I Took Your Advice • THRIFTED country kitchen Refresh with Thrift store Decor

Okay, I finally feel like my kitchen is starting to come together and looks presentable enough for me anyway for summer 2026. And if you've been watching all of the projects here lately, you know that this kitchen has kind of put me through it over the past week, from the wallpaper nightmare to trying to figure out the whole coffee bar situation. I bet you I probably looked at over 50 little tables and cabinets to try to make that area work for me. But I did end up with the most beautiful and unexpected find to use over at my coffee bar. So that is very exciting. Anyway, it's just all finally coming together from painting underneath my kitchen cabinets, like I said, to the whole wallpaper fiasco to shopping for that coffee bar. I'm just so excited to have everything finally feeling fresh and rearranged and just like new to me anyway. I used so many pieces that I already had on hand. So I thought today I would just give y'all a summer kitchen tour on how I'm probably gonna be leaving my kitchen for the summer. Now, will I rearrange a few things maybe here and there? Probably, especially if I buy new pieces. And I have not decorated anything like for the Memorial Day or 4th of July yet. So my kitchen is not gonna necessarily look like a lot of people that are putting up videos that are decorating for Memorial Day and all the things. I just, I love my neutrals, but I also try to bring in a lot of blues for the summer. So you will see that I have tried to make my kitchen just feel really fresh, like with the neutrals. I love it and I am so happy with it. So this is how I'm going to leave everything for now. Unless, like I said, I get something new or I just get the itch to switch later on. This is what it's looking like so far. So let me just kind of give you, like I said, a little summer kitchen tour for 2026 on how I have mine all set up. And then I'll show you the dining room too. Nothing has changed in there though, but just in case you've never seen a video of mine and would like to see how we turned a back porch into a dining room, I'll just give you a quick little glance in there because like I said, nothing's changed in there. Everything in there is pretty much still the same just because I love it so much. But anyway, I'm gonna quit jabbering and we're gonna turn around and do this kitchen tour. I really tried to make this kitchen feel cozy and collected for summer without going crazy, buying all new decor. A lot of what you're seeing in here is either thrifted, repurposed, DIYed, or stuff that I just already had on hand. And like I told y'all earlier, just wanted to really use it in a different way. I think people assume that you just have to spend a fortune to make your home feel cozy and comfortable, but honestly, most of my favorite things in this kitchen, they're just all thrifted, y'all. They are literally all thrifted. Now, some of these pieces would probably cost so much, but because I thrift over time and really wait for things that I love, I am able to decorate without spending nearly as much as most people. I also love that so many of y'all notice little details because some of the changes I made in here actually came from your suggestions. There are some things that I have moved around, put in different areas, or just took down altogether because y'all were absolutely right about some of them. I'll give you an example of one right here. To the left, I did have a basket and someone made a suggestion that the basket looked too new along with everything else I had going on on these shelves that were vintage, and I could not agree more. So I changed it up. I actually pulled out an old vintage grease bucket, I changed the books up, and just made it different based on that suggestion. So thank y'all so much. I do read your comments. I may not always get to reply to every single one, but I definitely read them and take your advice and your suggestions sometimes. I also wanted to show y'all some of your suggestions that I did actually take and change up. So this shelf here, I'll put the picture up. I took the little silver kind of like tart tray away and I moved something from that corner. Let's see if anybody can see what's missing there, but I felt like it was a little too crowded. So I did kind of remove some things and was able to make this space not look so crowded. I love these pieces and I think they look really, really good here. And the only thing different that I did down here is I removed like the little silver biscuit cookie cutter, and I removed the brass round tray that I had right here because I felt like it had a problem or something in the middle. It's almost like the cups were whoppy jawed, like they were not sitting up straight. So I just took that out and left the cutting board here. And again, these were all things that were based off of y'all's suggestions. And I just want you to know that I appreciate y'all more than you know, especially when you are so loving and so kind about it. So let's move over to the coffee bar and I wanna show you some of the changes that I'm gonna make over there based on y'all's suggestions as well. This is also the spot where I had the wallpaper nightmare moment. I'll be sure and make sure that the playlist is listed in the description if you wanna go back and watch what this looked like before if you missed that. And then over here is probably one of my favorite changes lately. This cabinet seriously just found me at the antique store one day. It's an old gun cabinet that I ended up using for the coffee bar and it just worked out perfect. I just love using pieces in ways they weren't originally intended for. And this piece definitely was not intended to use on a coffee bar area, but that's what we're doing with it. I'm gonna open up the door just in case you did miss that video and just give you a very quick look at the before of kind of where some things are. I don't change too much because I really loved the look of it, but y'all really did have some great suggestions. So I just wanna show y'all how I took your advice with some of those things. So one of the comments and one of the first suggestions that I'll show y'all is this little box here, I did have some of the paper coffee filters in them. And someone said that would annoy me if I had to move this to get the paper coffee filters out of here. I 100% agree on that. Based on that suggestion, I said, well, I'm gonna take this little basket here and I want to move it over here where I have this little cup. Gonna hang the little basket right here. I'm gonna put a few of these paper coffee filters in here. And then I'm still going to utilize my little silver measuring cup just because I think it's so cute and put that in there. And another thing is that I don't use these paper, excuse me, coffee filters every day because I do have a reusable filter, as you can see in there. Now, sometimes if that's dirty, I will pull for one of these, but I don't have to reach for one of those every day. But your suggestion was great. And even when I do have to pull for one, you are right, I don't wanna have to move that little sugar dish off the top every time. I got several comments on this little picture and also suggestions as well. I talked about how I hated how you could not see that picture back there very well and how much I do love it. Well, a few of y'all actually mentioned taking the little dried florals out and you would just be able to see that so much better. So I said, yes, I love that. So I took that out and I thought, well, I love their idea, but what if I take, and instead of using this to hold just these couple little creamers that I usually have on hand, what if I took and just dumped those in that? What if I take this with the dried florals and just put it right back on top of that recipe box where I had it, and it kinda helps balance out the dried florals. So there's some dried florals in this on this side, this little sugar dish is actually holding my little creamers that I talked about in yesterday's video of why I have those in there. And then I have this little creamer holding some more of the dried flowers. And I know there's a shadow, but I can see my little picture back there so much better. So thank y'all so much for that wonderful suggestion. I love that. Even though I did move the dried florals to the other side, no one suggested that. I did do that, but I really like how that looks. And I love that I can see the picture so much better. So y'all, thank you. You're so, so smart. And someone also suggested, why don't you put a paper towel in the bottom of this so that you can see your cute little flower coffee spoons so much better. And I love that idea as well. So what did I do? I went and got me a paper towel and she said, just crumple it up, stuff it down in there and then put your little coffee spoons back down in there. And they'll stand up taller. You'll be able to see them better. And I love that. Now I am missing several spoons. They're in the dishwasher. So they're gonna look a little sparse today, but y'all get the idea that we were actually just using that paper, that we're actually, excuse me, using that paper towel just to kind of raise these up a little bit and make it look like a little bit of a floral bouquet. I'm sorry, y'all. I know that I pronounce things wrong. And to the women who feel like they have to correct me in every video, it's not necessary. I just, I have a very thick country accent and things just do not always come out like they should. So anyway, now, doesn't that look so cute? And to whoever suggested this to me, thank you. I love that. All right, so we're gonna put this back. Okay, that looks like a hundred times better already. Then this shelf here got the most attention because, and I do not know why, why I didn't even think to do this. I'm telling you, sometimes I am just not, my brain is just not working right and I have no good ideas to come up with. But several of y'all, and thank you very much, said, well, why don't you just put like some command strips or something on the back of these little plates and raise them up so that you can see them better. And I was like, light bulb moment, yes. Why did I not think of that? So that's what I'm about to do to these two little blue plates so that we can bring them up and you'll be able to see the blue on them so much better. So here's the Velcro little command strip that I just put on the back. It's got the sticky showing and I'm about to hang this one real quick. And I'm leaving the stuff kind of in position so I know exactly, or kind of exactly where to hang these. And I'm gonna hang them a little bit higher so you can see them, I think that'll be good right there. And then all I gotta do is push and then go do the other one. And oh my goodness, what a difference this is going to make y'all. Yes. Should I have done it a little bit lower? I don't know. Cannot believe what a difference that made. It's like 1000% better. I did lower that one just a little bit. I had it too high a while ago, but man, just that one little suggestion y'all made for this shelf made a huge difference. Okay, and something else, the last thing that I did want to do on here that someone suggested was to move these things here around a little bit. Let me scoot y'all down where you can see. She said the napkins are here with the blue and then I have the blue here and that I should move the napkins down here just to kind of balance all of this out. And I agree. Now there's a good balance, like she said. So again, I thank y'all very much for all of your sweet suggestions and advice over here on the coffee bar. Another last little look at the beautiful coffee bar that we are all loving. So I did purchase this rug new from Target. I got it on sale for half price for $50. But I will tell you that what I have been trying to do lately and you may have noticed it in my videos is that I'm trying to use a lot of the things that I already own without going out and buying brand new or even thrifted. Now I have bought several things thrifted or from the antique store that I love, but I really have not spent a whole lot of money on this total kitchen refresh and I am so proud of myself for that. This country style cookie tin, I wanted to bring this out for summer so bad. Everywhere I put it, it just kind of stood out like a sore thumb because it has more of a lime green kind of color to it. And even though my bottom kitchen cabinets are green, they're not that bright of a green. So there's my lower kitchen cabinets right there. Yeah, like I said, I just wanted to style this somewhere. So I put it in this old camping oven that I got at Goodwill and it ended up working out perfect because it's kind of tucked in that little camping oven and it's not just overwhelmingly bright out by itself. You know what I mean? So I actually did get to style that for the summer and I'm loving it. And I wanted to touch real quick on this little shelf. I get more comments than y'all would ever know about this little wooden shelf that I have hanging over my stove. And the number one question I get about it is, how do we hang it up? Well, we just put screws in this. Okay, so we have the backsplash here and then we just kind of put this up since it was over the stove, so it would be easier to clean. So this little shelf here, it is just hung up with screws on the back of it. So that's how that's hanging, it's pretty secure. And then I just kind of style it with some decor and some practical pieces that I actually use like the timer, the salt and pepper, of course. And then I use these little wooden scoops to get seasonings out of mason jars. So I will step back here and just try to kind of pan around slowly. I've been trying to go really slow in case you missed a lot of the individual styling videos that I put out. Hopefully this can give you a few ideas on how you can use some of your thrifted pieces as well, but I want y'all to see it stepped back also and everything just not so up close. So I like to step back and give you the full perspective on what the space looks like. So I'm really, really loving using all of the dried hydrangeas in here. That just screams summer to me. So the hutch over here, everything is pretty much the same. I only changed a couple little things in there, but I did take y'all's advice on those books and I leaned them over onto the basket. I actually added one more. I put my chicken recipe little thing in here. I took that off of the shelf over there. I don't know if anybody noticed that or not, but yeah, I'm just gonna step back and kind of show you this side, what it looks like kind of stepped back. There's, like I said, my hutch, my kitchen table and the kitchen from this side. I'm probably not giving the best kitchen tour, but hopefully y'all get the idea. And like I said, I will add the playlist with the individual videos that will maybe help you get some ideas and see things a little more up close. But yeah, this is my kitchen kind of from a stepped back viewpoint and all put together. I just really wanted y'all to see it. You know, everything that we've been working on, all put together and all in one frame, I guess is what I'm trying to say. And I got Cinder over here in the window behind me trying to kill a fly. So that's probably what y'all hear. And now I'll just go give y'all a quick little glance at the dining room area in case you've never seen that before. So walking through here, this is our dining room slash laundry room. And this space, believe it or not, was a back porch. So you can go watch that whole series on how we turned our back porch into a dining room if you want to. I'm not gonna go into detail here either because I have individual videos on decorating a lot of this, and it's all pretty much still the same, but we'll do some quick little clips here just to give you some ideas if you've missed those. I just love giving ideas on how you can thrift your home beautiful. My decor style is very much a country aesthetic. I love old country vintage decor, and you can definitely tell that in my home. And for anybody that comments and says that my house looks like Cracker Barrel, there went Cinder, that's actually a compliment to me. So thank you. I don't know, sometimes people comment that to me and they think it's gonna hurt my feelings. It actually makes me feel good, so whatever. But yeah, y'all, this is my 2026 summer country kitchen. Like I said, I didn't do a lot of up-close shots and slow motion and all that kind of stuff because I do have a lot of individual videos on that. I just wanted y'all to be able to see it all together, like in one video. And we've been working hard on this kitchen, so I am proud of what we've been able to accomplish. Thank y'all for going thrifting with me and doing all of the DIYs and all the things that we've been doing in the kitchen. So I am excited now to start on the next project, which will be moving into my hallway and doing some things there. So I cannot wait to share those next projects with you. Thank y'all again for coming to hang out with me in my little country kitchen. We hope y'all have a wonderful evening. We love y'all and I'll see you back here tomorrow with a brand new video.