Ta-dah! Our new kitchen

Before

After

As promised, photos of our new kitchen! A new light fitting or two, a blind, a few stools and our kitchen will be 'done'. But I think we are close enough to calling it finished that I couldn't resist sharing the before and afters. 

I am really loving our new kitchen. It came together just as I imagined and is such a lovely place to work. We looked at several options and decided on a custom built kitchen with routed, painted doors, white appliances and white stone bench tops. Dave was a little concerned with how an all white kitchen would look. It has long been a dream of mine and thankfully he trusted my judgement, as now he loves it. He put his own stamp on it by way of choosing the sink and tap wear, as he works in the plumbing industry. (Both pieces seemed enormous until they were in the space! Now I am loving the large double bowl sink and the tap wear.) 

How far our house has come in the almost two years we have called it home. It feels like it is really all coming together now that the kitchen is (almost) complete.

Home sweet home.

Stitch. Read. Covet. Blog.

Stitch: This beautiful chevron baby blanket is available for free on the Blue Sky Alpaca facebook page or Ravelry. It's it fabulous? You could have a lot of fun playing with colours with this design. Found via. Threads and More.

built of books by Frank Halmans

Read: Good Reads is to books what Ravelry is to knitting and crochet. Have you seen it? Are you a member? You can find me here, I'm slowly filling in my profile.

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Covet: Sigh. Need I say more?

Blog: The lovely Tiny Happy blog by Melissa Wastney has long been a favourite of mine. Melissa has such an individual, old world aesthetic. Her photographs of her craft and family life are full of charm. I've long been drawn to her process of collecting and transforming flowers into embroideries. From postcards to fabric, pincushions to needle books, bags to cushions, Melissa creates objects with the warmth and comfort that can only come from a handmade item. I must say, I am very excited that she is releasing her first book this year.

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This post has not been sponsored in any way. The above are genuine items/people/blogs that I am loving.

My eye is playing up today. It's taken me all day to put this post together with lots of resting inbetween. Oh for a bit of normality.

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