We are back in business to continue the house tour! Remember when I began it in the living room since it is the first room when you enter the house? It also gave me the opportunity to show off my newest organization project with the entry closet. The living room and the kitchen are partially open to each other, so it is the natural next step in the house tour. It is also the room that most dates the house!
Here we go…walking into the kitchen from the living room. Behold the yellow tones galore!
Welcome! You have arrived! Although it is outdated, we don’t have the heart to paint over the real (meaning not particle board), quality wood cabinets. Well not yet. The years are starting to show wear in some places.
One of my favorite things about the kitchen? Our trash compactor (minus its pea green color). Although I do have a black can of appliance spray painting waiting for spring months to make it less 60s and match our other appliances.
We are definitely people who like to decorate with pictures and items that mean a lot to us. We try not to be generic. This red board from Ikea was a perfect fit in this nook to put some fun things on.
How have a lived without a wall oven my entire life before this house? I LOVE a wall oven and never want to be without one. I actually love the older look of this stove. We will keep it until it completely dies. As for the stove top, I am itching to switch that out for a flat top.
Ahh, the best view of the kitchen. I love how HUGE and mostly OPEN our kitchen is. There is no lack of counter space and prep room. It is awesome! I love our kitchen so much. As I am a girl of the 21st century I freely admit that I like to watch TV as a prepare food. Our TV actually swivels and you can see it in the kitchen and living room. This space also provides an amazing place for entertaining. It allows flow between the kitchen and living room but enough division if people want to do entirely two different activities (Think Super Bowl parties. Ladies in the kitchen who can watch it they want to but mostly gabbing instead, while the fellows are in the living room watching the game. Perfection!)
Nothing beats an eat-in kitchen. This is also Eric’s grandmother’s dining set passed down to him. Yes, that is a small evergreen tree with lights on it that we keep up all year round. It’s NOT a Christmas tree.
So what do you think if we ever get to do a full gut (in my dreams) or more realistically paint the cabinets and maybe even the counters. Light cabinets and dark counters? Or dark cabinets with light counter tops? Or maybe two tone with a different color on some of the cabinets?
That is a christmas tree. I know your husband's unnatural love for christmas.-j
Haha. That is mostly true for the rest of the world. It's only a Christmas tree when we put ornaments on it in our household.
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