:: kitchen typography

Good Morning sweet friends.

As you may notice from the window above,

it's a little wet and drizzly here today.....

but that's okay, because it gives me time to be crafty.

Since painting my kitchen & removing my window treatments

I've been needing to add something to the space above this window.

I decided a while back that I would like to see some type of typography here,

maybe an old vintage sign or some vintage metal letters...you know, something interesting.

How plain does this look?

Well, I'm impatient as you well know by now,

and I wanted something right now and I want it to be very inexpensive.

Sooo, yesterday I went to Hobby Lobby with coupon in hand looking for some letters.

I already had an E on my coffee bar and I thought I might just add an A & T of the same type.

Well, upon looking around, I found these paper mache' letters for really cheap $2.47 each....

and they were 50% off to boot....they were the perfect inexpensive quick fix.

At first I thought I would paint them and do something cool to them.

However, when I got them in the room I really liked the look of the brown paper.

I simply mounted them with some tacky putty as is.

So, what do you think?

{ BEFORE }

{ AFTER }

I also edited down some of the items from the tops of my cabinets 

and countertops to make a more cohesive clean look.

So there you have it, a simple inexpensive $6.00 kitchen update.

I'm very happy with it...I know it's nothing new in the world of decorating,

you can find it all over the web, but this is a look I absolutely adore and now I have it too.

Isn't imitation the sincerest form of flattery anyway?

{peace, love & hugs}

Carrie

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:: countertop vignettes

Happy Monday my sweets. Wow, how quickly and busily last week passed. 

I was too busy to get back here to post a thing. 

I spent my one free day {Thursday} cleaning my house, well at least my kitchen. 

I pulled everything off of my counters and piled it on the table & gave everything a good scrubbing.

That's alot of stuff huh. 

I really don't like my kitchen's backsplash, so I always try to hide as much of it as I can. 

Someday we'll invest in a new one I suppose, but there are always more important things to be done. 

I think I'll wait until I decide to do a whole kitchen renovation, 

like painting out the cabinets and I would love to have butcher block countertops. 

It just seems so wasteful when you already have granite....I should be happy with it I suppose.

We always seem to want what we don't have.

I'm in the process of choosing a paint color for the kitchen and adjoining keeping room. 

I've gotten the painting estimates and all I have left to do is decide on my color and give them a call.

Why is it so much easier to make these decisions for someone else's home? 

I have been mulling this over for months now.

I really want to keep my custom curtains,

so I'm trying to find a color that will work well with them.

I have my color choice narrowed down to Sherwin Williams Macadamia shown above, 

and it's lighter counterpart Softer Tan {which I recently used in my clients home & love}. 

I'm so ready for a change, but I'm also scared it will look all wrong when it's done.

I'm kind of afraid that I'll miss my warm bold red walls.

On the other hand....

I'm really looking forward to a lighter brighter space, 

and the illusion of more of it.

Anyhoo, that's what's going on around here, and here's what my countertops look like now.

I just love baskets, and you'll find them all over my kitchen....

anything natural and woven is good in my book. 

I also love vintage goodies too, so you'll see plenty of that as well. 

Most everything in this vignette was found at a Thrift store, minus the lampshade {Target}, 

and the vintage cookbook & wooden mortal & pestle which were both inexpensive antique store finds. 

I just adore my vintage brass lamp with it's cute candlestick look & pull chain switch.

On the left side of my sink & directly behind my island cooktop I have my vintage tool caddy. 

This was a local antique store find which I have had fun filling with vintage wooden utensils.
Will you just look at how clean and shiny my countertops are, wow,

that's a perfect reflection of my vintage look coffee grinder lamp.

So, what do you think about my red walls and new paint choice?

Do you redecorate your countertops very often?

What is your favorite kitchen accessory?

Hope you are having a wonderful Monday : )

{peace, love & hugs}
Carrie

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