing machine for the first time!
The fridge is going to be re-sprayed in the cream colour that matches my Kitchenaid mixer, and we are going to trial another change as well. The one thing I don't like about it at the moment are the scooped out grooves in the doors where you used to open them. Now we added the chrome handles we don't need them any more and they always annoyed me because they ruined the streamlined look!
But in B&Q lots of products are on sale at the moment and a roll of kitchen laminate edging was reduced to £2. The OH is going to glue it over the scooped out bits so they appear even in width all the way along, then spray it cream too. This laminate edging is ideal because it's flexible enough to glue around the curved edges and is very strong as well, being like a sort of very thin plywood. It's also almost the exact same width too. They also had loads of tins of Cath Kidston emulsion reduced to £5 per tin as the range is being discontinued. The White Linen colour we got is lovely, a sort of antique white very similar to Farrow & Ball's range. The paint is of a similar quality too, and is a real bargain.

He also bought two tins of Plasti-kote Satin Chrome Appliance spray (they should pay us to advertise this brand as we use it so much) for our dishwasher and washing machine. They are white at the moment and are looking a bit tired. I think all the appliances will match a bit better being chrome, as the new oven has lots of chrome on it, and so do the mixer, kettle and fridge. I didn't want to paint the fridge chrome as I thought cream would look a bit lighter and wouldn't dominate the room as much. In the last photo you can see some of the spotlights we sprayed in this Satin Chrome paint-excuse the weird photo angle! They look so much better than the brassy 80's gold colour they were before (remember to switch your power off first and disconnect them while they are drying!!).

Lastly, all of the clutter in our kitchen is being found a new home elsewhere-our poor conservatory seems to be ending up with most of it, but I do like the new home for my Dutch tiles! They are now underneath my plant pots on the dresser instead of being behind the kitchen taps, and match the Farrow & Ball 'Arsenic' paint colour almost exactly!