Guest Picks: 19 Kitchen Upgrades for When You Can’t Afford an Overhaul

Guest Picks: 19 Kitchen Upgrades for When You Can’t Afford an Overhaul (19 photos)

With her down-to-earth approach to food, and a dash or two of snark, Liza enjoys eating, reading, cooking, dining and writing on a daily basis. By day, she’s an insurance professional, by night she gracefully (or not sometimes) barrels through life keeping up with her blog (a)Musing Foodie, other freelance writing jobs, non-profit work, Twitter and Facebook, her kids, her husband, and whatever else happens to fill her plate. Read her blog here: http://www.aMusingFoodie.com
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My husband and I have owned two houses together. The first one was built in 1953 and had all of the age and none of the charm of the era in the kitchen: old wooden cabinets, cheap linoleum over the old original flooring, a rusting metal sink – you get the picture.
Our second house was built in 1990, and while a few of the appliances had been updated before we moved in, it still had many of the just-out-of-the-’80s touches you’d expect in a kitchen from 23 years ago: dark wood cabinets with brass pulls, a builder’s-grade drippy faucet, cream vinyl one-piece flooring and the original paint.
In both cases my husband and I wanted to add some kitchen updates, but we were on a tight budget. Instead of major overhauls, we used accents and accessories to modernize the outdated kitchens, and they worked well. Hopefully you can find some of these ideas as useful and budget friendly as we have over the years! – Liza from (a)Musing Foodie

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