Fall 2020 ORC Week Two: Modern Vintage Kitchen

 

Fall 2020 ORC Week Two: Modern Vintage Kitchen

It’s only week two of the One Room Challenge and my husband is already wishing his covid-related paid leave from the airlines was over.

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He was living his best life this summer…road tripping…vacationing…and then we got home and he became my tile guy. And my electrician. And my plumber. And my carpenter.

Despite being paid in sex, he still thinks he’s grossly underpaid…especially when it comes to dealing with dark grout.

In case you are just joining….The One Room Challenge is a Bi-annual event hosted by Linda from Calling it Home and Better Homes and Gardens (thank you guys!) Designers from around the country/globe have 6 weeks to transform a room…documenting the whole process.

To see our design plans and all the before pictures, see our Week One post here.

Background on Design

I forgot to mention last week - While we own this house, we aren’t planning on staying in it forever, and will probably rent it out in the next few years. Hence, we are trying to update the spaces without ripping everything out, because A) that’s a lot of money & B) the kitchen is brand new…so it seems pretty wasteful.

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Update

We got a lot done this week (by we I mean the husband, the tile guy).

The half bath off the kitchen is almost done…..still waiting for some wallpaper to go up in there and I want to paint the faucet, but may not because I’m lazy.

The husband has spent the last week tiling the floors and walls of the bath- he’s just putting the sink and toilet back in place as I type. Fingers crossed the toilet doesn’t leak.

“Whose idea was it to do black grout? I would charge 3 times as much to do this. This is ridiculous.” he complains.

The husband is not a fan of my design asks.

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The cutest tile guy in the world right here. He just wants to play with all the sharp tools…he’s never happier than when walking around with something that could dismember him or poke out his eye.

Sooooooo….about those design plans I mentioned the first week? The whole “painting the kitchen cabinets green,” thing? Well, I got a bunch of samples…and while I absolutely loved every shade of green I picked out…I didn’t love it in the space.

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Sooooo….I did a 180 degrees and decided to go the yellowish-gold route for the lower kitchen cabinets.

The trick is the floor which has yellow/orange/honey tones in it and I don’t want the cabinets to be an extension of the floor. So I got the wallpaper out, my paint decks and went to town.

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And then I picked up 49 yellow paint samples to try to get an idea of which route I wanted to go. I’m pretty sure the paint store people thought I was nuts.

And they wouldn’t be entirely wrong.

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I very easily cut 4 of the colors out of the running, and kept two in my kitchen for the last 5 days staring at them morning and night and deciding which I liked better.

After painting the top two contenders on some large cardboard and keeping those in the kitchen, I decided to go with the darker yellow on the right- Benjamin Moore Renaissance Gold.

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The yellow on the left is Benjamin Moore Hollywood Gold, and I liked the name of that one better…but alas, I’m not a hollywood girl so it only makes sense.

What are your thoughts? Are you disappointed I didn’t stick with the green?

Stay Tuned next week for week 3 of the One Room Challenge.

Don’t forget to check out all the featured designers and the other guest designers and see some really cool fun stuff!