No the Clampetts Don't Live There...

But K. Mack was here again this weekend. This is now our front lawn.
Do you remember to which room this lovely contraption goes to? I will give you a hint...we hit our heads on it ALL THE TIME.

If you guessed the kitchen then you are 100% right...if you said bathroom then you must have been looking at the half of toilet next to the magneficent hood. We will get to that later. The hood looked like this in the kitchen...
And now...

Hmm one step closer to a bright and sunny kitchen!

I am also trying to figure out what to do with the dining room. LJ came home to a very large paint sample that I got carried away with...I didn't like it at first but I am warming up to the "atrium white" color that I used. It is much warmer in person.
I thought about using a beige on the top half of the wainscoting with the white on the bottom but we will eventually pull it all out. I really do like the white in here...stops it from being so cave-like. What do you guys think about a full wall of white?

A Very Good Day.

A couple of weeks ago, I was complaining to my mother-in-law about the lack of good, used, cheap furniture in our area (I was feeling sorry for myself because of Anne from The City Sage and the pretty pink plates she found for $12). My mother-in-law concurred then asked me if I had stopped by the store "Windfall" and looked in the basement.

Basement?

I could not get out of the door fast enough.

I almost fainted when I walked down the rickety stairs to the basement of the store. It reminded me of the first time I shopped at Ikea. So much stuff..sensory overload...too many ideas...brain...going...to...burst. There are old chairs hanging from the walls along with just about every kind of furniture you can think of. I walked out empty handed but promised to return after taking some measurements.

This whole discovery has inspired me to gussy up our kitchen a little. I am figuring that we won't be able to remodel the main floor for at least 5 years and unlike the bathroom, it is something I can work on while Jack crawls around on the floor. Anyways, here is a before shot of our kitchen:


Now you probably all like the brick island but there is two major things wrong with this thing: 1) it is all fake plastic sheets of bricks and 2) all the the stuff hanging from the ceiling makes it a death trap for us tall people. If you look closely at the pendant lamp to the right, it is tied up to the height everything needs to be so this doesn't happen:

(Actual re-enactment of incident)

We tried to take out the HUGE monstrosity of a hood on Sunday but failed miserably. We can't get a wrench onto the back side of the bolt to get them off. Great. I plan on painting the cabinets some color other than rotten, bloated corpse beige...maybe cream? Something to brighten up the very dark room.

Upon returning to Windfall this last weekend, I purchased two cool new stools for the counter. Now, they might look a little 70's right now but imagine them painted a dark chocolate and reupholstered with some cool cotton sateen.


I really like this fabric from Sew, Mama, Sew bit it might be too much brown...

these might be better...


Any input would be appreciated.

I also scored these two chairs from the Salvation Army! What can I say...my lucky day.


Oh the possibilities with these bad boys are endless! The lady at the counter told me that they were going to throw them out. Crazy! They are the sturdiest chairs and have a really nice design. They just need a little rattle-can action. Sweet.