This pic made me think of your new old home.

Happy Thanksgiving to you & family!

Hello my Houzz friends!!! I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Ours was quiet but I cooked a nice meal in the new kitchen! Been so busy unpacking and got a few bits out for Christmas. We restored the antique a bit in the bathroom I do not have it fully styled as the shelves are not secure but wanted to show you all! Glad we went with white :)

Perfect!!! So interesting and appropriate in your home!

Christmas tree is adorable too!

The wood piece looks great in the bathroom. Adding white to the shelves updated it just enough., the room benefits from the wood.

I’m so happy you made it into the house for the holidays. Happy Thanksgiving!

Your place looks amazing now for Christmas and happy that you got to spend Thanksgiving there the tree looks nice and the fireplace and the bathroom

Looking great and love the style of tour xmas tree.  Love the grateful dead pic in the bathroom, your personality is coming thru.

What a great job you've done! The difference between the before and after is amazing! I love old houses that have been lovingly restored, and yours is so charming. Looking forward to more "after" photos.

Your bathroom is lovely! We have the same repose statue on our bedroom dresser.😉

And your Christmas tree is perfect!

Thank you all so much for the nice comments!! It feels so surreal to finally be living here :) still stuff to do, art to hang etc etc but it’s getting there. Here is another before and after of the upstairs living room (not fully styled yet)… still waiting on my kitchen table to be done and then I can do some kitchen before and afters :)

Wow! Looks beautiful

Your Christmas tree is just perfect!

Thanks for the Xmas tree love!
I couldn’t wait to show you, the LONG AWAITED KITCHEN TABLE AND CHAIRS!!! (No I still don’t have it, took longer than expected and now the small shop got Covid but hopefully we can pick it up Friday) I am so ecstatic, and the hunt fabric looks divine!!!

Wishing everyone happy holidays this week! Be safe with all the colds and viruses going around! Xo

Oh wow looks like my old table! My Ex has it now. The chairs are lovely! It will be worth the wait!

Another spectacular choice!

That fabric is wonderful!! It's placed perfectly on the seat. Very exciting.

I just love your home and your style! It's so refreshing to see a home decorated in a classic, traditional style, but still practical for family life.

It’s home!! Merry Christmas everyone!

😍

That's beautiful and a Christmas miracle for you and Merry Christmas!

Hi Houzz friends! Long time no talk!!! I hope this post finds everyone well! I haven’t posted in so long because … drum roll please…. We had a baby!!! So decorating and stuff has been on the back burner for a while haha! However I am in need of some design help! I want to add privacy to these windows, the three over sink are the most important during the winter you can see right into the kitchen when coming down the road. I’m not great at patterns and was hoping you all could help! I took a couple pics of the kitchen so you can see it, I’m using terracotta kitchen towels and mustard as accents throughout the room. (If that helps with suggestions). The cabinets are dark blue. Also, do you think I need a rug under the kitchen table to add warmth to the room? Or is that just another thing to clean hahaha! Thanks everyone!!

Congratulations Julie! I hope you're enjoying the baby and dreaming of decorating again the place looks nice I love your kitchen

OMG!! Julie, such wonderful news - I am thrilled for your family!! Can we have a name? Or at least a gender? So so happy for you.

I love your kitchen - those 3 wiindows pack quite a lovely punch. Maybe you should think of matchstick natural wood Shades? Or some other simple, non-fussy shade. I wouldn't want to mess with the perfection of your kitchen!

And I am a person who loves fabric!! (living room curtains was the very first thing I bought for my house).

Congratulations 🎈🎊🎉 on the new baby!

I love your fabric on the chair, maybe consider buying more and have Roman shades made. If that way too expensive a valance in that fabric with a shade underneath could work.

Congratulations on the baby! Absolutely no rug. Your floor will be constantly covered with various crumbs, spills, and food for years to come. Lol. You’re going to want to be able to easily sweep it. Possibly multiple times a day. 😉

As far as the windows go something very simple that sets off your kitchen and doesn’t cut out too much light. I’m thinking bamboo blinds match stick or some thing with an open weave that still gives privacy.

Something that doesn’t have a lot of light blocking overhead at the top.

You can also get accordion fold blinds that install inside the window that opens from the bottom or the top. My neighbours have them installed and they have minimal footprint. It means you can cover the lower or the upper part of the window.

Cafe curtains are an old fashioned concept….just covering the lower half…..we put some in my daughter’s laundry room. Pictures tomorrow, if she lets me. For the floor, we have a vinyl rug from a company called Spicher&Co…saves our wood floor!

There’s a genius idea… Vinyl rug, and you can still sweep it.

Thank you all for the congrats, we are so in love! We had a little girl and her name is Honorah (Norah for short). It’s a Latin name but was very common in Ireland (where my family is from) at the turn of the century. It was my great grandmothers name (which I actually didn’t know) and it was the name my mom was baptized but she always went by Norah. The Irish pronounce it: hah- Norah or Han-Norah. Anyways she is a blessing was 2 months early and we spent 2.5 months in the Nicu but she’s doing great !! Gosh am I rambling or what? Can you tell I’m obsessed with her hahahaa
I will definitely be coming back with help for her room when we get to that, she’s in our room for a while :) love the idea on blinds and I will def check out the vinyl rugs!!

Aww…🥰 enjoy! It’s an ongoing adventure…

Huge congratulations on the little girl baby! I love her name. 😍👶🏻

And I’m a fan of cafe curtains in an older house. I had them in my 1925 colonial and they give enough privacy but allow light in as well.

I love rugs but would try living without one in the kitchen. If the vinyl idea looks cohesive with your house and kitchen table, then it might work. Less cleaning is a huge priority now.

Congratulations, how wonderful that you have a daughter; I love her name!

I have three vinyl rugs from Spicher and Company, one I’ve owned for about 15 years and the others for two; they wear very well and are easy to care for. They offer a huge selection of designs and sizes and I think you will find a design perfect for your lovely home. They are very reasonably priced too. I highly recommend them.

Congratulations on your new little girl, Julie! What a blessing, and I also love her name!

I've said it before, but again, your home is such a breath of fresh air, traditional but updated for the 21st century. Regarding a rug, you might consider a braided rug. I have had an oval one under my kitchen/dining table for over 30 years and it still looks great. They wear like iron, are easy to clean, and don't show stains. We've had kids, dogs, and tenants in the house over the years, and seriously it still looks fine. It is period appropriate in your old farmhouse. Mine is from Capel, a company over 100 years old that still makes them in North Carolina. Here's a link:

https://capelrugs.com/collections/braided-rugs?msclkid=4b7d818538131722dddae7e116151bbb&tab=products&page=2

Cellular blinds…That’s what they’re called. With an inside mount they also have the advantage of being heat saving. You should be able to get them mounted at the top of the frame and they have a very low profile so it doesn’t block any of your lovely view.

I might do something like these Silouettes. still lets light thru but does give privacy. and they fold all the way up

gave you a runner in some blues/creams and warm tones

you could do a similar pattern or the same as your chairs, in roman blinds

and then look for a blue/sisal type or runner in front of the sink

or, do a solid blue shade like this one, w/a similar tone runner

I really like this wool over dyed type of rug. the cobalt blue shade would be very pretty next to your table/chairs.

for the blinds I'd do the silouette type , or

cellular

or a white linen type of shade w/blue ribbon trin:

Or, I also like these white woven wood blinds

another option is a natural color to match the floor (which is really pretty)

if you don't want blinds, you could do a leaded glass inlay. it fits right over the exisiting glass

Then bring in a Flatweave (usually cotton) runner in blues/whites or the other color you like

btw, all you have to do is sweep or vacuum the rug. it's not a big deal. you have to sweep your floors anyway!

Thanks everyone for the reccs and Beth wow so many inspo pics! Thank you for taking the time to share all those!!! Of all your reccs I am drawn to either the white woven blinds, the natural blinds or the glass inlay. My door to my pantry is actually a leaded window I repurposed I’ll try and add a pic. I also found these shades last night online and kinda like them for cafe curtains but not certain I would like them the more I think about it bc I like looking out these windows on the bottom half (spotted our groundhog saying hi only the other day) LOL

Something more subtle, maybe…

Love that redryder! Beautiful! Where are those from? :)

You can get ticking stripe cafe curtains ready-made online, but they won't have a pinch pleat heading. For that you'd need to have them custom made.

If you don't want to go that route, then you can get flat panel or rod pocket curtains and hang them via clip-on rings. Here's an option from Etsy:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/605074134/farmhouse-ticking-stripe-kitchen-cafe?gpla=1&gao=1&source=aw&sv1=affiliate&sv_campaign_id=1001765&awc=6220_1717928815_5edb2c27c7e8eed7cc654c221982ea88

And from the Vermont Country Store:

https://www.vermontcountrystore.com/ticking-stripe-rod-pocket-tiers/product/79014

I also think the idea of the white woven blinds is the most appropriate for the space and the windows and the view. (With the natural fibre colour being a possible choice as it goes pretty well with the floors as well.)The windows are small and deep…I don’t think they’re suited to curtains… A lot of the outdoor view will be lost.

Several websites show ticking stripe curtains. The Vermont Country store, Wayfair and Etsy (where you have sellers that do these custom).

A subtle fabric on the window won’t fight the equestrian fabric on your chairs. I’d keep it light, such as these, but make curtains that can open and close easily with sliding rings.

And, it is a kitchen…we do cook with grease, so washable may be a criteria.

Hi friends, after how many years I finally got the wallpaper installed! This is Honorahs room / guest room. We also repainted this room (used to be the historic colonial blue trim) but we went back to London Fog which is the trim color throughout the house. Also installed carpet for the baby! What do you think? We def need window treatments, it gets too bright for her and hard for her naps. I want to do Roman shades, I think!

Weird I can’t post two photos at once? Here is the wallpaper with the 100+ yr old brass bed!

For some reason in certain photos the wallpaper looks pink but it’s not :)

Julie that looks beautiful!

So pretty! For keeping littles asleep, we used room darkening inside mount cellular shades, they fold up and become unnoticeable, with curtain panels on the sides to hide the giant crack of light that blinds let in!

I love wallpaper and the one you chose is lovely, so appropriate for your old home!

Thank you all! This is my first ever wallpaper and I’m obsessed 🤩 I want it everywhere now hahaha the room still has work to do, I’m going to start framing a ton of paintings I have that I did when I was young and hoping to make like an art museum gallery wall up that high stairwell wall. Need to take the stuff down behind the crib bc she can grab it so we have the crib away from the wall at the moment haha