Half Note Cottage - Kitchen

The Kitchen at the Half Note Cottage next door has come a long way. And the best part, it only took a little bit of dough....and not the kind you cook with! (insert cheesy drum beat and cymbal crash you hear after any bad joke here)

What used to be dark and heavy looking...

Is now light and airy...



So instead of being greeted by this view when you enter the front door...

You're now welcomed inside by this one...



As I mentioned in my last post, I donated my white table and chairs to the Half Note Kitchen because I got a new (well, actually it's really old) set at a flea market a couple weeks ago. It looks so happy in its new home, don't ya think?

I also mentioned that she painted the old ironing board closet with chalkboard paint in a previous post. Look how cute it turned out!







Jessica and Eric didn't previously own any dishes, but after a productive trip to TJ Maxx, they now have a mixture of navy and french blue plates, bowls and mugs. Each one was only $1.49-$1.99.







My friend, Sarah, makes the wonderful wine glasses in the photos...





She will be opening her Etsy shop very soon...



...and she is one creative girl, so I'm sure there will be lots of other goodies to fall in love with there too!

Y'all come back soon now, ya hear?
:-)

Half Note Cottage - Sneak Peek

I can't even tell you how hard Jessica has been working on her "Half Note" cottage to try and get as much done as possible before Eric comes home on Wednesday. I'll post a full reveal of the Kitchen this week, but until then, here's a sneak peek at some of the elements she's been implementing over there...

A $10 TV stand, primed and painted white, then lightly distressed...



Bedding that she's had in a storage box, for over a year...

An itty bitty lamp, cute as can be...

A $15, cottage-style coffee table from the Salvation Army...


Which now, looks like this, after sanding down the top, and applying some Provencial-colored stain (from Lowes) to the top. The legs got a coat of white paint, and some distressing...

She also purchased two Pottery Barn striped pillow covers on Ebay for just $19. They were delivered with the original price tags still on them...they sold in stores for $33 EACH! Boy did she score! The couch came from the Salvation Army for $20. The creamy-white slipcover used to be mine. The throw pillow inserts that came with the sofa just happened to fit perfectly inside her new Pottery Barn pillow covers, which was great. She also picked up two $5 navy blue throw pillows from Walmart...

My white table and chairs have a new home in the Half Note kitchen...

Remember this jewelry box, priced at $59, on PotteryBarn.com?

And remember when I blogged about this one, at TJ Maxx, for just $12.99?



Well, Jessica scored the brown version of it at TJ Maxx the other day for just 5 bucks on clearance! (The white one was marked down too!)

It's all coming together, little by little.

Stay tuned for the Kitchen reveal this week!

Half Note Cottage: Super-sized Silverware

I'm happy to announce that Jessica is feeling like herself once again, and has completed painting the hallway, bathroom and Master Bedroom!

I picked up this oversized, wooden fork at a flea market last month for her to use on the wall in the Kitchen:





It was only $2.95! It was previously a lot lighter, so I lightly sanded it and rubbed on some stain to darken it a bit.

You can imagine how happy I was about my flea market find when I saw this "fork art" online for $175.20...

I always loved the way the giant silverware looked in Craig and Theresa Smith's shabby chic Kitchen...

On second thought, I've always loved Craig and Theresa Smith's Kitchen period!!!

Here's an oversized fork and spoon set, listed on Ebay. The winning bidder paid $167.50!

My friend Chris recently blogged about this subject as well after she scored these babies for just $3.98!

Rumor has it, sometimes her husband actually gets sucked into home accessory-inspired trances in which he visualizes exactly where Chris needs to hang things around their home. Amazingly, Chris actually captured this rare and exciting event with her digital camera this particular time:



You can read more about Chris (and her helpful hubby) here! :-)

Have a great weekend everyone!

Layla

Half Note Cottage by PVE Design

Beautiful and talented, Patricia van Essche was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. She attended the University of Cincinnati’s acclaimed College of Design, Architecture and Art, where she received a BS in Fashion Design and was awarded the school’s coveted “Golden Brush” award. For 15 years she worked in New York City as a designer and design director for Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, and Liz Claiborne. Today, pve design offers a wide range of design services, such as illustration, decorative and pattern design.

This week, Patricia's rendition of the Half Note Cottage swept me off my feet...

Make sure to give pve design a visit, you'll be so glad you did!

Half Note Den/Office

Sunday, Jessica painted the room at the back of the Half Note that they plan to use as an Office/Den. Previously, when you entered the room from the Kitchen, you were surrounded by three deep red walls, and confronted by a wall of navy, plaid wallpaper.

(excuse the pieced together photos again)

Now, the same Sherwin Williams color "Antique White", that she used in both the Kitchen and Living Room, coats the walls in this space too. She had it mixed at Home Depot, and after a $5.00 rebate, paid just $11.67 per gallon.




The backdoor is also located in this room, as you can almost see in the floorplan drawing above.

The navy carpet has to stay, so the color palette in this room will be blue, cream and white. This palette should be a nice transition from the Kitchen, since the linoleum has blue in it.

Unfortunately Jessica will not be painting the Master Bedroom today, like she had planned.
She spent several hours at the emergency room last night, and after a series of X-rays, has been diagnosed with a very bad bi-lateral sinus infection. The doctor put her on bed rest (here at the L.C.) so that it doesn't turn into full-blown pneumonia. I am forcing her to take it easy, but she wants to paint the bedroom tomorrow. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go install a lock on the outside of our Guest Bedroom door, so she can't escape.

Half Note Kitchen

Jessica painted the Kitchen on Saturday afternoon. Here are the “before and currently’s”:

BEFORE:

CURRENTLY:

BEFORE:

CURRENTLY:

Unfortunately I don’t have a BEFORE shot of this side of the Kitchen, but here’s how it looks now…

CURRENTLY:

I had some leftover chalkboard paint, so Jessica painted the rectangle on the old ironing board closet with it.

It’s a great place to jot down things they need to remember to pick up at the Grocery store!

Here’s a close up of the linoleum:

She didn’t want to remove the wallpaper border in this part of the room, so I put on my thinking cap and came up with a quick and attractive solution for her.

We attached a little piece of trim with wood glue and painters tape to the top edge of the wallpaper border:

Once the glue had dried, she removed the painters tape holding it in place, taped off the new wall color, and primed and painted over the wallpaper border and the trim piece:

Here’s how it turned out:

I love how it gives the appearance of taller wainscoting.

Next up- the Den/Office on the back of the cottage.

It’s a small room, currently covered in burgundy-colored paint and plaid, navy wallpaper, with a door that leads out to this…

…sigh….merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream back here…