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Jul. 21, 2006
The Elegant Kitchen
Our kitchen is not huge... not when you consider it is also our dining room and the main entrance we use to get into our house.
To be honest, it is practical to come into the kitchen, rather than
through the front door... the floor is linoleum and much easier to
clean from mud when the kids track it in!
In an effort to make my kitchen a little more roomy, and easier to clean, I set out to establish some Simple Elegance in there.
I started some time ago, by removing the old, drab, blue curtain, and
making my new white curtain, as some of you may remember. It
still looks good, and I open it up during the day, to let the sunlight
into the kitchen. This floods the rooms with light, and makes it
look MUCH nicer!
 See how pretty the white is?
Well, with the success of that, I decided to move my table
around. Intially, I had my table right next to the door, to give
a breakfast nook effect. It was nice, but I had a terrible time
keeping the old shoebox tidy. It is an old wooden box, it used to
have a lid, but that never fitted on top with all the shoes in
there. So we turned it on it's side the other day, but I was
still not satisfied. Finally, I looked at the improvement my
white curtain and tablecloth made, and decided that a cloth covering it
would help... and that moving it BACK beside the door was best.  Here
is the result... makes a great place for my handbag too! The kids
shoes are on top, and DH's and mine are under the cloth. I am not
completely satisfied with the result, so I can guarantee that it will
change soon! When I moved the shoebox though, I of course had to move the table too... this resulted in something I had not planned on...  Yes...
the leg came off. Well actually it is something a bit more than
that... the leg had become terribly loose, and the table was
shaking. When I moved it, it became really
wobbly... so I flipped it over to tighten the leg. The I saw the
problem... there was some wood missing, an old break, and the repair
job was terrible. We think originally the wood had been there,
but some time ago we found some wood and wondered where it came from...
so now we knew. Unfortunately, it was not repairable... so I took
the leg off, and later DH came home and took that whole stretcher off,
replacing it with a brand new, stronger one. He did a GREAT job,
because the table no longer rocks!!  And
here is the result... I have a beautiful kitchen! The white
tablecloth is covered with my clear vinyl... responsible for saving the
cloth from many a spill and sticky finger! My homemade pinny is
on one chair, and there is a cover on the other chair... this gets put
over my daughter's seat to prevent her sticky fingers from making chair
cleaning a daily job! The end chair is DH's speacial chair... and
beyond is the new shoebox location.
So... not perfect, but definitely Simply Elegant enough!
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Posted by Mamma1420 
Jul. 21, 2006 - Lovely