My Farmhouse Kitchen Reveal

My kitchen is moving right a long. The best part is, most of what we did we already had the materials for. Very little was spent on this kitchen redo, mainly lots of hard work. That's how it's been on the redo of this house, we've improvised, re-purposed, redid, repaired or painted to make it into a home we love. That's the best kind of redo in my opinion. Anybody can throw lots of money at a renovation and make it look spectacular and that's ok but to me it's even better when you can redo a whole room and spend next to nothing.

Mr. Magazine put up three of my open shelves and I didn't waste any time loading them up lol. Seems like I can't leave an empty space empty for a second. I wanted to give you a partial reveal. Still working on a few things but this covers most of it. If you want to see some of the before pics just click HERE

I still need to put in those little round wood things to cover the screw holes.

In this picture you can see the ceiling that my daughter and I did. I think above all things this wood board ceiling gives it the true farmhouse feel.
Here's a before of the above kitchen...

Coming in from the dining room.

We use that chalk board all the time to leave messages or make lists for the store.

To see more about the transformation of this little table click HERE

I have  a huge pantry in my 1920's kitchen. For those of you who don't know, this home has been in my husbands family for 92 years. My hubs told me he has memories of his Big Mimi (gramma) donning an apron and cooking from early in the morning through suppertime. She would say 'Toby, go out and catch me a chicken" (insert Southern accent) He'd go out and run one down, she would lay it on an old stump and off came it's head, sorry but that's how it was done. She would pluck the feathers while heading back to the house and later that day it was finger lickin' good fried chicken eating time! I can imagine her going to the pantry and getting out the flour and other ingredients to make a meal. My hubs said they ate like kings!

That old towel bar has been up for 90 years.

There's tons of shelving.

I always remove my items from the boxes they came in and put them in glass or plastic containers. I like to actually see the food on the shelves, I just think it looks really homey and cozy.

Yep we're vitamin freaks lol, these little shelves are the perfect size for the bottles and for spices too.

I hate having a microwave on the counter so since there was an electrical outlet in the pantry it seemed like the perfect spot.

We're going to add some more shelving lower down to hold dog food and water bottles.

So that's it, hope you enjoyed the little tour. I just realized that it was exactly one year ago today that I completed the farmhouse kitchen in my mobile home. Whew no wonder I'm tired! If you want to see that post go HERE 
Here's a pic of it....

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Finally the Kitchen Reveal!

 Whew! This has been long in coming, finally after a full year my kitchen is officially done! Here is how it looked when we moved in 2 1/2 years ago. Tons of brown laminate cabinets, yucky linoleum, ugly light fixtures. Can anybody say REDO? 

Warning, LOTS of pics ahead!
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 The angled base cabinet on the right in the pic below was removed to give a more open feel and flow.

The only thing it really had going for it was it's size, windows over the sink, lots of cabinets and it had a pantry. But as for aesthetics ......well to put it nicely she needed a complete makeover some 'work'. Oh and that non-working dishwasher, she found a new home at the local dump. 

This is how it looks today!  My goal for this makeover was to give the kitchen more of a Farmhouse feel, I think I accomplished that, at least my version of a farmhouse. It always amazes me what a little white paint can do to transform a space.

We primed and painted with Behr Creamy Semi Gloss. 

 The flooring was purchased a while back but we needed to finish all the painting before putting it down. It's a click and lock floating floor. My hubby laid the floor in two days, he did a wonderful job. Super easy to lay just a little time consuming with the cuts on the end.

 The stove area feels the most different to me, I love how the stove just blends in now instead of sticking out like a sore thumb.

I decorated the top of the cabinets with farmhouse decor.

Our everyday plates are really handy stored in this plate holder. That white canister holds the dog treats.

 The crock holds all of my commonly used utensils. Love my little kitchen lady with her cute little apron.

I added this cute little cast iron stove to the pic later. Some of the parts are missing but I still love it!

My Pot Belly Cabinet looks great now against the wood floor. This cabinet holds my coffee fixin's, extra kitchen towels and all of my spices. 

 I added some cute little accessories to the kitchen table.

 I fell in love with this cute little truck and my cow salt and pepper holder fit in the bed perfectly!

I like adding little 'signs' with Scrabble Tiles like this 'Eat Here' sign.

 Most of you saw this corner from when I first started this kitchen redo eons ago, you only saw part of this corner cause that's all the further I got, sad I know lol. The pic below is the one I showed. 

It shows the old curtains too.

Remember this fabric I showed you a couple of weeks ago? Well I made the Roman Shades with them.

  

I love the view out of this window. That's my little garden shed out there waiting for a makeover inside. But that's another day and another post.

 I picked up this little rack at the flea market and thought it would make a cute towel holder, I added the pantry sign to it just in case people forget where the food is, haha, fat chance of that happening.

 My dog Semper loves the floor too! He hardly ever laid on the old linoleum floor.

I put our little juke box in here and now I do dishes dancing to the oldies lol.

 Here is a close up on my cow head with a boxwood wreath.

 Those eggs came from my sweet little Lavender Orpingtons.

 We love eating in the kitchen now, it's such a cozy place.

 The morning sun streams through this window and when you are sitting at the table you can see the horses out in the field having their breakfast too.

These old chairs came from my father in law, I painted them black and distressed them. They are a perfect fit for my farmhouse kitchen table.
 I put felt gliders on all the furniture, refrigerator and stove so the floor won't get scratched. but in case it does I bought one of those handy stain pens.

I love this little truck My hubby got me another one that I'll show you in a couple of days. That's HGTV on the TV in the background, heck my husband even loves watching it now too.

I made this sink skirt instead of putting cabinet doors back on, I used onasburg fabric and just some white cotton for the ruffled trim. I just wanted some softness to break up all the wood. 

So that's it for my kitchen reveal! Now on to the master bath, a woman's work is never done and she makes sure the hubby's isn't either :)
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Blessings, Teresa

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