We have this little breakfast nook off the main kitchen… it’s not too big, about 8 foot across by 10 foot long.  Until recently, we had a nagging little roof leak that we had tried to fix several times but thankfully, wonderful Jr. finally found and fixed and NO MORE LEAKS!  Yahooo!   It’s been clean and dry since he did it a couple weeks ago.  We have to fix the ceiling, but that’s another project!

But since it’s finally dry, we were able to get our farm nook done!   We’ve had these pair of cabinets that someone ditched on the side of the road and they are super nice!  Decent cabinets at one time.  I knew they would work like a dream.  We got a countertop piece at the Sauder furniture outlet a town over… (LOVE that place!)  Counter top was only $8.  And it kind matches the counters in the main kitchen.  Not a perfect match, but still, pretty close.

Our plan was to create a space that we could keep all the lotions, potions, bits and pieces for the animals.  Leashes and collars, blankets, medicines, grooming supplies.  A place for everything and everything in it’s place.  We could keep birthing supplies and egg cartons, baskets for out back and treats for our fine friends.  And of course inside pet food….   Since we also have a dining room and we tend to eat at our office desks as well, we just didn’t really need a breakfast nook.

Our nice shallow pantry is in those two green cupboard doors.  And all my canning supplies on the shelves below.  I’d like to add one more set of cabinets under neath the pantry shelves in the main part of the kitchen and use that for kitchen appliances and seasonal things like the canning supplies and peelers, etc.  But that’s another project.

I love how that area looks now!  Clean and a place for outside farm stuff.  The mud room is good for tools and such, harnesses and saddle stuff, but everything else just seems to get dusty and dirty out there.  And I love that we can sort stuff out in the various drawers of the cabinets.  And if we need a doctoring place, the counter is nice and ready for any boo boos that need inside attention!

I want to make a little curtain to go between the two cabinets…   They hid the two boxes we have for heavy boots and winter gear.  I love that we have an easy ready place for our flashlights.  It’s very dark out back when there’s no moon….  VERY DARK!

And the four vintage kitty prints just work so nicely there!  Love them…  The whole kitchen area has come a huge way from when we first moved in.  I just love how nice and spacious it is.  And I don’t miss having over head cabinets at ALL!  It makes the space feel HUGE!  I want to weave a set of rugs for all the various stations, but that will be a while, I suppose.  Want to get just the right colors of fabrics!

It’s so nice to finish a project that we’ve been kicking around for months and months.  The kitchen still has a few projects….  we would like to replace the stove eventually…  it was a lovely hand me down and serves us well, but the top heating element is burned out and too expensive to fix, so we make due with it…  I got a big pizza stone and lay it on the bottom rack, so that the heat circulates much better!  And we need to replace the dishwasher, as it is burned out…  just watching Craigslist for the right combo of perfect dishwasher and spare cash to buy it!    Will be redoing the ceiling in the nook with white beadboard paneling… that will be beautiful! And we have one more door to trim out…   And would like to put a couple cabinets under the hanging shelves…. all in due time!

In the meanwhile, we are loving our little farm nook…  I think it’s really important to have a place for things in your homestead…  so everyone knows where to find something.  Like an emergency room, where the triage carts are all ready and prepared…  having a place for things in groups in your home will make things run smoother!