Transferware Bowl and Kitchen Befores

 I thought I would show pictures of something pretty first to ease you into the before pictures of my kitchen. My best friend that I went shopping with this past weekend was looking for something special for the center of her dining room table and she decided on this transferware bowl. However upon bringing it home she decided it wasn't for her. Lucky for me because I was in love with it and so I bought it from her. It has a large crack so it was super cheap but you know how I feel about cracks, they don't bother me any! It fits right in in our farmhouse, there is even a beautiful picture of a farmhouse on it.

The place we found all of our amazing purchases is the Shawnee Country Barns Antique Co Op in North Tonawanda, NY. It is huge and takes quite a while to walk through but oh so worth it, and the prices on most items are unbelievable. It is were I bought most of the ironstone seen in my most recent kitchen pictures. Afterwards we happen to just run into the thrift store in that area and I found some amazing ironstone pieces in there too. It was a good shopping day to say the least.

Okay so here goes...these pictures should give you a greater appreciation of our kitchen as it looks now.

This is the corner where our stove is now as seen below.

This is me getting ready to get back into my scraping the floor position...good times.

This picture can give you an idea of where the wall we took down was. Where that chair is is where we have the long counter with the cutting boards in the basket at the end now. It was so dark in this house when we first bought it. The wood was dark brown, the walls were dark, the ceilings were low...no one could understand what I loved about it. I knew it just needed some light and lots of white paint (and to be scrubbed).

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