Could be “The One”

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It’s another kitchen post. Completely unrelated to any holiday celebrations or resolutions or retrospectives or anything else. Except, I’ve written a few times about kitchens and inspiration a few times here. So. There’s that.

Anyway, I picked up a fat issue of Dream Kitchens and Baths Magazine and in an article titled “Rustic Elegance,” they featured this kitchen from Konstant Architecture:

I wish there were more images online but I could only find this one. Anyway, both El Fiance and I seem to agree we rather like this one. There’s hope yet!

(P.S. Happy 18th Birthday to my young man wee baby boy.)

 

The Newest One

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I’ve developed a mad obsession for this light fixture, the potential home being above my future dining room table:

I am SO madly obsessed with this light fixture that I mistakenly described it to El Fiance as a shiny, brassy gold color when it is, in fact, a more matte, old silver. I have The Awesome today.

Anyway…on one hand it surprises me that I love this so much because it doesn’t really seem to fit into my current beach cottage + farm house + French Country – chipped, peeling paint aesthetic. On the other hand, it shouldn’t surprise me at all that I love this because I wouldn’t be ME if I weren’t being a contrary pain in my own arse.

But maybe it does kind of fit in with the beachy part of that aesthetic? In some way? Just a little? All the design advice reads “Use what you love, it will all come together and work.”

It would definitely be a bazillion times better than what I’ve got as a dining room light fixture right now, anyway – a non-functioning little square in the ceiling that seems sadly misplaced from its proper home in an RV bathroom. 

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I have already failed at NaBloPoMo this year, having missed the first day of posting. THE AWESOME, I SAY.

That’s “MS. Internet Writer” to you.

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A message from my spam comments: “Play informative for me, Mr. internet writer.”

I don’t know, it really amused me.

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One thing I have wanted to be for a long time is more arts-and-craftsy. The problem is I demand INSTANT GRATIFICATION and don’t generally have the patience to sit down and see a project through to the finish. Case in point: the baby blanket I started to crochet while I was still pregnant with my son. My son is now in college and the baby blanket never even made it to 1/3rd of the way through. Eh, it was pink, anyway. However, I think I’ve found a project I could actually do:

Found via Pinterest, it’s scrapbook paper on wood, the edges painted and a bit distressed, and hung in a grid on the wall. First of all, I love me some scrapbook paper. Every time I walk into a craft store I am amazed when I leave without buying any. I have, on several occasions, found myself wandering around the store with a big stack of pretty paper in my hands, only to put it all away when I remember I don’t actually scrapbook and have nowhere to store pretty paper just for the sake of owning pretty paper. However…this? This, I could do.