It’s time again to enter to win “Love the House You’re In” custom collage by Mel Kolstad. Her latest creation — for last month’s winner, Stacey — is above. Isn’t it amazing…? Imagine what she could do with your house — it’s easy peasy to enter….
To enter this month’s contest, leave a Comment answering the question:
What color paint (or wallpaper design) is on your kitchen walls right now? Optional: Are you happy with it? Please read all the rules here before entering, they all apply.
Just like last month — this contest rewards regular readers, because I’m only leaving it open for 48 hours. I’ll pick a winner on Tuesday morning.
Meanwhile, here is what Mel had to say about her latest creation:
Look at this little gem of a house! When Stacey sent me the photos, I knew instantly how I was going to create the collage. The house and the surroundings have a very “ecclesiastical” feel to them – that’s the only way I can describe it. There is just something so peaceful about this place, which is why I used the calming greens and browns to highlight the house, along with the “overcast” sky. The tiny stones were a wonderful challenge to recreate, too! So there you have it. I don’t want to play favorites but this house was REALLY REALLY fun to do! 😀
Thank you, Ms. Mel. You can experience more of Mel’s world at her blog: Ephemeraology
Error 404 says
One day without warning all of the overhead oak cabinets came crashing down! We lost a lot of glassware, including many unique beer glasses collected whilst living in Belgium. Luckily my poor sister only suffered a concushion. For the new overheads we went with a Eames inspired look with some open shelves, some solid doors in bright colors and some glass fronted doors in several colors to create a sort of vintage patchwork look. The walk behind the cabinets we painted a complimentary light grey called “sidewalk” that seems very MCM. We used Ben Moore no VOC which I highly recomend spending the extra few bucks on.
error404 says
sorry, meant “the WALL behind the cabinets” not WALK. 🙁
ahywho, here are some “before” and “after” pics… sorta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T05r5Fsi7Rs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO-ncpnUTL4
Lauren says
It’s a cucumber green. I really wanted mint or a grass green, but both were too much for my fiance, so cucumber was the compromise. It’s funny because after I painted it, I had that moment from that commercial where I called my mom sooo upset because “it’s really green”! When we finally got my AWESOME midecentury overhead light up in the next room, it balanced out the kitchen color, since they’re almost the same shade of green. I love it now!!
Vanessa Bugge says
My kitchen paint is called Tortilla, or is it Buckwheat? Either way it’s a disappearing beige, now before you groan and think ewww, the house is actually craftsman style and has pinkish cabinets that are maple with a “pearl” finish that makes them lean strongly in a pink direction. The good part of that is I can put all sorts of cool pink kitchen stuff in there and it looks good. So I can use what I love from all Eras.
Now If you don’t want to choose me on account of my craftsman style house to represent your MCMod-est blog then I completely understand and will willingly retract my entry. Really.
I do love Mel’s collage work so tell her she’s got a fan and I’d love to see what she’d do with my house. 🙂
Thanks Pam!
V~
Mel says
Thank you so much, Vanessa! 😀 I appreciate that so much! 😀
Charlotte says
Ooh, this is a question I’m excited to answer! The kitchen is my proud DIY. The previous owner of my place had painted the wood cabinets an awful sage green and walls were a pleasant but bland yellow. I repainted all the cabinets white and did the walls a gorgeous color called tame teal from Sherwin-Williams. It’s so cheery now, and very retro! Painting was a ton of work but well worth it!
Josey says
My kitchen walls are yellow plastic tile!!!I cleaned them up and put white caulking in between to brighten everything, and they look amazing!
Jennifer says
Before we remodeled our kitchen I found wallpaper I loved. Unfortunately when we finally could afford toremodel the paper was discontinued. I was able to convince a wallpaper store employee who kept old wallpaper books in her storage unit to dig it out and was able to order directly from the distributor. The wallpaper has a cream background with a diagonal pattern of black vintage kitchen appliances. I love the way it turned out
Katy says
The walls of my kitchen are a funky green color that I matched to a toaster we own.
Betsy says
The walls are a warm beige. We chose color this to set off the tile mosaic backsplash. We handcrafted and glazed the tiles (and designed the mosaic) to add color and personality to our remodeled 1955 ranch kitchen.
Suzanne Sims says
My kitchen is painted sort of the color of this text box, which has a yellowish- beigeish hue. I am not thrilled with it, but since I just moved in, changing it is very low on my list of priorities. My house is a modern ranch built in 1956. The kitchen is vintage with knotty pine (original!) cabinets and the original linen linoleum countertops complete with red/stainless border strips. Aside from the dull paint color on the walls, my kitchen is awesome! If it had plaid wallpaper, it would be very similar to Betty Draper’s. 🙂
Jenny says
Our house is a 1956 modern ranch, as well. You are so lucky that the cabinets, etc. are original. Somewhere along the line, there was a remodel in our kitchen, probably in the late 70’s or early 80’s. It’s not bad and I’ve managed to work with it, but I sure would have loved to have seen the original kitchen. There’s a lot of knotty pine in our basement “club room” (or man cave as my love has claimed it to be), so I’m wondering if that extended into the kitchen? Unfortunately, I’ll never know.
Jana says
I couldn’t afford to replace the dark (and peeling) cheap walnut laminate cabinets in my small 1969 ranch when I moved in, so I decided on glue and paint to start the kitchen restoration. My cabinets are now a cheery yellow with 1930’s red bakelite handles I found at Rejuvenation . One wall of my kitchen was covered with dark and damaged walnut paneling, so I sanded and filled the scratches and holes and painted that wall a matching yellow too. I then found several rolls of cute wallpaper border from the 1940’s (red, blue, white and yellow flowers) on ebay and used that along with a roll of red and white checkered wallpaper border that covers the other three walls of the kitchen along the tops of the cabinets. The rest of the kitchen walls between the cabinets and my harvest gold counter top are white. I really like my kitchen because it is bright, warm and cheerful. I didn’t realize it at first, but when I finished my first retro renovation project, I had pretty much created a kitchen very much like the one from my childhood. 🙂