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"THE UGLY KITCHEN"- A photo essay by Terzaghi

Lots of pics here so dial up users beware

OK, so I caught some flac from several of you guys when I posted my axiom setup pics. Many people did not like my floral wallpaper which was a lovely shade of puke green. I thought It would be good to post pics of my weekend project so everyone can get the visions of that horrible paper out of their heads.

Anyway, My girlfriend and I had been living with this wallpaper since August and this weekend I decided "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH". (And my land lord finally decided to pay me for the work).

Here is the picture of how my kitchen used to look:





We have been saying all along that this wallpaper must have been put up when the house was built because it is the ugliest wallpaper we have ever seen... Well I was wrong. Look at what was underneath the green stuff:








I was surprised at how easy the green stuff came off, but I knew this uglier layer was going to be hard to remove. Apparently the previous owners of this house were blind and wanted to torture everyone with vision. Not only was it ugly, but it appeared to be applied with some industrial strength adhesive that would NOT come off. The pics show that I was indeed correct:







So I realized the next best thing to do was prime the wallpaper with oil-base and mud the seams:








And by 10:30pm the next day we have a new kitchen!:












We are going to get some new curtains (The old ones were nice and green as well) and a new kitchen table on Thursday.

Next on the list will be to replace the light fixture and the tile.

Much better!

Much, much better. You are right the underlying wallpaper was even uglier.

Er... which one is the before and after... ? Kidding! Looks better.

Looks great ... the only thing *I'd* personally change out is the yellowish looking light switch plate for a bright white plate, it would blend so much better with the room. (IMO)

The pictures don't show it, but if you have more than one of these plates I'd replace them all with the white plates ... but then agian, that's just me.

Very nice! Pale yellow is a great color for a kitchen. Thanks for taking the pictures.

So, when are you going to replace that ugly ceiling light?

Rick, I think those wall plates are of the builder beige variety and the switch itself would also need to be changed out for a white one.

I could easily put on a white switch plate, but as jakewash said the actually switches are beige.

The color of the wall is actually antique white, but against the white trim and with the camera lighting it makes it look darker/more yellow than it really is.

The white trim paint (ibis white) and the antique wall paint is what I had on hand, so that is what I used


Since I am renting the house I am not going to remodel everything to my liking. I just want to update a few things while I am here to make my stay more enjoyable. The more my land lord agrees to pay me for fixing things up, the more I am willing to fix

Geez, I forgot, A job well done, looks very nice.

Your work made a big improvement, looks nice. I've always been amazed by the number of ugly wallpaper patterns that have been produced.