Lightening up

Now that I finally finished up the kitchen cabinets, I can share another update that I made a month or so ago.  Why the delay?  Because I'm incredibly vain, and I've been waiting to show it until I could take some nice pictures after all the painting was done.

It's a mirror!  (I mean, obviously it's a mirror - I just meant that to convey my excitement about it.)  I decided to add it at the same time I decided to paint the cabinets, because I thought that, along with the white paint, it would help with lightening up the kitchen.  Look at all that beautiful light!

It certainly makes for a nice change from the old set-up, which looked like this:

God, it's SO BLAND!!  I can't get over how long I lived with it like that.  Okay, just one more ugly picture and then back to the prettiness.

As much as I liked that Asian-y design thing I had on the wall before, I think the scale of the mirror is so much better, and having that extra depth in the room is really nice.  Not to mention the difference I think it makes with the light.

I also like how the shape kind of ties in with the rug in the living room.

Things are looking good around here, folks.