tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025769640802524983.post3095677186852061563..comments2024-03-25T18:05:03.493-07:00Comments on Dewena's Window: Blues In My KitchenDewenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07330797553600987145noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025769640802524983.post-49529460638681905722017-04-07T18:52:23.831-07:002017-04-07T18:52:23.831-07:00Your kitchen looks like the kind of room a woman w...Your kitchen looks like the kind of room a woman would like to spend time in. So much light, and the blue accents. It's great to have pots hanging so accessible rather than having to dig them out of a drawer or cupboard.<br /><br />When we remodeled our kitchen seven years ago we got new appliances *except* for the dishwasher that was still working well. So it didn't match. We thought also, we'll get a stainless one to match the other pieces when it wears out. It's black, and is still working great. ;-) <br /><br />When you are decorating and choosing and making purchases, all of these concerns take center stage. It's nice to be done with that part and be able to just *live* in the space you have made so livable. And even the less beautiful things have a part. :-)GretchenJoannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13641677400029070452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025769640802524983.post-14720355568380566222017-04-05T03:08:42.844-07:002017-04-05T03:08:42.844-07:00Its a lovely kitchen! Its inviting and warm and ti...Its a lovely kitchen! Its inviting and warm and tidy and like you--- i love the big window so the light can pour in! I never knew muchbabout blue/white pottery/vases etc.until about 4 years ago when i noticed it and ive been collecting it ever since! I just love it. Enjoyed this visit to your kitchen--- lets pour the coffee or tea and eat the coffee cake!BeachGypsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02200510017404641217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025769640802524983.post-3552140267584310402017-04-04T07:06:56.764-07:002017-04-04T07:06:56.764-07:00Hi Dewena I wanted to stop by to tell you how much...Hi Dewena I wanted to stop by to tell you how much I appreciate your prayers for my surgery last Monday. Diana posted a prayer request on her blog and I am full of gratitude! I am slowly recovering but wanted you to know how very much I appreciate you thinking of me. :-) Your kitchen is so lovely warm and welcoming! Thank you for sharing it with us. I look forward to following your blog and getting to know you better. Have a wonderful day!<br /><br />Blessings,<br />JillJillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14904921240840944999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025769640802524983.post-62408856936329610442017-04-03T14:19:37.643-07:002017-04-03T14:19:37.643-07:00Blue and white never goes out of style, and even i...Blue and white never goes out of style, and even if so, if it makes your heart sing then you need to display it. I think it is such a cheerful and classic combo. I love your open cupboards and your kitchen, but mostly I love hearing how happy you are in your new home. And the kitchen is definitely the heart, so it's so good to be happy there. Oh, and that southern cooking -- yummy!! xo DeborahDeborah Montgomeryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04366855994841922862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025769640802524983.post-65649949137370173022017-04-01T21:40:37.126-07:002017-04-01T21:40:37.126-07:00Such a lovely, comfortable kitchen, Dewena. It is ...Such a lovely, comfortable kitchen, Dewena. It is a must if you're to feel truly at home.<br />Amalia<br />xo<br />handmade by amaliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15589172037052603746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025769640802524983.post-21105472859032636992017-03-30T09:14:25.867-07:002017-03-30T09:14:25.867-07:00It's so pretty and light. I love the shelves t...It's so pretty and light. I love the shelves the men built. Beautiful! I love your blue willow collection too. Believe it or not my teen daughter has a few pieces that she has collected. She just loves the way the blue appears to bleed. xoox SuButterfly 8)(8 Bungalow https://www.blogger.com/profile/12407401010841427366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025769640802524983.post-87575532126340583582017-03-29T20:08:25.319-07:002017-03-29T20:08:25.319-07:00I love your kitchen and the great shelves your guy...I love your kitchen and the great shelves your guys made for you. Even though you stove is black glad that you like it electric...I have a duo oven, gas on top and electric inside. So happy you are so happy with you kitchen and new home!Cathy @ My 1929 Charmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05152030881064923919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025769640802524983.post-8161821917583455332017-03-29T16:00:50.264-07:002017-03-29T16:00:50.264-07:00Oh Dewena it all looks wonderful but I am sorry th...Oh Dewena it all looks wonderful but I am sorry that I came here before dinner because you have me craving fried chicken and potato salad now in the worst way, lol! Deb @ Frugal Little Bungalowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13091419343402163298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025769640802524983.post-54070774701648590202017-03-28T12:24:08.789-07:002017-03-28T12:24:08.789-07:00Oh your new kitchen looks amazing, but I confess I...Oh your new kitchen looks amazing, but I confess I am wanting a closer look at how they made your shelves! What a cool idea to hang your pots from a steel rod to save space! And that Blue Willow dishware is gloriously beautiful! I love your new kitchen... and forget what other bloggers do. Just be real :) Hugs to you today!Marilyn @ MountainTopSpicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00600290895531484438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025769640802524983.post-87410448279974788032017-03-28T09:39:37.474-07:002017-03-28T09:39:37.474-07:00Hi Dewena,
I love your new kitchen too! I just sho...Hi Dewena,<br />I love your new kitchen too! I just showed the shelves with the pots hanging on it to my husband. I need a new way to hang my pots and pans, I love the way you store yours. The blue touches are pretty and it all looks so homey. I'd be very happy cooking in your kitchen!!! LindaLinda Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03812556446959019991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025769640802524983.post-71330799349164020392017-03-27T19:53:45.438-07:002017-03-27T19:53:45.438-07:00Blue and white has always been a favorite of mine ...Blue and white has always been a favorite of mine - we had it in our city apartment kitchen, but like you, I packed it away when we moved to our house. I regret getting rid of some of it, because I have a feeling that someday, I will want to use it again. The sunlight streaming through your windows is heavenly!Amy at Ms. Toody Goo Shoeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11474198992341706776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025769640802524983.post-1888761138146417622017-03-27T19:20:51.892-07:002017-03-27T19:20:51.892-07:00Thanks for you sweet comment about being brave on ...Thanks for you sweet comment about being brave on my journey. It was a big step, more drastic then I would have normally taken since I was only about 60 to 70 lbs overweight. But I had tried for years on my own and when the liver became a issue I knew I needed to do whatever I had to do. I know that with this my health is going to be better. I have already gotten off acid reflux meds, diabetic meds, BP meds and I know it has to be helping my liver. Thanks again.Pamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10211965720334593365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025769640802524983.post-6192868280066995622017-03-27T16:48:39.254-07:002017-03-27T16:48:39.254-07:00"That's my kitchen, folks. I love it so m..."That's my kitchen, folks. I love it so much! It is a cheerful place to cook."<br /><br />That's exactly what a kitchen should be!<br /><br />Lovely post, I'm so pleased you are settling in so well.<br /><br />All the best JanLowcarb team memberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07961199165290289611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025769640802524983.post-33863305757923545672017-03-27T11:59:38.658-07:002017-03-27T11:59:38.658-07:00What a lovely place to hang out and whip up family...What a lovely place to hang out and whip up family meals. Love it.Dayle ~ A Collection of Dayshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01727194212928446402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025769640802524983.post-32201740671563642922017-03-26T16:20:26.131-07:002017-03-26T16:20:26.131-07:00Dewena, are you familiar with Smokehouse Ham, Spoo...Dewena, are you familiar with Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread and Scuppernong Wine cookbook by Joseph Dabney? It's one of my favorites and he was a guest author at our Appalachian Heritage Festival in the Cove back in 1999. It's not just a fabulous cookbook, it's a history pictorial of mid- and Southern Appalachia. <br />Your kitchen is beautiful; but I do like my gas stove. Well, the 7 burners are gas while the 3 ovens are electric. <br />Did you decide what you were going to call your great keeping room?Sandra @ Thistle Cove Farmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07701035005375401061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025769640802524983.post-66203291035115756612017-03-25T07:54:23.753-07:002017-03-25T07:54:23.753-07:00Here you are trying to show off your lovely blue a...Here you are trying to show off your lovely blue and white kitchen, and what do you suppose I notice instead?<br /><br /> - the healthy shamrock plant in your window - my mother had one that always looked as if it were on its last gasp until my sister inherited it. Now it is as lush as yours.<br /> - those spotless cooking pots shining so brightly it makes me blink just to look at them. How do you do it?<br /> - the lamp sans shade. My dear, what a daring trend setter you are. Soon we will all be removing our lampshades.<br /> - and the dear little color crayon portrait on the side of your microwave. My refrigerator is plastered with similar masterpieces which bring me such joy.<br /><br />I went through your photos again, determined to admire your willow ware, and got distracted by your corbels and cornbread. Ah, well...it takes all kinds, doesn't it?<br /><br /> <br /><br />Nib's Endhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00820552995581749771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025769640802524983.post-8566251726060632202017-03-25T02:55:13.129-07:002017-03-25T02:55:13.129-07:00Wow, Dewena! Another miracle this morning! I was o...Wow, Dewena! Another miracle this morning! I was once again able to enter your blog and it looks as if I'll be able to comment here...So I have been wondering where you have gone since Florida's experiment and, now, at last, can SEE IT! Congratulations on finding HOME again.<br /> Thanks for your last visit...it was good to be in touch again. Yes, our house in Florida is a done deal and we are happily settling in here in Iowa where Des Moines is fourth on the list of 25 of the happiest cities in the USA...due to social connections of family and friends. As the last of the paperwork is done to cancel flood insurance, we feel relieved, relaxed, and looking forward to the summer of baseball and track...<br /> I love your galley kitchen and completely understand the part about black appliances. I will begin a renovation of the kitchen in a couple months. We will be able to live/cook in the walkout basement while the dust is stirred on the main level.rjerdeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12453912819445395042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025769640802524983.post-21521215075488793162017-03-24T22:52:07.537-07:002017-03-24T22:52:07.537-07:00Your kitchen is just perfect to me, Dewena...it...Your kitchen is just perfect to me, Dewena...it's what we make of it and how much love we can share in it. You have some talented guys in your family!! I love the shelves and you know, I think it's a desire many of us have for open shelving so we can display pretty dishes and treasures. I had the carpenter make me shelves at the lake...I have zero upper cabinets. He made them from regular old lumber from Home Depot that he stained. Compared to cabinets, the savings was enough to buy a new appliance!<br /><br />I'm loving blue very much lately, too. Just as accents in almost every room. Not sure why---its never been a favorite color or anything. Life is funny.<br /><br />Jane xBlondie's Journalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12988377413260331618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025769640802524983.post-68529020387968073702017-03-24T20:15:06.753-07:002017-03-24T20:15:06.753-07:00Oh, Dewena! What a lovely kitchen--I love all your...Oh, Dewena! What a lovely kitchen--I love all your blues! (And the little yellows in the Spode china. We weren't able to buy or ask for china when we got married, but I love looking at others'.<br />I think you are so blessed to have R.H., and he to have you. I love the fact that you got to try out Florida, and when you yearned for Tennessee, you got to come back "home", where the (your)heart is.<br /><br />Of all the things I love, love love--it's the pot rack under the shelves.What a great idea, and I don't have much cabinet space, either. This though--I think I may be able to do, or get someone to do for me. I don't really need so many pots and pans, but I've accumulated right many over the years. But I have no pot rack, and nowhere I can really hang one---so this seems to be a wonderful idea, and also a place where I can put my cookbook collection! I DO need to downsize! I MUST! But, I have so many of the local church ones, that I love going through at night. ( I don't think it inspires me to cook much more than I did--but once, when I was younger--I really loved it. My husband isn't very adventurous in trying anything more than what his mother cooked (we've been married for 51 years this June 30th.) <br />That's fried everything.:) <br />It's so tiring to have to cook the same things each week, but I'm glad to have my husband still here to cook for. But I'm trying to figure out how you got some of the pans (the thicker ones) to stick out further like they need to. I know the foundation of the shelves have to be heavy--especially for the iron ones--and I can't figure it all out. Could RH do a little sketch, or explanation, of how to put one of these things together-- without it all falling down in my kitchen one night? I don't think I have as many pots, and certainly not as nice ones--but I'd like to get something like that set up in my kitchen!:)<br /><br />I do pray that you all are happy, and pleased with the job your children did for you--and your other family--for helping you all this way. They sound like the wonderful family that you wanted them to be as you and RH raised them! You seldom hear of this closeness anymore.Bluebird49https://www.blogger.com/profile/01195892307835553912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025769640802524983.post-80703837012518320622017-03-24T18:06:50.479-07:002017-03-24T18:06:50.479-07:00I love a galley kitchen too, Dewena. Your new she...I love a galley kitchen too, Dewena. Your new shelving is perfect! I love so much about this light-filled kitchen - and I know I'd like it, too, with all the stuff that was stashed away for the glamour shoot!Pondsidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02407539138546412482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025769640802524983.post-29465082896630719462017-03-24T17:04:09.378-07:002017-03-24T17:04:09.378-07:00Ahhh love the blue and white together. I think yo...Ahhh love the blue and white together. I think you kitchen is so cheerful. I am thinking of the blue and white for my next kitchen. Yep well maybe lol!<br />So happy you feel at home now. Happy Friday and have a wonderful weekend.<br />Hugs,<br />KrisJunkchiccottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13312068546640480844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025769640802524983.post-9417154046633061702017-03-24T16:04:27.619-07:002017-03-24T16:04:27.619-07:00Blue and white never is out of style, Dewena. Neve...Blue and white never is out of style, Dewena. Never. I love, love, love your galley kitchen. I like galleys, too, and had one in our last home. They're so convenient. Less steps to get to where you want to go. Space efficient. Your hubby and son did a fabulous job on the shelf. Great solution. In my last three homes I had a pot rack in the kitchen. Stock pot on top shelf, saucepans and skillets hung from hooks underneath. I found it, again, very convenient and I liked the look. Your window is delightful and I know you're going to love standing at the sink enjoying your herbs in the winter. I'm so glad you're happy in your new home. That's so important! Hugs, NancyA Joyful Cottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08604235087317891071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025769640802524983.post-73471105492992707122017-03-24T15:23:21.959-07:002017-03-24T15:23:21.959-07:00That shelf is awesome. What did we do before Pinte...That shelf is awesome. What did we do before Pinterest? I have blue and white dishes as well and often mix in Blue Willow with another pattern. It's so traditional, and my son even noticed that Aunt Bea on Andy Griffith has Blue Willow! Leslie Anne Tarabellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02196752637270349443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025769640802524983.post-35929624526959382932017-03-24T14:40:43.284-07:002017-03-24T14:40:43.284-07:00Blue and white is my favorite color combo. So chee...Blue and white is my favorite color combo. So cheerful and fresh!<br /><br />I have black appliances, but I know what you mean. My cabinets are hickory so they actually look ok, but I do agree white would look nice in your space. <br /><br />You are so very fortunate to have the men in your life that you do! Those two can do anything! Doreen@foxdenrdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09418636999038800443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025769640802524983.post-39886434967813370652017-03-24T13:50:22.687-07:002017-03-24T13:50:22.687-07:00Oh, Dewena, your kitchen is lovely and homey and w...Oh, Dewena, your kitchen is lovely and homey and warm. My mom had a blue and white kitchen. She liked to collect Blue Delft.<br /><br />I want to put some shelves in my dining room, so I'm taking notes. <br /><br />Interesting that James Beard liked an electric stove. That makes me feel a tad better about not ever having a gas stove. I don't know why, but I feel as though I'm not a 'real cook' with just an electric stove!Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09147413132595250490noreply@blogger.com