Hot pink kitchen makeover

Diana at our city lights painted her kitchen pink, and not just any pink - hot pink. As the least favourite room to spend time in she decided to paint it her favourite colour.

 

Ok, so my kitchen is pink. Not just any pink - hot pink. Being a homeowner gives me the freedom to do whatever I want, and that freedom allows colouring a room any colour the rainbow produces.

The kitchen is my least favourite room to spend in, so I made it my favorite colour.

The kitchen before wasn’t awful - but there was so much grease and gunk on each tile when we moved in, along with vinyl flooring from the 70′s with a funky smell. There were also broken pieces of countertop tiles, and when we tried to open a drawer we would cut our wrists each time. We couldn’t avoid it, it was just dangerous tile sticking out.

We also changed the sink from a standard sink to a farmhouse sink, which we found on sale for half of what it sells. The original plan was to have the countertops go from grimy tile to quartz. The reason we chose quartz is because it’s easier to maintain over the years, it can be used as a cutting board, and it doesn’t stain.

We used to have granite countertops in our apartment and marble in the bathroom and that was a terrible experience. I chose a pink quartz, but after seeing the colour in the factory - in the sunlight - it wasn’t what I expected.

Since quartz is expensive to replace, we decided to go with white. It seemed a little too science room lab for us, and we needed to colour the cabinets. I’d love an all white kitchen one day, but that day was not the day! The colour we chose was in the raspberry family from a non-VOC paint company.

We also re-did the floors to an organic bamboo laminate floor. It didn’t have a funky smell and it was the most eco friendly we could find on the market, so we went for a white-washed wooden look. It’s waterproof, so when it gets wet it won’t expand and do that nasty thing cheap laminate does.

The back tile is basic subway tile. I wanted tiles I could splash with a mess and wipe off and not worry what stained.

We bought the house in July, got the keys in August and after a few pink cans of paint, we finished our kitchen last October.