Sep. 15, 2009 - A Tour Of Our Home
Part Two: The Kitchen
I love my kitchen. In alot of ways it is my dream kitchen, because I was able to decorate it in an apple theme. I love all of my apple decorations. I think the red and green makes it very cheerful. I love the window above my sink with its view of the pasture. I like the openess of it and how I can prepare meals be still invovled with my family while they are in the living room.
This view is looking through the opening in the laundry room.
As you walk through the opening a refrigerator is on your right, then a small counter, and then the sink with a window above it. There is counter space then my stove and oven. The counter and cabinets you can see are part of a bar that separates the kitchen from the living room. Our microwave sits in an out of the way area of this counter. We don't use the bar as an eating area. I use it as a table top of a sort. You can see a lamp and knicknacks sitting on it in the corner. On the living room side of the bar are 2 chairs.
This view is taken from the edge of the living room looking back toward the laundry room opening.
You can see the frig. I have a basket sitting on top of it. We put our keys, sunglasses, mail, bills, stamps, etc. in it. I have an apple cookie jar on top of there as well. On the shelf above the frig sits my Johnson coaching scene china I got from my mother. You can see the sink area and my window. That was one of my requirements when we started looking for a new trailer, a window above my sink. I have another apple cookie jar which I keep my cooking untensils in. My dish detergent is in an olive oil bottle. It looks nicer sitting on the sink than a plastic bottle.
Here is a wider view. This view includes the dining area and our china cabinet.
Here is a closer view of the dining area.
We have had this table since we first established a home. (The first few months of our marriage we lived with DH's parents.) The table came with ugly 80s style chairs. When they wore out, I aked my FIL for unfinished chairs. He bought these chairs. DH stained them to match the wood grain in the table. I think they look well together. The apple placemats were an apple table runner that I cut apart into smaller pieces. The napkins and cushions came from Walmart. The peace plant is sitting on a stool that is covered with a red gingham piece of cloth. I needed some height in this corner and that is what I came up with.
Here is our china cabinet.
My daddy made this china cabinet for us one year for Christmas. He used an old pie hutch my great-grandmother had as the pattern. I have all our everyday china as well as our good china stored in it. It is also has plenty of apple decorations in it to spice things up a bit. One of the 2 drawers hold my good silverware and the other holds all of my cookie cutters. Beside the china cabinet is another peace plant in a tin bucket decorated with apples. It is sitting on a little decorative stool.
The beautiful little puppy in the picture is our Miss Oakley. She is a picture hog. She loves having her picure made and is always around when I get out the camera.
Be sure to check out part one of the tour; the laundry room. Stayed tuned for part three: the living room.
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