change of scenery

Change of scenery in our kitchen.

A tulip dining table and houseplant wall. We 'replaced' our long table and bench with Moroccan bread baskets.

Since the children both moved to their own homes, we sometimes felt a bit lost at our super long canteen table, which can accommodate 10 people. After three days breakfast and dinner at the round table in our apartment at Baixa House in Lisbon, we agreed we should have a round table in our kitchen.

I've always enjoyed dining at a cozy round table, but I did not want to say goodbye to the vintage Belgian canteen table and because of it's size (2.40 X 0.80m), it was not an option to store it elsewhere in the house. The xxl table has found a good destination at my colleague, who is now very happy with it.

I found a splendid round tulip table with a diameter of 1.20 meter, which also still fits 6 chairs if necessary.

We exchanged the white wooden chairs for two vintage garden chairs from the front garden, an old steel patio chair, we once found at a Spanish flea market and our Bertoia chair.

The new table brings a completely different atmosphere and the kitchen is much more spacious this way.

The plates on the serving cart are re-organized and the Moroccan (bread)basket collection is now displayed on another table in the kitchen.

And we found a second-hand Dutch design cross light lamp by Melis & Oostrom above the dining table.

On the table a Bordallo Pinheiro fish vase from our Portugal road trip 2017 with garden flowers.

Because there is still space for another plant on the plant bench, we adopted a chain cactus.

Usually the interior at some points have to become completely different after our vacation, because we always get so much inspiration abroad.

All in all a huge difference with minimal resources.

Change of scenery brings new energy.

a merry & bright christmas for everyone

Happy Christmas Eve everyone!

A joyful Christmas to you all. Wishing you and your family happy holidays!

doing the dishes

The kitchen table full of dishes, a beautiful sight!

The vintage serving cart in our kitchen is the perfect place to store the dishes.
Some of them we use daily, most of them we use very often, but some we hardly ever use.
Because the kitchen cart is open, every now and than the cart including stacks need to be cleaned.
Doing the dishes is not as much work as it might seem, thank goodness we have a dishwasher.

Everything is cleaned up and tidy and all the stacks are back on the cart again.

plants & plates

The spider plant - chlorophytum comosum - has never really been away, because it's so easy to maintain and multiply.

One of the most interesting points of the spider plant is its ability to rapidly propagate itself. A spider baby from the mother plant will often root and within a year it's producing babies of its own, you can give out to your family and friends.

I've send a couple of spider babies to my niece in London and I hope they will survice the journey.

The small green harlequin pot I brought from Anthropogie in Londen and the leafs plate I found at Portazul in The Hague.

urban kitchen jungle

Another plant in tha house.

The green corner in the living room gets crowded. No more space for this pink-red large leaved beauty, so we've put it in the corner of the kitchen. Temporarily...
I'm still looking for a nice way to put all plants together in the room.
Maybe a plant table collection underneath the stairs?

Suggestions anyone?

hyacinth fragrance & hare frame

The fragrance of hyacinth fills the kitchen. We've enjoyed the white bunch, my sister brought us on Monday, throughout the week.

The name sign I made for a Swiss boy and the little hare, who lives in our kitchen, is a model for the occasion.

I wish you a joyful weekend!

paniers d'oeufs de pâques

publication [yvestown in de keuken]

What a book! I'm in love...

The pictures, the personal stories and the way it was designed!

Couldn't be better.

I read the book thoroughly for the second time in bed last night and every single story and chapter of the book is so brilliant.

The book has a place of honour on the serving cart (next to the matching green Sissy Boy towel) and the bright ribbon is obviously exactly where our colorful [tajine] chapter in this feel-good-cook-book starts.

Oh man, I'm as proud as a peacock!

ps: [o, wat zie ik je graag Yvonne]

spoons

Spoons in the kitchen, the R E D makes it again.

You can still join the G I V E A W A Y and thanks for all the sweet wishes for Minne's birtday yesterday...

the beauty of everyday & ordinary things

The beauty of everyday & ordinary things in our kitchen.

cuisine & comestibles

para la cocina

French Limoges cake plates - spring brocante Maria & Lammie Amsterdam
Spanish egg [lemon] basket - 'mercadillo' Consell (Mallorca)

plates i love

Some plates around the kitchen (old ones and new ones).
You can never have enough plates and mixing them looks even better!

clockwise;
Owl by Zara Home
Barbapapa blowing bubbles also Zara Home (meanwhile in London - gift for Afra)
Pottery plate with spots from Sissy Boy Homeland and the cute blue with white flowers plate comes from brocante Lammie Verkoopt.
Enamel plate from Villa Augustus market shop (years ago), keeps the scrapwood free from cooking splashes.

the red season

Strawberries and rhubarb. My favorite red sweets from the garden.
Does anyone have a refreshing rhubarb recipe?

serving cart

Extra space in the kitchen is always useful. Last weekend we spotted this industrial cart (probably from a hospital?) and couln't get it out of our minds. Yesterday I went back to pick up the cart and now it serves in our kitchen. yay!