~ Gourmet Cottage Kitchen ~

Hi sweeties! I've been working on a little kitchen this week, and I thought I'd share a few pictures of how it's coming along so far. When it's finished it will be a gourmet cottage style kitchen filled with all the details I love so much. This kitchen is very large and it has a vaulted ceiling which will have beams eventually going across, and hopefully a conservatory glass ceiling too. I love lots of natural light pouring in! This gourmet kitchen all started with an antique french stove I ordered {which is on it's way now} in a beautiful white and is equipped with a 6 burner stove top, so I knew I had to design an entire room around it :) For now, I have my Aga stove there, and I brought in a few other pieces from Summer Rose so I could judge what direction to go next. I hope you enjoy...



I knew I wanted lots of white tile...


Plenty of windows...



A place where the accessories and kitchen items could be the focus....


A place for a large collection of cookbooks...






A range hood to showcase my plate collection...{which will be expanded when the new stove comes}.



And generally a very soft backdrop, that again, lets the kitchen items be the focus...



I knew I also wanted white pieces mixed with rich toned woods to ground everything. The whites are so crisp and beautiful, but the deeply toned woods create a sense of the past for me and a feeling of warmth....and I also wanted a very large wall pantry somewhere, so I made this double sized screened door pantry and hopefully when the kitchen is all finished it will be completely filled with home made canning items and accessories :)

I had so much fun making this little market basket {above}, it fits perfect in this kitchen!

And every gourmet kitchen has to have a fireplace :)



And a pot rack of course, using an antique chippy ladder as a place to hang the pots has always been a favorite of mine...so I made one :)



I still haven't finalized the floor yet, it's a choice between white painted wood plank flooring {like Summer Rose}, or the dark flooring { featured in the other pictures above} that came from a french flooring veneer. This one below is a white, so it might be close to what white wood planking would look like. But I'm leaning towards the rich wood tone instead. What do you think?



Well that's it for now :) I've got lots left to work on, but this has been a little dream kitchen of mine for awhile now, so it was time to start making the dream happen :)


I've also been making miniature designs to start the Summer Rose Collection and that has been so much fun for me and so inspiring to work on. And in between I'm doing what I love most , baking for you :)



Ps: a link to this Gourmet Cottage Kitchen post will be featured on my side bar under the link to Summer Rose , and so will future updates after they are blogged about here :)

Wishing you a beautiful week ahead my friends!

Thanks so much for stopping in!

Love and big hugs!

Cynthia xo