Kitchen changes and fun with chalk paint.

When my husband came home the other day from work I told him I wanted to take down a cabinet or two!!!! I got the look!!! Then being the nice guy he is and how he loves to use tools he took down a couple of upper cabinets in my kitchen for me.

A little bit of primer on the wall where the cabinet was.

Then repainted the wall.

My husband made me two new shelves to replace the cabinets.

I wanted to keep the corner cabinet but it needed a little something.

So I painter's taped off the center of the cabinet.

I used some chalk paint about 3 coats and I think it was just the bling the cabinet door needed.

I found this great Cloverfield Dairy sign at TJ Maxx and that cutie was in my cart in no time!!! I then added my every day dishes from the cabinet and a few decorative pieces to the shelves.

Sorry my pictures are not the greatest.  It is hard on a cloudy deary day to get good lighting in my kitchen plus I can only do so much with my little Cannon Sure Shot camera.  

I have had this old black vintage kitchen scale for some time and never had a place in my kitchen for it.  Now I feel like it fits in with the little bit of black above on the shelves.

Added my vintage apron I got at Junk Bonanza.

Added an old tin roof birdhouse I got in Morris and added the birds to the little wreaths and then hung this on my old garden fencing above on the soffits.

Terrible picture of the pretty chandelier I got at the thrift shop. It really is pretty.

I had some little saucers that were missing their coffee cups so I painted the circles in chalk board paint and numbered them with chalk to hang above the sink on the garden fencing.

Loved that I could reuse these some how since I was missing the cups.

I think by losing some of the upper cabinets and using open shelving it opens up my kitchen and it seems brighter.  I had this chippy white cabinet and hung that next to the shelves.  It is made out of old chippy windows and doors.  I love this cabinet and have had it for a long time.  It has traveled around my house to several rooms and now it is taking up residence in the kitchen.

I love having the shelves now it just feels bigger and more open in my kitchen.

My counter chairs needed a little bling added to them too.  I just took some burlap and a hot glue gun to the back of the chairs.

I recovered the chair seats with some old Ralph Lauren gingham sheets I had.  Easy Peasy with the staple gun.

So far I am liking how the Kitchen is coming out. I apologize for the not so great pictures in this kitchen.  With the way the light comes in the room is so hard to get a good picture.  It is amazing with just a few changes how different the feel is in my kitchen.  Thanks for coming by. I love your comments and input.  Thank you for taking the time to comment.
Have A Great Week.
Kris
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All rested from a great family vacation.

We just got home from a very nice vacation. It was so much fun.  We go on a family trip each year all together.  With having firefighters and nurses in our family there is always someone missing at the holidays with working.  So this vacation is always a special one since we can all be together as a family.  Getting everyone's schedules to match is always an issue so this time with us all together is such a blessing to have.

We came back from beautiful sunny Florida and Fun Fun Fun Disney.  I wanted to show you just in the 10 days we were gone how much my flowers have tripled in size.

I guess the cooler temps and all the rain was good for them.  Not to mention the miracle grow I doused them with before we left!!!!!!!!!

The summer house is in full bloom.

My bike flowers are starting to really fill in nicely in the baskets.

All my pretties on the porch are doing really great.

The bag on the old door on my front door is loving where I hung it. It has tripled in size.  It loves the late afternoon sun.

Remember the chippy old barn door table.  The flowers on there are doing really good.  I love love love that blue chippy table so glad I found a home for it in the garden.

Since the scare of the impatiens and the mold I did not want to chance it this year in the beds so I went with petunias and they are doing so great and bushing up nicely.

Even my cherub is loving her place in the garden this year.  My Robin couple love to take their morning bath in the cherub bird bath.

My lilac bushes filled in so nicely.  I had a lot of flowers on the back of the house but I think with this crazy spring we had they just greened up more than bloomed this year.

The flowers I potted on the old ladder filled in so fast.  They are already half way down the ladder!!!!

It is amazing what some nice temps and miracle grow can do for your flowers.  Petunia's are a little more maintenance with having to deadhead them but they give such beautiful color and they love the sun so they are perfect for the deck.

I still need to get a plant for the fire truck.  Am going to work on that this week.

The plant on my table by my chair got so big I cannot even put my drink or magazines on there any more!!!!!

It was a beautiful vacation but it was nice to come home.  Hope you are all enjoying the nicer weather.  We had a little sun poke out today in between showers so I thought I would grab some pictures while the sun was shinning.
Kris
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