Kitchen Redo, Inspired by Brittany!

Our house is about 100 years old and the owners before us somehow like the knotty pine look and redid the cupboards, and used paneling throughout the house (which we have slowly taken down; paneling: yuck!). So, I have wanted to really give this house its original look. I don't know if the colors were popular during that century, but I like them anyhow. We have taken down all the wallpapers (well, almost) and fixed the plaster and painted. So, we are making head way. Here are a few pictures of the before look. I had already taken off most of the doors, so I didn't get any good pictures, but you will get the idea.

That really big island that was in the middle of the floor, blocking your way to the refrigerator and the pantry, is gone! My burden of it is gone! ~ It just was a junk collector anyhow.

And here are the after pictures. You can't see the antiquing very well, but it is there.

I did my antiquing different than Brittany. She used a glaze, and my husband, the professional painter, brought me regular paint because that is the only way he knew to do it. Seeing as Sherwin-Williams (or anything else at that matter) is 45 min away, I decided to give it a try. I painted the base color a very light cream. Then for my antiquing I used a very light sage green. I painted the light green completely on and then wiped it almost completely off. This allowed the green to go into all the cracks and crevices in this knotty pine wood. It turned out really nice to my surprise, but took a lot of elbow grease, seeing as this paint dried very fast.