Hey gang, how was your weekend? If you didn’t spend it in the ER, it was better than mine!
Everything is fine now, but my little guy slipped off a stepladder in the backyard and smacked the side of his head hard on the concrete. He was lethargic and inconsolable, and threw up a few times, so we took him in to be evaluated just in case. They did a CT scan on him and everything looked normal, thank goodness. He’s a little bruised up, but back to his old self already! Hooray for happy endings!
Christina’s kitchen recently got a happy ending of its own too. Before, it was tiny, boxy, dark and dated. But now …
It is exactly none of those things! Of course the size is the same, but the open shelving makes it feel … dare I say it … spacious? You might think that there is no way anyone with such a small kitchen could afford to lose all that cabinet storage, but hush your fears. Not only does she have everything she needs at her fingertips, it looks great on display too.
Open shelving forces you to pare your kitchen down to the necessities. Which is great! It means letting go of the things you don’t really need. It means no teetering stacks of ‘commemorative’ plastic cups, no drawer full of ketchup packets and twisty ties, no magnets that say TORONTO on them when you have never been to Toronto or know a single person in Toronto or have any affiliation with Toronto, (this is a very specific fight that my husband and I had today about a Toronto magnet that he inexplicably decided to hang on the fridge, seriously, anyway, guess who won that fight?)
See how Christina packed a ton of magic into this little kitchen on her blog Christina’s Adventures.
11 Comments
Michelle L
April 11, 2016 at 3:04 PMSo glad your little dude is okay! So scary. Beautiful makeover!
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Elaine Wagg
April 11, 2016 at 3:39 PMThis is an awesome makeover! Beautiful kitchen.
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Marlene
April 11, 2016 at 6:29 PMYou are most welcome to Toronto, ON, Canada anytime as you have at least one faithful blog reader living in that area.
🙂
Lindsey @ Better After
April 11, 2016 at 7:29 PMHaha, you got it! If I ever make it to Toronto, I’ll already have a friend and a souvenir!
Terresa
April 12, 2016 at 7:42 AMI love this kitchen redo SO MUCH. This gives the small space such a cozy feel. And while it has several of the features that make up 90% of the the renovations online that I hate seeing over and over and over (everything painted white, open shelving, white subway tiles) this is done with such personality, it just invites you in. I love the collected look of all the simple things on the shelves, nothing is overdone. Very nice:)
Laura
April 12, 2016 at 10:21 AMGlad to hear your son is OK. Isn’t it amazing we survived our childhoods?
Lindsey @ Better After
April 12, 2016 at 2:52 PMThank you! And yes, it’s so true! Luckily they seem to have pretty hard heads!
Christina
April 12, 2016 at 5:27 PMAh hey Lindsey thanks so much for featuring my kitchen makeover!! This was our previous kitchen, and I kind of miss it!! It was such a sweet little space that worked so well for our family. We re-did our kitchen in our new house too if you want to check that out 🙂 http://christinasadventures.com/2015/05/diy-farmhouse-kitchen-makeover-all-the-details.html
Mary K
April 13, 2016 at 4:25 PMI’m not a fan of open shelving in kitchens—the cooking grease goes everywhere. I wonder if using glass-front cabinet could have achieved the same effects or if the white cabinets would have been enough to make it feel airier.
kellee
April 13, 2016 at 4:45 PMIronically, I also spent Saturday in the ER! Such a fun place for 3+hours. Glad to hear your son is okay! Our toddler is, too, just needs to get through a respiratory virus (he was taking almost 60 breaths a minute). This kitchen is quite an amazing change! Had to flip back and forth just to catch everything.
Lisa
January 17, 2017 at 10:00 AMAnother Toronto native here! (Just stumbled across your blog and am loving it.) Keep the magnet until you make your own trip to the best city in the world!