Showing posts with label kitchen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kitchen. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Swedish Styling in Central Louisiana: Ikea in our House!

When Holly and I went to our friend Katie's wedding in Northern Virginia, a big part of the weekend had to do with visiting Ikea. Since I was about to move, I couldn't really buy anything but I took some pictures and got some ideas for what I wanted to do once I did get to my new house.

Cute netural living room. I like light and dark stuff mixed together

This is Ikea's bedroom. I like all of the pillows and the gallery over the bed. Too busy? I kind of want something but I don't want to over do my bedroom!


Our current bedroom. Kind of plain but it's relaxing and clean!
This is what our kitchen looks like now. There's a funny space between the cabinets. I made this "picture". It's okay but I want something more interesting


This is kind of what I was thinking. Stainless steel to match the appliances. I don't want wood because I think that it would be too hard to match.

What are some of your favorite Ikea finds? 
Please be really, really, really excited that I finally got pictures to upload to Blogger!! Maybe I got to wait later on in the evening when all of the locals are asleep to upload my pictures!

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Kitchen Advice Wanted

Kitchen in new house in Louisiana
I have a problem. I want white cabinets in my new kitchen. The following are the reasons that I am hesitant to paint:
  1. None of the houses that we looked at had light cabinets. This was the lightest color that we saw. They are doing really dark cabinets in all of the new construction.
  2. Not that I care what other people are doing but Josh is with the Army and we will be reselling this house in 2-3 yrs and I would like it to sell.
  3. The counter tops are white and in perfect condition.We aren't going to replace these. I am good with white on white but I don't know if that will freak some people out who come to look at the house.
  4. I also wonder if the black appliances and the all white cabinets are going to look strange.
What do you think? I am linking up to White House Black Shutters for more opinions!