Kitchen REDO Done:Dining Area

Have you ever had a paintbrush in your hand as company came up the walk? 

I almost did.

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First coat on Monday before Thanksgiving.

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The BEFORE picture.

Our OLD dining area was the last of our farmhouse kitchen to be finished... 

we impatiently waited for the NEW wallpaper to arrive.

 The cabinet REDO took two coats of satin enamel in off-white to match the IKEA kitchen cabinets.

I had hemmed and hawed about painting the blue cabinet, it had been blue for so long. 

This was a furniture rescue from a second hand store in 1980's. 

It had been a store fixture and in a fire.

 I dragged it home and hubby rebuilt and sanded it down (all the burned finish) 

and it fit perfectly in that corner. 

The bottom has tons of storage for craft supplies, candles, serving pieces and vases. 

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My inspiration is shown above. Note, I did get my wallpaper at Sherwin-Williams, basically the only place to buy wallpaper within 15 miles, here in Chicagoland. REALLY?

I just couldn't do it online because of matching colors. 

We chose the red wallpaper for the lower walls and the ticking stripe for the bits of walls not covered in cupboards. We only needed to order a double roll of each.

 The stripes also have a creamy background to warm up all the white ceiling. 

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 I think the creamy background sets off the porcelain blue/whites nicely. 

Wednesday night before Thanksgiving I put up my plates. 

 I had to pick and choose from my huge family stash.

 These OLD plates date from the 1940's to the 2000's.

 I still have MANY to find places to hang. 

I had them sprinkled all over the soffits in the OLD kitchen.

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These plates are the oldest of my grandmother's and great-grandmother's. 

They are a mixture of Royal Copenhagen and Bing & Grondahl Christmas plates-dating back to 1906. These are quite moody and simplistic in their design and portray the long Danish winters and the dreamy half-light a northern country is subject to during those months. Denmark, Land of the midnight sun, and endless night.

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Granny's bowls from this previous POST are now on top of the corner cabinet.

You can just see a glimpse of the lower walls with the red denim paper. When all the chairs are paint creamy white, I think it will show up more.

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It was terribly dreary day to get pictures, but I tried. 

I have to find some wonderful piece of vintage stitchery to put over that TV.  

I haven't put tons of stuff on the sidewalls by the cabinet. 

I'm trying to edit, but losing the soffits in the old kitchen 

has left me with totes brimming with plates, crocks, and tins.

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Its was was a different story when the NEW light was on in the cabinet. 

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We had one of the under cabinet lights left from the kitchen cabinets. 

This NEW stick light has a small switch and is LED. So far, it has been on all the time.

Love my hubby, he tubed all the cords, mounting them in the corner and they disappeared.

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My grandmother's OLD very OLD kitchen window sill people. 

I never asked her where they came from. 

They are all unmarked porcelain. 

My mom had them on her window sill for over 20 years.

 My sill is too narrow to house the, so they have been in the cabinet.

 The small people are a salt and pepper, the lady is a bell.

 Wooden shoes and pointed caps were also common in Denmark,

 though I think these are Dutch.

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I have used some OLD plates with more color. I think the cabinet will morph into being,

 and change seasonally. The OLD creamer and sugar are marked Japan, 1950's maybe.

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The turkeys kept sneaking in the pictures.

 Grandmother's coffeepot is filled with three generations of handmade wooden spoons. 

I have a few Spode plates in the cabinet, for the moment. 

The OLD vintage vase is signed Delft.

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 An OLD salt pot, and the top of my farmer's scale, is unmarked.

 I really do love the warmth of the stripes.

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The odd bit of wall by the pantry with the new wallpaper. It really sets off the NEW moldings.

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 Hubby put the stripes above the roaster shelves in the back hall.

 I really do need to REDO that wall.

The hole on the top shelf is because of the HUGE roaster is in the oven with the turkey.

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 So paint still curing, wallpaper still drying, family coming up the walk, taking the paintbrush out of my mouth, Turkey in the oven --and

we were ready, PHEW---for Thanksgiving.

I'm Thankful, we are done

with the Kitchen REDO remodeling project of 2016!

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Decisions:Kitchen Corner Buffet and Wall Bits

Okay, we have this lovely---all white kitchen now, except from my bits and pieces entering into the equation. The blue rugs are super, they have two families of blue, mustard gold/brown, cranberry red and cream in them. Works with any direction I may go.

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Blue rugs, blue jars, a red antique eggscale, a new runner on the counter. 

The stools are slotted to be red.

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The real problem is the corner buffet in the eating area.

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Not just that it's colonial blue, circa 1986, but so is the wallpaper.

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Suddenly it is dated, well it was dated before but I ignored that fact. 

So looking for inspiration, I brought home....

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...this April Cornell runner and placemats. WOW! We are planning on painting the chairs and the dining table legs and creamy white, and leaving the wood top as it is, oak. The table is huge. Hubby really loved this, and said, go find wallpaper-just like that. HMMMMMM?

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I started to think of a red color scheme for all the seasons in my kitchen. 

Spring my go to colors are yellow and paler blue and white.

 So popping red in-wouldn't be a problem.

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Summer is all about red,white and blue---no problem here.

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Then there is the link to nature, what could be better than tomato red, in our tummies or on the walls?

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A post last spring with strawberries and the  blues.

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I remember thinking the pinks and red didn't go together, but Nature has no color palette,

 other than ALL colors.

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My garden had lots of early summer pinks, we could change that next year.

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Late summer garden was full of reds, yellows, and oranges....perfect in my new kitchen.

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I took a tour of my old photos to see what 'red' had crept into my home during the year.

 Here was a runner with burgundy berries from Denmark, 

and a tin I found at a thrift store.

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All these chairs will be creamy white, 

and my favorite tablecloth for over a year has been this rusty red one,

 which matches the runner perfect. 

This was last Fall's table setting. The wallpaper in the lower back will be changed to red.

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Christmas was a Red season and my kitchen pops, here with red. 

The Danish national flag, the Dannebrog decorated our kitchen tree. 

Last year I used peppermint ribbons...

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Everywhere...this is the best color shot of the blue cabinet, 

which refuses to show up in natural light because of being in the corner.

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So this is basically the color scheme, I'm seeing in my head. Red paper on the lower walls, and the stripe ticking replacing the upper walls and the border at the ceiling. 

The strips are softer and echo the bead-board ceiling and all my slatted blinds. 

Too many stripes??? I might have to use the peppermint ribbon elsewhere.

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Here are samples with a few other options...

the curly red vines to the right were my first choice. 

The white paper with the trifoils is too white, 

the stripes seem to be the best idea. 

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All the things I love. My favorite vintage tablecloth, a new vintage teapot, 

Great Granny's bowls, Grandmothers coffeepot, 

Hubby's Granny's carders and peonies I originally moved from my parent's cottage.

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Changes and choices...are sometimes hard.

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This is the latest picture of the area...as it is now. I have problems with photos in the area because you battle direct sun in the camera's eye.

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Okay, so red paper....on the lower, creamy stripes on top---but the cabinet???

Red, cream, or cream with red-stripe paper inside, or red cabinet with paper inside, I just don't know? 

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Waiting for the paper to come and go up, but...

 I really should paint the cabinet now.

HELP!?


UPDATE 11/16/16
First piece of the striped wallpaper is up...and we are both thrilled. Cabinet will be painted last, as the jury is still out. Sandi

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