Back to Krissy's House..Kitchen and Family Room

The kitchen project started when Krissy wanted to refresh these shelves in her kitchen. 

I have a love/hate relationship with shelves.  They are great when you need storage and want to have some display space.  But when they are too large you just end up putting stuff there just to have stuff there.  Krissy had a lot of shelf space.  We decided to just make them a little more utilitarian.  We used some of her baking dishes that were in cupboards but kept some of the decorative things that she loved.  We found the cute blue and green plates and plate racks at TaiPan.  We loved the pop of color they added.  And that blue is definitely the "it" color of the season.  Just don't ask us the name of it..not teal, not navy, just bluish, greenish, grayish.   

 

Couldn't stop at just those shelves though.  The table got a cute new runner and fun accessories.

The aprons on the wall gave us another way to add color.

Tai Pan Trading .. we need one in Temecula!

 

The runner that was replaced on the table got moved to the island along with some cute topiaries.  For some reason I have to have something under all my displays.  Everything is either on a runner, tray, platter, plate, whatever.  It just seems to work better.  You can't tell from the picture, but we added the blue plates to the tiered stand too.  

 We fancied up her sink area with a new rug, cute basket, new dish towels and fancy soap in a cute bottle.  Never underestimate the power of a cute soap container.  Please don't just buy the generic bottle of liquid softsoap in the ugly bottle.  Splurge on one nice bottle of soap and then just keep refilling it with that generic softsoap liquid stuff.  Just a little tip from us girls!!!  Also, the little jar has her dishwasher soap tabs in it.  Might as well make them look cute too.  Plus, they are out when you need to get to them.




And on to the Family Room!   No before pictures, but she had the basics:  sectional, clock, most of the pillows and an ottoman that matched the couch - but it had taken a bit of abuse.

We found the leather ottoman (better suited to take the abuse of a family room ottoman!) and put a pretty rug on top of her carpet to just ground everything.   Of course, we had to add the "it blue"color from the kitchen in the great throw and the lamp that we had seen at Marshalls and were just dying to buy for someone!  Doesn't it look great with her yellow and coral pillows.  We added the small offwhite pillows with all the colors to just tie everything together nicely.

We got a great deal on the chair (a recliner!) and added the end table and picture to finish it all off.

The family room and kitchen flow together nicely!

This angled wall between the garage entry and the kitchen was the perfect place for a "drop zone".  The small desk is just right for keeping mail, writing phone messages and dropping keys.  The round ottoman can be used as a seat or brought over to the couch as an extra end table or another place to put your feet up.  We bought it because it was cute!