Life in an American 4-Square: Working on the kitchen

So our kitchen is old but not original old. My guess based on some of the other stuff that was done to the house is that the kitchen was put in in the early to mid 60s. Thankfully the appliances were installed by the previous owners and they also tiled the floor. While we would love to redo the kitchen over with new cabinets counter tops excreta its just not in our financial means right now. So we're trying to make do with what we have until we can redo it the way we would like.

The kitchen its self is a good size 13 by 10 roughly. However with the door to the back yard and garage on one wall and a small hallway to a powder room on the other the usable space gets a lot smaller. When we moved in the exhaust fan over the stove wasn't working 2 of the 4 drawers were broken and the lazy Susan was stuck closed.

What we started with.

Luckily I've spent my whole life in and around the building trades first with my dad growing up then in my working career in various trades so we don't need to call people in to do things around the house. First order of business was replacing the vent hood. Next up was replacing the broken drawers. My dad was able to find the same style drawer slides that were in the cabinets and built me replacement boxes. I just swapped over the drawer face and pull. We're also not huge fans of the yellow walls in the kitchen so today I painted one of the walls red to see how we like the color and to act as an accent wall. We're still undecided on what to paint the rest of the kitchen. I'd love to hear your ideas