I think you’ll really love Teresa’s farmhouse kitchen renovation.
Regarding the not-so-pretty “before” space she started with, Teresa says: “I cannot begin to describe how disgusting the kitchen was. Cedar shakes ran around the tops of the cabinets, the light fixtures were covered with thick brown dirt and when we removed the cupboards, we found a mouse graveyard. Blech!”
The room has been completely transformed since the days when mice were allowed to roam free.
She decorated her farmhouse kitchen with fun vintage finds that give this newly renovated room a colorful retro look.
It just charmed my socks right off!
Visit Teresa at Meadowbrook Farm for more photos and details!
What a gorgeous, comfortable & welcoming kitchen!! I love kitchen makeovers the MOST, having lived thru one of my own. Still always collecting ideas though…. 😉
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I think I just had a heart attack. That is the most amazing kitchen I have ever seen!
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Wow that is a beautiful and happy kitchen, you can almost see it smiling! Great job.
Beautiful! I’m really getting into the light, airy, colors. (I know, I know, I’m a few years late!)
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WOWEE! I love what she did with her kitchen. The colors are so bright and cherry. I like the way she accessorized too! I linked to your “10 Ways to Be Happy” today. I went back and read it yesterday, and you had some wonderful tips. 🙂
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What a gorgeous renovation. I just love the bright colors they used on the walls. All the white, with the pretty wood floors make me smile. Love it!
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Kitchens like these make me rethink my design plan. It is just so light and bright and airy! Such a happy kitchen.
Another happy kitchen before-and-after is Meg’s kitchen. I am sure you have seen it on her Whatever blog. If not, here is the link:
https://megduerksen.typepad.com/whatever/2010/01/before-and-after.html
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WOW! I love it! I’ve always been partial to white kitchens, and hers is white with a kick! VERY well done!
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Hi Julia,
I love her kitchen! I have been a big fan of hers ever since I discovered her blog. I think it is one of the most cheerful kitchens I have ever seen! Thanks for showcasing it.
LeAnn:)
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Just gorgeous! Thankfully she was able to see beyond all that “before” stuff!
Love the happy colors.
Now that is a nearly unbelievable transformation! Fabulous, so bright and happy!
Janell
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I would love to sit at one of those bar stools with a cup of tea. How lovely and inviting. That is one happy kitchen!
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I just love that kitchen of hers! I’m a huge fan in an almost stalker kind of way LOL She’s made me rethink some of my kitchen choices, so soon you’ll see some glass doors in mine and maybe a little more color 😉
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This is by far one of the sweetest kitchens that I have ever seen. Just love the lightness and brightness of it! My most recent blog post features our kitchen redo, with the basic story of why it was done.
Susan
.-= black eyed susans kitchen´s last blog ..EATING IN THE KITCHEN…ROMANTIC =-.
I like the cute green cabinet fixtures against the white.
Love that kitchen. Farmhouse really does it for me.
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You can almost hear the screen door slam. Love this!
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What a GREAT kitchen. I absolutely love it!
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Meadowbrook Farm—-oh what a beauty!!! Her blog is wonderful.
It’s so amazing! What gets to me the most is the vision. I so love it when people can look at a total disaster of a house and see past it to what they think it could become. When I watch many programs on TV of people house hunting and they can’t get past the ugly wallpaper border in the kitchen and don’t buy it because it’s “ugly” I cringe inside! Sometimes I think people have become spoiled instead of inspired.
OK, I will now step down off my soap box! This re-do is beautiful….very inspired!
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That’s got to be the sweetest and cutest kitchen ever! How could anyone ever be grumpy in such a cheerful environment?
P. S. Congratulations on your blog’s 2nd anniversary! You’re my daily dose of cheer!!
I’ve seen this makeover before! It’s so pretty!
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Love at first sight! Wonderful!
OH MY GOSH – I’m in LOVE with that kitchen! So cheery and fun, but also magazine worthy!!! Great post!
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SO cheery! I love it! It doesn’t even look like a remodel (in a good way) it looks like it happened over time…very good.
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Stunning! THAT’s what I want to create in my kitchen when we finally get to remodeling our kitchen!! I want HOMEY not trendy!
Oh! I LOVE that kitchen. It just looks so fresh and clean, and I really like all the vintage touches. Farmhouse with a bit of cottage thrown in. Thanks so much for sharing that, Julia. Gotta run now so I can check out the rest of her remodel on her blog! Have a great weekend!
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I’m with Pat. This is a truly inspired makeover. I too laugh at those HGTV programs where the people decide against a home based on an ugly lighting fixture or stained carpeting. Those programs should show a few houses with a mouse graveyard. That’ll teach ’em.
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Well that is definitely a 10!!!! Adorable … and there’s that color turquiose again!
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I love this kitchen redo. How happy she looks! I swore I’d always have a yellow kitchen, but years ago went to white and jadite. After seeing this, think I’ll add some yellow accents with my jadite. Will always have white cabs, I know that.
I’m going back to the 1910 hardwood on my main floor…need to come back to this page for inspiration, knowing that one day I will be able to take pics that look this good! Thanks!
(Julia..if you want, check out my Slow Going Floor photo album on facebook. I can picture it done! lol)
Wow, what a beautiful job! I am stuck on what to do with my kitchen (1960’s wood paneling style cabinets…lol) so any ideas on how to gussy them up without making them look like painted wood paneling would be great! 🙂
Gorgeous kitchen! I love the color!
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What a beautiful kitchen remodel, I love everything about it! So glad I found your wonderful blog too!
Kat 🙂
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Oh this kitchen just screams ME!! Thanks for sharing. Have a great weekend Julia.
Wow, what a difference. That kitchen is gorgeous.
Hi Julia! first of all….I love all your posts…always…but I really love this one! I don’t know what it is in us that loves a good before and after picture but somehow we enjoy the ooooh and aaaaaah moment! I thank God for make-up…and the before and after moment in the morning AFTER I put makeup on! hahahaha
Anyhooo…..great posts.
Blessings,
Debbie
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What a fun room!
And I’m so pleased everyone else is as nosy as me and voted to see more B&A’s. I don’t feel like such a weirdo now. 🙂
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I love it! That dining room is gorgeous! The wall treatment is exactly what I wanted in my daughter’s room, but couldn’t afford to do it.
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OMGosh…I LOVE it! And I WANT it!
If I had a little cottage on the beach, this would be the kitchen.
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Wow, talk about a complete overhaul! Not really my style at all, but it is beautiful. Love looking at before and afters!
that is a truly lovely kitchen, I’d love to have that as mine!
.-= Annie@A View on Design´s last blog ..Potts Point mini palatial palace… =-.
I just found your blog and spend a looong time sipping a coffee and brousing through it…and I`m done jet!!
Thank you for sharing all this beautiful, inspiring posts. You will probably make me save a lot of money because instead of buying more and more of those Home deco magazines I will come to your blog and enjoy what I`ll find…WONDERFUL!
Sigh…so lovely and filled with light…I hate my kitchen…
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What a fun and beautiful transformation! It looks fantastic.
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Wow! This is just so beautiful!!!
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Julia-This is so bright and cheery! Adding a wall…that is a new twist! I love those green knobs and handles! Thanks for finding this for us!
What a cute kitchen!
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I absolutely love this kitchen!! I want it so badly. I would love to paint mine this shade of blue. Actually, I’m picking out a shade and hope to go get it tomorrow at Sherwins for my laundry room. It is a blue and i hope it turns out to be similar in color to this room. Can you tell me the name of the color and what paint company? I fell in love with blues and turquois shades and heard that DIY voted it as the top color of 2010.
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Valiegal–
Go to Teresa’s blog to see if she tells the paint color. I’m not sure what it is, but I love it! -Julia
That is the cutest retro redo ever! I like that color scheme better than brights. So cute.
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Her kitchen is fabulous, I am in love with all the color, the fresh feel and yet the retro classic look! so perfect, thank you for sharing…I am just smitten, maybe in my next house I can have a kitchen like this!
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This is great! Looks vintage, but with style! That’s how the new thing goes!
Teresa accomplished an astonishing transformation. It looks so cheery that I think you could move an unhappy, dysfunctional family in and they would straighten right up and be happy!