The kitchen: before and inspiration

The next/last big project to tackle around this place is the kitchen. Although the bathroom reno has left me feeling a bit less terrified, I'd be lying if I said I was looking forward to the process of the kitchen reno. This is not a big house and the kitchen though tiny is the still the activity hub of the house. I have no idea how we'll manage with relocating everything. Plus the thought of living off take-out and microwaveable "food" for any period of time is also unappealing.

Since we're planning on selling in a couple of years, there's not much room for expansion/re-configuring and because our neighbourhood is not going to attract upscale buyers anytime soon, we're not going nuts with highend upgrades.

Basically I'm looking at lower-end Ikea for almost everything: white cabinets, perhaps some glass on the uppers to make it look a touch above builder-grade, dark counter tops, single sink with a built-in drainboard, white subway tile backsplash and new vinyl flooring.

I've been collecting some inspiration pics of small white Ikea galley kitchens to get me motivated:

Hot damn

It's like someone reached into my brain and plucked out my dream space.







Source: The workspace for Parliament Design as shot by Lincoln Barbour via Design Sponge

Anglophile.

Really loving the home of Lucy Chadwick and Duffy from The Selby:

Deja Vu.

Normally I'm much too skeptical to let myself believe in past lives. However, these pictures struck me instantly as very familiar and intimately personal. As though I'd been there or some place very similar before. Maybe in my previous incarnations I was a gold miner or share cropper... or dance-hall girl.








Source: J Morgan Puette via Design Sponge.

Could just be the hormones...

but right now I want to tear apart my whole house and rearrange everything.

Of course, it being February doesn't help either. Definitely getting a tad shack-wacky. I find pictures like these calming:

Source: Toast.

Mmmm, brick.

cheri and david's apartment:







Source: The Selby.

Laundry room.

Images: my Beautiful via Graphic-ExchanGE.

An ode to Domino.

Nasty stories are floating around that Domino is going tits-up. Although the mag was frequently hit or miss for me, I appreciated that they always had more diverse and interesting decor pics than the other house porn offerings. I guess now I get to horde my existing collection and occasionally get all wistful and sentimental about it.

And, because I hear the website is also going to disappear, I present a collection of previously unposted (by me... I think) pilfered pics for your enjoyment: