Kitchen Progress...

I've been waiting much too long to share my kitchen ideas which are slowly coming to life.

Life just has a way of butting into my plans sometimes, so something that should have taken a few days has taken me a few weeks. BUT, it's progress, so that makes me excited!

I LOVE our farmhouse. So much so, that I say it out loud, every day. And then proceed to pinch myself to make sure I'm not dreaming. I have fantasized of living in a farmhouse on a cute little piece of country heaven since I was a young girl and it seems surreal that it actually happened. But with the old also comes projects. Which. I. Love. (Mostly because I'm creative and my husband is super handy).

For anyone that has seen our home, we have a great (half of) kitchen. The other half is empty. Designed by the previous owner, it isn't the most functional for us. Yet.

The updated half of our kitchen although still
not entirely done. Dreaming of a back splash...

Here is what the empty side of the kitchen looked like (with my very small and tiny attempt at "storage".  (It was intended to be temporary, I promise my vision is much more impressive, functional and time consuming than that!)

Once again, Pinterest has been handy but I am going to take FULL CREDIT for my ideas. I have envisioned my dream kitchen since the first day we walked through this house. However, when it comes to big decisions, I'm a little indecisive. It's a little harder to say, sorry honey, I think I changed my mind. Take it down. Sorry I wasted your time. Better luck next time, buddy. *Shoulder punch*...

But one day my husband told me he took off a day to help me with stuff I wanted to do around the house. First on the list...kitchen functionality!

To Menards we went to "save big money" on my open shelving must haves.

We were able to get the shelves measured, cut, brackets up and boards positioned. But it took me a bit to find the correct color as I wanted the shelving to match our cupboards and look as if they belonged. 

Turns out they only needed 3 coats of Polyurethane with no stain and they are a perfect match.

Sand, slap the Polyurethane on, steel wool, slapping on another coat, steel wool, final coat and voila. Board done.  Actually pretty easy...(once you realize that you may or may not be able to get the black stamp marks off 100% and you stop trying to sand harder after you notice you have now created a dip in the wood...)

So here are my shelves now that they are "done". And by done I mean finally up, even though they are still empty. I'm just so anxious to show you that I can't wait! But, I'll be working on organizing my cupboards in the next day or two, so I do promise to share a FINAL after picture.

Please do not judge our flooring. That is
also on the kitchen update list!

And P.S the little white shelf WILL be going...eventually. My next vision still needs to be built by my handy husband and I've been told he needs to buy himself a fancy schmancy saw in order to build said project. He certainly knows how to get what he wants....

Pray for some more Spring weather fellow Wisconsinites! Let's hope it's not a winter wonderland in the morning (it's April for Pete's Sake!)....Goodnight!

Peek of Spring

It's Tuesday and while my husband is sitting through 2 days of meetings, I tagged along so that I can get a little R&R. I'm sitting in our hotel room painting my toes, watching HGTV and waiting to hit up the spa for some whirlpool pampering and later, my Aromatherapy massage. Ahhh, the good life. A girl could get used to this...

But while I'm waiting I thought I would share my first attempt at a burlap wreath. I started by using this tutorial. And it was useful for 5 minutes. Then, if you're anything like me...you just say to hell with instructions and start doing whatever looks good. It doesn't help the photo's on the tutorial were not the best but I'm actually pretty happy with how mine turned out. I just won't be showing you any step by steps because, honestly, I'm not sure I could do exactly what I did, over again. Also, I read that you should have 12-15 yards of 5-9" burlap. This is where not listening got me. I ran out 3/4 of the way through and had to scrounge through my craft supplies to find a piece of burlap that I could cut up (and matched color!) and use to finish the rest of the wreath. But I did it! Then you can decorate as you wish.

Tip: I used wrapped wire to secure my additional pieces,
so that it blended with the burlap

Voila! My first DIY burlap wreath!

I still may tweak my Spring add-ons around but right now, this is where it's at and it's MUCH better than the snow covered swag that was on the door from winter. I'm so DONE with winter!

We have so many projects going on right now. Hopefully I'll be able to share my kitchen project with you very soon...

And then the desk I'm refinishing...

And maybe by then we'll have landscaping projects! Spring really is coming folks....we just have to be patient...only hopefully not until June.

And with that, I'm going to go hit the pool. Or at least chillax next to it with a good book. Nothing better than the smell of chlorine and a thrilling novel to get the cold winter thoughts cleared out of my head...

Have a terrific Tuesday everyone!