Fixin' Up The Breakfast Nook

We're starting to make progress on the breakfast nook.

 

Someday we'll build in a bench on this wall,

but for now it holds a large mirror and

a cabinet with baskets.

 

The baskets are from Target.

The cabinet looks so much better with the baskets.

First we put the mirror on the wall.

I don't know what we did wrong with the measurements,

but the hangers show at the top.

We (and I really mean me) are planning to paint

the room, so we didn't bother to re-hang it for now 

since it will come back down real soon.

 



 

I had a really old floral hanging piece in the closet...

for now it's hiding the hangers that hold the mirror.

 When I say old, I'm not kidding. I bought it in '91.

I'm sure at least one of my three daughters
will email to let me know the 1990's called 
and want my decorations back!



My mother had the cabinet on her porch

trying to find it a home. 

 

It belonged to my youngest sister who died

on St Paddy's Day 2010.

 

I think it brought my mother sorrow 

when she looked at it.  

That's probably why it was on her porch.

 

She asked me several times to take it,

but my heart wasn't in it either.

 

Finally, when she said no one else in the family would

take it and she was going to donate it,

it came home with us.  



 The old "to paint or not to paint" debate

rages in my head.

 

At the least, it needs to be refinished and re-stained.

 

I'll  put that on my list as soon as my head

makes a decision.

 

Right now, my heart's not in to changing it...

Here's the window that needs drapes,

or maybe chunky trim with

a window treatment on the top.

 



 

I know you've seen these birds before.

 I love them.

 

Expect to see them again.

 

 

Seems the more we do, the more there is to do.

 

September is finally here. A time for renewal.

 

Thanks for stopping by!