Verruca’s Red And Aqua Kitchen

I want a house. Possibly the only thing I want more than a house right now is a baby.

They are both quite a way off.

But that doesn’t stop me from dreaming.

I still wander around the shops and pick out clothes I would buy my newborn, sweet purple tops with owls, deep blue babygrows with pirates on them.

I read (and steal) my mother in law’s decorating magazines, read design blogs and bookmark things that I would put in my house. I dream about the day when we no longer have to live in a rented magnolia box and I can have the freedom to make a house my own, to paint the boys’ rooms, and not have to deal with rent inspections.

1. Sweet-Pills, 2. Kitchenology by Jenny & Aaron ~everyday is a holiday~, 3. bobb and cherries, 4. Kitchen, 5. heart apron, 6. Tea Towel Swap, 7. ::vintage kitchen swap::, 8. Fruity Photography, 9. Handmade Brooch Bambi fawn deer red white flower blue

Don’t get me wrong, I am grateful to have a roof over my head, but sometimes that little brat inside me rears her ugly head and has a tantrum about not being able to paint the walls lime green.

I’ll call her Verruca.

This is Verruca’s dream kitchen:

The walls are bright aqua, the cupboards are clean and white, it’s perfectly accessorised with red canisters and teacups, there are plenty of polka dots everywhere. The dining table is large and surrounded by mismatched chairs, all painted bright cherry red. It has original art prints that she’s picked up from the local artists markets and a tin Coca-cola sign that she nabbed for $4 from an opshop. There’s never any flour splatters on her Kitchenaid, and the oven is big enough to cook for an army. It’s retro, but not overwhelmingly so.

Oh. And everything is self cleaning.

Verruca makes an awesome lasagna, she also lives in a world where she doesn’t have a stack of opened mail sitting on her worktop, just next to the pile of dirty dishes, she has angelic kids that don’t pull all the plastic plates out of the draw when she’s not looking and, most importantly, Verruca has a husband that doesn’t roll his eyes and say that red and aqua combined is the gaudiest thing ever, and no way in hell would he ever have a kitchen like that… oh, and by the way, mood boards are  “full of shit”.

Word of advice: Whenever you hook up with someone you may one day end up living with for the remainder of your life, make sure your design tastes don’t completely and utterly clash.

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ETA: Verruca’s husband also doesn’t threaten to delete her blog when she writes bitchy things about him, he’s nice like that, he also has a six pack.