Thrifted Cottage Winter Decor Transformed My Entire Kitchen (Before & After)

Hey girl, hey. We are outside to start this video because it is gorgeous out here. I cannot believe that it's January right now. It feels like the most beautiful fall day and I love it. I'm not a fan of cold weather which means I'm not a fan of winter and that makes this a little strange because today's video we are going to be decorating my kitchen with a winter vibe. I'm going to be using all my winter greenery. I love a beautiful clean slate after Christmas because during Christmas time my house is just so full right. We've already taken down all the Christmas decor and toward the end of the season it can feel a little cluttered and I had a lot of stuff. So I was really happy to get everything down and have a blank slate to work with. I like to keep things a little minimal, heavy minimal. It may not be minimal to you but it is to me. I just like it to feel very clean, very neutral, nice and calming after such a chaotic time of the year. So with that being said we are going to be using things that I already have that I've collected over time. I do have some Hobby Lobby gift cards that I got for Christmas so not only do I want to get some more stems, some more transitional type stems, I am thinking about some more artwork to go on my kitchen wall but until then we need to decide what we're going to do. Are we going to bring the cutting board wall back or are we just going to put up some artwork that I already have? I have a big, get out of here, picture, a big piece of art that I got a while back from Hobby Lobby. You've seen it before if you've been here before and I've gotten a lot of compliments from you guys on it so maybe we can use that. It'll just fill up the wall really well or maybe we do the cutting board wall. I don't know. I don't know. I have no idea what to do. I do have this. I do have something I want to do today with this. I know that it's a pizza board but I think I just said cutting board in my last video when I shared my thrift haul with you and did some styling with you. I talked about how I want to stain this and beat it up to make it look nice and old and like it's one of those boards that cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars. Whether we hang it up on a little cutting board gallery wall or just hang it on the peg shelf, we're going to do this DIY because I think it's going to be pretty regardless. If you're excited to decorate with me today, don't forget to give me a thumbs up and let's get right into the video. Y'all, before we continue on to decorating this beautiful kitchen, I just have to tell you that today I'm collabing with the beautiful Dana from Decorate with Dana. Can I just take one little second to tell you about her because she is absolutely beautiful both inside and out and her channel is amazing. I have been a fan of her channel for a very long time. She decorates so beautifully and effortlessly all throughout the year for every season. I find her channel to be so calming and relaxing. Maybe it's the way that she decorates. It's simple but beautiful. It's on trend but she always stays true to herself. I just know that you will find so much inspiration over on her channel so please check her out today. She's going to be decorating her living room or her family room for the winter season so you're going to be getting to see two different ideas, two different room ideas for winter decorating. So click the link in my description box to go watch her video and let her know that I sent you. Dana has the most beautiful spirit about her and I know that you are going to love her. Okay, okay, okay. Let's go decorate. Welcome to my junky garage. It is on my list of things to do, okay? No judgment here. So I have literally next to nothing left in this jar. So we are just going to apply very effortlessly and hope we don't ruin it. Okay, spoiler alert. We did not ruin it and it's kind of impossible to ruin it because I knew that I was just going to sand it, rough it up a little bit, make it look nice and old and distressed. So we're starting out just by applying the stain and we need to let that dry. Here is the table full of what I'm going to be using on the hutch. Now the hutch does have some staple pieces already on it and I'm going to show you that in just a second but this is what we're going to use to fill up the other spaces on the hutch and I'm just loving the way that all of it is coming together. I already decorated the top of the hutch. I kept my basket with my vintage thermoses. I added some copper colanders. I added this really cute stool that I just recently got from 81616 Renewed along with a mini scale, some rolling pins on top of some old books. I just felt like the top of this hutch had so much charm with all of these items styled together. On the top shelf I just wanted to keep it super simple with my collection of white pitchers. There are two new pieces here, new to me, and they are front and center right here. I loved the fruit on it. I just thought that it would be so pretty for all year round. The shape of this one was really beautiful to me and then I also grabbed this one so they could be paired together and I just think that the fun design on the pitcher just adds a little bit more character to that top shelf. I love an all-white display in the winter season. So we're keeping touches of copper. I've got my copper utensil holder in these books. We're going to be adding some brass to that shelf also. I have to have my flour and rice containers readily available and then we're just going to keep my scales here styled together in this grouping of three. Over here on this peg shelf we've got some work to do and the first thing that I'm going to do is just switch out the hand towel. I am all about simple switches, little things that you can do just to create a more neutral space in these transitional times and I am always switching out those textiles around the kitchen if I need to switch it out for a season or if I just want something super neutral. We are going to be using some winter greenery in this basket. I usually don't like to do this because it feels so Christmassy to me but for some reason this year it just feels perfect and I love it in this vintage basket that I was able to get from a flea market nearby. I think I got it for super cheap too and I just love it here so much I leave it all year round. I also put back my little cottage chair in the corner and added a neutral throw on the side of it. I thought that made it look nice and cozy. We are going to add something on top of the chair but before we do that y'all I gotta tell you about this new find. Melissa, my sweet friend, she got this for me as part of my Christmas present. I didn't tell anyone but the scale that I always have up here it broke when I was decorating for Christmas and I was so very sad but she found the rustiest and crustiest scale for me to hang up in its place and I just love it. You have to let me know what you think. Is it too rusty for you? For me? I love it. It's perfection. One thing that really inspired me to keep out the winter look for the month of January were these beautiful brass candlesticks with Christmas trees inside or winter trees inside. Y'all I used play-doh to keep them steady inside because I didn't want to hot glue them. So now the play-doh is all hardened and it just sticks in there so nicely. So if you're a mom of littles play-doh goes a long way. Kind of has the same effect as museum wax I guess. You want to see? Max is here and he wants to see. Look. I'm building windows. He's building windows. We're both being creative today. So this little cloche fit perfectly on top of this candle holder and then I recently got this base from 81616 Renewed. A lot of the stuff that I'm using today I picked up over at her shop and this is such a beautiful piece of wood that I am using as the base of this cloche. Again with another brass candle holder inside and a tree and pairing these two together just made my heart so happy. So that is kind of where the inspiration started. I really love greens and wood tones all year round but especially at the start of the year. It just feels so very good. So very clean. It's a hint of spring without being too much. I am going to be using this tree again. I thought that it was just really pretty inside my terracotta pot and gave off that winter vibe. And then I just put a little Christmas tree inside this brass pitcher which I love so much. Look at the handle on that pitcher. It's so pretty. The detailing is so gorgeous. I also have a little copper one too. We're using touches of copper throughout and brass. A little bit of silver. We're mixing a lot of metals and just making it look super pretty and collected. I love this little drawer that I got from A1616 Renewed and I put in these two books with some greenery. And then over here I have my little filing cabinet box whatever it's called and a mini scale with a pretty brass swan on top. Okay now that we have the hutch decorated we've got our centerpiece on our dining room table. This part of the kitchen is done except we need something to go on this bare wall behind us. We're still waiting for that pizza cutting board outside to dry. I stained it like a deep dark stain. I'm wondering if we should bring back the cutting board wall or should we put up this big beautiful piece of artwork. Now it's big. It's real big. It's going to fill up this entire wall. We don't have any artwork over here. I do plan on putting some artwork over there on that little shelf between the windows. There's no artwork over here so maybe this spot in the kitchen needs a little artwork. I don't know you tell me. Comment down below artwork or gallery cutting board wall. But look how huge and beautiful this is. It's so big and it's so heavy but it's those neutral colors that I love so much. Let me hold it up over here so you can get a better idea. This is what it would look like. I don't know. I think that it would be a more simple look and that's what I like for the new year. I've had this forever. I've had this for a few years now. I got it from Hobby Lobby if you're wondering. I might be able to find another piece of art that I like there that will work for all the seasons. But for now I'm just using what I have and I think that that would be really nice. Now we're going to go and move over to this little shelf between the two windows. I DIY'd this for maybe 20 bucks. It's such a cute shelf and I'm really happy with it. If you haven't seen that video you should check it out. I added just a couple of things. Some touches of white at the top with a scale that I kind of roughed up a little bit to make it look more vintage. It's from Hobby Lobby. We're going to add some moody artwork, some rusty crusty kitchen stuff, some more of that copper, another mini scale, and this recipe handwritten by Victor's grandma for her rice and beans. I just put it inside of this cloche and it adds a special touch. We are going to be using some more winter greenery and I just put it in this grater. And now let's get to decorating these shelves! Forever in your late evening river walks the sun is low but it's not lost we got time to waste tonight let's find a place for only you and I sure as a new sunrise Moving on to the countertops. I got a Target gift card for my birthday this year and I went ahead and got something that has been in my cart for quite some time and it is this really adorable salt and pepper shaker from the hearth and hand line. I just love this so much. It fits in very well in my kitchen. I also went ahead and traded out my other kitchen lamps for two matchy matchy ones. They're very tiny with the cutest little pleated lampshade. I love the simplicity of it and it brings such a cozy touch to my kitchen. It's also very functional because I need the light in here. Sometimes it gets super dark in here at night. We're going to decorate this precious little pie safe in this corner and I like to style it with the door open because you can see everything so clearly on the inside. I do hide the cord with a hand towel and I'm just using a coordinating one over here to go with the one that's on the peg shelf. I'm just starting off by putting this timer inside of that tiny cloche. Just putting anything inside of a cloche makes it instantly special. We have some touches of white and I just feel like it pops so perfectly inside of the pie safe so I'm adding another touch of that to the bottom. I forgot to show you all this in my last 8-16-16 renewed haul but I did get this tiny tea set while I was at the shop with Mandy and Jessica and Mel and I just can't get over how sweet it is inside of this pie safe. We're gonna put them just here at the bottom. I'm also gonna be putting a little brass bell at the bottom to kind of be like a little dinner bell. Thought that was cute and we're gonna finish off this area with this miniature scale, kitchen scale, and I'm gonna put a winter tree on top of it and I just love the way this area turned out. Familiar faces, filled with dismay Cause the sun rises and it falls I know your time will come And there's no use in going on Keep your eyes on the horizon And together we will run Colors that fade and the rain stay for far too long Like trees in the garden we'll hold fast without parting Cause we got everything we need I know your time will come And there's no use in going on If you enjoyed this video give me a thumbs up, give me a little hide If you don't mind, that helps my channel out so much and even if you leave just a little emoji, a comment goes a really long way. It helps out my channel so much. Thank you so much for your friendship and I cannot wait to see you in the next one. Bye y'all!