Welcome to what was a very very.. very brown and dark kitchen.
But pull a wall down, install a shiny NEW kitchen and paint the walls our trusty Dulux Hogbristle quarter strength and voila!
So some of the details… The kitchen table is an old family piece found in the same house as the chest of drawers in our bedroom. The legs have changed colour a number of times, but they did need a freshen up with this bright aqua. The dining chairs are in the current Ikea catalogue.
The wash stand with the pink tiles and marble top is also a family piece – it was a wedding present for my Great Aunt and Uncle! The kids table and chairs are also from Ikea, but I bought them second hand for $10 and painted them the same colour to match the “big” table.
The light fitting… is… hideous and original to the house. We just haven’t found the right one to replace yet, but when we do it’ll hang lower over the dining table.
I’ve seen lots of these suburb/ train line signs.. this one is actually another tea towel stretched over a canvas (total artwork cost about $8) and he names on it are special to me as an “Inner-West girl” – you can take the girl out of the Inner-West.. yeah, you know the saying. Ooh and I loooove my chalkboard teapot – we picked this up on our Melbourne trip.
And because I ALWAYS want to know what are in other people’s drawers I thought I’d share what are in a couple of mine! If you’re designing a kitchen I can’t recommend big drawers like this enough. They are absolutely the easiest way to store plates and saucepans and you never have to get down on your hands and knees and reach around the back of a cupboard looking for that saucepan lid!
A little more “behind the styling”… so.. yeah.. my “perfect” kitchen still had dirty dishes in the sink!
I’m sure there are a lot more details I could have added in to this post, but frankly, I’m lazy! Feel free to ask any questions if you have them and I’ll point you in the direction of where I got things
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