Sunday, December 20, 2009

she makes me smile

































So two and a half years ago me and the hubby bought this which I thought was workable at the time until two months later and all the paint on the cabinets was peeling off and the glorious laminate was not sticking anymore it actually looks not too bad in this pic but the gold knobs and the entire house painted in the same white paint was driving me nuts so I painted 5 months pregant nothing was going to stop me from getting ride of the boring white walls but I was so stumped on my kitchen so I went looking on the internet of course for idea's I have this crazy obsession for black furniture and as my mother in says if you stand still long enough Dee Dee my spray paint you. I started my search for pictures of black kitchen cabinets and that's when I feel in love with The Lettered Cottage Layla and Kevin's kitchen inspired me and now over a year later I have my kitchen finished welllllll.............it may never be done something differant come to mind or some of our masterminds in the blog world give me a new idea. So what started as blah to me white is beautiful in many kitchens but not this one it just did not have my personality yet which I will say is not boring at all quite colorful and never ending.....































So these are the pics I took right before we bought the house and after a lot of time, thought and my hubby and his back breaking work .






















See her below...........














































I first fell in love with black cabinetry then it was the beautiful farm house sink that caught my eye and she was a steal at only $317.00 for an undermount stainless steel sink is a crazy deal. I wanted my sink to be a focus point so I ripped out the cabinet above the sink which did cover up part of the window... hello builder what where you thinking???





Then my passion for open cabinets, bead board and wooden brackets which it great when you tell your hubby what you want and an hour later he walks in the house it built......he's my idol. Jason rebuilt this cabinet and added my bead board behind and on both sides

Then came the wall where we had the frig once we moved it in it stuck out so far in the kitchen I told Jason I wanted to make it look more built in so we took the air return from the floor and had it moved up to the ceiling, ripped half the wall out and moved the frig in. I had this idea of a new wall of lower cabinets and raw cedar shelfs with these corbels me and Jason dreamed up at 2 in the morning. Chrismas is at my house every year and I wanted a drink station seperate from the bar where we always serve the food keeps everyone from stepping on each other. So once again Jason went out and built new cabinets that matched what we already had and Voila! Here she is in all her glory she makes me smile each time I walk into the house.

Sunday, September 20, 2009

the start of the new kitchen



So I finally got to get started on the kitchen after 3 yrs of dreaming of doing it is now reality and how crazy is that my hubby has ripped part of a wall out resessed my frig and built new cabinets along the wall where the frig once stood. This week I have primed and painted the new cabinet and hubby put a new countertop on it I love it all it needs now is holes drilled for the new drawer hardware which are fab if I do say so myself. So as soon as the hardware is on I will post the pics of the final product which I am so happy with a little glime of the big picture I am working on and I am so please with the outcome

Monday, May 4, 2009

half a table


This little piece of art "half a table" was the first thing three years ago I had ever painted just gave her a new coat of black I was pregnant the 1st time it was painted and as I looked at it I just wasn't doing her justice so here she is with new do! Need some more decor but I a will work on that.






So over the weekend she started to look a little bit more dressed for the occassion. I think I like it. Yes I know I have no base boards yet but they will hopefully be done soon.




Sunday, April 26, 2009

black cabinets















So for the past year I have said I wanted to paint my kitchen cabitnets black and everyone kept looking at me crazy so I have been searching for some inspiration and The Lettered Cottage gave it to me of course I will put my own crazy spin on things but I love what Layla has done, so add some of my french country/rustic and I will get my kitchen which where I spend most of my time turned into my own little charmer. I started with painting just my small cabinet in the back corner of my kitchen that held my old microwave who will hopefully as of mothers day be gone and my new over the stove matching microwave will magically appear.....anyways, I love it and who knew picking the right black does make a huge differance and I found the perfect black for me so now that little white cabinet houses some of my appliances and has personality behind it's little curtain I just have to cut my corbels for the bottom and paint and add them and it will be complete but OF course I still have the entire kitchen to go!

Steal of the weekend

So we woke up early Saturday morning and went garage sale'n and oh what fun it was we found some great things for my projects to come aka my kitchen oh and some really cute country christmas decor and I got a huge box of it for $5 so cute loved it.

Friday, April 24, 2009

Inspiration

Ok since I have been sick this whole past month........let see bronchitis which led to pnuemonia and then the medicine I was taking made me break out in hives so I have been spending alot of time at home and on the computer.

I have wanted to paint my kitchen cabinets black for a while but needed that little kick in the butt or that pic that I just fell in love with and I did Layla did that for me I love her blog and so my creative mind is going a million miles a moment and there are not enough hours in the day for me to do all I want to get done. One thing about this medicine I am on to get rid of the hives is I don't sleep much which is really rare for me I love my sleep although my 19 month old son doesn't. So here we go!

Hopefully I will be able to post some pics soon we have done alot so far but there is so much more to be done.

DeeDee