Hello everyone!
Hope you are doing fine.
As for me I entered my blog after a lifetime and I was surprised to see that my latest post was about a year and a half! Wow! Time flies, indeed!
Anyway, today I would like to share with you one idea that I always thought was cool when I saw it on Pinterest and it kind of became a necessity when we moved to our new rental about two months ago.
The new house is situated in one of the most beautiful, picturesque areas of Luxembourg, full of vineyards which produce fine, prestigious, award winning wines but is mostly very very famous for a milestone EU treaty signing. Yep, you have probably guessed it by now, especially my Luxembourg followers, we live in the greater Schengen region now!
The property has a lot of great advantages like a big garden, another small one for growing vegetables (we do intend -us city kids- to become farmers in the future!), a big terrace with a great view, spacious rooms, a big storage space with shelves BUT the kitchen cupboards are very few and some of them are 'occupied' with fitted electric appliances.
That means whenever we want to cook, take the dishes from the dishwasher machine, whatever.... things get reeal crowded at the kitchen corner!
To cut a long story short, we thought that we should somehow make an extention of our kitchen working area.
That is why the idea of a coffee bar where we could put all the coffee and tea related stuff as well as other things that could declutter the kitchen counter sounded great.
I searched a lot for the perfect piece of furniture and this one from IKEA was the ideal one.
White, simple, nothing fancy, at a reasonable price but mostly functional.
Then we needed a new coffee machine and we found one that could also make tea, how cool is that? (Since I am more of a tea than a coffee lover, you got me at tea making!)
Actually, it can prepare hot water for every beverage like tea, chocolate and even soup!
We also needed some other accessories from IKEA like a sugar container or a honey dipper and a tea measure to add a little extra something that would make the coffee bar look more 'professional' or hotelbreakfast-like. We added some other sweetening options as well like agave syrup or honey which we prefer more to sweeten our tea or coffee and coffee out of guarana which is a healthier version (yep, such healthy eating freaks we are these days, no white sugar whatsoever !)
Additionally, a small wooden box bought about two years ago from the french Gifi (the equivalent of the Greek Jumbo), could perfectly host the coffee filters on its small, cute wooden drawer apart from the tea sachets that is.
Finally, all the herbs my mother in law sent us from Greece (well, we asked her to send us some tea and she provided us with different kinds of organic herbs that will last us two or three lives, generous as ever!) were placed in different glass jars ( I actually like that they are different sizes, shapes and they sort of have a second life now) and put in a wooden tray.
Our metal fruit plates would bring color and freshness to the bar and will remind us to add vitamins to our every day routine and not just caffeine, while a lovely velvet basket, bought from CASA could be like a wine rack so that whenever, during the late hours, we needed something stronger than coffee and tea, we would have it whithin our reach ;).
Of course, this is not a static arrangement, a lemonade container could also be handy during the summer as well as a stand milk frother that is the must have utensil for the famous Greek frappe coffee or speaking of Greek coffee this little cutie here which prepares it in a second and proved to be very useful to me especially during office hours!
Last but not least we wanted to add a little sense of humour to the set, so I bought these lovely posters from Etsy that were printed on canvas and made it quite clear to anyone that THIS is the place for coffee and tea (as if they would not have guessed by now!)
I hope you find my idea useful, please comment below as it's been such I long time that I heard from you.
Till next time, hope it won't be that long!
xxx
Dimitra
Hope you are doing fine.
As for me I entered my blog after a lifetime and I was surprised to see that my latest post was about a year and a half! Wow! Time flies, indeed!
Anyway, today I would like to share with you one idea that I always thought was cool when I saw it on Pinterest and it kind of became a necessity when we moved to our new rental about two months ago.
The new house is situated in one of the most beautiful, picturesque areas of Luxembourg, full of vineyards which produce fine, prestigious, award winning wines but is mostly very very famous for a milestone EU treaty signing. Yep, you have probably guessed it by now, especially my Luxembourg followers, we live in the greater Schengen region now!
The property has a lot of great advantages like a big garden, another small one for growing vegetables (we do intend -us city kids- to become farmers in the future!), a big terrace with a great view, spacious rooms, a big storage space with shelves BUT the kitchen cupboards are very few and some of them are 'occupied' with fitted electric appliances.
That means whenever we want to cook, take the dishes from the dishwasher machine, whatever.... things get reeal crowded at the kitchen corner!
To cut a long story short, we thought that we should somehow make an extention of our kitchen working area.
That is why the idea of a coffee bar where we could put all the coffee and tea related stuff as well as other things that could declutter the kitchen counter sounded great.
I searched a lot for the perfect piece of furniture and this one from IKEA was the ideal one.
White, simple, nothing fancy, at a reasonable price but mostly functional.
Then we needed a new coffee machine and we found one that could also make tea, how cool is that? (Since I am more of a tea than a coffee lover, you got me at tea making!)
Actually, it can prepare hot water for every beverage like tea, chocolate and even soup!
We also needed some other accessories from IKEA like a sugar container or a honey dipper and a tea measure to add a little extra something that would make the coffee bar look more 'professional' or hotelbreakfast-like. We added some other sweetening options as well like agave syrup or honey which we prefer more to sweeten our tea or coffee and coffee out of guarana which is a healthier version (yep, such healthy eating freaks we are these days, no white sugar whatsoever !)
Additionally, a small wooden box bought about two years ago from the french Gifi (the equivalent of the Greek Jumbo), could perfectly host the coffee filters on its small, cute wooden drawer apart from the tea sachets that is.
Finally, all the herbs my mother in law sent us from Greece (well, we asked her to send us some tea and she provided us with different kinds of organic herbs that will last us two or three lives, generous as ever!) were placed in different glass jars ( I actually like that they are different sizes, shapes and they sort of have a second life now) and put in a wooden tray.
Our metal fruit plates would bring color and freshness to the bar and will remind us to add vitamins to our every day routine and not just caffeine, while a lovely velvet basket, bought from CASA could be like a wine rack so that whenever, during the late hours, we needed something stronger than coffee and tea, we would have it whithin our reach ;).
Of course, this is not a static arrangement, a lemonade container could also be handy during the summer as well as a stand milk frother that is the must have utensil for the famous Greek frappe coffee or speaking of Greek coffee this little cutie here which prepares it in a second and proved to be very useful to me especially during office hours!
Last but not least we wanted to add a little sense of humour to the set, so I bought these lovely posters from Etsy that were printed on canvas and made it quite clear to anyone that THIS is the place for coffee and tea (as if they would not have guessed by now!)
I hope you find my idea useful, please comment below as it's been such I long time that I heard from you.
Till next time, hope it won't be that long!
xxx
Dimitra
