The landlord allowed a renter and her husband to update a dated 1950s kitchen by painting cabinets and backsplash, changing appliances, and adding new flooring. The original space felt dark and tight, with mismatched green and maroon paint, an old floor, and layered paint without prior updates. The vision prioritized a clean, open, whimsical feel while retaining vintage charm and remaining semi-renter friendly. Friends sanded and painted cabinets and walls, added hardware, and a friend installed a new hood to enable repairs. Behr Navajo White brightened cabinets and walls, and a DIY checkerboard backsplash using Navajo White and Kilim Beige made the room pop, proving cost-efficient and boosting confidence for future rentals.
"First, our friends sanded the cabinets and walls down, painted, and added hardware," Cristina explains. She and her husband enlisted their friends The Menas to help with painting, and around this same time, a friend Steve helped install a new hood in the kitchen so that they could paint or fill any accidental holes. The new paint color for the walls and cabinets is Behr's Navajo White.
Cristina painted the existing backsplash tile in a checkerboard pattern herself, and she used Navajo White and Sherwin-Williams' Kilim Beige. 'It was a little risky, but I was just very careful with it,' she says, adding that it was cost-efficient but effective. 'it really made the room pop,' Cristina says, and she's really proud of the DIY skills she learned.
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