I promised before and after pictures of my kitchen quite awhile ago now.  Time goes way to fast.  We have not finished the window nor have we gotten outlet and switch plate covers.  Here is the best photo I could find showing our wall before we painted. 

The walls are nasty from the tile that used to be there.  There are holes in the walls from the electrician putting in new outlets.  But this is how we left it for a whole year before we finally got around to painting.  This is what it looks like now. 

Why, you ask, did we wait a year to paint?  Partly because we are lazy, but mostly because of our kitchen remodling fiasco.  After two years of living with this:

(We have the table in there for counter space.) 

we decided to go to Home Depot and get a new kitchen.  I had been living with a dishwasher that rarely got the dishes clean, a sink that was only 3 inches deep, a stove with only two working burners, no counters, and hardly any cabinets.  And after TWO (yes two) months of living without a kitchen - and it was supposed to take 9 DAYS mind you, I was glad to have a kitchen, even if it had nasty walls.  We were sooo done with messes, we just wanted to live again.  Here is our kitchen today:

(blue tape for painting window sill... not blue windows...)

(by the way, sugar is bad for you!  We leave notes on the fridge for one another and mess with them through out the day for fun)

I LOVE MY KITCHEN!