Kitchen
I just upgraded my flickr, so I can start posting photos again. I am currently obsessed with my kitchen door. A few weeks ago I bought a map (sold as art paper at a local art supply shop) and mounted it to black tagboard, which I mounted to the insert in the door. I used a placemat I got at Gooodwill as the curtain, and I spray painted the curtain rod black. I realized that when I move out, I am okay with doing a little painting, and damnit if the door wouldn't look a hundred times better with black trim. I love it, sometimes I just stand there and stare at the door.




The kitchen is far from done, but it's coming along. It's really ugly, so I'm just going balls to walls with kitsch. Preferably of the wood plaque variety. Basically, I'm just cramming my kitchen walls full with this stuff. I don't have everything up yet, so there are some holes, but here's the idea:



I stained my cabinet doors and they look five million times better. Now I just need to stain the build-in parts, I just need a day nice enough I can open up the rest of the house so the fumes don't kill me...

Also, because we have a basement apartment, we have basically a 1' x 1' block running around the entire outside wall, covering up (I'm assuming) some pipes or ducting. So in the kitchen, as you can see, there's about a foot above the door and the cabinets. I decided it needed some molding, but I didn't want boring molding; I wanted it to go with the crazy kitsch of the kitchen. So I bought balsa wood strips that are 3 feet long by 4 inches tall and used Mod Podge to collage them, then I nailed them up.





Some close ups (click for larger view and link to the set)


Many of the images I used for the collage came from a discarded informational book for the Maryland Institute College of Art that I found on the street, which contained a bunch of prints of student artwork. I bet some people here went there, so maybe a piece of your art or someone you know is my collage (I throw that out there just in case that happens, it won't be so weird. Even though it would be pretty weird).

Anyway, that's my kitchen so far. Far from done, but better than it was.