Kitchen Vent Hood

 Good morning people in blogland!  I wanted to share a new addition to our kitchen, our new vent hood.  I was continuously seeing all those beautiful vent hoods in your kitchens out there and decided we needed to update our kitchen and have one installed.  Our Mr. Handyman said he could take on the job and I think he did a great job!  

Below is the picture of the before in my kitchen.  It wasn't real hard for him to complete the job but I do have a microwave that plugs into the cabinet area over the stove.  I just got a new microwave after 30 years in this home so we needed to make sure it was accessible.  

This is after he put the door on it.  It's on a piano hinge.  

Here is the after picture and think it turned out so pretty!

This is after it was built out above the stove.

This is the finished product with the base coat of paint.

He put the bead board in the middle to tie in with the bead board in the rest of the kitchen.  The while cabinetry that he also did last year has a lot of bead board in it.  

I love the little shelf he put on the outside in the middle to hold something that might break up the hood.  I'm loving it!

This was a fun project.  Now he will be working on the refrigerator and building it in and pulling the top cabinet out.  I'll keep you all posted on that and how that turns out.  Till later!

2020 Fall Home Decorating

 Well it’s that time of year when things cool down and we begin to think of the holidays and decorating for them. They all seem to come at once, Halloween, fall, Thanksgiving, Christmas and the new year. I don’t know about you guys but I’m ready to get on with 2021! 

Here are a few of my Halloween and fall decorations I thought I would share hope you enjoy!

Come on in to our home.....

These pumpkins were purchased many years ago up north from William Sonoma Home Store while traveling.  

The wreath was only $15.00 from a local consignment store. With dollar store floral and ribbon from Michaels added.

When you enter our foyer you see a vintage collection of Halloween characters we have collected for years. I love all their little costumes. 

To the left is the living room and the collection of glass blown pumpkins are some my favorites also. 

The dining room table is not set but has a fall collection gathering on it.

I painted some of the natural acorns gold.

I love vintage linens and the small tablecloth and napkins shown here are from Scott’s Antique Market. They have  tatting around the edges and embroidered with wheat on each napkin and the cloth.

 The napkin's are all monogrammed with all our families names on them. 

This display is on my silver chest and just another fun little collection of vintage finds I wanted to share. 

Moving on in the kitchen you see a small pillow collection of pumpkins that adorn the window seat at the kitchen table looking into the back yard. 

 Love this fun pumpkin head as she sits top a small chair on our table.

In the den this chair awaits with a Pottery Barn pillow that is several years old.

I live garland for any season and this combination is from Hobby Lobby, Kirkland’s and I made the rag one on the bottom. My Mr. painted pumpkins for the mantle. 

I hope you enjoyed visiting our home for the fall but as you leave you might want to exit out the back as our friends usually find their way to a chair near the outdoor fireplace and end up staying awhile. Also,  while you are out there check out our garden decorated for fall.

Happy fall everyone!

Our Garden Pandemic Project

 Our little kitchen garden has been an ongoing project for several years. It all began when we had some centipede sod die in our back yard. The winter of 2017 took it out. It never came back. So we has zoysia planted. So we decided in some of the bare spot we would create a few above ground boxes. Then the fun began!

We planted tomatoes in these above ground boxes for a couple of years. This year my Mr. decided they were too small and needed to be higher for more depth, but that’s a later project with irrigation. 

This summer while we were working from home and didn’t have much to do on the weekends and evenings and my Mr. said he wanted to build the white picket fence around our little kitchen garden that I have always wanted.  So he did! Here are a few pics of what he did.

 

He added two gates, one large gate on the front and one on the side. He surprised me by adding cut out bunnies on each gate.  

I love the bunny gates. They are my fav!

I put a sweet garden table inside and added an old wheelbarrow planted with flowers. The front hedge created a kind of back fence. He and his best friend, Wesley made the two chairs and we enjoy sitting in the garden with sweet tea and lemonade in the afternoons. They will be painted black soon to match the stools in front of them. 

Our sweet carpenter made the two obelisk for us and love them in the garden.

We have plans to make the two garden beds deeper in the spring. Also, he will be putting in two long beds along the inside of the fence on each side to make those only for cut flowers.

Finally it feels good to finish a project that we have both wanted for many years. 

Happy fall everyone!