Hudson is napping and I’ve got to hurry to crank out this post or it might not ever happen!
I’m back with Home Tour Tuesday to show you our kitchen and dining area. I mentioned before that our 1930s house was updated before we moved in, so we were blessed with a home that already had granite countertops and stainless steel appliances.
You can see that it’s a pretty tiny kitchen and I’ve pretty much covered every bit of counter space that we have (which completely stresses me out), but it works and it’s clean– most days.
In college I had such a weird thing about the kitchens where I lived. They grossed me out so badly. You just never know who else ate there and what they left in the refrigerator and for how long. Yuck.
I love our pendant lights. They used to run down the center of the kitchen and that was the extent of our kitchen lighting. This summer, we had recessed lighting installed and moved the pendant lights over the sink. It’s so nice to be able to see in the kitchen at night now.
My favorite thing ever. Our coffee maker. And that’s the little painting I bought in Paris. One of my two pieces of original artwork.
The view of our dining area from the formal living area. Our next furniture purchase will be new dining chairs and then window treatments for the dining room.
This little trunk has always been used as a coffee table in my family and my parents let me have it. When we moved into this house I wanted a bench under that window but didn’t want to buy one. We just bought some pillows and used the trunk under the window. We sit on that trunk all. The. Time.
So that’s our kitchen and dining area. Glad you caught it on a clean day! Between dog toys and mail it can get a little cluttered!
So gorgeous. I love you cabinets and the beautiful vintage ad print! Where did you get that?
beautiful! Your kitchen is just as small as mine, although I think mine steal beats yours for “smallest kitchen ever” award! cute cute!
i meant “still” not “steal” …
I love it Erin. So beautiful and perfect for your little family. You have such a great decorating sense. What do I have to do to get you to come visit me and tackle this house?!
Your kitchen is exactly what I have always wanted. The bright wood with the darker countertop and a dark kitchen door with stainless appliances. I think it really makes a house feel so cozy!
Love your dining room table!
I like that Fiona is peeking out from underneath the table. Kitchens are usually my favorite rooms in a house and yours is lovely.
Love your home tour & I’m with you on the kitchens!! Your house is so adorable and I can feel the cozy home feel right through the pictures. xxoo
I LOVE LOVE LOVE your house. It’s GORGEOUS! You have great taste and decorating style. Your kitchen has to be one of my most favorites ever. I love your dining room table too! So cozy! It has so much character! Can’t wait to see pics of other parts of your house!
It looks great!! Hope all is well with lil Hudson!
I love the coziness of your home Erin!! It’s beautiful. I know all about a small kitchen. Mine is VERY similar to yours in size and the way things are arranged. Almost exactly!! I love your dining room. GREAT post!
Love the painting from Paris! Also, my mom and husband have the same Grafofini Columbia print. Very nice and your house looks so warm and cozy. xoxo
It looks great. Is that a mirrored backsplash behind where you have the canisters? Interesting…I’ve never seen one like that before, but I think it’s great in a small kitchen like that. Is that the only place you have that?
We have the same coffee maker but in white! LOVE it!! And your kitchen and dining room are amazing.
Beautiful!! I love your house. You have wonderful taste. I would love to know where you got the six prints in your dining room behing the french doors. I have been looking for some art for my living room and those would be perfect.
Thanks!
Tori
You have a beautiful home! I love how your decorating style seems to really flow with the 1930s house!
Love your dining room table and the black french doors. Those are great.
I love those city prints in your dining room! Our kitchen is about the size of yours and it is so hard to keep it looking clean and uncluttered!
I wish I had the space to decorate like you have yours done. We have such a small house doing modern straight lined pieces work best. One day though I hope to have a formal living room & dinning room. 🙂 XOXO
Love it! Where did you get your canister set, I have been looking for one and I love yours.
I love it! Esp love the lighting in the kitchen.
You have such elegant style. Love that hutch in your dining room!
Great kitchen. I absolutley adore your house. It has fabulous bones and you’ve done a fantastic job decorating it. I love how you painted the doors black.
Wow, just wow. Your kitchen is gorgeous!!
I am loving the pictures of your home. It is lovely and you have a wonderful eye for design! I also own an old (1920s) home and I just love the charm and coziness of old houses. I hope after our major renovation, our house retains as much of that as yours has!
So pretty! I think we have the exact same granite too. Where did you get the canisters with the pear tops? Love ’em!
I love getting a peak at your life! You have great taste and a beautiful home!
I love white cabinets. In the right (read: clean, well-lit) space, they always look so fresh! And having a window above the sink is what I miss about houses the most.
LOVE your kitchen/dining area! that lighting is awesome. is that a tv in your kitchen?
I love your kitchen and dining room. I have the same counter top issue and it does tend to add extra stress. Hope you have a great Tuesday!
I LOVE your house! Can I come live with you? Just kidding! I love old houses, and yours has so much charm but has also been updated beautifully. I also have weird things about kitchens, and it takes me a while to feel comfortable eating in them. Our house had been a rental (and not fixed up) so we got to do that and the kitchen was awful. It had light pink formica counters, and I swear you could see the outline where everything had been sitting. I scrubbed so hard to clean it, but finally I decided the kitchen had to be the first room to be redone. It was and now I love it!
Oh Erin, I just fell in love with ur kitchen.. kitchen is the second best place for me apart from bathroom of course..u have one great taste in decoration 😀
Love the kitchen, Erin! Compared to my kitchen, it looks huge. 🙂 The pendant lights are beautiful.
Very cute!
Love your lights in the kitchen!
SUPER cute rooms!!! Love the pendant lights! I know how you feel about using “someone’s kitchen” when you live there…I’ve finally outgrown it! haha
we have the same fruit holder and doggie treat jar 🙂
LOVE your fancy kitchen! It has a great feel and looks like it gets a lot of use!
Again, you have a beautiful home!!
You have a gorgeous home! I love all the rugs – where do you find them?
You have such a lovely home! I really like your decorating style. I also have a galley style kitchen. I thought it’d be too small when we first moved in, but like you, it had new appliances, cabinets and counter tops, so what could I do? Now I think its just fine for the two of us.
I really do like the look of the cream colored cabinets with the darker granite and cherry floors. I think i want something like that in my next house. That, and a dining room!
Hey! Your house is so pretty:) I was just checking on Emily and Cate…do you have any updates?
I LOVE your decorating style!! You have a gift! Where did you get those prints in your dining room? They are just gorgeous.
I love your kitchen, it so pretty and cozy! I especially love the lights over the sink. I am with you on the counter tops, I don’t like to have a lot on them either!
I personally love the smaller kitchen. A galley kitchen saves so many steps!! And let me say that I love the way you have painted your doors! Tres Chic.
I am in love with your blog! I just caught up reading through the archives and I really have enjoyed it – getting to peek into your story is a nice break to my day, and your home looks adorable!
Seriously…I want to buy a duplicate of your home. Like now! Your home is gorgeous and so cute! I hope my future home is as charming as yours!
Your kitchen is awesome and you have the cutest home! I wish I had such great decorating skills. Mine don’t even compare…
I love seeing pictures of your home! It is so well-decorated and looks so cozy!
Everything looks gorgeous! Thanks for sharing. It’s fun to see.
Ok I am dying to know where you got all your rugs from?
sigh, wish i was there drinking firefly vodka!
I LOVE your style! How about you come to Savannah and redo my house.. That would be great…!
I LOVE your style! How about you come to Savannah and redo my house.. That would be great… =)
You seriously have such a SWEET home 🙂
Lovely yet again. I particularly like what you did with the kitchen lighting & the black frames arrangement behind the dining room table.
Oh, and I haven’t forgotten about your kind offer to help me with my guest room mess. As soon as I can find 5 minutes to snap some photos, I’m sending them your way!
Very pretty, lady! I love this home tour thing! 🙂
I love the kitchen and I love that lighting! It matches the rest of your house so nicely. 🙂
I LOVE your kitchen! So cute. I especially love the black door – inspiration for our kitchen door! 🙂
you have a beautiful home!! You also put me in the mood for pork tenderloin! I’m going to the store to by some ASAP! Happy Weekend!
Love your kitchen and dining room! The cute trunk under the window is too fun! 🙂 I was/am the same way about certain areas of the house that have been used by others…particularly the bathroom! Crazy, but I always had to buy a new toilet seat, and would never take a bath in the tub until we built our current home. 🙂 I’m sooooo freaked out by showers/tubs and what could be living in there from years and years of build up (that fear developed in college, btw). 😉 No matter how hard I scrubbed, it never seemed good enough for me! HA!
I know I don’t reply very often..but I had to tell you that I LOVE your kitchen and dining room! You brought back some precious memories to me of TWO different houses that I have had as a wife and mom. Your dining room with the big windows reminds me of a house we had in Haines City, FL on a lake. It had SIXY-SIX windows! (we replaced them!) and the set up of your dining room reminds me of how ours was..as your picture disappears to the left side bottom..we had some built-in shelves there..built kind of in a half circle shape from floor to about 5 feet up.
The kitchen reminds me of the last house I stayed in w/ my ex..( its ok though..this is good memories!) It was also his Mom’s first built home ..we acquired it and I LOVED it. It was about the same size & with a bad back, hips and legs..the size was actually perfect! I didn’t have the kitchen window though..so a wall was where your window is..and on either side of the sink, little built-in shelves again! Nice! His mother’s house was built in the 50s.. the Haines City house was built in 2 time slots..first was built in 1920 and the ‘addition’ was built in the 40s. It was a house with a HUGE amount of character. thanks for sharing the beauty of where you call home..and bringing back some memories.. love, lynn
i just happened across your blog. you have a lovely home. it looks warm and inviting.
I love your dining table! Where did you get it from?