apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

I always have to gently move friends out of the way because they tend to gaze at my postcard connection next to the fridge and all the little paper mementos stuck to the fridge itself.

I love keeping fresh flowers in the kitchen - especially on the windowsill over the sink.

i have a few items that belonged to my grandmother and which i am fortunate to now have in my kitchen. a large stockpot, 3 matching blue-and-white mixing bowls, and two mini-muffin pans for a brownie/cupcake recipe of hers (written out in her handwriting on lined notebook paper). using these items makes me feel a real connection to my family and to all the little kitchen habits that have been handed down from my grandmother to my mother to me.

[begin sappy] All the memories of cooking with the man I love continues to make the kitchen special and wonderful for us [end sappy]

I love my 9inch deep white enamel sink. It is SUCH an improvement over the one we had before and right under the window so the light makes it so bright and cheery! Plus I have a stained glass star art piece hanging in the window so the whole area just makes me happy.

I'm a renter and there are many sucky things about my kitchen but I love that I have a HUGE window in there. My windows face south but I'm always guaranteed a lot of natural light. And compared to the apartment next door my kitchen is pretty big, I can fit a 2-person table in there.

I have a bunch of little framed postcards hanging up in there as well as some black and white photos and several plates on the wall, all hung salon-style. It feels light and airy but at the same time warm and cozy.

My huge cast-iron griddle that fits over two burners - it gets used so often we don't bother to put it away, it lives on the stovetop.

I found an action figure in the ocean this summer. He's a little red transformer-looking guy. My roommate and I take turns hiding him around the kitchen and it makes us smile! He has turned up in the coffee pot, the microwave, frozen into an ice cube, etc.

Also, I have a set of green Pyrex nesting bowls that were a wedding gift to my parents. I have begged my mother for them for a year, and she finally gave them to me last month! They feel like home.

I have a brick wall in my kitchen. The brick wall hosts the oven and a woodstove. Under the oven is a nook for the firewood. The nook has a door that goes to the outside so you don't have to trudge wood thru the house. Just a few nice things about an old house.

My View from the huge kitchen windows, i just love this mural!

Although it's way more awesome in person, here's a website with a pic:
http://www.villarrealhutner.com/whats_new.html

What makes my kitchen special are the items that I inherited from my grandmother. My favorite is the little egg timer with a fawn..it is just too cute. I remember playing with it as a little kid. I also have some vintage milk glass and pyrex that my mother has given to me.

I have a semi 50's diner feel with a Coca Cola theme going on - stainless steel, white cabinets, black tiled countertop, black and white checked floor and red walls! It is so me.

However what makes it even more special is that my husband and I built it completely ourselves! People come to our house and we say 'look what we made'. It is very rewarding.