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kitchen re-do

Who says you can’t re-do your kitchen days before your family comes for Christmas? Not me. This is how it looked before. I used that gorgeous Taupe/Robin fabric to make these fake roman shades. Then I moved the dining room set into the kitchen. I’m turning the dining room into an office/library…because in a year and a half of living there, we.have.never. eaten in there. This set is a little more traditional, but I love the way it looks. The paint color you ask? Don’t. I have no idea. I mixed light khaki with some dark gray and added some chocolate color and came out with this.

kitchen re-do

I had left over board and batten from my Master bedroom re-do and slapped it up. The wall you see is the largest wall in the whole entire kitchen…so it didn’t take much. I somehow think I’m going to slipcover 2 club chairs before Thursday, but I think I’d rather make cookies with my girlies. Maybe the slipcover fairy will come? What did you re-do last minute?

23 Comments

  1. Oh I love it! It all looks great. Love your shades. I do the same thing with paint. I joke all of the time that I have a paint store upstairs, and I just mix until I come up with something that I like. If I like the results a lot, I take it to my local Sherwin Williams and have them match and make more of what I have mixed together lol. Love that zebra print too.

  2. The room looks amazing. We did the same thing about a year ago – gave up the biggest room which is the dining room and I took it as the studio space. It is now used every day instead of maybe 10 days a year. Of course we just moved the dining room to the front sitting room which never got used either- so it sits. Trying to work out a way to make an eat in area at the far end of the kitchen so we can get rid of the “dining room” all together. Just not a dining room kind of family.
    tammy

  3. can i have your “old” dining room now that you don't need it? i LOVE the casual beachy feel it had. 🙂

    the “new” dining room looks beautiful and so perfect for the holidays.

    amazing work on both!

  4. I LOVE your dining set. It's exactly the color I've love mine to be someday (it's currently honey colored)…but I doubt that someday will be before Christmas. 🙁 Until then it's all mismatched wood but man is that a pretty little table you got there!

  5. Love the look, and I have been eyeing that taupe robin fabric at fabric.com for months! This past weekend I decided to reuoholster some wing back chairs just in time for the holidays! Isn't that how everyone spends the last weekend before Christmas? I posted them in my blog today. Check them out!

  6. those faux roman shades look great and so does the board and batten.
    you must work well under pressure, cause i would of cracked and not finished one project. : )

  7. Gorgeousness!!! I just love it all. I also love how you said you “slapped up” the board and batten! It would take me weeks to get up the nerve then weeks to get it all done. 🙂

    Love the roman shades too.

  8. OMG, I love your blog! You have such wonderful ideas. You make me want to slipcover everything and have a craft/wine party too:) I am now following as well. Your breakfast area is lovely. Happy Holidays!

    Amy R.

  9. I quite liked your old kitchen…loved the burlap swags (but then I love everything burlap)….the redo is very nice a perhaps even looks a bit cozier. Wish I could transform one of my rooms into a dedicated crafts room. My DREAM!!!
    Your bedroom is amazing…what a difference! Can't wait to have a house with board and batten like this!

    xox
    Nancy

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