What do you do when you have Cabin Fever?

With this happening outside I need some inside projects to get me through these next few months.

I am such a summer girl and just hate the snow and cold after Christmas.  So I decided to do some inside projects to keep me sane.  I going to stick to my new year project challenge to do these changes spending very little money and using what I have.

I am starting with my kitchen.

Just to show you how much snow we got in the past couple of days.  We had to shovel a path for Libby our basset hound to get off the deck to the backyard.  Her little legs and short to the ground body would have been buried.

This is the driveway.  We got 13 inches and then another 6 inches after I took these pictures.  Today the high is only going to be 17 below and wind chill of 40 below. Ughhh!   So indoor projects it will be.  Just to think a few short months ago I was watering pretty flowers out here! 

I started to take everything down off the walls.  I will have the hubby take the shelves down when he gets home tonight.  He has them pretty secure in the studs.  Then I can spackle and prep the walls for paint.

Got everything down and just need to spackle and get the walls ready for paint.

My husband had some crown and an old closet door in his scraps of wood so he is going to finish the top of the refrigerator cabinet and the pantry cabinet to the left of the stove.  I am excited he has enough scrap material to finish those cabinets and give them some bling.  I get on him about not getting rid of old pieces of woods left from projects but not anymore since he is going to create some magic on these cabinets with scrap pieces.  Love repurposing.

I will be making a new skirt for the farmhouse sink.

In case you were wondering where all the decor from the kitchen went well it was moved into the dining room for now!!!!

I will be playing and rearranging things that will go back into the new kitchen.  Going for a different look other than farmhouse so a lot of this stuff will not be going back up.

I keep gravitating towards the color picket fence.  Looks grey in this picture but it really is white with a hint of cream/ivory.

These are the colors I picked for my 
walls and cabinets.  The one on the bottom in the middle is picket fence and I think the color I will go with.  You can see in this picture it is really a creamy ivory.  Almost all of these colors of white have a tint of cream in them.  I am down to picket fence and white on white.   I think I will probably stay with white cabinets and fairly light walls. I am going for a cottage/nordic look.

Well stay tuned for the transformation.  Only money that might be spent will be on a can of paint.  Two of the colors I have picked out I already have the paint from other rooms in my house so if I pick those colors I won't spend a dime.  If not then the only money spent on this transformation will be the paint color.  I have some big pieces of architectural elements in the shed and  Terry has a lot of old wood and crown molding scrapes so we are going to see what we can come up with. I am excited to get this transformation going.  Stay tuned and Stay Warm!
:)
Kris