I Want A Pink Kitchen!

What’s wrong with me? I see a picture on another blog of a kitchen from the 1940’s all done up in pink and I want it!
Now my home is not pastels at all! My colors are more Tuscany, shades of gold, rust, brown, green, with not a pale blue or pastel pink in sight.
My kitchen is definitely not conducive to pastel pink! I was all about the ginger, terracotta, yellow, and gold when we did our kitchen remodel. Our counter tops are dark granite, our kitchen walls are a faux finish in shades of brown and gold. Now how am I going to incorporate pink into this palette?
That’s going to be my mission over the next few weeks, to give my kitchen a little summer pick-me-up with touches of pink added here and there.

While shopping with my friend Barbara last week I saw so many pink dishes, pink appliances, pink mixing bowls, pink utensils, and other pink kitchen gadgets in the household department of the store we were in and I said to Barbara, “Oh, I wish I had done my kitchen in a shabby chic décor!” I do love that shabby chic approach to design, and while I have been slowly redecorating with that theme in mind, I did not favor the pastel colors in my decorating.
Now I want to surround myself with baby blue, mint green, blush pink, and the creamiest of yellows and palest violet.

I’m in one of my “Let’s re-do everything!” moods, and my husband is running for cover! So I’m going to try to be good. I’m going to do a mini re-do of some things in the house. I would like to lighten and brighten things up though, our house is a very dark house, so going with brighter, lighter colors would help. But I’m going to reign in my enthusiasm and stick to small projects, and I’ll try making the ‘old’ look ‘new’ again. First on my agenda is the kitchen and I will be thinking in pink!