Save money on a new kitchenWhen homeowner Emily Murray of The Pink House blog did up her four-bedroom terraced house in Edinburgh, she spent her money wisely. Though the home underwent a big renovation, nothing was done for the sake of having something new. The kitchen illustrates this perfectly – and stylishly. The existing kitchen units were in good shape, so after living with them for a while, Murray decided to just give the lower cupboards a makeover with a coat of black paint and gold hardware.She also found that repainting the walls made a big difference to how the room felt, too. When she and her family moved in, the ground-floor rooms were all painted white. “I wasn’t sure if I should leave this initially,” she says, “but I finally took the plunge and painted the walls Manor House Gray. As soon as I’d painted them, the room just came alive. The colour highlighted the beautiful windows, and everything else in the room suddenly sang out.”Check out the rest of this creatively put-together home
Save money on a new kitchenWhen homeowner Emily Murray of The Pink House blog did up her four-bedroom terraced house in Edinburgh, she spent her money wisely. Though the home underwent a big renovation, nothing was done for the sake of having something new. The kitchen illustrates this perfectly – and stylishly. The existing kitchen units were in good shape, so after living with them for a while, Murray decided to just give the lower cupboards a makeover with a coat of black paint and gold hardware.She also found that repainting the walls made a big difference to how the room felt, too. When she and her family moved in, the ground-floor rooms were all painted white. “I wasn’t sure if I should leave this initially,” she says, “but I finally took the plunge and painted the walls Manor House Gray. As soon as I’d painted them, the room just came alive. The colour highlighted the beautiful windows, and everything else in the room suddenly sang out.”Check out the rest of this creatively put-together home
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