Raise your hand if you could use more counter top space in the kitchen (my hands our definitely raised). In my home, I added a little prime real estate by putting a small kitchen island to use. But if I had more wall space to work with, I might have done something similar to Kristine's handy work.
I like her choice to leave the wine crates unfinished as they pair nicely and stand out against her new chalkboard wall. Kristine fills her nooks with cook books and cozies them up with plants and milk glass. She's even got room to spare and stows some pasta while keeping the spot stylized. I'm a big fan of open shelving and the wine crates allow easy access to items while keeping the space neat and organized.
For the full post and images of the entire room's progress see Moon In My Garden | Before (or in the middle) and After: Chalkboard Wall.
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I like the idea, but I would've stained the wood for a less obvious look.
I think you mean "my hand ARE definitely raised." Maybe try rereading what you've written once before posting it? I've also heard that reading from the last sentence up to the first sentence helps a lot when editing.
schraderjill, looks like you don't practice what you preach.
Meow! This comment section just got catty!
haaaaaaaaahaha, kristay!! I really just laughed out loud.
I think the wine boxes are a great idea, and I can think of other things that might work as well.
Too funny. I thought the editing error was actually quite telling - in keeping with the sometimes-ridiculous use of the plural on this site, it probably should have been "our hands our raised." Which would be stupid and was (almost) avoided.
if you do this, don't put heavy stuff in it (like those books), cuz the thin wood of the crates will warp and destroy the look.
If I were the writer, in response to this thread I would change the sentence to read "...in the kitchen (count me in!)"
Done.
I just can't believe it! My sister had almost the same flooring. but in a Dutch print, I have the same table wth 4 chairs and I couldn't,for the life of me, figure out what o do with old wooden boxes I retrived from an old candy store that closed on my block. I meanthis old place had candy and soda written on the window panes--I tried to get the workers to not break them but........But I got a stack of old wooden fruit crates with the old highly colorful and decorative paper still perfectly intact on them. One, a beautiful peacock, another with young girl eating a peach from Colorado, one with Daily Bartlett peaches from CO.;some have the price of the fruit on them, written in pencil $.28/lb. I just moved into a four room apt. with absolutely no cabinet space for ALL my bakeware and accessories AND THIS IS A GREAT IDEA! Not onlycan I show off this old wooden crates with their art work, but I will have storage place (envious at that). Thank you for all your ideas and suggestions. One will never know what one will find if we just slow down and take a look. This idea has really made me excited. Thank you as I will now have a perfect showplace for these old wooden crates---storage shelves included!
The little dishes on the floor! Aw. I like the crates, too.
Sorry, but as a linguist I have to chuckle at the "hands our raised". Are/our is definitely not a homophone in my dialect, but it totally is in Cali! There's something funky going on with those California vowels.
I love the provencal appeal it gives the space.
My sister has those same dishes for her cat! Love it.
I really like this idea, mainly because I'd like my future kitchen to have a lot of "reuse" items in it. Like a recycling center, only cute.
I remember seeing a "Trading Spaces" a thousand years ago where one of the designers did a backsplash entirely out of broken plates, and I've been in love with that idea ever since.
I did something similar and love how it came out...I stained my wine crates (using fabric dye, more color options) and then decoupaged decorative paper to the back of the box and then hung them up...They look awesome!!!