The Enchanted Bungalow & Knottliten Cottage
Esther at the Enchanted Bungalow and her daughter, Janna, at Knottliten Cottage sharing their homes, do-it-yourself projects and the beauty in life.
Monday, November 15, 2010
Baby Boy Shower
Monday, October 4, 2010
"New" Kitchen Cabinets at Knottliten Cottage
The kitchen in our 1925 cottage was remodeled in the 80's and it looked like it. Within the first two months we lived here, we added a dishwasher, bought new white appliances, installed white tile floors and counter tops, painted the walls white, changed the light fixtures, and added a large white farmhouse sink with a new silver faucet. We didn't, however, do anything to the 1980's cabinets except clean them profusely with expensive anti-smoke cleaner (the previous inhabitants were heavy smokers) and add cute silver pulls. When we priced cabinets, it would have been more expensive for new (old-fashioned looking) cabinets than the entire rest of the kitchen remodel. We just couldn't afford new cabinets and were resigned to living with the completely out-of-place, 1980's ones.
Three years later, I was reading The Lettered Cottage blog and fell in love with their black cabinets. I asked my husband about painting our cabinets black, but he wasn't sure it would look good. Then we found a picture on the Lettered Cottage of their original cabinets before painting. They were the EXACT same cabinets we had! My husband was totally on board with the painting after that. We had to finish our basement remodel, build a fence and landscape our yard first. But a year after finding the Lettered Cottage cabinets, we finally had time to do our own this past weekend. My folks babysat the twins and it took us two full days and $100 to turn our cabinets from this -
To this ~~Janna
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Savannah Weekend
Saturday, June 19, 2010
There is Nothing New under the Sun
Anyway, mine is now done and here she is in all her glory!
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Storage, storage . . .
Suitcases are stacked under the window seat in the owl window on the stair landing. I want to make some cute luggage tags so each suitcase will be labeled as to what is in it. (Instead of the little red dot).
I need to get one more black suitcase (18"-24") and make new handles for some of my suitcases. I will be looking for narrow belts on my next "trash to treasure" shopping expedition.
Monday, May 3, 2010
$8.77 chair
Close up of the dirty seat.
Polly helped me with that part.
Oops, excuse the stain on the carpet - I spilled some dye. I will be cutting that out and replacing it with a piece of carpet soon.
Esther
Linking up to Furniture Feature Friday at Mustard Seed Creations