Welcome to our English nation cottage type kitchen! This room is one in every of my favourite locations in the home. For these of you who’ve expressed a love for this type this put up and video shares ten totally different DIY initiatives that may provide help to create an English nation cottage look in your kitchen. Let’s get began!
1. Protecting the Range Burners
Our range sits within the nook of our kitchen the place there’s little counter house. The addition of a range prime cowl within the slicing board type wouldn’t solely look fairly, however it will broaden our working counter house. Extra challenge concepts…
2. Putting in Beadboard or Tongue-and-Groove Paneling
We added tongue-and-groove paneling under our kitchen cupboards and on the most important open wall. Putting in beadboard or some sort of paneling is a extra concerned challenge, however it’s scalable. It’s reasonably priced, traditional, and provides that English nation really feel immediately. You are able to do as a lot or as little as you would like relying in your particular kitchen format. Not solely did this paneling add depth and character to the kitchen and unify it design-wise, it additionally supplied the perfect backdrop for… hanging an vintage blue & white plate/platter wall!
3. Hanging a Plate Wall
Looking down vintage blue & white English plates and platters is a delight of mine… And for birthdays, Christmas, or particular events one simply may present up. To create this gallery show we started with the most important, most eye-catching platter within the heart and an equally giant one centered simply beneath. Beginning with the 2 largest platters within the heart helped to floor the gathering and provides a little bit of symmetry. Then we simply constructed out from there.
“Once you cling up your plates, you show character.”
4. Stitching Bar stool or Eating Chair Slipcovers
Slipcovers soften the house and are so forgiving, particularly in a busy kitchen. This challenge may be as concerned or so simple as you would like. Should you can sew this offers you almost limitless choices in shade and sample to customise your kitchen. Should you can’t sew, then you’ll be able to both rent this challenge to be performed, or you’ll find prepared made slip covers. Slipcovers invite you to take a seat, keep, and spill, with out concern.
5. Portray the Cupboards
This challenge was the most important, however it made the most important impression. Our cupboards had been stable wooden however darkish and dated. We gave them contemporary, new life with a creamy off-white paint on the higher cupboards and a wealthy, grassy inexperienced on the decrease cupboards, In consequence the entire house feels customized and lighter.
6. Putting in Corbels
Generally the smallest issues carry the most important punch. That is the case with the picket corbels we added to the underside of our higher cupboards and beneath the quartz countertop. The corbels weren’t within the unique plan, however had been added on after the cupboards had been painted. You could find related corbels to those at your native ironmongery store, or these picket corbels from Amazon.
Corbels are these small architectural touches that do really feel so ‘cottage’, but in addition create a handcrafted feeling to your cabinetry that immediately elevates the kitchen. Paint or stain these cheap unfinished wooden corbels to match your cabinetry they usually’ll appear like they’ve at all times belonged. We beloved the look a lot that we included these similar corbels in our Butler’s pantry makeover.
7. Swapping Out {Hardware}
This straightforward DIY challenge additionally was a easy change, however gave fairly a lift to the polish and completed feeling within the kitchen. The unlacquered brass cup pulls had been handmade from a store on Etsy & I really like them!
8. Stitching Curtains
With all of the laborious surfaces in kitchen including materials to melt the perimeters is a superb thought to create a homey, welcoming feeling. Should you can sew, the choices afforded you in sample and shade are almost limitless. Should you can’t sew, them you’ll be able to both rent a seamstress to stitch them for you, or you’ll find some ready-made. Whichever route you select including the softness of curtains to your window will undoubtedly add you character to the kitchen.
9. Including a Skirt to the Sink
That is one other approach so as to add softness and character to your kitchen. There’s additionally simply one thing nation and stress-free a couple of sink skirt. They’re whimsical and sensible on the similar time. Additionally, including a cloth panel beneath a sink or countertop is far less expensive than cabinetry. Sink skirts are each humble and heartwarming, they do the job and look darling doing it!
10. Making a Tea & Espresso Station
That is at all times enjoyable and several other totally different renditions have appeared in our kitchen over time. To corral the tea tins, sugar bowl, spoons, and so forth. I exploit a classic brass tray Discovered at an vintage store. This tray not solely supplies order, however it appears lovely! The tea/espresso station normally holds a thrifted lamp, classic (thrifted) tea tins full of totally different flavors of tea, a classic ceramic sugar bowl, and actual silver dessert spoons. Having a arrange like this with all the things available makes tea time really easy and particular!
Should you’re dreaming of a comfy kitchen with out breaking the financial institution, I hope these concepts gave you some inspiration and a contemporary imaginative and prescient to see new potential in your kitchen. Inform me know what’s in your kitchen DIY checklist!
Till subsequent time, take care,
Rachel
