Mom and Dad's Kitchen Renovation

My mom and dad are renovating their kitchen. I told my mom I'd find some pictures of the vision I have for the space.

I think Persian rugs and stainless steel would look pretty awesome.


Via Desire to Inspire.

 Their house is quite traditional but my parents appreciate modernism and I think the above photo does a good job of combining the two.

More rugs in kitchens.



Desire to Inspire.



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Design*Sponge.




From Desire to Inspire originally from Domino Magazine.

 What about a farm table instead of an island? But we'd need to add more storage somewhere else if we take away the island that's currently there.

Here's an idea: They have a breakfast nook just off the kitchen. Build a super long table to serve as island AND a table.

Desire to Inspire.

This is a pretty neat idea, actually.

Desire to Inspire.

Replace some of the upper cupboards with shelves, maybe? It would help add continuity into the breakfast nook?

Desire to Inspire.

I like it when kitchens have different coloured main cabinets and islands. The island's pretty nice, too.



Martha Stewart at Home Depot.

 They have kind of dated oak cabinets that I think they should paint. I think grey would be quite handsome.




Design*Sponge.


I think they should get a stainless steel island like this:



Desire to Inspire.



Design*Sponge.

There may be a part 2 coming soon!

Emersonmade

I was trying to remember the website of Emersonmade for a few days and couldn't figure it out because I hadn't bookmarked it!

How do you suppose they make them?

I want to figure out how to emulate them! They are so cool!!! I wonder what kind of fabric they use and how to make the petals come into the centre.

Thank goodness for my favourite blog, design*sponge! They did one of their famous sneak peaks on Emerson and Ryan's house today. I love the sneak peaks!


This is, like, my dream house. Excuse the 13-year-old girl talk (I have a girl in my class, like, who uses the word, like, like every second word)

Oh my! What I wouldn't give for a big room and a table like that!

Holy heck! Can you imagine a pantry like this one?!?!?!

I wish I had a big ole kitchen sink like this one. 

And open shelves, too, though I'm sure I'm too cluttery for that.

And that ceiling lamp!!!!!

And romantically, I wish I had chickens, but I think they would be stinky and gross and I probably wouldn't like them.

Tenement Kitchens

One of my favourite books ever is A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. I had never seen a character like Francie before in a book, and the racism that existed against Irish-Americans at the time shocked me. I mean, I had no idea that kind of discrimination existed. NO IDEA. And to know that the book is fairly autobiographical and that Betty Smith did endure such conditions of poverty is pretty amazing. The scene in the book when Francie and Neely when they go to buy tongue for their mother to cook because that's all they can afford was incredible.

Anyway, I saw this article on Apartment Therapy today about the Tenement Museum in NYC. To me, this is exactly what the kitchen in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn might look like. I can just imagine Katie Nolan, Francie and Neely's mother, stoking that stove and washing dishes at that sink.

Aren't those amazing? What I'd give to have a kitchen like that first one, and yet it was considered the lowest of the low at the time.



You can take a virtual tour of the museum here.