Kitchen Update

On a recent trip to Goodwill I picked up a darling bakers rack. My intention was to use it outside for potted plants. I then began to look around my kitchen, the one room in my house that has never been updated. I think I always thought I will just wait to do anything in there until I could get new cabinets, new counter tops, etc. Well, wait no longer. I am going to update on the cheap! I began to brainstorm how I could fix it up a bit. I got the idea to pull off a twelve inch wide counter on my "free" wall and then would be able to put the bakers rack there instead of outside. I then got very excited to get going on my new project!
The next day I decided to paint the yellow bakers rack red. I then went to buy some paint as something had to be done with these white walls!
The next day I pulled off the counter, sanded, spackled, and sanded some more. Phil helped me paint and within two days the kitchen looked totally different. I don't know why I waited so long to do something with the room I spend the most time in!

I am very pleased with how it all turned out. My mom is going to come up and help me tackle painting the cabinets when the weather warms up a bit and then it will really look smashing!

I realized after the fact that I should have taken "before" photos but here are a few "after" ones.