A Little Room Off My Kitchen and Attic Treasures

I have a little room off of the kitchen which has been neglected since I moved in to this 1920's farmhouse. It needs new flooring but I love the wood walls and decided it was time to do something in there.
Here's one corner of the room.

I bought that little chair at an estate sale for $15 five years ago, it came without a seat and I never got around to fixing it. I stuck an old pottery piece filled with old and new yard sticks.

The dish rack was a flea market find. The little blue dishes were found in my father in laws attic. Here's a close up of them. The wood herb boxes are from Antique Farmhouse, there are four to the set and the other two are in the kitchen.
Here's a close up of the pretty blue plates.

I love the little bird, so pretty.


Here's a shot of the ceiling, I so love the wood bead board.

In the other corner I put this little blue table that I painted a few years ago. 

It's great storage for cookbooks.

Do you recognize this adorable cow sign? It's from the wonderfully talented
 Kris at Junk Chic Cottage
She was redoing her kitchen and I told her how much I admired it and she GAVE it to me!! Such a sweetie, thanks again Kris. It's now hanging the the little room off the kitchen.

In another corner is my antique Pot Belly Cabinet. The drawers hold  kitchen towels in one side and doggie treats in the other.

While I was in the attic finding the pretty blue bird plates look what else I found.......

A gorgeous old chandelier, but wait......

There wasn't just one beautiful old chandelier, there was TWO!!!
They are so heavy, I just can't believe they were up there the whole time. I don't think they were ever hung up. My father in law traveled all over the world in the Air Force so I have no idea where he got them, but I really love them.

All the crystals are wrapped up and secured, I'll leave them that way til I figure out where I'm going to hang the chandeliers.

Who knows what other treasures lurk up there?

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It's Porch Weather

The days are warming up and my thoughts are turning to working in the garden when I have the chance and relaxing on the porch with my hubby. Speaking of my hubby, he is a little better but still facing some surgeries in the next couple of weeks.  We are still awaiting the results of one critical test, very hard to have to wait. I just want to tell you how much I appreciate all of your well wishes. The blogging community is the best.

Spring is absolutely the best time of year to sit on the porch, drink sweet tea, daydream and steal a little  nap. I would love to spruce mine up a little. So I went on Pinterest to get some inspiration.  I'd love to have light blue on the ceiling like on this porch.

or this one


or even this one....

Below is what my porch looks like right now.
It's pretty big, 25 feet wide and 10 feet long so lots of room to play with.  It just  needs some color, right now it's just white with light green wood floors and darker green beadboard ceiling. Too much green.

I love my ferns, they just say 'relaxing porch' to me.

You can really see the dark green ceiling here, imagine it being a beautiful light blue.

Would love to have a swing.  I still remember as a little girl swinging with my Gramma on her porch.

Or perhaps a bed for that nap.....gentle breezes lulling you to sleep, wonderful!

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Doesn't this look like the perfect spot to curl up and read a good book?

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I love curtains on a porch, it adds such softness and the look of sheer curtains blowing in the breeze is so dreamy.

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I found this adorable Porch Sign  at Signs Plus Etsy Shop

A little table for an afternoon lunch or tea with the girls. I do have this right now, just need some new more comfortable cushions.

I just got a screen door similar to this one, I'm going to install it after I paint the porch. I got mine at Lowes. 


So how about you, are you more than ready for Porch Relaxing?

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My Dining Room before the Christmas Decor

It seems like I no sooner got all my 'stuff' in place and now I have to pack it up and put out the Christmas Decor.....so here's a first 'last' look at my Dining Room before the Christmas bulbs, garland and sparkle comes out. 

I framed out this little chalkboard today and hung a posie on it....

This is the same farmhouse table that my husband and I built. It used to be in the mobile home. We had to cut it down by one foot to make it fit into our new dining room.

I got this bicycle sprocket candle holder from Decor Steals.

I painted this little china cabinet with Coco Chalk Paint. I'm going to do a separate post about it...

I love the picture rail that is in this dining room and in the living room.

Still loving this antique dresser from my husband's parents.....

So next time you see this room it will be decorated for Christmas!

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Wood Plank Ceiling in the Kitchen

So I got all the wallpaper down from the kitchen walls and decided to tackle the ceiling. My father in law had put a drop ceiling in the kitchen and I wasn't really fond of it so we tore that down. It exposed a really peeling wallpaper ceiling hence the reason for the drop ceiling. I pondered a couple of ways to go and finally decided on the cheapest and easiest. A wood plank ceiling, yep way cheap and easy and it fit the style of the house.

 We pulled down some of the hanging paper as we went but really the rest isn't going to show, no one will ever know that there is ugly green peeling paper behind the wood planks. I realized once I put up a couple of planks that I should have painted them BEFORE putting them up, duh.

 So my daughter Kim and I laid a bunch of them on sawhorses and plywood and went to town.

 I used 1/4" 4'x8' wood and had Home Depot cut it to 6 inches each lengthwise. We sanded lightly around the edges and painted them with Polar Bear by Behr in semigloss enamel.

It took two of us to do the job both on ladders as this is a 10 foot ceiling. We placed a nickel between the planks to space them evenly. A nail gun was a life saver and it all went pretty quickly. See that old wagon wheel lamp? I think everybody had one of those at one time or another. I'll be replacing it with this...

This is how far we got today, need more wood and some nails for the nail gun but we should be able to finish it by tomorrow. The project for a ceiling 11 feet by 11 feet, plus one little area by the door is about 130 sq ft. It will end up costing $130 and that includes the paint. I think that's pretty good considering most of the other options were going to run $300 and up. I'm exhausted but it feels good to accomplish something, so I'm going to sleep good tonight for sure! But before I go here's a few more kitchen before pics

I think we've come a long way.
To see how it looks now click HERE



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