the breakfast nook

Our kitchen is long and has a natural separation of kitchen space and other space. We got a small table and called the other space our breakfast nook. Never mind that we've never actually eaten breakfast there. Perhaps some day.  It is nice to have the table there in the kitchen so that Dexter, or others, can sit with me while I'm cooking.

Last week, Dexter painted the nursery! It is still a catch-all room, and there's not much to show for it yet, so we'll have to wait to share more photos of that. With left over paint from that project, we decided to paint the nook.  It looks good.

Let me remind you where we came from:

This was the day the previous family was moving out, and our first look at what would be our new home.  Needless to say, we were not overly encouraged at the prospects ahead of us.

Unfortunately I don't have any of the after photos of the nook. Just of the kitchen so I'll post that here just so you can get a sense of how vastly things improved.

Already it was brighter with the white paint and new tile floors.  We are so thankful...even if it did take 3 long months for them to finish all the work!

On Thursday Dexter got out the paint again and went to work.

Not too bad for an after-work project, I'd say!  I'm still not totally sold on this yellow color for the baby's room, but we'll live with it for now, I guess. I hope that with other things in the room it won't feel so strong. 

There's still a few more things we'd like to paint (a wall in our bedroom, possibly the guest room) but I think for now we'll focus on other things.

Like getting the nursery in order! 7 weeks to go!