Bistro de Morning T {part deux}

One more peek into my little kitchen.

You were so nice yesterday {post here}I thought I'd invite you back in and let you see just a teeny bit more.

The view from the island, where I usually sit in the am {weekends only of course} with my coffee and my laptop. Many of you commented on the gray paint here in the kitchen. It was a small can of 'oops' paint from Lowe's {not helpful I know} and I originally wanted to add more gray to the kitchen so that our stainless fridge wouldn't look so out of place with all of the outdated white appliances. Unfortunately our stainless fridge was too big {and is now holding beer and water in the garage}, but I'm still happy with the gray walls.

Looking at the window over the kitchen sink.

Sunshine streaming into the window over the sink. I keep a lamp in this window and it's set on a timer so I don't ever have to turn on the horrific ceiling tube fixture above {straight out of the 70's}.

The full view of the bakers rack. See, it gets pretty junky down at the bottom...pans, strainers, dog food, water bottles...I really don't have room for this stuff in the cupboards.

The floors were green and white checkerboard linoleum when we moved in. Covering those suckers up was the first thing I did. My travertine~esque, peel and stick tiles have held up extremely well over the past 2 years and cost close to nothing!

I keep that little bench in front of the bakers rack {a bench for my handbag} and move it to the island, pull open the drop leaf, and blog away.

Full view into the dining room. We don't have a breakfast area in our house so we eat here in the dining room when we have company, or at the game table in the sun room {hubby breaks all of my rules and eats on the coffee table in the family room}.

Stepping into the dining room from the kitchen, this wall is directly to the right of the kitchen, or on the other side of the bakers rack.

I added my small milk glass plates to frame the botanicals and planted Irish moss (thank you Kathysue) in these mercury glass vases. We save all of our corks after our wine tasting parties and as you can see here, this demijohn has lots and lots of room.

OK, enough about me and my kitchen, I promise!!

I hope you're having a wonderful spring~y week out there.