Since it will be years before I can gut the kitchen and start all over and I couldn't stand looking at it another minute, I've spent the last 2 months or so doing an update on a budget. Total spent was $500, but $300 of that was the floor and that was paid for by a gift card for switching back to Verizon Fios (Thank you Verizon!)
Most of my time was spent on repairs...crumbling wall behind the stove, caulking gaps and cracks, stripping and repainting cabinets. The people I bought the house from slapped some paint on the cabinets and never primed them first. So every time I touched a cabinets, the paint came off in strips. The cabinets are from 1969 and are cherry but they were too far gone to do anything other than re-paint them.
Most of my time was spent on repairs...crumbling wall behind the stove, caulking gaps and cracks, stripping and repainting cabinets. The people I bought the house from slapped some paint on the cabinets and never primed them first. So every time I touched a cabinets, the paint came off in strips. The cabinets are from 1969 and are cherry but they were too far gone to do anything other than re-paint them.
