Our kitchen is teeny tiny, 150 square feet to be exact. I guess housewives in the 60's didn't need much room to cook in, they were too busy with the novelty of McDonald's and TV dinners! It's a small box of a thing but it's evolved over time to work just fine for us. After refinishing the cabinets and replacing the counters, sink, lighting, appliances and flooring we called it good for a while. On one side of the kitchen we had a counter-height table that housed out printer and computer (Macs look good anywhere, no?), but I decided it was taking up way too much of my precious floor space. And after my vow to be on the computer less we moved the iMac downstairs to house all of our movies, stream hulu, etc.
We still needed a little something for more storage and a bit of counter space, so I found this dresser on Craigslist for $40. It was a little worse for wear with a broken drawer that we still haven't fixed and some parts of the veneer that had come off, but the lines were great and it fit perfectly in the spot. With a few coats of Behr's Dolphin Fin in hi-gloss and some new hardware from Rejuvenation we have the perfect place for our junk drawers (Jon and I each have one, don't you?) and extra space for baking and cooking supplies. It also has room on top for my new love and Christmas Fave #3, my iTouch with dock/speakers. I now have music for the kitchen, one of my very favorite things to have going while I cook and do the morning routine.
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I LOVE IT!!! I am finally hanging stuff on my walls...after three years. I also bought a new comforter cover for my room. I am making progress.
It's gorgeous! I love it!
Very clean, I love it. Nice and open, efficient, but clutterless. You've got style, girl!
Oh, I know how you feel, we have a cracker jack box for our kitchen too and we dont have a dining room, so it was hard when we remodeled our kitchen, our project for the future is to extend a wall and make it a bigger eat in kitchen...we will see down the road. I love you design! And we get so much from craigslist, we have scored big time on there!
That looks amazing!
The kitchen looks beautiful! I can't wait to see it live. You are inspiring.
This is such perfection - classic "you" with the ultimate craigslist find. I need deets about the shelves. We're putting in two on our dining wall and I've contemplated the floating but am not sure which to get and how much weight they hold. Can you tell me about yours?
wow, i LOVE that! thank you so much for your comment on my blog, and for the links to your homeschooling posts. i'm off to read them!
Look at me, I'm on your blog! And I'm commenting because I, too, have discovered the joy of NOT having my laptop in the kitchen. Chris created a space for me in his (our?) office last week. I love both sitting to surf, and walking into a kitchen that inspires only cooking and not internet browsing.
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