List Wednesday: Kitchen Update Wishlist

My latest obsession is wanting to do some updates to our kitchen. For how much time we spend in the kitchen, it needs a facelift.

It looked like it had been redone a bit when we bought it (new counter tops, painted cabinets, tile floor). When we first moved in, we painted the walls grey. They had been this gross brown color. We also replaced the weird light fixture and old fan with a new light / fan combo. Gradually, we got all new stainless steel appliances. That's all we did though.

Our kitchen currently (not the best photo)

My Kitchen Update Wishlist:We're still in the researching phases though.

1. Arch over sink
- There's currently a super dated and hideous scalloped edged piece over the sink. I pretty much hate it.

2. Paint the cabinets
- The current cream shade just doesn't work. It looks dingy. Originally we were thinking of painting them espresso, but decided that would make the kitchen look too dark (being that the floors are also dark). Now we're thinking white. It would match the window frame and all the moldings in the room.

Dark cabinets really make a space dark

3. Paint the walls
I like the gray, but if we redo the kitchen, I'd like to switch it up to something lighter that would make the white cabinets really pop. When we were thinking espresso cabinets, I wanted aqua. Now I'm thinking a silver/grey tone.

Love these white cabinets and wall color

The original aqua idea (with dark cabinets)

 4. Add a backsplash
- Love these!

This is the backsplash I'm currently loving

5. Change the light fixture over the sink
- I would like to have some kind of pendant light hanging down. It would look better and give better light.

I love these lights over the island

6. Hardware for cabinets
- Our current cabinets don't have hardware. It looks weird. It also means we scratch the paint opening the cabinets and drawers. We also tend to get them dirty. Hardware would fix this and dress it up. Right now it just looks so uniform and barren.

7. Countertop
- I hate our current counter top. Namely, the back part of it along the wall. Hideous. We're still looking into different possibilities for the counters including butcher block.

8. New faucet
I hate our faucet. It's ugly and there's no inbetween for hot and cold.

9. New sink?
I don't have a problem with our existing sink, so we'll see.

10. New ceiling fan?
- If our current ceiling fan doesn't work with the "look" of the room, we'll get a different one for the kitchen and put the existing one in our bedroom. The fan in there is kind of ugly, even with the new lampshades we put in.