Home Heart and Hands: spode bowl

Good afternoon! Today I am working on a building project (that I will share in a couple of days), so I thought I would share with you our kitchen gallery wall. My whole kitchen has a black and white color scheme. The cabinets and floor are white, while the counter tops are a dark grey speckled color and I have a white bead board backsplash. I started this color scheme because, well, I love black and white, but also because one of the gifts my mother-in-law gave me when I was first married was a black and white Spode platter. She has a blue and white (you know, the standard stuff you see) collection of Spode so she has always bought some of it for her daughters and daugther-in-laws. I didn't even know they made it in black and white until she found some on a trip to the mountains. I just love it and think it's absolutely gorgeous.

I have the platter hanging over my stove. You can't tell in the picture, but it's pretty big.

This bowl is Spode too....and it was crazy expensive. That was a gift from the hubby years ago.

I have four smaller (dinner size) plates that I have hung on the wall in a gallery wall behind my kitchen table.

I hate the off center light fixture.....which I ramble on about in this post. And I SO wish there was a better place to put the trash can....but alas there just isn't.

Funny thing is I have had this gallery wall up for a pretty long time, well before it became an "in" thing to do (ditto for the plates on the wall). And you know what? I STILL love it just as much as I did when I first hung it. I think it could stand a few pictures switched out and a few new frames, but I do love it :). The plans for this space are to add crown molding and then add some wainscoting across the wall under the gallery wall.....and not to mention fixing up the table and getting new chairs, and a new chandelier.

Here are some more shots of the gallery wall. All of the pictures are black and whites of my babies.

My boys when they were little.

You can see the true wall color in this shot below....it's a very very light almost white blue grey. I don't know what color it is, because I mixed it up myself with a couple of test pots of darker colors and a big gallon of white paint. I LOVE it though. It ended up being my favorite paint color in the house.

I have curtains framing out the entrance to my kitchen and you can see them in this shot.

I also have plans to remove single upper cabinet you see in this shot and put up open shelves....just in that spot, but that's a long way down on the priority list.