Garden Theme Decorated Coffee Bar
Decorating ideas for a summer garden themed coffee bar or console with terracotta pots, greenery, flowers and inexpensive dollar store wall art.
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Do you have a garden planted? I love this time of year when everything is
bursting into life and bloom! We've been enjoying fresh salad greens and herbs
from the garden.
I decided to transform my kitchen coffee bar with garden theme decor including
inexpensive flower art from the dollar store. Come on in and let me inspire
you today with this early summer vignette!
It's also Pinterest Challenge day, which is where the inspiration for
this flower themed decor came from! Thanks to
Cindy of County Road 407
for coming up with the themes each month. The group works from one inspiration
image and comes up with ways to recreate the look in our own homes. I love
that each one is unique and you'll be able to see what everyone else did (and
follow the links to their sites) below.
Add garden theme decor to coffee bar or console table
Inspiration from Pinterest
The inspiration image is bittersweet as it's from my friend
Michelle of The Painted Hinge, who sadly passed away last year. We in the decorating community miss her
and her unique vintage style! Michelle had such a flair for combining multiple
items to create a cohesive whole. I mean, just look at this eye candy!
I love Michelle's style and knew I wanted to try to recreate her springtime
entryway as closely as possible. Here are my take-aways that I'm using to
decorate my garden themed coffee bar.
Key elements
- long white cabinet
- large white piece hanging on the wall
- apothecary type cabinet
- vintage elements (flower frogs, wire baskets, scale, books)
- terracotta pots
- greenery and flowers
The room I focused on is our kitchen breakfast nook because I already have the
long white painted dresser in place as a coffee bar. I also have an antique
chippy window hanging over the dresser, which helps to give weight to the
vignette.
I don't have a long wood apothecary type cabinet like Michelle used, but for
Christmas last year I bought myself a tabletop antique pie safe. I love the
vintage feel, the wire openings and it's a great piece to show off some of my
white ironstone smalls.
By itself, the pie safe felt a little small. I needed more brown. That's when
I remembered I had a vintage cabinet with drawers that Mr DIY bought for me
when we lived in Florida. I normally keep the drawers filled with acrylic
paint bottles in my studio, but emptied it out and set it next to the wood pie
safe. They're almost the same height and I like that they're both darker wood
tones.
These types of cabinets are so useful around the house to hold small items
like teabags, craft supplies, office supplies and more!
SHOP CUBBIES
I love violas, violets and pansies but couldn't find them at our garden
center. I'm thinking they may not do well here in Mississippi. Instead, I
bought a small flat of white vinca flowers and planted a couple into some of
the
French Inspired Seedling Pots
I painted a couple years ago. I tucked a couple of plants into the cabinet
drawers, like Michelle did. I really love how this looks!
I added pots of plants and herbs that I planted earlier this year, including
sage and pothos ivy like Michelle used (a great plant for indoors that is
almost impossible to kill, and it's super easy to propagate with cuttings!).
Mr DIY bought me a beautiful orchid for my birthday in April, and I added it
to a wire basket.
You can create a similar look with all faux greenery and flowers if you don't have a green thumb! Check out some of my favorite inexpensive florals and greenery from Amazon!
SHOP FAUX GREENERY
Basically I tried to add lots of visual interest to this spot! Michelle's
console table is chock full of goodies and I wanted to create the same feel.
I'm someone who gets overwhelmed with clutter, so after I enjoy the decorated
coffee bar for a couple weeks, I'll probably pare the decortions down so I can
enjoy it longer 😉
I realized that my vintage kitchen scale is the exact same one that Michelle
used! I remember finding this for only $8 and couldn't grab it fast enough! I
stacked a couple thrifted books with green covers and added the scale on
top...I was running out of room on my dresser!
On top of the cabinets I added more decor, some real vintage flower frogs and
the
Vintage Inspired Bottles with Cinnamon Rusted Lids
I recently made.
DIY Dollar Tree Garden Themed Wall Art
Michelle has some floral stems hanging from her chalkboard. I decided to hang
some inexpensive floral art from my antique window.
It was as easy as painting and staining some Dollar Tree frames and then
inserting floral pics I found and printed from The Graphics Fairy.
When you apply dark furniture paste wax over white chalk paint, it transforms
into the color of warm wood! The brush strokes add wood grain. It's so easy to
do, check out this
Restoration Hardware DIY Wood Vase
I painted from a thrifted find.
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More inspirational ideas from the Pinterest Challenge team
Be sure to head to
Marty's blog
next and see how she interpreted this challenge! All the links from the
team are below for your enjoyment, I know you'll be inspired!
bringing beauty to the ordinary,
Hi Cindy! This is so pretty! Pinning! laura
ReplyDeleteSo many great ideas here! My eyes didn't know where to look there are so many pretty details! Love it all. :-)
ReplyDeleteNiky
Haha, thanks Niky!
DeleteCindy, you have absolutely mailed Michelle’s vision, but made it your own. I love your combination of the pie safe and little cabinet with drawers. What a lovely addition to your breakfast area.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Carol, I appreciate that. This was a fun challenge for me!
DeleteI absolutely adore your lovely pie safe and mini filing cabinet. You have created such a lovely vignette that beautifully honors Michelle.
ReplyDeleteThanks Laura
DeleteGirl, you knocked this out of the park! I especially liked that you had the same scale as Michelle. Hope you do pair down the decor and use it a little longer. It's super cute and I'd have a hard time not keeping it there. Thanks for sharing your ideas and joining us. Loved ALL of it! pinned
ReplyDeleteThanks Cindy!
DeleteWow! This is so pretty. I love it. Happy Tuesday, my friend.
ReplyDeleteWow, what a fabulous re creation of Michelle's style Cindy. I am sure she is smiling down upon your work. Love your little pie safe, it is the cutest little cabinet and you created the perfect artwork to go along with your decor.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much!
DeleteI love it and your little drawer cabinet is so perfect. Your pots and flowers are gorgeous and the art is such a special touch.
ReplyDeleteCindy, grouping your little cabinets together is such a cute idea. I love that they are not exactly the same size, because that just adds to the charm! Your garden display is put together beautifully, and I love how the dollar store frames turned out too!
ReplyDeleteCindy, I thought I left a commnt yesterday evening but it may not have stuck... So, I wanted to say how much I liked the little pie safe with the small dark wooden drawer cabinet! They go together really well and anchor your display. It's cool how you have that massive window behind and the same grocery scale! Love how everything turned out in your table vignette!!!
ReplyDeleteHappy almost summer,
Barb :)