Amber Paints Her Kitchen

Amber painted her kitchen and "it made a world of difference." She sent us these photos of her old space, and her bright new space.

Here is the before:

& after:

The paint color is Grand Hotel Awning Yellow, from Lowe's.

Thanks, Amber!

Comments (13)

Amber painted her kitchen amber!

posted by Melinda on 2006-01-27 11:17:01

i like the hockney styled pics.

posted by dani on 2006-01-27 11:24:24

I like those gigantic letters and numbers. Where are those from or are they handpainted?

posted by Christy on 2006-01-27 13:07:38

Christy, it's actually one piece, printed on sticky-back vinyl on a wide-format printer. I just designed the piece in Illustrator and printed it out.

posted by Amber on 2006-01-27 13:22:48

Very clever. Do you know where the non-new yorker masses can get some of that stuff?

posted by Christy on 2006-01-27 14:36:21

Well, I'm not in New York, I'm in Norfolk, VA. I'm lucky enough that we have a wide-format printer and some scraps of it at my work... so I didn't have to shell out any $. But I know for a fact that Kinkos will do vinyl window stickers (same thing). A lot of signmakers do this kind of thing too, so support the little guy if you can and get it from one of the family-owned joints. They will probably want an .eps file (from Illustrator or Freehand), or a really hi-res .tif file. But talk to the vendor you choose and they'll tell you what they need.

posted by Amber on 2006-01-27 15:12:14

I wouldn't have picked the yellow myself...but it looks FAB! Congratulations.

posted by Hawxy on 2006-01-28 09:22:19

P.S.
Try www.wallwords.com for terrific lettering made from truck lettering that comes off without leaving any marks and is available is many fonts...it looks like handpainted. Prices are reasonable too.

posted by Hawxy on 2006-01-28 09:26:18

very very cool, love the white as a accent now! makes the sink art pop!

i think yellows the new orange

mod on.

posted by ModDog on 2006-01-30 13:45:53

I'd like to see the colour in daylight. Yellow can be tricky that way.

posted by Paolo on 2006-01-31 09:22:11

I just painted my son's bedroom the exact same color! Weird. But it looks great in her kitchen too.

posted by Shawn Lea on 2006-01-31 10:45:24

Paolo, the color on that right wall is VERY accurate. I'm convinced I found the perfect golden-yellow. Hah.

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