Breakfast Room and Kitchen 1:56 pm
Since our fridge is now in the place where the original pantry was, we turned an old coat closet in the breakfast room into our new pantry!
This is what we’ve been using the last 2 years as a pantry.
Not awesome.
Look how clean!
Ariel had a fantastic time organizing this (for the 3rd time this week).
It is SO nice to have this done!
Breakfast Room Breakfast Room 2:04 am
We think our breakfast room is one of the most charming rooms in our house thus far.
The breakfast room is right off of the kitchen and before you get to Grandma’s room.
It is part of the 1950 addition of the house.
First we are going to show you some of the real estate listing pictures from when we bought the house.
Note the gun cabinet in the corner of the breakfast room.
We do not have a manly gun cabinet of our own, but should Daddy bring one home, it will NOT set foot into our CUTE little breakfast room.
Another listing shot.
No, that is not a fire place.
Unfortunately, there was a lot of water damage on the window sill and the wall under the window.
Dad discovered this when he was removing an ugly 1950’s radiator (the kind that are only half way in the wall and have majorly ugly covers; unlike the cuter 1940’s ones in the old part of the house).
While it doesn’t look so big in the picture, this puppy was MASSIVE.
By far the largest ceiling fan in the whole house (even bigger than the full size ceiling fan in Grandma’s bathroom).
The ceiling fan was in love with the gun cabinet.
It was a lovely ending to the story of our house when they disappeared into the sunset together.
This is the vintage light fixture Dad found at an antique shop, which we used in place of the fan.
TA DA!
We took up old 70’s linoleum, had the floors refinished, peeled off the wallpaper, removed a built in desk, and slapped on a fresh coat of paint.
Note: Mom had Dad hang the picture on the right of the green hutch a little too high.
As for the hutch, Dad built that for us and we LOVE it! It holds so much stuff! Which is nice right now because we busted out the nasty old (slug infested – we kid you not) pantry.
That old hoosier cabinet in the corner is a much beloved family heirloom from Mom’s side of the family.
That thing can hold more stuff than you can shake a stick at!
We keep a lot of our baking pans and cookbooks in it.
