Inspiration Files: My Kitchen Moodboard

As you know, we're moving in a few weeks. While I'm excited for a new adventure, I'm disappointed we won't be renovation our kitchen here. We've been waiting for four years to do that, and I've spent HOURS and hours dreaming and scheming and planning.

This picture has so many of my favorite ideas. It was featured in the November/December 2008 issue of Cottage Living, which was also the magazine's last issue. You can read more about this reno HERE by a blogger who is a friend of the owner of this kitchen.

To give myself a little closure, I put together my idea of a moodboard between Pinterest and PicMonkey this weekend. Because stuff like this is fun for me! Seriously, I've gotten our renovation down to inches and dollars--completely sourced and all planned out. Sigh...

Isn't is pretty?! Want more details? Well, here are some descriptions of the images:
 

After I spent way too much time to put this together, I realized I'd left a couple things out. And changed my mind about the ORB.

I would much rather have stainless pulls and knobs...

... and I have a closet that was going to continue in its current function of a coat closet but would have some day been turned into a fabulous pantry like this:

Better Homes & Gardens

My talented husband was going to build a knock-off Pottery Barn table with Ana White plans, and we might have opted for something with closed storage for the island. Well, my husband didn't want an island at all, so we might have ended up not putting one in. We were going to knock down a wall between the kitchen and living room to add a couple more feet to the kitchen, then turn a window into french doors with access to a some-day patio.

Anyway, I guess it doesn't do any good to go though all of the details, because we're out of here in three weeks! We'll be living in temporary housing for at least 4 months, but maybe after that we'll be more permanently settled and I can start dreaming of a new kitchen plan that fits that house. Whatever happens, I plan to keep blogging, so you'll be updated on all of it.

Be inspired!