Kitchen Remodel

This is what we have been doing for the past two weeks. Finally after 7 years, I was able to remodel the kitchen. I have been collecting things here and there for quite some time. Here are some pictures. We put beadboard on the cabinet fronts and then painted them parchment paper is what the paint was called. I found knobs and draw pulls on sale and added those. I still have some of my mom's teapots, just not as many. I had plenty of baskets. Below is a good picture of the backsplash. I had bought a roll of wallpaper a long time ago (in anticipation of someday redoing the kitchen) that looks like a tin ceiling. I painted it gray first and then sponged black and then silver to make it look like tin. We took out the big black microwave and replaced it with just a rangehood.
I wanted to keep some of the oak on the cabinets because I wasn't going to get rid of this. It is the Hoosier Cabinet that was in my grandma's kitchen in Iowa. It made it's way all the way back to Indiana. The plaque on the front says Elwood, Indiana, where most Hoosier cabinets were made. Tom always likes to tell his story of it taking him a year to strip the white paint off of it. He did a good job.

I found the curtains at Old Time Pottery. They were a shower curtain and placemats. I could only find one shower curtain, so I had to piece them together. I looked them up on the internet and it would have been an arm and a leg for just a shower curtain at another store. Tom calls them Frankencurtains (like Frankenstein). I thought they turned out nice.
The top is painted a homespun linen and the bottom is cherry cobbler. Those sound like good kitchen colors. ;-)

Oh, and Tom about broke his back putting down the new floor. (he's okay now)

Here is the finished product.