blog neglect

To my 11 followers plus anyone else that may stumble upon my blog, I hate that I have been neglecting it so. I have several things in mind to write about and show you pictures of but my computer has been on the fritz, the one with all of my pictures on it and my husband's computer is not a whole lot better...I just keep thinking just maybe if I wait long enough the next time I turn on my computer it will be miraculously healed! That to say please don't give up on me...I will be back! I am also happy to say I am keeping up with P90X so maybe by the time I can upload pictures again I will show you my "beach body"... 

the kitchen

The kitchen is my husband's room in the house...meaning he cooks dinner nearly every night for us, therefore he has earned the right to decorate this room of the house. Don't get me wrong I love it that he doesn't mind cooking, that way I don't have to learn and he is really good at it but some of his ideas for the kitchen had me worried. For instance he wanted to paint our cabinets which may not seem like such a terrifying thing to you but a couple of years ago I didn't know you could do such a thing. Also, it seemed like such a drastic change...especially if we didn't like it. Our cabinets are just stock cabinets because they were the cheapest but they made the kitchen look so dark and dated...

My husband is so gracious because even though he enjoys decorating he has allowed me to make most of the decor choices in every other room in our house so I decided to trust his instinct and go with the painting the cabinets idea...

Maybe this will help you decide to take a risk if you too are hesitant about painting your cabinets. It truly brightened up the whole room. We still need to paint the boards along the bottom among some other minor details but for the most part the kitchen is done and finally feels like our style.

This is an old cart a friend let us have and Joel just painted it to hold our dishes.

Joel loves to have plants around the house so he has lined both kitchen window ledges with them. I love this old chicken feeder we found to use as a planter.

More plants...

Joel decided to remove the cabinet between the microwave and refrigerator to hang shelves. He used scrap wood and decorative brackets we already had. This area is my favorite part of the kitchen.

 

things I want but need to come to grips with possibly never having

I was just looking at expensive furniture online from stores I can't afford to shop in and found the chair I've been obsessed with since I first saw it...

and fell in love with these too...

I think everyone deserves to have a worn in leather couch from Anthropologie at some point in their life! It's very affordable...well when you consider where it is from and what it's made out of.

I'd probably need this cabinet to go with the couch though... 

as well as a new rug.