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On to the kitchen and what we like to call the “breakfast nook.” No huge changes here really, just a new food-appropriate mural on the kitchen wall, (no more dandelions for me!), and then some rearranging in our “breakfast nook.”

Kitchen before…a dandelion field?

Kitchen after, a bit more appropriate!

Breakfast nook before, wedding picture overload!

Breakfast nook after! Gotta keep one wedding picture I guess :)

Not huge changes, but fun ones for sure and they were free! Score. Final post today: bookshelves and the bedroom.

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Jeff and I spent the past weekend painting our apartment. We I was so excited to finally be able to start making this place all homey! We’re slowly tackling each room bit by bit and it’s really starting to come together. My big project for the weekend: The Kitchen. We have a pretty plain, white kitchen with nothing too extraordinary about it. See below.

See what I mean? A pretty standard, NYC apartment kitchen. So, of course I was dying to do something fun with it. My wheels started turning in my head and they immediately landed on an idea to paint the far wall with black chalkboard paint. I’ve ALWAYS wanted to use chalkboard paint somewhere and by golly, I finally figured out a way to convince the hubsters to buy me some :) So, off we skipped hand in hand went to the paint store, picked up a 1/2 gallon of my paint, bought some chalk and then I set to work!

Voila!

But then there was the task of figuring out what the heck I was going to draw on this chalkboard wall. I had all these big ideas of what to draw and how I was going to theme it, but then I realized that I’m not exactly as talented as my sister and I ended up searching “chalk drawings” on Google Images for design inspiration. What resulted was a free hand interpretation of one of those stick on wall murals you see at Target. So, here ya have it! It’s not perfect, but I’m pretty happy with it :)

Inspiration

My New Kitchen!

I think Martha would be proud :)

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So, hi, my name is Karen and I’m a MARTHA-holic. GASP! I know, I know! It’s a problem, but there’s just something about that Martha Stewart blue color that really floats my boat. When I registered for my wedding, I got made fun of a lot because the majority of my registry at Macy’s was overtaken by Martha Stewart products and everything was primarily for my kitchen. I couldn’t help it! It was like the products were just calling my name and telling me to shoot them with the registry gun, (pow pow!). Martha Stewart kitchen towels, hand mixer, blender, ice cream scoop, oven mitts, digital kitchen timer, paper towel holder, salt and pepper shakers….all absolutely needed things? Well, no. Do I have them? Yes. Witness exhibits A and B:

Martha Kitchen

I Heart Martha!

Sigh. Isn’t she beautiful? I absolutely adore cooking, so having a pretty kitchen just makes cooking that much more fun! Sadly, however, it doesn’t stop there. As you know, I’m a recent newlywed. I spent 16 months following in my sister’s footsteps by using Martha Stewart as my ultimate wedding planning guide…and boy did she deliver! She’s fabulous! Martha Stewart wedding magazines were some of my most prized possessions and I frequented MarthaStewart.com/Weddings like it was my job. The weddings she featured were always gorgeous and she had the most crafty ideas. In my opinion, everything about the Martha Stewart line is quintessentially classic and super beautiful.

Needless to say, it doesn’t take too much to make this girl happy :)

A: I do loooove me some Martha Stewart Weddings. That was one of the hardest things to give up after the wedding. I really don’t have an excuse to buy those magazines anymore and I miss them. There were so many pretty ideas in there.

As for your kitchen supplies, yes I can vouch. I’ve never seen so may aqua blue colored things in my life. I hope you don’t get tired of it any time soon! And since we’re sharing kitchens I’ll share mine too. I don’t believe I have one thing Martha blue in it. The horror! I know i know. I have navy blue though.

polka-dot kitchen

polka-dot kitchen!

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