A Plain Kitchen Gets the Cheeriest Peach Makeover (The Cabinets Stayed!)
The most important part of designing your home? Making sure you love it and that it reflects your personal style, whether that’s vintage, maximalist, organic, or something else entirely. Artist Georgie Webster and her boyfriend have firsthand experience with renovating to suit their style after having tackled their plain and boring apartment kitchen.
“We love color, and our living room was bursting with it. The kitchen is off the living room, so when you walked into it, it felt like you’d accidentally walked into the wrong flat,” she says. “It was just like every boring rental kitchen we’d ever had previously. Now [that] we owned our place, we could finally make a kitchen our own.”
Read on to find out how the couple gave their rental-grade kitchen a bright peach makeover.
Fresh color transformed the cabinets.
To start, Georgie stripped her cupboards, primed them, then painted with two coats of eggshell on top.
“Strip the laminate off your cupboards first,” she recommends. “The finish was much nicer and has held [up] really well.”
Georgie also color drenched the walls, ceiling, and woodwork in the same peachy shade of paint — Coat Paint’s “Felt Cute,” to be precise — “to soften the edges and make the space appear bigger.”
The new hardware is a cheery lavender tone, and includes simple knobs as well as whimsically wavy oversized pulls.
A new floor was the biggest-impact change.
Next, Georgie decided to lay the peachy new flooring herself, which she described as a “hard” task that “made the biggest difference.”
“Laying your own floor is possible, but have a lot of time and patience on your hands,” she advises.
The countertop got a temporary makeover, too.
To finish off their renovation, the couple wrapped their kitchen countertop in vinyl, replacing its original black shade while they save up for a new countertop altogether. However, Georgie notes that this DIY solution isn’t permanent.
“[I thought] that the vinyl would be okay for a full year before needing replacing,” she says. “It has a tiny hole already!” For a temporary aesthetic upgrade, though, it’s getting the job done.
All in all, the duo are satisfied with the personalized touches that their kitchen now has as a result, and say that it’s much more in line with their style.
“It feels like us!” Georgie says. “I really wanted a peachy kitchen, and that’s what we’ve managed to create.”