Kitchen Update

When we moved into our house, nearly all of the rooms were wallpapered.  Luckily, it was fairly neutral and nothing too horrible, just not our taste.  We knew that eventually we'd want to remove it and paint, but with a baby on the way, we held off the rooms that weren't as essential, like the kitchen.

That "baby" is the one who actually prompted us to start the wall paper removal in the kitchen when she found small loose sections of wall paper and began to rip them off herself!  So, we decided that we'd better just go ahead and make that a spring project.  Below are a couple "before" pictures of the checkered green and white wall paper and the apple border.  There are also some "during" pictures of the layers being removed.  Now we just have to have it painted--we're thinking something in the yellowy, goldeny family.....

 eat-in kitchen area with pantry cabinet and laundry closet

 wallpaper in between pantry and door leading to back patio

(notice the apples are even on the light switches!)

 our starter attempts at removing the wallpaper on our own
in between back door and basement door

 view looking toward front of the house from the eat-in area

 main kitchen area

 a pantry and fridge area

 removal of the first layer of wallpaper

 first layer gone

(We're either going to replace the laundry closet doors or repaint them without the fruit border)

 second layer removed

 no turning back now!

 protecting the kitchen counters and appliances

wallpaper is gone