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Porch of Coffee

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Summer, dare we say, has arrived and with it the burning desire for projects!

We’ve been cooped up for so many months and any nice weekend in April and May has been chalk full of activities so for the long Memorial Day weekend we opted for zero plans with anyone but ourselves. It’s been glorious. As we looked around the inside and outside of the house we realized a perfect easy project would be to stain the front porch, which we didn’t get to last fall.

I don’t know how often people stain their porches or decks but when we went to The Home Depot it sure seemed like there were a lot more options than when we stained our deck at our 1475 West Pond Road house. Ben and I agreed we didn’t want to just put a coat over the cedar but deciding on the color wasn’t easy.

The gal recommended transparent but the color options weren’t what we were going for–and then I saw it–semi-transparent Coffee. I could picture the color working well with the gray of the house and bringing out the darker color in our front stone. Too, it just felt a little rustic which is something we like both inside and out.

Two easy coats and voila! The porch looks night and day different. There are three things I love about the stain color we selected:

1. The gray and white trim really pop.
2. The varying colors in the stone definitely stand out more.
3. Our porch looks significantly bigger.

And so, with that I can gladly say to neighbors and visitors, have a porch of coffee.

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We Gather Together

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The new buzzword for what once was known as the Family Room has become the Gathering Room. Funny enough though, we seem to gather together in that room quite infrequently opting more for the Bonus Room upstairs. So many names for rooms…

We are quite pleased, however, with how it turned out. As friends have come over the comments are consistently that it looks different than our other furniture and it is. We knew we wanted a different look with the house. A little more refined but rustic and welcoming. Color has always been important to me but this go round we agreed we’d be okay not using much in order to keep the right flow.

I have a thing for furniture with nail heads at the moment and wanted a couch with them. Benji wasn’t thrilled with the idea of buying new items but upon seeing what I found and the price, reluctantly agreed to go for it (he hasn’t regretted it either). The coffee and end tables purchased in December worked perfectly atop the jute rug and those perfect pillows I found at Homegoods are a total dream, along with the chair.

We’ve made some additions from the pictures attached. For example we finally figured out what to put next to the chair and got our yellow mirror hung above it (found in an old barn). Fills the space and warms up that area.

While we may not spend a ton of time in the room at least it is a great place to gather together.

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Smitten Kitchen

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As noted in a previous post, Ben and I had a good idea of what we wanted in a kitchen. Big, bright and white. We also wanted the table area to be to the left or right of island vs. having everything in a row. These types of homes aren’t easy to find, especially with existing homes. The custom plan we had designed for us filled this desire but we opted to not move forward with that plan based on lack of lots.

Luckily, we always liked the first floor plans of Robert Thomas where this kitchen layout was available. Then the question became the island. Similar to the table we wanted it big with some added elements. We opted to not go with a white island and instead chose the gray on our accent wall (darker than other walls in the house). From the moment it was delivered to the house we were excited.

I’d say that between the big decorative island, the double ovens, not bumping into Ben at every turn, not having a black stovetop that shows everything, extra counter and drawer space, white cupboards, lots of light, our big table, the roll out trash/recycle and flip drawer under the sink, that we are completely smitten with our kitchen.

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