Good job with what you had to work with there kaylagrl. Its a great feeling to do something for little and come out with really awesome results. I have a couple of before and afters of our old home (which I cant get to because hubby is sleeping) and the only ideas I could ever find that could be cheaply applied were more for the bathrooms.
So good on you, because I lack any creative remodeling for a kitchen (done cheaply)
I dont have have a single idea of what to do in our present home (not a single thing ever come to me since we moved in). I have never been so clueless, and yet I have remodled an entire house (the one we sold) to buy this one (which I wasnt crazy about)
This current house (because of the layout, and cost to redo because of it) has just stifled all creativity for me. I have been in brainfreeze mode for over ten years, trying to think of something, and I honestly cant think of what I could do inexpensively because anything I could possibly come up with would just cost a mint, and so I have dropped any expectation of ever doing so.
Our floor was coming up in one spot, so I did decided on that fake wood stuff, not sure what its called?
I am perfectly fine with that, I dont need anything expensive. Besides, we live in an earthberm home and we arent covered by insurance (nor can be) for water coming into the home (at ground level) so I figure, why put out the expense for stuff like that if you just like the look of it but the cost makes no sense?
Thats the only thing we ever done in the kitchen is the fake wood stuff on ours
This is not such a good picture but the flooring went from that 99 cent white sticky tile stuff to that fake hardwood floor stuff
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Oh yeah, where the lights are by our brady bunch (style) cabinents, we used to have these waffle house light balls, which everyone made fun of when they come in. They'd say, Hey, waffle house has them ball lights (lol). And we just got rid of those a couple of years ago. Newer lighting, track (within the beam) as well and new fan.
None of our apliances dont match or nothing.
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My husband is in that pic.
So we still have that seventies sorta thing going on and those square pillary things (that conceal pipes) in that island part, those really throw me as to what to do.
We are mostly underground our light coming in from the center of the home, so when you look out from where the light is coming into the ktchen, you see this...
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Its cool during a lightning storm (at night)
But theres nothing out there but a broken wooden toybox filled with plastic water bottles, a dog crate where I hide my mason jars cardboard boxes, and empty birdcage and a table or two really.
Its quite obvious that I dont know what to do with it. So if anyone had cheapy idea (because I am frugal) I might give it a go and post how it turned out myself.
It was built as it was inspired off of a better homes and gardens house back in the 1980's
This is how that magazine lays out their center part
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Which is nicer then what I have done to it (which is nothing) lol
But even then...?
The flooring colors are different from mine because its a northern home, and mine is a southern one, white was chosen to reflect the sun rather then absorb it,
But all I can make out there other then that is a few plants, and if the heat doesnt kill the plants come June/ July, I will just end up killing them.
It will likely stay the semi storage room it is.
Would be nice to add something, if just a litte something I just dont know what,