The eating area of our home is located in our kitchen. Exactly what we wanted: a Cozy, sunny welcoming area with items that mean something to us. Here is the mood board for our kitchen:
It will be a uncluttered area with just things that are beautiful or meaningful to us and tell a story.The main elements are shown above but will be injected with a ton of DIY, hopefully, so here we go:
1- The table shown above cost 1800$, we will attempt to make one out of reclaim wood very similar to this one.
2- The chairs will certainly not be white. We are on the hunt for chairs with a similar shape and we'll recover them with durable fabric that can handle a food swirling toddler.
3-We will repurpose our chandelier in order to make it look like the one shown above and we'll attempt to fine a bench where pillows will make for a cozy and comfortable sitting area.
4- As mentionned before our house has lots of windows. In order to inject some of our ethnic background in the room the curtains will be made of Kinte. The cloth from Ghana use to make clothes. Jean-Talon street in the Park Extension borough will surely be a gold mine in finding some kinte in blue with accents of yellow or orange!
5- Finally we will blow up a picture of our home land (above is an image of le Coin de mire in Mauritius) to put on the wall. We'll flip a coin to see if it will be Mauritius or Ghana that will have the privilege to be on our wall. We will make it as big as possible.
We will accessorize as we go on and for years to come finding corky treasures along the way. We are looking to incorporate organic accesories as well as punches of color.
We will b e looking for bargains and keep the cost to a minimum! Let the hunting begin!!!!!!