Show us where you live Friday...

**edit- you have to click on the pics to see the entire picture because I guess my pics are too big for my layout!

Kelly's Corner ( http://www.kellyskornerblog.com/ ) is hosting Show us where you Live Friday, and this friday is focusing on the kitchen. So welcome to my kitchen. It's been under a lot lately. We started building our house in 2003, and moved in 2004 in July. We had just gotten married, we were young, and this was our first home building experience. We picked the plans, appliances, etc, and we didn't have a flipping clue what the heck we were doing. We just wanted the house done and we wanted to live in it asap. Of course we had the builder from hell, so it took forever and a day to get in. One thing I would like to go back to change is to make our kitchen bigger as it is small. Really small. Recently the husband added a slate backsplash, changes the knobs from brass to brushed nickel, painted it red, and added plantation shutters. I am happy with the changes but would love to bust down the back of the house and expand it lol. Maybe one day....



Our kitchen is connected to the den. See I told you it was small. The red is darker in real life. I like how our cabinets do not go to the ceiling. When I picked that out I planned to put some stuff on top of them for decoration. I never have put anything up there lol. I need to figure out what to put on top. I have a longaberger rodiron shelf thing that I keep cook books on, and our house phone.




This is a close up of the stove/microwave area. You can see the husbands backsplash job with the slate. I think he did great with it. I got the idea for the slate backsplash from Frugal Jen's blog. I have wanted a back splash for a while, and I never thought to use slate.




This is the breakfast nook. You can see three of the 4 shutters we had put on the windows. If you can't tell I am very proud of my shutters. Usually I have this lime green table cloth on our table but I put this lace one on playing around. I love table cloths. The green one and this lace one I THINK belonged to my granny. Either her or my great grandmother.




This is the view of the sink and dishwasher area and you can see how it connects to the den. You can tell I am a mom of little one's by looking at my fridge covered with coupons, pictures, and craft items from preschool. On the wall next to the sink area I have a rod iron southern living at home hook thingy where we keep our keys, and sunglasses. The Oyster sign is one of the first things I hung in the house when we moved it, and it was an advertisment for my great grandfather's oyster seafood packing company that he was the owner of. I will always hang it in the house as long as we live here. He's the reason we have the house in the first place, so I hang it in his honor, and as a reminder of my heritage.

Well that's my kitchen. I would show use the inside of my fridge but I would have to clean it out first!