Kitschy kitchen

Nothing much new to report over here on my little street. Spring has sprung - in some places - and it was gorgeous last week. It's getting a little colder again, but that didn't stop my dad and I from picking up some plants at Lowe's last night. Hostas, some purple heather and some golden cyprus (I think that's what they were - black thumb over here that knows nothing about plants! I picked by "that one looks pretty." Then my dad and I came home to check out what I already had planted that was blooming - more hostas! I'm going to have the best garden. Let's hope the weather is perfect so if I forget to water it once or twice (or a lot) it'll be fine :)

I'll share some pictures of the finished kitchen, complete with new kitchen table. I know I posted some pictures before here, after everything was completed. I honestly can't remember the name of the store I got the table at - it was up of off 309 by a lighting store. However, I do remember that I got the framed painting at Rice's. I didn't expect to find anything like it there! Let me know what you think.

The wine bottle pictures have traveled with me from my first apartment, through Manayunk, through Ambler, and now here. They're very ME - there's no way I wouldn't put them up. The sun/moon and chili pepper pictures are a shout out to the time my family spent in New Mexico when I was little (the sun/moon was actually purchased at Mexico in Epcot, shhh!)

MIA

I know I've been totally MIA lately. 2012 has been a bit stressful so far! Things have definitely calmed down after the first two months of the year, and now I'm beginning to wrap my head around what I still need to do around the house and the projects I want to take on. Since the weather has been so nice, the first thing that comes to mind is my garden. It's small, but it's there, and I want to fill it and watch it grow. Once the time change happens, I'll pay more attention to the sun's patterns to decide what to plant and where and when.

I made a decision this weekend that I should pick one area in the house I want to work on - bathroom, kitchen, etc. and just finish it, head to toe. Now that I have the basics down in here, the colors, furniture, etc. it'll be easy to do that. So, what comes next is picking the following for the downstairs bathroom - the first (and in my mind, the easiest - though saying that could really jinx me!!):

a new vanity
I'm really liking this style (from Home Depot):

but my pipes come up from the floor in the bottom left so I'm not sure that'll work. It's so nice though! Once I figure out what can fit there I'll be more prepared to make a final decision on a vanity.

a new mirror
What's there now is a large, simple mirror with no decorative elements. And it's hung crooked on the wall. Not cool. I'm leaning towards something like this (from JCPenney):


Then I want to get new flooring. My dad said there's peel & stick wood flooring that Home Depot and Lowe's sell which would be easy to install in such a small space.

So this is my little inspiration board for my powder room. I did a before and after post here so once the whole project is complete, I'll do another update!

Hope everyone else's year is going well. I'll post more pictures of new stuff around the house once I clean. Maybe that'll be the push I need to get everything straightened and clean around here!