Hello friends! I’m so excited to share my kitchen for Spring — a little late, I know, but I’ve been enjoying this look the last few months. I have been looking for red calico fabric but never could find exactly what I wanted, then I remembered this floral accent fabric I’d made an apron out of a few years back. There is a coordinating fabric with roosters. I thought it would be perfect so I made a sink skirt, cafe curtains and basically a “slip cover” for the valance.
The yellow apron belonged to my grandmother, and I made the ruffled feed sack towel.
I really wanted to use yellow as an accent so it wouldn’t feel “red, white and blue” so I added some yellow towels and a sweet embroidered towel I found locally years back.
I had origanlly planned to use strawberry dinnerware for summer and had borrowed mother’s strawberry dishes. (I later decided to use the “I Love Lucy” Franciscan Ivy – coming soon🙂) She also had this beautiful Otagiri pitcher that I’m using for utensils.
My daughter had given me the chicken cup, but I got the idea to use a lid I had a make it into a temporary sugar bowl because I love how all the colors I’m using are represented.
On my shelves, I wanted to use the Blue Ridge Pottery pattern mother bought me years ago, Sun Bouquet as well as the Colonial Becky cups and saucers. Oh how I love all the Blue Ridge Pottery patterns! Mother found a box of odds and ends in the attic a few years back, and we’ve both added over the years. The corn bowls are both Shawnee, Corn Queen on the bottom, and Corn King on the top. The Homer Laughlin mixing bowl was mother’s, and the yellow pie plate belonged to my grandmother. I have bought the Pyrex patterns over the years and use them for everyday. The gravy boat is Blue Ridge in the Flower Ring pattern, and I found it locally. The rooster salt and pepper were my grandmother’s.
The strawberry pitcher holding the sage was a real find next door at mother’s. She mentioned there was one that was very old, but when I found the Otagiri, I thought that was the one she was referring to, then I found this one. It is Elsmore and Forster, and was made in England between 1855 and 1871.
I used some handpainted Fondeville NY plates on this wall very similar to the Blue Ridge patterns I’m also using.
The ticking stripe apron is the first one I made with the rooster and red floral fabric (I sold one in my shop) and what helped inspire this color palette. Mother gave me the middle one, and grandmother made the yellow one.
I brought back a striped runner I made years ago for the table, and made a sweet arrangement of flowers from mother’s garden including, mountain laurel, flaming azalea, blue iris, poppies, lemon lilies and “shredded coconut” as a filler.
I hung back up the beautiful pinch-pleated lined drapes mother made in the 1970s for our dining room. I’ve always loved these curtains, and enjoy having them in my own home.
I’ve really been enjoying the red and yellow combo this spring!
Thanks so much for stopping by! I’ve linked a video with a local antique mall visit, and the very interesting background on Blue Ridge Pottery, so be sure to check that out!
Anita
I love the red and yellow……. And those old dishes………. They’re gorgeous. Mam maw Laney had an entire set.
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Thank you mother for the plates!!
Beautifully done, Anita. A very inviting, calm place to land. Love, love your site!
“There’s No Place Like Home”
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Thank you Pam🙂
Whatever the season, you always make your home feel so cozy and look so beautiful! I look forward to your posts….I’m always inspired to freshen up after seeing your home tours. Thank you for sharing Anita.
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Thank you so much Tracy, I really appreciate that!
Hi, Anita. Everytime you ‘redo’ your fabric touches it makes me want to shuffle mine about. Sweet, charming and yes, so cheery! Sandi
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Thank you Sandi!!
I love your spring look, especially the red and yellow. I also am a dish nut and have several sets (not complete) but dinner plates and salad plates if possible. I dont really know what the patterns are. One set is very springy – with yellow flowers and some lavender iris and green leaves. It s so pretty and I use it in the spring and summer. Also have 2 more partial sets; one is Blue and pink flowers with a crimped rim. I bought a stack of plates and a some cups and saucers and my grand daughter moved into an apt. this fall and she loved those dishes and I gave her a service of 4. Really enjoyed doing that and that she liked them.I love Blue Ridge and some times just pick up dessert plates, or a platter or bowls that I run onto and if the price is right. I love your collection and I used to have the poinsetta set; gave it to a friend because she liked it but when I saw yours I thought –oh I miss that now. Love your house and your blog.
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Thank you so much Mary Lynn!! And thank you for sharing with me – how wonderful your granddaughter loves the dishes you gave her as well🙂 I love to just have even salad plates that
I can put on a plain dinner plate to dress them up too🙂
Love the red and yellow which are also the colors that i use in my Kitchen!! So charming and inviting!!
Hugs,
Deb
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Such pretty combos! I have the shawnee, corn platter, two bowls, butter, dish, and salt and pepper, but put mine out for autumn. I had a whole set that match that were individualcorn cob platters or plates, but it met an unfortunate fate because they weren’t all packed together and Mom thought we don’t need these (talked me into it) and gave the set of six or eight of them to Goodwill, not knowing that it was part of a set. One of those things you kick yourself over later.
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Oh wow what treasures, I’m sure you were heartbroken for some to end up donated!! I should have put some of that out for fall, and I never thought about it.