Kitchen Tour

A few things have changed in my kitchen since I first revealed it here on the blog back in February of this year.  I figured it was time to take some new pictures.   It's mostly the same, except for a few accessory changes (like the framed print I showed you last week and my brass bear lamp), a new rug for the "working part" of the kitchen, and my new breakfast room table and chairs - oh and the stool I spray painted red.  Enough with the talky-talky - here's how she looks now (as in I took these photos last week).

Okay, wait, let's look at how she looked before we bought the house.  (Humor me  - mmmmkay?)

Then we moved in and gave her a quick makeover.





(Side note: As a blogger it's so hard to look at old posts and see how terrible your pictures were.  Not that I'm any better now  - but geesh!)

Then we had some water issues, ended up having to replace our floors, and decided to give our kitchen a real make-this-kitchen-our-kitchen makeover.





You can read all about the deets involved in this mini-renovation including distressing and adding moulding to our kitchen cabinets, taking a cabinet down to bring in a range hood, adding a back splash, and taking cabinet doors off to build in a microwave and wine cooler in this post here.

And now we're right back where this post originally started.  Here's how she's looking as of last week.

The breakfast room -

Table and Bench - from Pottery Barn, Chairs - from Crate & Barrel

The breakfast room is open to what I call the "working part" of the kitchen.

New Rug  - Ballard Designs (Indoor/Outdoor Rug) 

 The mail center/ drop spot -

Brass Bear Lamp 

From the other direction - 

Little details - 

DIY Gold Leaf Frame

Do your kids love Pirate's Booty as much as mine do? 

That's the end of the tour.......until I make some other changes.  ;) 

It never really ends does it? 

*Linking up at Between Naps on the Porch, Home Stories A to Z, At the Picket Fence