Showing posts with label design ideas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label design ideas. Show all posts

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Kitchen Design: No cabinets

As most of you may know, we've been in the process of remodeling our home for about a year now.  It has been a long, s..l..o..w process - as in, we half finished a few projects here and there.

One of the biggest things that I had hoped would have been finished since last year was our kitchen.  But let's face it - I'm more of a planner than a do-er.  We had taken out the kitchen sink and most of the old, cracking tile that was still lingering on our concrete countertops and we had planned to re-tile the whole shebang and reface the cabinetry.  Well after getting down to the nitty gritty, I realized that the cabinets were in pretty bad shape and refacing them instead of replacing them would just prolong their demise.

But, in the real world, replacing all the cabinets in our kitchen will be COSTLY.  The price of cabinets is much higher than you would think and since we're not so handy, building all of it on our own would probably cost us a finger or two.

So, I decided to look for alternatives.  In other words, I googled "kitchen no cabinets" and remarkably found some new kitchen inspiration that would save me a couple grand!











Our kitchen layout is sorta like this picture above, except our sink is near the windows and the stove is placed in front of the plain wall.

I think eliminating the wall cabinets and replacing them with minimal shelving would be a great idea especially since those cabinets are usually empty anyway.

What do you think?  Are you more traditional and prefer wall cabinets?  Or would you dare to go bare?


♥ Duckie.


P.S.  I know I slacked on yesterday's outfit post.  I was just SWAMPED with work yesterday (and still am today).  Don't worry, I haven't forgotten your requests, I'll get them up soon, I promise!

Friday, April 6, 2012

Poppin' my Pinterest

I've been a member of Pinterest for quite some time now, but I never knew what to do with it. So yesterday I logged on and saw some awesome stuff, created some boards, and pinned. Yup, I popped my Pinterest cherry.

I can't say that I love it or hate it yet. I still don't understand the whole concept of it. I've never really been one to physically create a pin board so still I'm a little lost.


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Okay, so after writing the above two paragraphs, I decided to take a break and log on to Pinterest to see what I could learn from it so I didn't sound completely lost.

That was this morning around 9:30am. It is now 3:30pm.

Yes, I have been on Pinterest for the past 6 hours. And I love it. I have found so many DIY and craft ideas that I can't wait to try. I have not started on my style boards yet, those are still empty. I'll need a whole weekend set aside just to start that.

Here are just some of the wonderful ideas I've found:








Aren't they amazeballs!? Well, I think so anyway and that's all that REALLY matters, right? Lol. Oh, I also came up with a color palette for my living room:

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Color by COLOURlovers


I originally just wanted it to be just different shades of grey and yellow, but I think this new palette is way better. The minty color will be used lightly, just in little accent pieces but they yellow, greys, and white will be the main colors. What do you think?

Well have a wonderful weekend! Btw, I haven't yet had a chance to do my Art Journal today but I will post it as soon as I can!

And don't forget to follow me on Pinterest - and you can help me out with it too in case I get lost. Lol.

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