5 DIY Design Solutions for Appetizing Kitchen
By Lyne A 12:18:00 PM Diy, home decor, home improvement, homemaker, homemaking, kitchen decor
Kitchen designs have transformed over the years. This area, which used to be the “mother’s kingdom,” has turned into a makeshift work area and entertainment hub. The rise of condo living has introduced innovative ways of maximizing every square footage in the house such as combining the kitchen and the dining area. Other households even extended their work-stations to the cooking area. The cooking zone is your new family room.
Here are six innovative DIY kitchen designs that you may want to try in your condo home.
The kitchen-office
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Welcome to the dotcom lifestyle, where every minute is used efficiently. One reason why people, especially millennials, prefer condo homes over traditional housing is the access to facilities and amenities not available in apartments and village houses. We are living in a fast-paced world where multitasking is not just a trend but a way of life. Turn your condo home into a multitasking hub by installing a kitchen-office. The space between kitchen cabinets or a part of your countertop can be converted into a work area. This design is perfect for home-based moms who juggle work assignments and cooking tasks.
Let the world know of your spices
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It is said that ancient men would exchange kingdoms for spices. Spices not only improve our palate, they also promote good health. Some of the items that you should always have in your kitchen include black pepper, which promotes intestinal health; cinnamon, which lowers blood sugar levels; sage, which boosts brain function and memory; peppermint, which relieves pain; and turmeric, which increases the body’s antioxidant enzymes. Display your spices in an accessible portion of your kitchen. One stylish design involves individual test tubes sealed with cork and arranged in a wall rack.
Turn your kitchen into an art gallery
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The kitchen is not exactly a place where kids loiter. It’s a boring place for stainless pots and dull cutlery. How can you turn your cooking area into a family room? Add lots of art! Encourage healthy eating with beautiful photos of organic produce. Attach photos of cooked meals with your recipes. You can also display your kids’ artworks on your kitchen wall. You can use clipboards, clotheslines, and corkboards. Do you want something more permanent? Mount framed paintings or posters. With art, your cooking area can easily morph into a stylish kitchen.
Maximum efficiency in your small kitchen
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Do you have limited space in your kitchen? Well, you don’t need extra footage to add storage space for food items, condiments, and other cooking essentials. You should start exploring the DIY storage trend if you haven’t already. You can install floating shelves and cabinets on the wall, or use slide-out cupboards. Put your carpentry skills into use by repurposing cabinets into compartmentalized drawers. Organize kitchen tools and food items with any furniture you already own. Finally, do away with sticky notes and memo pads that clutter your fridge door. Use a chalkboard for grocery lists, bill notices, and other stuff you need to remember.
Stimulate appetite with shades of orange
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According to the psychology of color, orange is associated with warmth, abundance, and physical comfort. Studies show that this hue stimulates appetite, making it a perfect element in kitchen designs. How can you easily incorporate orange in your interior design? You can paint your wall and cabinets with orange palettes. Consider combining these recommended shades by Houzz: Waves of Wheat from Mythic Paint, Sweet Orange from Benjamin Moore, Tangerine Dream from Pittsburgh Paints and Baby Carrot from Pratt & Lambert. You can also explore autumnal colors. Feel free to blend in other shades such as lime green and yellow. A charming green bar stool and lemon yellow plates will do the trick.
Kitchen herb garden
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Indoor gardens are hot design concepts today. This idea is in response to the limited spaces for vegetation in urban areas, and the increasing demand for healthy lifestyle options. Studies also show that houseplants such as cacti and spider plants are able to clean indoor air. A vertical garden in your kitchen not only saves you the trip to the market but also frees the air of free radicals, not to mention adding charm in your interior design. Some of the herbs that you can grow indoors include basil, bay, chervil, oregano, parsley, rosemary, and sage.
The kitchen is usually a neglected part of the home because of today’s fast-paced lifestyle that involves drive-thru meals or deliveries. Most people tend to think that the kitchen is not as important as the other parts of the home, but they don’t realize that designing the room where they cook and prepare their meals can give them numerous benefits.
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Why I don't celebrate Halloween - Alternative to Halloween activities
By Lyne A 7:30:00 AM Alternative to Halloween, Diy, halloween, Halloween activities
I grew up in a ultra conservative pentecostal home. We didn't celebrate "Holidays" anything!
Not Christmas! Not the Easter bunny! anything!
We celebrate everything by going to church and that was it.
To my dad Christmas was perverted and turned into a pagan celebration, so christmas trees, lights and santa was out of the question. Our Christmas consisted of bible stories reminding us why Jesus came, go to church services and whatnot...
The GOOD news of the message went over my head as a kid, because I wanted some darn christmas lights in my house like everybody else!
Day of the dead/Halloween wasn't even a question. I've never dress up or went trick-o-treat ever in my life.
In Haiti, February is Carnival celebration, people dress up in fancy costume and dance in the streets... My parents would take us camping outside of the city in the mountain, totally disconnected from all of it.
So they were all the high way no compromise.
While I still uphold a lot of our values and traditions I grew up with, I also believe there are alternatives and other ways to not completely deprive your children of culture.
I love Jesus! I put up trees and lights at christmas but I do not and will not celebrate Halloween. My kids don't dress up nor go trick-o-treating and they are totally fine by it.
Halloween in other countries is call day of the dead, and there is nothing cute about it. It is deeply rooted in witchcraft and the spirit world.
There's no way to spin this one.
As a third generation preacher's kid, in my experience depriving kids of things around them don't make them better christian. It actually push them away or turn them into legalistic, religious pricks.
So I a way to "remedy" this very problem. I don't a lot of stuff different from the way my parents did them.
I get my kids cute costumes and give them as christmas presents.
I decked out on Christmas. I let my kids play character dress up... They still get to play dress up just not in honor of halloween and no witchcraft or spirit or magic related anything.
While I teach my kids why we don't celebrate Halloween, we don't go trick-o-treating.
I introduce the concept of harvest, new season! The bible has a lot to say about new seasons, new day, restoration...
It's a fun way to learn God's word and converge their attention toward something biblical and positive.
We don't necessarily do them on Halloween but these are a few more things we do during this season:
Mommy and me Fall crafts
The girls and I made a fall wreath. See the tutorial here
Character DIY party
Using things around the house and old clothes we create our favorite characters. See the tutorial for this DIY here
Find a local Fall festival or Kid fest
My church put together the awesomest kid's Fest on the block. It's almost like a mini fair. Some years we've had petting zoo, bounce houses, games, face painting. All in a safe and positive environment and elevate the name of God instead of creepy dead stuff.
Visit a pumpkin patch near you
This is in our to-do list, My children have not been to a pumpkin patch as yet. I did tried to visit our local farm once the parking situation was outrageous, I wasn't motivated enough to go through that mess.But I shall try again!
Are you like me, do not celebrate Halloween? Why? Do you provide alternative for your kids?
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Easy Fixes for Home DIY Mishaps - A guest post from Aimee Lyons
By Lyne A 7:30:00 AM craft, Diy, handcrafted, homemaker, homemaking
DIY little girls skirt - Upcycle a dress to a skirt
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Easy DIY Thing 1 and Thing 2 costume for Dr Seuss week
By Lyne A 9:12:00 AM Diy, dr Seuss, kids costumesSassy Black Tulle Dressy DIY Skirt
By Lyne A 9:27:00 AM AH, designer, Diy, dress, dress up, Fashion, haute couture, ootd, sewing, sewing Is Cool, sewingIsCoolSomething I Made: DIY Animal Print Short Maxi Skirt
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Hola Chicas!
Happy Fall! is that a thing? do people even say "Happy Fall"?
Either way Happy Fall to you!
Happy Easter Sunday
By Lyne A 3:45:00 PM braidout, Diy, Easter, EasterFrock, Fashion, naturalhair, ootd, sewing, sewingIsCool, springColorsHappy resurrection Sunday!
This is the skirt I was making yesterday. If you follow me on Facebook and Instagram, you already seen the making of my Easter frock. My baby girl was helping me and I'm so excited how good she's getting. Pretty soon I'm gonna have my own in house seamstress with amazing fashion eyes!
Anyway... Say hello to the skirt!
Happy Easter Sunday!
Happy Saturday: Doll Passports!
By Lyne A 1:40:00 PM Diy, dolls tutu, family, Family fun, fun, JOY, LOVE, tmom, travel, traveling dolls, traveling mom, vacationGreetings from the land far away! Today we are on a traveling around the world and we need passports.
If you're stuck inside on this fair saturday morning, can't play outside here's a fun craft you can do that will stretch the imagination beyond geographical borders!
Wordless Wednesday: The Doll Tutu
By Lyne A 9:30:00 AM Diy, dolls tutu, family, Family fun, sewing
So the bugs and I went to work.I held the elastic band, little bug tie the Tulle and big bug takes pictures LOL
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Shimmy's before and after picture
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Shimmy and DivaGirl are ready for the ball
How's your day going?
What did you do this week end?
Did anything fun with the kids?
Leave me a link so I can check it out!
This was suppose to be wordless, but who am I kidding I can't shut it! LOL
This Post was written by Lyne A.I'm a multitasking Christian mom to two exceptionally beautiful little girls and an handsome dog, I love Jesus, my family and I have a mild case of shoe addiction. I like Fashion, Cooking, DIY, all things girly, pretty and pink. I blog about my faith, overcoming brokenness through the anointing that brakes the yoke, my family's lifestyle and of course my shoes!
Hola chicas!
Because it's Monday and I'm late with my breast cancer awereness month post LOL check out my DIY!
I haven't pull out my sewing machine in a minute, but when I saw this quick and easy video tutorial my lovely Mimi G made, I know it was time to get to work.
I got this lovely fabric at my local Joann's which is rare since I can never find anything good in that store.
The skirt was so easy to make, I watch the video at the same time and follow the direction while Mimi is showing it.
and Voila!
The pictures didn't do it justice. My 5 year old photographer was cranky that day and didn't wanna be bothered. She usually do a great Job but lately she's been slacking LOL.
I have an opening for a new Photographer somebody who is NOT 5 year old!! if you are in the Palm Beach area and want the job let me know.
This is a complete pro-bono internship position for someone looking for experience or building a portfolio.
Soooo what do you think of my skirt?
Something I made: Black and white Polka Dots Maxi Skirt
By Lyne A 5:00:00 AM Diy, Fashion, Shoes
The Maxi
These sandals need a post of their own *sigh* they Jessica Simpson
You know I was gonna try to put a bow in there
Happy Friday! As promise in last week installment voila!
My polka dots maxi skirt, this one was so much fun to make, although it wasn't perfect, I kinda botch the whole "bow" tie idea but I was so happy to wear it.
Something about wearing stuff you make, just surge you with confidence, sometimes a little too much LOL.
This is my second attempt at styling the skirt, the first time... well it wasn't so good but no one could tell me any different lol All I knew was that I made a skirt and I had new mint shoes.
The look wasn't all that in itself but I felt all that. Some people say fashion is not about what you wearing is how you wear it... well I wore my fluke with pride.
That's why to redeem the skirt, I re-style it with a simple black top and those pink Jessica Simpson sandal for a pop of color.
What do you think?
Something I Made: DIY Animal Print Pencil Skirt
By Lyne A 5:00:00 AM anointed heels, Beauty, blmgirls, Diy, Fashion, Pencil skirt, Shoes
forever 21 peplum top, DIY skirt, Tstrap Guess shoes, clutch LULU
and the hurr is 2nd day twist out!
can you tell I'm feeling myself?
and we can forget the shoes!
It's been a while since I pull my sewing machine out of the closet, last week end I finally did and I'm glad I did!
I made myself 2 pencil skirts and a maxi one (Pictures to come).
I got this pencil skirt from Mimi G Style's 15 minutes pencil skirt tutorial I love how easy it is and how fast you can get a style upgrade. I've made this skirt at least 5 times now. it is so much fun getting to wear things you made yourself. I got a bunch of fabric a while ago, I was hoping to get some more sewing skills before I touch them, eh well I figure I can mess up this pencil skirt and it turn out so great I'm in love.
I've never worn animal prints before LOL expect in shoes of course so this my very first animal print skirt.
I'm feeling all kinda haute couture! LOL
On a side note, My photographer is 5 years old! she is getting so much better at taking pictures I can see our partnership going a long way LOL
What do you think of my skirt??
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