My New Italian Kitchen!

I painted the kitchen on Monday and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!! Ever since serving a mission in Italy, I decided I wanted an Italian theme kitchen. I finally got my wish. The day started with me going to Lowes at 7 am to pick up a ton of stuff for the house. Trim for all of the new doors, plus other decorative wood blocks for them, new vents, paint, etc. I was there forever. I got home, put Anna down for a nap and start painting. The kitchen was so easy compared to Anna's room. The big stuff didn't take too long. It was the trim on the top and bottom, and touchups that seriously took as long, if not longer, than the actual painting of the kitchen. I still need to do some touchups on the bottom, at the floor boards, but I'll get to that later. 

Then today, I went to Michaels to get the wall shelves I found there last week. They are perfect, exactly what I wanted. AND I had two 50% off coupons, so I got them both for half price. I also picked up two black frames, that were 40% off their original price, for some Italian-type prints that I have. We got them up and it looks so good! The pictures don't quite do it justice. It looks a lot better in person. If you click on the picture to enlarge it, I think it will look better. I keep looking in the kitchen and just smiling because it looks so much nicer than it did previously. I'm just so happy that we finally got it done. I've been waiting 8 months for this to happen. 

We're eventually going to put in a new chandelier, but we have to do some rewiring. The one there is really ugly. 




I'm going to put some stuff up between the window and cabinet, as well as above the stove. 

I've also decided I'm going to put up wine red curtains on the windows and sliding glass door. Plus, I'm going to recover our dining room chairs in a similar color. I think the red will really help to give some contrast. I'm also going to buy some black vinyl and put up different sayings. I think it will be really cute. It's not quite finished, but I'm just so happy with it. Now, on Thursday we're going to paint the living room and I'll post pictures of that.