Kitchen Update...continues

 Welcome to my kitchen...

a work in progress.

 We finally got the cabinets in

and my husband finished putting the pulls on last night.

I am HAPPY !

To truly understand how much I'm loving my new counter top,

 

 this is what the old one looked like,

no matter how much I scrubbed and bleached it.

 The cupboards were pressed board,

and were shedding their crumbling ingredients

all over everything inside of them.

 So my Farmer had these made for me

for my Christmas present.

 I struggled with which color to paint them...

 and actually used both.

I succumbed to my love of green,

but then mixed some of the blue with it for a lightly brushed top coat.

I then waxed them with Fiddes and Sons clear and rugger brown wax.

 

 This countertop went through much abuse from me

(you can see that <HERE>)

to get it to look like this:

I'm still in the process of painting all the walls and trim in the kitchen

(walls white; 

trim some green and some white).

 I painted the top cabinets with Annie Sloan's Old White

and a wash of Paris Gray,
(So nice to paint the doors without taking them down!)

Speaking of Annie Sloan's chalk paint,

these two metal buckets are painted in Provence.

I put a plastic bag in each and filled them with potting soil

and put real boxwood cuttings in them.

(My aunt has rooted some this way for me before.)

I love this corner shelf.

 It's fun to change the look up for the seasons...

and fresh flowers are a favorite decoration in any room!

(I adore these "Purple Rooster" Monarda flowers that are new to my flower garden

-also known as Bee Balm-.

They make the word 'pretty' seem too small.)

We have added trim to cover up the screws that the previous ownersused to hang the bead board;...

and this island is finally painted green like the base cabinets;
I supposed I need to take some new pictures.

 I was hoping to make a curtain for the door out of this vintage piece
as well, so...

until next time...

I better get busy,

and

thank you for stopping in!




  

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