Home Tour: Our Kitchen

Welcome to our kitchen! We've spent a lot of time in this room during our first year of marriage! We painted our cabinets with chalkboard paint for easy message writing and menu updates. I finally found a good place to store my gigantic vintage thermos collection, above the kitchen cabinets. Jeremy uses them all the time to take coffee to work. The menus above are from a recent dinner party! 

I love details. Our kitchen is full of personal wedding gifts, vintage collections and as many fresh flowers as possible. I've enjoyed floral design this year, so I try to make a new bouquet or two as often as possible. The fawn cookie jar is a bit of a tease because that's where we store puppy treats! 

We have enjoyed cooking together all year. We've been trying new recipes and learning a lot. I'm lucky because Jeremy loves to cook even more than I do! My specialty is fancy grilled cheese, his specialty is spagetti squash with meatballs... yum! 

Above our dining room table I created a display to document our first year of marriage. On this display we save little bits like movie tickets, memories from trips, love notes, photos and maps of all the places we've visited. I love the visual reminder of the happy memories we're building. When the year is over I'll probably take it down and turn it into a scrapbook. 

I love playing records in the kitchen while we're cooking and cleaning! We collect records (vintage and new) so it's fun to make this one of the focal points of our kitchen. I hope you've enjoyed this little peek into our kitchen. We have a lot of fun in here! xo. elsie 

Notes: Photos by Janae Hardy, Kitchen Table/Vintage, Record Player/Crosley from UO, Bearded Men Print + Couple Portrait/Ashley G, Black + White Print/Sherri Dupree Bemis.♥ 

Comments

[Purple Deer]

Love the pops of color with the black cabinets.

[Kristin]

I've never been more outright jealous of a kitchen than I am of yours. It's stunning; so much personality and love. Thank you for the tour!!

[Kacie @ A Collection of Passions]

All those vintage thermoses are amazing! I love the yellow and the dark cabinets. You're little wall of photos is so sweet.

Kacie
http://acollectionofpassions.com/

[Stacie]

Gosh! This is so cute! I love the painted cabinets and the colors. Everything matches your personality! :D

[Ana F.]

SO cute! I love the vintage feel of it and the picture board!

[Marissa]

I love the Dala Horses! What a nice Swedish touch :)

[katie scarlett]

I love the chalkboard paint! And your collage is super cute...that's one of my projects this year, too! xo

[Katie Scott]

I love that idea! I might do that to the cabinets in my scrapbooking room maybe. Love it!

[Kate]

Behold! The world's most whimsical kitchen! Major kitchen envy. So cool!

Kate :)

http://agreatmanythingsblog.wordpress.com/

[Amanda Rose]

I love the chalkboard paint! and the collage! Thanks for sharing.

http://sewmuchtosay.blogspot.com

[shalini]

I have been enjoying your home tour so far and the kitchen really tops it all.
I do have a few questions, first about the chalk dust in the kitchen, does it bother you? And also how did you stick the collage on the wall?
Thank you so much for sharing your abode with us :-)

[Shannon]

I love that your cabinets serve as chalkboards. What a cute idea! Love, love, love your house.

http://shannonhearts.blogspot.com

[Amanda]

Such a cute kitchen! I love that you used the chalkboard paint on all of your cabinets! Once my fiance and I finish building our house we are planning on painting our fridge with chalkboard paint!

http://littleladylittlecity.blogspot.com/

[Ester]

OH MY I love your kitchen!! I think I just got a little bit crazy when I saw the pictures, it's so perfect and actually some of the details resemble my dream-kitchen! I specially love the cabinets, it's amazing how you painted them with chalkboard paint, best idea ever! Also, your thermos collection is gorgeous, I love how you displayed it! :)

[Steph]

Sighh theres nothing that inspires me to create delicious food more than an absolutely beautiful kitchen! Photos are great as always Elsie!

xxx
-S
http://www.messylittlemonsters.blogspot.com

[elsie]

Q: first about the chalk dust in the kitchen, does it bother you?
A: Nope, we use chalk markers. The only time we used real chalk was to trea them when they were first painted! :)

Q: And also how did you stick the collage on the wall?
A: I used painters tape!

[Earendil]

i absolutely love your kitchen, i think it's my favorite part of your home tour so far (maybe the kitchen is always my favourite part ;) ). I like the colours, the pics and the possibility to write with chalk on the drawers is a great idea!

[Heathers Harmony]

Beautiful! Thank you for sharing your home, I love that you're sentimental like me!

[Nicole @ Giraffelegs]

awww it's the cutest most unique kitchen ever!!

[Brigitte]

I love your little home tours! your home is so cute!

Have a happy new year!

Brigitte
http://ohhemgeeboutique.blogspot.com/