A Few Simple Yet Dramatic Changes For a Rental Kitchen

Cambria Bold
Cambria Bold
Cambria Bold is the Executive Editor of Cubby, and one of Apartment Therapy Media’s first full-time editors from way back when. She was the founding Design and Lifestyle Editor for Kitchn and the Managing Editor for Apartment Therapy’s green living site, Re-Nest (RIP). After a few years offline and then working elsewhere, she’s back to share ideas about design, kids, and family life. It’s helpful that she now has two little kids and lots of thoughts about all those things. She lives with said kids and their father in St. Paul, MN.
published Jun 20, 2014
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(Image credit: Natalie Grasso)

Kerra’s tiny Washington, D.C. kitchen was “the worst room in the apartment” before she made a few simple DIY changes — and now it’s the room she’s most proud of! Here’s what she did:

(Image credit: Natalie Grasso)

Kerra took the doors off the cabinets, painted the walls and cabinet interiors in Rustoleum black chalkboard paint, and covered the refrigerator with contact paper. As she tells Apartment Therapy: “Adding the graphic contact paper to the fridge and taking the doors off the cabinets completely transformed the space. And everyone thought I was CRAZY when I said I wanted to paint the walls black, but it totally works.”

It really does make the kitchen much more fun and interesting!

Read More → Kerra’s Picture-Perfect Perch at Apartment Therapy

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