Fire Drama Kitchen Ideas

Adding Texture with natural wood and wicker in a neutral decor.

Happy New Week sweet friends.  We are getting ready to leave this nest and go to our new one in just about a week and half from now.  I am so ready to get this show on the road!!!  

We had a little drama a few days ago that threatened our move!  Terry and I were watching TV the other night and we get a text message from a friend that is a firefighter in the town we are going to be living.    He said his fire department is on their way to the building that our new condo building is in for a fire.  WHAT?!!!!!  

Yep the building our condo is in was on fire.  I have been being pretty calm and really feeling good about how smoothly this sale and move has been progressing up until this news and I lost it!  I began to freak out thinking OMG where are we going to live if the old Mansion that houses our condo is burning to the ground.  

This is an old mansion converted to lovely condos.  We will never find another one like this!!!!

So many things were swirling in my head!  

Well being married to a fire chief helped.  He said calm down and said it is a "full still" which means there is something going on but it is not a box alarm yet.  Apparently Box Alarm means big fire and lots of fire departments responding.  

Ok I could take a deep breath!  Then Terry said I will go there in my fire chief vehicle that will allow me to get to the building and see what is happening.

When he got there of course he knew all the firefighters and they let him in on things.  There was a fire in the condo across the hall from us.  This old building has a mansard roof and apparently the guy was smoking out on his balcony and some of the ashes got underneath the roof line and started a fire that went up into his attic and ceiling.  They were able to put it out quickly with a whole lot of damage to his condo but nothing to any of the other condos.

To make a long story short.  Nothing happened in our condo to be.  

The owner is so sweet and had her insurance company adjuster out to make sure all was well with her condo.  They will go up into the attic above our condo and replace all the insulation to make sure there is no smoke damage.  They also will come in and clean the whole condo from top to bottom to make sure there is no smoke smell.  

There is not but I will take the cleaning if they are offering.  

They did have to kick in her door because she was across the hall from the condo on fire and they wanted to make sure it did not travel into her condo.  She was out to dinner when this happened so they did have to kick in the door (sigh).  

They are ordering us a brand new front door.  So in the end of this story all is well.  We are moving toward closing and the guy across the hall is giving up smoking!!!  He will be out of his place for 4 months while they redo his condo.

Now onto better things.  We are going to shiplap some of the wall in the new condo.  Where there is wallpaper now that wall will be shiplapped and the kitchen upper cabinets are coming down to have shiplap and open shelves put in.  I have been pinning and having several ideas swirling through my head.

Where you see the wallpaper now in the condo will all be replaced with shiplap.  Walls will be painted with the color Twinkling Lights from Behr.  It is in the white family with a little more cream undertones.  Wish us luck with covering up those dark burgundy walls!!!!

The upper cabinets will all come down and shiplap will go on the upper wall.  The bottom cabinets will be painted and new hardware applied.  All new appliances are coming in to this kitchen too.

The following pics like this one above are my inspiration pictures.  I have four sets of corbels that will hold open shelves where we take down the upper cabinets.

I will add texture with wood shelves to my white corbels.

My TV armoire will be built into the kitchen where the sellers has a table and chairs.  It will be converted to a pantry.  That will be helpful for food storage since we are taking down all the upper cabinets.

Wishing all of you a great new week ahead.  I cannot wait to close and get in this place to replace the floors and start painting and shiplapping and fixing this sweet condo up for us.  I hope you will be patient with us and come along in just a few short weeks to see the progress.