Blue and White in Florida

Blue and White in My Kitchen

I am headed out today to tour the Edison Ford Winter Estates in Ft. Meyers. I thought I would share a blue and white vignette in my new home. Above is a favorite spot of mine in my kitchen. I bought this etagere a few years ago at Ikea and my daughter and I hand gold leafed it. (Ikea Vittsjo - cost for entire project under $100.) It previously housed her handbag collection - I have repurposed it to hold some of my blue and white Chinese porcelain collection with lots of vases at the ready as I am always arranging flowers. I have another great Ikea project I am excited to share in an upcoming post.

Christmas Chez Chinoiserie Chic 2

My holiday house tour continues today with the kitchen.

My kitchen gets decorated for Christmas with pops of hot pink including a hot pink feather wreath on the kitchen door, a pair of hot pink nutcrackers, and a hot pink patent serving tray from the now defunct Charlotte Moss shop in NYC. The silver Chinese Chippendale mugs are filled with candy canes. The pink cachepot is from Dana Gibson.

Chinoiserie Chic House Tour - The Kitchen

Here are some new photos of my kitchen. If you missed the tours of my dressing room and my foyer, you can see them here.

Chinoiserie Chic House Tour - My Dressing Room

Chinoiserie Chic House Tour - The Foyer

One Room Challenge Now - My Kitchen

This Wednesday, February 26, Linda at Calling It Home is having a One Room Challenge Now linking party with all all the participants of the past One Room Challenges invited to show our rooms as they look today. Likely many of us have made changes to our rooms since the reveals. As I have participated in three challenges, I thought I would do posts today, Tuesday, and Wednesday on my three rooms now.

For my first One Room Challenge, I chose my kitchen. You can follow the entire process here and see the final reveal here. The pictures you see here were taken this Christmas with the room decked out for the holidays. I love what I did with my kitchen. I broke lots of kitchen "decorating rules" in the process like -

*a dramatic crystal chandelier in a room with eight foot ceilings
*a gallery wall
*lots of pink
*lots of Chinoiserie
*high end fabrics like Quadrille and Brunschwig & Fils
*and I adore it - I smile every time I walk in

The only big change in this room is the new refrigerator. The space would only allow my replacing my old smallish refrigerator with a new small refrigerator, but I don't cook, so it's just fine. There's more than enough room for wine and Perrier.

The accessories on the breakfast counter are always changing for holidays or depending on my mood.

Tomorrow we will be looking at my One Room Challenge powder room as it looks today.

Christmas at My House

I had a photo session at my house this past Saturday of my home decorated for the holidays with Crystal Downs, the wonderful photographer who photographed my laundry room for the One Room Challenge reveal. If you are looking for a photographer in the DC area, you can contact her here. She does babies, weddings, families, engagements, interiors, even dogs.

This week we will take a little house tour of my Christmas decorations, starting today with my kitchen.

House Tour - The Kitchen

I promised a house tour this week, so today we are starting with the kitchen. This was the room I made over for my first One Room Challenge last summer. To see the entire process, you can click on the pink ORC button in my sidebar. Above is the room this morning. Below I have reposted many of the shots from the reveal. So here is my girly, glamorous, fun, Palm Beach Chic, pink and green, Lilly Pulitzer, Chinoiserie Chic kitchen. It includes blanc de Chine, ginger jars, pagodas, Chinese Chippendale, Brunschwig & Fils Chinese toile, Quadrille, blue and white Chinese porcelain, monkeys, elephants, a gallery wall, a hand painted rug - it has it all! Next, please pop over to The Glam Pad to see my virtual makeover of the porch in Palm Beach Chic, pink and green, Lilly Pulitzer style.

The specifics:
Walls - Benjamin Moore Icy Morn 457
Cabinets and trim - Benjamin Moore Decorators White CC - 20
Counter stool fabric - Brunschwig & Fils Xian
Roman shade - Quadrille Paradise Background in Raspberry on Tint
Blue and white china - vintage Mottahedeh
Blanc de Chine - vintage Mottahedeh, Fitz & Floyd, and Chelsea House Port Royal
Art - Harrison Howard (Chinese man), The Pink Pagoda (pink elephant and pink pagoda), Kerry Steele (two abstracts), Anne Harwell (yellow ginger jar), Neal Turner (Marilyn Monroe)
Three petite vases - Kate Spade
Faux bamboo counter stools - Ballard Designs
Silver Chinese Chippendale mugs - New York Botanical Garden
Linear Strand Crystal Chandelier - Z Gallerie
Pink patent leather tray - Charlotte Moss
Pair of black and white pagodas - HomeGoods
Elephant teapot - Target
Diffuser - Charlotte Moss
Coffee maker - Nespresso