Sunday, May 15, 2011

New and improved, saying "Thank you very much."

   In the light of remodeling my apartment, I decided to try something different with the crazy, clutter of a mess, that I was calling my kitchen cabinets. The rickety cabinet doors hid an unorganized chaos, consisting of wacky mugs, random tuber ware, and mismatched plate sets. Tired of fighting falling tuper ware, and embarrassed to have to offer a Santa mug to guest, I decided an improvement was greatly needed. While brainstorming ideas, I came across the idea on a friends interior design blog. Inspired, and ready for change, I thought i'd take a stab at the suggested cure to a crazy cabinet. My experience went a little something like this:

Phase one: Admit you have a problem.

Phase two: Bust out the big guns and take off the cabinet doors. (Keep your screws together, you never know when you might need them again.)

Phase three: This is the only screw that it standing in the way of taking the door off, super easy stuff

Phase four: Remove everything from the cabinet, this way you can go through everything you have and donate, trash, or box up what you don't use. I suggest keeping your sets together.

Phase five: Choose a fancy wallpaper that suits the colors of your kitchen, or plate ware, best.

Phase six: This is the pattern I chose, i lucked out and got it ON SALE at WORLD MARKET, double win. I chose this particular color scheme to go with the eggplant plate set I got from the goodwill. 
*FYI: The goodwill can have great plate,bowl,and cup sets for cheap, if you're lacking or looking)
Measure and cut out the right amount of paper to fit inside of your cabinet, I put paper on the dividers of the outside of my cabinets for a more dramatic effect. 
 By picking such a diverse pattern, I gave myself room to keep a lot of my old red,black,and green kitchen ware, on top of my new eggplant set, which I'm extremely proud of.

Phase eight: Enjoy the results


 A closer look



I'm extremely happy with the way it turned out, everything looks much more put together and I no longer need to direct guests to where they can find plates or cups.

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