I haven't even moved yet...

...and I'm already thinking about what I'll miss about Charleston. In particular, my house that I LOVE! So I thought I'd go through all the things I'll miss about my house, and who knows where I'll go from there!

First off...THE KITCHEN.

The kitchen was the only room in the house that I immediately wanted to change when I moved in. Despite all the other crazy colors in the house, including a mauve guest room, eye gauging BRIGHT yellow bathroom and RED, RED, RED 3rd bedroom/office (all within 5 feet of each other), the kitchen was by far the worst. The majority of it was painted a dingy white while the breakfast area was painted a dark rust color that they had mixed with sand!

This is the only "before" picture I can find. Trust me, it was bad.

So, being a new homeowner, I thought this would be a great project for me to do during my summer break. I had always heard that painting a room was the "fastest" way to remodel. Either that's a huge lie or I'm the world's slowest painter because 2 weeks into my little project, I was still painting. (Which is why 2 years later, I hired someone to paint the rest of the house...more on that in another post!)

But I had a vision and as a teacher off for the summer, I needed something to do. So off I went to the paint store to pick up some supplies for what I thought was going to be a great weekend project. I already knew the paint color I wanted...Mom had painted my room at home the same color a couple years before and for whatever reason, I had always wanted a kitchen that color. And I knew that I wanted bead board below the chair rail. So after 2 weeks of painting, a friend installing the bead board and 1 green puppy (see picture below) my kitchen was finished. And I LOVED it! I still can't believe it came together so well. I just kept finding things at random places that I would pick up and hang on the wall and set out. The plates that I hung on the wall were mostly from TJ Maxx and Marshalls with the exception of the really small ones that I found out in Carmel, California while I was visiting my godfather.

I know that eventually in this life I will have another kitchen that I love just as much or maybe even more, but I love looking in that room and knowing that it was the first room I ever decorated/designed myself and that now there is nothing I would change about it!