Monday, April 16, 2012

Monday {and another kitchen post}

Perhaps I'll be making Mondays all about kitchens. We'll see. 
Over the weekend, we tried to get up the old laminate from 1979. We failed. The new plan is to completely remove and replace the floor boards in the kitchen. That will actually make it easier to move around the gas/water lines (yay! gas stove!) and we won't have to spend the next four months scraping up the laminate centimeter by centimeter. 
In other news, the nice shelves that I was planning to use as open shelving for all my dishes and such have been ripped apart in order to get at the flooring. Plan B involves some IKEA and Target shelves I already had for books. I'll actually be moving my kitchen into the closest corner of the family room! Of course, the fridge will probably be in the garage for quite some time, so really, the kitchen fun can be spread all over!
In the meantime, here is some open shelving inspiration to keep me going.
                                                                     Source: blog.alicelanehome.com via Daniella on Pinterest
                                                                     Source: vtinteriors.blogspot.com via Daniella on Pinterest
                                                                         Source: realsimple.com via Daniella on Pinterest
                                                                       Source: interiors-porn.tumblr.com via Daniella on Pinterest
                                                                Source: scandinavianretreat.blogspot.com via Daniella on Pinterest
                                                                               Source: flickr.com via Daniella on Pinterest

I like the last picture best, probably because it's the closest and most accurate depiction of how my shelves may actually look - a major mishmash of dishes in all colors and styles crammed together, because I seem to collect dishes (mugs especially) and can't get rid of any of them. There's pretty much no way my kitchen will ever have the uniform, all white, perfectly stacked look. The best I can hope for is slightly messy, cluttered, homey-ness. And I'm just fine with that. Because, let's face it, that's just a lot more "me."

1 comment:

  1. I love that the open shelves allows you to get creative with the color or wallpaper for the background. very fun!
    It's exciting that you can do the open shelving where you live. I could never do it here in the desert...with my swamp cooler... with my old windows. Enjoy your flowers and your dreams of having open shelving for me :-)

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