Have you been following our Beauty on a Small Budget Challenge? If you're just joining us this week, we have teamed
up with CIL Paints in a really cool challenge! Last week we announced the challenge, which involves us creating a small paint project
ourselves using CIL Premium. CIL has invited our readers along, with an
opportunity to win not only some amazing Home Depot gift cards we've been
giving away on Twitter and Instagram, but the chance at winning a grand prize
of a $5000 Home Depot gift card, and an in-home consultation by a design expert
worth $2000! More details at our first blog post here.
So this week, we're cranking things up a notch
offering TWO (2), $250 Home Depot gift cards, in an Instagram contest (details
below). But before we do that, let's announce the winner of last week's
$250 gift card giveaway. Drumroll please....
Congratulations to @Dalhausart!
You're the winner of a $250 Home Depot gift card courtesy of CIL Paints! Please
email us at poppytalkblog@yahoo.ca with your mailing details so we can get that into the
mail for you! Yay!
Now onto this week! We're getting excited to begin
painting our "Beauty on a Small Budget Challenge" project which we've
also come to ask ourselves, why didn't we think of doing this project
before? It's one of those jobs that doesn't take a lot of money,
and because it's paint, can really make a big impact.
Some of you may recall (rewind 6 years ago), we moved
into our townhouse and since we couldn't afford to build the kitchen of our
dreams back then, we installed what we thought of as a "temporary
kitchen" until we could afford what we really wanted. Even though we
thought it was a five-year plan, life gets in the way, and that time has still
not come yet. In fact, sometimes we joke — as design bloggers, our lives are so
involved with projects and blogging and writing about beautiful interiors, that
embarrassingly enough, our own home has been neglected, and unfinished.
But this challenge has been just the kick in the pants
we needed to save a little face (for our upcoming holiday visitors) and now we
can't wait to see the final result. Which is where you come in. We need
your help to pick out a colour for our open shelving. And we have a fun
giveaway as part of it!
To give you a bit of background: When we painted
our kitchen — five years ago, blackboard paint was our jam. We painted
the feature wall with blackboard paint and since then have been contemplating
what to do with it since. We put up some open shelving which we had been
planning to paint as well, but we couldn't commit to a colour, and as
mentioned, things got a little hectic around here, hence unfinished.
To be honest, we'd love to completely re-paint the
entire wall and cupboards (possibly white), put up some subway tile and paint
the cupboards and get a new countertop, but quite frankly, that's a bit
ambitious for us at this time of year. But we do think, if we paint the
shelving, it'll make a big difference and maybe it'll be just the lift to carry
us through the holiday season and until we do have the time and money to get a
little closer to our dream kitchen.
So we ask you. What colour should we paint the open
shelving? Should we really go to the dark side and go black on
black? Or should they be an accent and be all white? Here's
what they look like presently. (Quite frankly, these photos are really
hard to show to you, so PLEASE try to ignore the whole mess, and
especially the black countertops —another thing we temporarily did to save
money and have them in on time for Xmas a few years ago). Long story (but it
boiled down to we couldn't get what we wanted on time as it had to be ordered,
so we went with what was available at the time—black).
Okay, so back to our current challenge. We
could've just painted the blackboard wall white and then painted the shelves
white too, but if we did, we think the black stove that sits above the cupboard
line (another pet peeve), would really pop and be too noticeable. So
we're trying to camouflage it, along with a few other details by using paint
(for now) and some magical styling (later and for the reveal). Yes a bit of a
challenge. So are you up for it? A giveaway is involved if you wish
to participate, all on Instagram, details after the jump!
So here's the deets!
We have TWO (yes two people!) $250 Home Depot gift
cards to give away! To enter, help us decide between two paint colours for our
kitchen open shelving paint project. CIL White on White OR CIL Dark Secret (a black similar to the walls already).
Tell us which colour you think
we should use, and also share a photo on Instagram of the progress you’ve made
on your own #CILPremiumBeauty paint project – whether you’re in the colour
selection process like us or you’ve already started painting with CIL Premium,
we want to know! Please ensure to include the #CILPremiumBeauty hashtag and tag
us @poppytalk too in your caption. Entry open from October 22, 2015 to
11:59 p.m. on November 3, 2015. Two (2) winners will be selected at
random and will be announced on our next CIL blog post on November 4th, 2015
(and on our related Instagram post). Please note this contest is open to
Canadian residents only.
Can't wait to hear your advice and see you on
Instagram! Good Luck!
4 comments:
Is it an older stove? I'd consider spray-painting the top knob plate a dark gray or matte black. It would be easier if you could get it off, but given enough masking tape and plastic protection, you could spray it in situ. There's even heat-resistant spray paint.
Cussot - it's a fairly new stove, but that's not a bad idea, thanks.
The white on white seems like a great idea!
Thanks Hanna - we love white!
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