The Kitchen

I am so fickle!!!!


I have decided that it is time to change the kitchen again....it has been 5yrs and that is about the time limit on my decorating time line. I love colors....all colors...I do not discriminate. Red is my favorite color whether it be bright red, orange red, purple red, dark red and every other RED in between. Tomato Red was the color of our kitchen when we lived in Warrenton and Summer Pudding (RED) is what our current kitchen color.



The Donner lets me make the majority of the decorating decisions and goes along with my ideas (he hates when I have "IDEAS" that means more work for him and goodness, I have lots of "IDEAS"). There are those times when he has gone rogue and made some major changes while I was away from the house. For instance the first day we took possession of our house (keep in mind our movers were lost in a snow storm somewhere in Indiana so we had nothing with us....I know it doesn't make sense we moved from the St. Louis area to Kansas City....its all good) I went to get some food and came back to my new home all excited to have our first meal in our first home together and the Donner decided he didn't like a wall so he had proceeded to take an iron bar used for horseshoes too it and tore it down. Then there is the day that I went to buy handles for the kitchen cabinets and he decided that he didn't like one of the walls in the living room so he started to tear it down (do you see a pattern here?). Oh we don't want to forget the weekend I went to Iowa to have a Girl's Weekend and I came home to orange gold walls in the living room....the list goes on. Most of the The Donner's projects are happy surprises but on occasion I have to call the girls and say it is time for another weekend before I ring The Donner's neck!!! Now to his merit the living room paint has grown on me, it has all come together and The Donner is a perfectionist (that is why I am not allowed to paint anything in the house) so it looks good when he is done doing his thing.....really it his timing that I have the biggest problem with.


I can't tell you exactly when I got it into my brain that is was time for a change, it could be because every time I pass paint samples I go into a trance and start picking every color chip I can find (my purse can have up to 20 paint colors at any given time.....lets not even talk about fabric, that is a post in its self!!!). Have I mentioned that I love colors......ALL COLORS??




I am the Queen of antiquing things......give me a new piece of wood and I will make it look like it is 100yrs old (OK maybe 50). It all started with the bead board that my husband installed on our back room, we were just going to paint it a light color and be done (maybe this is where my neurosis comes into play). I couldn't handle the plain painted bead board.......BORING......so that is when I took the sander to it (much to my husband's chagrin) after I was finished doing my "work" on it, there was a big sigh of relief from The Donner and that was like giving me permission to continue on in my quest to antique the world. I did not stop in the back room I moved to the kitchen with the greatest of ease, sander in hand, I took to the cabinets with a new found passion...then there was the trim......the back splash......oh don't forget the outlet covers (I couldn't stop!!!!!). But like all good things it had to come to an end, The Donner unplugged me and locked up the sander (I WILL have you again my little sander!!!!).


Look at all of the pretty COLORS!!!!

I really like the yellows and the taupes..........right now anyway

Countertop Choices

I think this is what I have decided on, the straw color will go on the walls, the white color the ceiling, the brown will be added to the cabinet doors and red trim in the back room but I will antique that finish (I am coming for you my little sander!!!) and the red will be a countertop finish...it will not be plain red The Donner has some great ideas for that, it is an epoxy coating and you can throw specs in it to give it some pizazz!!!

What do you think Henny????