I Love Lamp: The Kitchen... One Day!

As I attack the rest of the house with white paint, I'm dreaming of a country kitchen...

We've done a very surface level touch up of ours. We began like this:

I painted just about everything white, we put up some barn wood shelving and some hanging baskets (eff you mice!), hung a barn door...

And when we were having the outside of the house done we installed new windows and doors which has been great for the keep-the-heat-in game. But we've kinda plateaued on the rest of the progress front. And on the functional front. Because the next steps are BIG. Like, rip out the ancient linoleum floor big. And the walls. And the possibly sagging ceiling? And OH MY GOD THIS CORNER:

It being a kitchen and all there's a lot of moving parts and complicated elements between all the plumbing and electric and gas and and AND... You have an idea to take out one thing and then you're like, "Oh wait, that's physically attached to this other thing and if we rip that out then--" blah blah blah. And we're reaching our skill limit. I'm good with a paint brush, but I'm not exactly trying to trim out every window over new dry wall I installed, you know?

So in the mean time, like I first said, I'm doing all kinds of planning and scheming for that country kitchen...

(Top photo I've seen EVERYWHERE but cannot find an original credit, second photo is via Mother Mag, third photo is Jersey Ice Cream Co-- of a house that's only about 15 minutes away... think I can just move the whole thing to our house??)

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