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Morning Snack, Hellooooo Floor

Good Morning!!! Time to hit the ground running to catch up from a wonderful weekend at the beach. I just added this picture to my files because I am so taken by the floor. Not what you usually see in a kitchen...And you know already I love the dark cabinets with all the white.

Also, if you get a chance I would love for you to visit yesterday's post about my dear friend Bullen.

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Morning Snack

Maybe this wall could keep my brain a little less scattered....Image This Old House Magazine

Colorful Kitchen Cabinet Decorating Ideas

Colorful Kitchen Cabinet Decorating Ideas

This is ideas of colorful kitchen cabinet to decorate your kitchen. Make your simple modern kitchen, looks fun, Clean and cheerful. No more boring at your kitchen. Bring enjoyable cooking atmosphere cause of the colorful cabinet. This kitchen cabinet ideas bring from designer Lago. It has creative ideas to make your kitchen, more modern but not complicated. This cabinet is very colorful, with unusual bright color combination. Enjoy your cooking time, with fun and cheerful feel with this Colorful Kitchen Cabinet Decorating Ideas for Simple Modern Kitchen.

Colorful Kitchen Cabinet Decorating Ideas

Colorful Kitchen Cabinet Decorating Ideas

Colorful Kitchen Cabinet Decorating Ideas

Colorful Kitchen Cabinet Decorating Ideas

Colorful Kitchen Cabinet Decorating Ideas

Colorful Kitchen Cabinet Decorating Ideas

Colorful Kitchen Cabinet Decorating Ideas

Vibrant and Exotic Modern Spain Kitchen Ideas 2011 from Spazzi

Vibrant and Exotic Modern Spain Kitchen Ideas 2011 from Spazzi

Vibrant and Exotic Modern Spain Kitchen Ideas 2011 from Spazzi

Vibrant and Exotic Modern Spain Kitchen Ideas 2011 from Spazzi

Vibrant and Exotic Modern Spain Kitchen Ideas 2011 from Spazzi

Vibrant and Exotic Modern Spain Kitchen Ideas 2011 from Spazzi

Bright color Kitchen Design Ideas 2011 – A Unique Looking Kitchen

Bright color Kitchen Design Ideas 2011

Bright color Kitchen Design Ideas 2011

Bright color Kitchen Design Ideas 2011

Bright color Kitchen Design Ideas 2011

Bright color Kitchen Design Ideas 2011

Minimalist Contemporary Stylish White Kitchen Design Ideas 2011

Minimalist Contemporary Stylish White Kitchen Design Ideas 2011

Minimalist Contemporary Stylish White Kitchen Design Ideas 2011

Minimalist Contemporary Stylish White Kitchen Design Ideas 2011

Minimalist Contemporary Stylish White Kitchen Design Ideas 2011

Minimalist Contemporary Stylish White Kitchen Design Ideas 2011

Contemporary Italian Kitchen Designs Trend 2011: Style and Originality design 2011

Contemporary Italian Kitchen Designs Trend 2011

Contemporary Italian Kitchen Designs Trend 2011

Style and Originality design 2011

Contemporary Italian Kitchen Designs Trend 2011

Contemporary Italian Kitchen Designs Trend 2011

Style and Originality design 2011

Plantation Shutters - the solution to my design dilemma?

Morning stylemeisters, I have a favour to ask - I need some unbiased and honest feedback from you! I have a little dilemma that I've been mulling over for quite a while now, and I think I've come up with a solution, but you guys have so many fabulous ideas I want to run it by you first.

On the back wall of my kitchen, the previous owners have left a cutout between it and the formal living area. Take a look:

It's actually shown best in this 'stunning' before shot :) For those of you not familiar my kitchen makeover, you can pop over here and here for all the deets.

So - my dilemma is this: the cutout is great for the following reasons:

• It opens up the kitchen to the rest of the house
• Keeping an eye on the goings on of the teenagers - v.important 
• Excellent for looking over the shoulder of said teenagers while they chat on their laptops (but don't tell them) 
• Air flow and ventilation, especially in summer
• Keeping an eye on the tv while cooking dinner

The problem? Well, it does limit the options as far as separating the formal areas from the kitchen/family area, it's not great for heating in winter, as the warmth from the open fireplace is lost up into the cathedral ceilings. And from a purely aesthetic point of view, it makes the formal living room a horror to decorate! So what else is there to do when you need some inspiration but scour the net for stylish examples, and this is what I found:

courtesy Mabley Handler

Stunning right? This is the only image I've ever found of a cutout wall between the kitchen and formal living area - all the others have opened to either a dining or family room. But this ticks all the boxes as far as I'm concerned - the opening is now a stylish feature in itself, and doesn't detract from the design of the living room at all. Of course, it doesn't hurt that the living area is gorgeous in its own right, but you get my drift. Here are a couple of similar pics...

source unkown

and hey - Cam and Mitchell have one too! From one of the best tv shows ever, Modern Family. 

Courtesy recklessbliss.blogspot.com

via here

So - over to you, what do you think? I'm thinking I'll add bifold plantation shutters, so I have the option of closing the room off in winter, when I'd like a little separation from the formal areas, but maybe you have another solution? Or you have a photo stashed away in your files of just the thing? All suggestions will be gratefully received, so fire away!

1950s Villeroy & Boch dish from Pip's Trip

Love the simple graphic design on this original 1950s Villeroy & Boch dish from Pip's Trip, which is one of those websites I can easily spend hours on - it's like a posh carboot sale, with only the good bits - but heaps of them. 


Not that easy to navigate if you don't know what you're looking for, which is perhaps why I seem to spend so long window shopping there...

This dish, which measures 13.5cm across, is quite a funny shape - there are side-on images on the website: it looks a bit like a candleholder, without the bit to hold candles... it could be a nice shallow soup dish, or something to throw the Hula Hoops in at parties (there are three more of them on the site, in different mid-century shades - so you could get a whole set). Check them out at the ceramics section of Pip's Trip.