Kitchen Progress: Goodbye Mustard Yellow!

Considering you may have remembered me mention my plans for my mustard yellow sofa, it may seem strange I'm removing it from kitchen. However, as much as accent colours can be fun, an entire kitchen was a little too much. And I certainly would never suggest people pursue a colour scheme of lemon yellow, with mustard yellow!

This is looking from the entry through to the kitchen/living.
(Yes, that area on the left is the entire living room space, hence the renovations downstairs!)

Here's the kitchen the day we moved in.

 

In the future this kitchen will be ripped out and replaced with a galley kitchen with an island so rather than spend a lot of money we decided to paint. And we ended up with this!

Because the shelves on the back wall have all our regularly used plates, we removed the mismatched bubbly glass and painted the back of the tongue & groove shelves the same colour as the wall.

The wall colour is Dulux Tranquil Retreat (mixed into a Taubmans semi-gloss paint), and the cupboards are painted in white straight from the can. I undercoated the mixmatched laminate backsplashes and painted them white.

I added moulding to the pantry door and painted it with blackboard paint so we have a place to leave notes.

Of course, there's still so much to do...
- Tear out the tiles around the sink and replace with white subway tiles.
- Make proper cushions for the black chairs.
- Considering adding a roman blind to the window.
- Finish the final coat on the backsplash (it's only had one coat so far).
- Frost the glass cupboards left.
- Add a window sill to the window.
- Give the table a light sand and oil.
- Replace the strip fluoro with a proper light.
- Still need to add some art too!

Despite that, it's still a much, much nicer kitchen to look at than it was and I feel much happier living with this until the kitchen reno can begin!