It really has made a big difference in the whole kitchen!

What’s more cottagey than relaxing and enjoying a few festive beverages out on the deck with friends and family?.I’m really proud of how well this project turned out.

It’s both impressive-looking and super-functional and of course, it was pretty easy to pull together since we have an almost unlimited supply of barn wood out back!Here’s how we did it!.We started out with a barn..

I need to let you know right now, that we don’t actually own this barn.It’s behind our house, but all the land on the other side of the creek is owned by a big German company who leases it out to local farmers.

No one uses this barn anymore and because of that, it’s fallen into a little bit of disrepair in the last few years.

Word on the street is that this barn is probably actually about 100 years old, and was built by ship-builders, so it has a lot of really interesting and pretty construction inside.. We used a few different components of the barn in our beverage center, as well as some new pine boards from The Home Depot.I hear that in some parts of the land, today was actually the first day back for classes.

We don’t start up again until after Labor Day, but I still find myself in the “Back to School, Let’s Get Organized” mindset by the beginning of August every year.Actually, by the end of August last year, I was already into Halloween projects!.

Kennedy and I did this quick little upcycle project the other day to hopefully help our homework sessions go a little better once September gets here.Now we’ll always be able to find enough pencils, erasers, rulers, etc.