Yeah, the jubilee is a dark blue. I'm still putting my gramma's blue and white Mors Dag plates on the walls. The Jubilee is a new color, and I just happened to see it last week so I ordered a sample of it and a couple of the gray ones I didn't have already. Is that too "out there" a choice??

I kind of love that idea with blue plates. I had never seen a blue sink before and so I Googled. I love it.

Have you tried a sample in a bone color? I personally like a lighter colored sink in this situation, easier to have it blend with the counters. The darker colors give it too much contrast for me.

I didn't get the lighter sample colors b/c I didn't want to worry about staining. I'd thought once to do a cast iron sink but...ugh, if it chips..Tho, if the composite chips I'm screwed that way too ha.

So we got chickens. Pic is from almost a month ago-they’re quite a bit bigger now. This one is my favorite. She likes me most and will sit on my shoulder and head. Likes to be held and petted, lifts her wings so I can pet underneath. Falls asleep on me often-one time with her neck stretched waaaay out like she’d been strangled. Was pretty funny. Also i learned not to turn to look at them when they’re that close to your face..she was on my shoulder and I totally got pecked in the eye. Yeouch! Her name is Evelyn Drishti.

We have another Barred Rock tgat is pretty small-her name is Slick Peepers. And an Australorpe named Anastasia Beaverhausen. And five more that i have to name yet.

Kitchen ground to a halt 2 months ago and now a coop is being built. Sigh. They’re awful cute tho.

How fun Missi!
How are you and family holding up these days?

I finally finished my dining room chairs last weekend! It took awhile to get start but it went fast one I did...and bought a pneumatic stapler haha

Pool, your dining room looks awesome!

Missi, love that you got chickens. My friend and co-worker built a coop and really loved having chickens (got divorced, had to move, leaving them behind). He found it really relaxing to go out there and feed them and be with them.

He heard that they laid more eggs with a rooster around but he couldn't have one, so he had me paint him a rooster to hang in his coop!

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Christinero, that's hilarious! I love that story. Do you know if it helped or if the chickens acted like they noticed the painting?

Thanks for the DR compliments. It's slowly coming together.

Have you done any paintings during Covid?

Ya know, pool, I don't think he ever hung it in his coop, he didn't want to ruin it!

I have done a few paintings and am working on a set of 2, right now. I need to take some pictures and get them uploaded.

I may have to figure out how to sell some, as I now hate my job since the company I have worked for for 23 years was sold. The new owners/bosses suck.

Christinero - please share the new paintings with us! What is the subject? Love the one posted above.

Missi - How are the chicks?

Pool - The room looks fab!

They’re doing well. We had to take Jim and Jo out to someone else’s farm. They didn’t like to be held and were kind of anxious, getting the others wound up. So now we have eight. Hopefully the coop will be done soon. Pretty sure we’ve got the most expensive coop in the world. 🤦‍♀️

I can’t put them in name order how they’re sitting, but we named them

the three Barred Rock (black with white speckles)

Evelyn Drishti, Tilda Mae, Slick Peepers

the two all black Australorps:

Anastasia Beaverhausen

Tandalaya Della Ventimiglia

the three gray Sapphire Gems:

Mrs Roper

Esther Lillian

Gabby Talksalot

I haven't checked in for a while, so it's taken some time to catch up.

Missi, you've made great progress and I am so glad that you found a paint color that totally floats your boat! I love the new window and the chickens! The names!

Christine, love the rooster painting! I am glad that you are continuing to paint.

Pool, YAY, you for finishing the dining chairs! They really look great! It's so hard to get back to projects that have been way-layed for various and assundry reasons.

Friday, what have you been up to? Something fabulous, I know!

Heather, your house is beautiful! I share Friday's awe. Your DH is making the door?? Seriously cool!

During this Covid thing, I have been trying to knock out some projects that have been living in procrastination purgatory. I have two huge oak trees (one in the front yard, one in back. Their shade is lovely, but my lawn takes exception to growing underneath them. So, I have finally been dealing with the 'mud pits' by installing borders, removing the little bit of vegetation, laying down landscape cloth, and spreading pea gravel(back) and bark mulch(front). I have also finished laying porcelain tile in the laundry room. That project has been in procrastination purgatory for probably 7 years (when my DH and I installed the rest of the floor throughout much of the house). We just couldn't talk ourselves into moving out the W/D. "We can do that later."☺️ So, my projects haven't been too exciting, but I am glad to be able to cross them off the list!

How’s everyone doing? The worlds most expensive chicken coop is finelly done.

Is that really the world's most expensive chicken coop? It looks like a chicken mansion. That coop might be bigger than my house. I am blown away!

My dad LOVES these chickens..like..walk in the door “hI, thought we’d stop over quick before we head home, how’s the chickens?” As he’s walking through the house and out the patio doors. We‘d been talking about what to do for the outside/roof, and how to do the top of the enclosure itself, and dad kept coming up with all these suggestions and I’m like ummm...I get that I don’t want it to look hoaky and lame bc I’m proud of my yard but...does it seriously need to be so...much...for chickens??? Dad gave JD his credit card and told us to go to Menards and get the rest of the stuff so it could be done the way he wanted. Like OMG their coop is better than the back deck that’s not finished!! Hahahaha cripes, lets have the card to have bought better cabinets Jim!! Nothings to good for them I guess hahaha!

Omg I love that! How cute! And I love the blue door. What a great color and little extra special look.
Is that the color from your kitchen?

I am totally cracking up though at the chicken coop being finished and so nice and your deck isn’t even finished 😆 Tell your dad you’d invite him over to see the chickens but the deck is a hazard haha. Maybe he’ll pay for that too

Hahahaha yes maybe I’ll give that a whirl! We put a roof over the back patio several years ago but it’s just the wood and shingles, nothing on the underside, so weather has gotten to it..just not pretty. At some point I wish we could make it a three season room..but I don’t know how that well that would work in Iowa with snow and rain. (Best choice would be to make it an enclosed patio with a lot of windows but cost I bet would be atrocious.

Amazing chick-mansion, Missi! I agree with Pool, that blue door is the best!

That was one of the colors I thought about painting the kitchen cabinets. I thought the color would look good with the brown stain, sort of farmhousey.

Speaking of the cabinets..

Looks beautiful! Y’all did a great job. How’s it feel?

Yes, that other blue does look good on the door with the brown stain! Great job all around.

Ita. Looks fabulous!

Thanks! We found a used upright freezer so will be putting the chest freezer in the back garage, and there should be enpugh room to put the mini fridge on the floor next to it, then we’ll put a shelf where the mini fridge is so the microwave will also be off the counter. Tomorrow Dad is coming over to get the counters on the sides of the stove done, hopefully put up the range hood. Once that’s done and the pulls are on, that wall is done. Then the sink wall will be next.

Dad didn’t notice the cabinets had been repainted until JD pointed it out Hahahaha. I like them a lot better. The navy just didn’t work.

will soon be working on the sink wall—and it just dawned on my that we have a little jog of space that we should’ve filled. We’ve already got the counter for the wall—but I wonder if there’s anything we can do? My guess is no, but I’ll ask anyway. If we’d made the counter 12” longer, and moved the wall of cabinets over a little, we’d have been able to put in a 12” base cabinet and had a little more counter space. I don’t know how we didn’t see that before. Argh.

Also—I love the color of my cabinets, but man oh man am I regretting not throwing a fit to get IKEA and painting them-at least The base parts of them and then just making slab doors. These unfinished cabinets SUCK as far as drawers go—there is so much wasted space it’s actually mind boggling and funny—two 18” three drawer cabinets and I can’t fit half what I had in the space before.

Missi, I know I've said it before, but I really love that color blue for the cabinets! Definitely reclaim all space that can be found. Inches matter in a kitchen.

Thanks! I’m so much happier with this color. We put in a stainless hood and splash piece behind the stove, appliances should be coming in a few weeks. I’ll try to get a picture tomorrow of where I’m talking about.

I cant wait to see the photos. I agree with @heatheron40, reclaim as much space as you can. Maybe after seeing the photos we can help you brainstorm ideas.

Can you guys see where I’m talking about? On the right side there. There is an unpainted upper cabinet sitting in the space. the counter we got is only the same length as the green is. One stupid foot argh! The current counter has a seam, probably 12” or so, on the left over the dishwasher. (we bought remnants back then) it’s not super noticeable, but it moves. So I probably I could just get another piece of this new stuff and put it there on the left...I just didn’t want another seam. Then we thought about putting in a piece of butcher block, since we have the small counter under the window in the pantry that is butcher block, or stained wood like what is around the inside of the window/door frames. But I think that would look dumb.

From the other direction-

Some stove wall progress

I have an 8 inch pull-out that I like, 12" would be super nice or maybe a cookie sheet holder? I wish I had one of those, although 12" might be big for that...maybe open shelves for cookbooks? I only have 2, so that would be wasted space for me🤣!

Love the chairs, Pool. Christin, beautiful bird. Missi love the chicken coup.

Glad I found you guys again. We're stuck in a rut, you guys inspire me!

You could remove the end cabinet, paint the side of the cabinet that the cabinet buts against green, and add two or three open shelves. Then put a couple of the roosters that are on top of the refrigerator on the shelves. Or use the shelves for cookbooks.

I think you can add a tall slim cabinet in that spot-however tall the blue cabinets go if you don't want to replace the counter top. Depending on your kitchen needs would determine which way it faces to me. If you want to access it from cabinet side then just have it come out flush with the lower cabinets. If you want to access it from that sink side, then use some drawer/shelf pullouts, and add dummy trim on the blue cabinet side so it looks likes the doors. Heck you could even add doors and access it from both sides.

I don't think it's too late at all to add something. YOu may have to do a little caulking and paint touch up.

We were going to put the stacks of uppers clear to the edge of the counter, but JD thought it would cut off the kitchen too much, and you could look all the way down the counter to the dining area. That might be the thing to do tho..The chickens will be coming down from there, that’s just my placeholder while the place is torn apart. Shelves could work too.

Missi, if you don't want them to go all the way up to match the blue cabinets, you could just add add a piece that is counter high. If you do that, then I think I would have it as open shelves that face the same way the blue cabs do now. Just add some matching door trim on the sink side or even a hook for a towel or something. You'll make it great!

all good ideas, thank you!

Updating progress. I hope everyone is doing well!

My goodness, it looks Fabulous! And finished! I am so excited for you!!

Love the blue cabinets with the warm wood and beautiful countertop. That window over the sink is to die for too 😁

Beautiful job. Enjoy!

Missi! OMGosh it looks amazing! I love what you did by those corner cabinets and that shiny wood countertop is gorgeous! What a fabulous way to end this year. You must be just giddy with excitement.

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It is fantastic! I love the cabinet color along with the gold hardware. Just fabulous! Can we see a close up of your sink faucet? It looks like you have two. Pool is right. Looks like a fantastic way to end the year.

Thanks everyone! I'm pretty happy w/it so far! We'll be ordering the rest of the floor soon, so fingers crossed it's done w/in a month or so. I've got a cabinet to put in the pantry where the mini fridge was on the counter, so a little more space there. Then in that weird space that makes me mad (haha) we'll put the left over lower from the ones we reused. Debating on using the little bit of laminate from where they cut out the sink over top or the left over butcher block. It won't be raised as high as the other counter, so I don't feel weird having it be butcher block, since it would match the top of the little cabinet set in the pantry. Plus, I really love the butcher block epoxied.

Absolutely I'll take a picture later when I get home of the faucets. One is the regular faucet and the other is the RO faucet for the Culligan thing. They're both Kraus faucets, in the brushed brass color. Oletta or something I think.

Faucet pics

Also, notice they got the wood around the inside of the window. Looks so nice

Ignore the siding there-it’s blowing like the dickens outside ha!

Wow. I love it. I wish I had a gold faucet. You have done a fantastic job!

Oh thank you Friday! That’s so nice to hear! You know how I second-third-fourth guessed myself!

I agree with Friday! Fantastic job!

Thanks Pool!!

Pulls in finally. Flooring is supposed to be in tomorrow so JD will take most of the day driving down and back to get it..fingers crossed it goes in soon and I can make a decision on the stupid wall color, if it stays or gets repainted a second time.

New basement door is in..kitties have a new and fancier door than they did on the old basement door. Didn’t think the door being different wood would change the color of the stain so drastically-soooo kinda killed my plan for it to match the inside trim around the doorways and windows. Not a huge deal but argh. Just one thing I’d like to get right the first time, that’s all I ask.

Wow. What a transformation. Things are looking fantastic!