Farmhouse Vernacular

History. Design. DIY.

What is an Unfitted Kitchen?

Learn where the unfitted kitchen came from, how the unfitted kitchen was laid out in the early 1900s, and why I am using those ideas in my own kitchen.

An Ideal Kitchen by Maria Parola. 1887

Necessary disclaimer: I. AM. NOT. A HISTORIAN. I’m just a girl who spends way too much time diving in to internet rabbit holes for my own good.

As I’ve been working on our kitchen design plan and layout, you may have heard me harping about the unfitted kitchen design. And more specifically you probably heard me waxing absolute poetic to the MAX about unfitted kitchens.

Because they are THE BEST. Seriously. The actual certifiable best. First, let me tell you why.

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Vintage Master Bathroom REVEAL! (VIDEO TOUR)

Welcome to our master bathroom!! This glorious palatial expanse of white porcelain is right off our master bedroom. Well, maybe not exactly palatial. But considering the house has precisely one bathroom when we moved in and it was on the second floor and it was also carpeted? This is an enormous improvement.

Now don’t be fooled. This room has been completed for going on nine months now. And we have been thoroughly enjoying it the whole time. But I just haven’t managed to get around to filming it…until today.

So today I invite you to come tour our not newly completed but still entirely spectacular turn of the century inspired master bathroom. I promise the whole room is lovely.

How to Survive a Kitchen Renovation

Hello hello!

We’ve been working on this renovation for six months. Six long months. No kitchen table. No fresh bred. Lots of crock pot meals. And yet, even though we’re living in a SEVERELY truncated kitchen, it’s not…terrible? Seriously. Like it’s not FUN. But it’s not that bad.

Most importantly we are not:

  1. Starving

  2. Eating out profusely

  3. Fighting over Ramen.

Which overall I am going to count as a win in my book. So today I want to share with you a video on four tips we’ve picked up on how to set yourself up for a less stressful kitchen renovation.

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Thrift Store Haul!!

“Hey Paige. Would you ever do a thrift store haul video?”

Oh…you mean would I happily, willingly, and with all the enthusiasm of the Roman Army fling myself into a thrift store and then show you what I find? YES. YES OF COURSE I WOULD. Almost everything in our house comes from a thrift store haul or an antique store haul. And truth be told, nothing beats quietly browsing through those shelves loaded with potential goodies.

I hope you enjoy today as we go to two of my favorite local stores. And at the end I can show you what I found!

(Actual haul starts at 5:36).

Enjoy the video!

And thank you for watching!