I’ve caught a little bit of the Halloween/Fall decor bug, all thanks to Aunt Vicki. She sent me an email with a great blog that I’d never seen before. Which led to a few more blogs that I’m now obsessed with and so now I’m heading down this Halloween decorating path, and honestly…Halloween is my least favorite holiday. Imagine when Christmas hits.
So, we made little mini monogrammed pumpkins inspired by Brown Paper Packages (LOVE her blog name!) today for our mantle…
See Nana’s handiwork in between the pumpkins? We’ve been getting a card every few days for the past two weeks. The big question before the last card was, will it spell “Happy Halloween” or just “Halloween?” Very clever, no? I have a great idea for the cards when we get the final piece of the puzzle. I am so in love with the “A” one. The Frankenstein is just too much.
Anyhow, yes. We did little pumpkins for us, and a few others for the neighbor girls, and still a few others to give away as gifts.
And then, I stupidly showed these ridiculously cute bats to Ad’s teacher. Uh huh. As you might have guessed, we made bats in Ad’s class last week. 30 bats later (I didn’t get a photo of all of them!!), I still have hot glue burns on my thumbs, but they were a definite hit. Such a cute idea.
(Photo Credit: BabyCenter – Click for instructions)
And other than those little guys, I’ve been doing a lot of house stuff. Like painting trim (yeah!) in the kitchen and a bunch of little stuff that nobody else will even notice, but I notice it all, so therefore it is very important.
I’m getting closer to prepping the cupboards to paint. But it is such a huge job that I keep putting it off. Well, that is not entirely true. The real reason is – I’ve been on Pinterest looking at ideas for the kitchen. Specifically, what colors to paint the cabinets. I have a few friends that are pulling for that really cool light green color. If you look really closely in our tile, there is a slight green outline that the cabinets could pick up.
Well…you can’t really see it well in this photo, but it is there. And if we painted the cabinets a lovely green like this…you could really see it.
From jasdesignbuild.com
Oh, I love that green. And I’ve always loved just white cabinets, but I am a little worried that it will be too much white in there. But oh…look at this beautiful kitchen…(with my green in the BACK of the cabinets!)
And this one… (Yes, I realize that white cabinets is not going to make my kitchen look like this. But oh, is it pretty! Totally impractical with ALL of those windowed cabinets. Where do you hide your stuff? But, again. Oh.So.Pretty.)
From cococozy.com
This one?
From traditionalhome.com
So this one was interesting because I was drifting into a creamy, not-so-white color. Which has been our dilemma with the trim color around here. We have a Spanish-style, old house. It deserves/needs antique-ish colored whites. I’m still looking for a good one for the upstairs trim. So maybe an off-white color like this above would look good? But with the tile?
Then we were watching Modern Family the other night and I almost fell off the sofa. First of all, if you’re not watching this show…you must start. Now! It is the funniest show. I am convinced the Clare and Phil are J. and I. At least once every episode I look at J. in disbelief. “Seriously? Are they just hanging out trolling for material in our house? That is us!”
But I digress. Yes, falling off the sofa. I love Clare and Phil’s house on the show. It is so comfortable and beautiful all at the same time. And then I noticed their cabinets. Love, LOVE that color. So I started doing some scouting online. Apparently I’m not the only one crazy about the color. These are the best pics and guess to the color (thanks to Reckless Bliss!).
I’m just bad about this kind of stuff. What would this look like on the cabinets with our current tile (which is staying.)? What do you guys vote for? First a look at the kitchen again in its’ current state:
And a little refresh of those colors on the table:
- all white
-a vintage, light green
-a cream, antique white
-this “straw” Modern Family color
-something completely different??
Ok…discuss.
I KNEW you would love that web site — it had your name written all over it. No votes on the paint — sorry, Care. You don’t even want to know how many months it took us to get me to decide on a color for our kitchen.
Oh, I so feel your pain. I love the green, but I am afraid I will get sick of it in a few years. It would look great in your kitchen though. Those bat pumpkins are the cutest thing ever. Your mom is so talented. Her cards are adorable!!!
I’m kind of thinking white – but it might cause an eventual change in countertops. I fear that the first green might be too much on all the cabinets. I like the cream, but not sure how it will look against the white tile.
I vote for the green! I think the white would be too much and with the tile I’m not a fan of the straw color with the tile.
Oh and hubby loves Modern Family. I tend not to watch TV hardly at all, but when he has it on I have to agree it is a funny show.
Love all the Halloween crafts, too. I bought the kids some of the styrofoam houses from Michaels (pieces of crap, really), so they got their Halloween crafting on that way. Actual decorations for Halloween. How rare for our house!
I like the white, but my favorite is the green, because of your white counters and floor.
Love the pumpkins!
Care: I can’t see nor remember exactly the shades in your Floor Tile. My vote would be for an antique/creamy white for the cabinets. But you should be able to find examples of colored cabinets and white counter tops to see how stark it makes it look.
The color on the walls currently looks about like the color you are talking about from Modern Family.
Modern Family follows what we consider THE best show on television now….The Middle. It is absolutely hilarious every week. The show about camping a couple weeks ago was about the Newmans, and their kids participation in sports (cross country) is especially close to home too.
I agree with Stacy. But your floor tile colour will be important too.
Carrie, I love the green. We have a green island (with a wood top) and I’m so happy that I did it. It’s a brighter green though. I would never get tired of it. I say do it.
I love the green too, so that’s definitely my pick! I also love your fall decor…it makes me want break out some pumpkins to decorate my house!
Tossing my two cents in….
I like the white with green on the insides for the cabinets with glass doors. And for those without class, maybe a “frame” of green on the front of the door. Since it is more of a rectangle than a square, too much color might make the rectangle “close in” on itself. (just a guess…if you saw my kitchen you would totally disregard anything this post says…lol) The white/soft white/antique white keeps it open but then the green pulls in some awesome color.
LOVE that green by the way!
Elisa
So are you just painting them? Do you have to strip and sand them or can you just wash them and paint them? My cabinets need some love and since new cabinets are so out of the question…I need to do-it-myself.