The Teeny-Tiny Kitchen

 There was a renovation at my home for 7 months or so and everything was renewed. Walls were pulled down, new were built up and everything was installed brand new. At least in the kitchen and bathroom area, most of the living room furniture is mid century Scandinavian. I have lived in that apartement for all my life- years ago my family moved away and now I´m living here with my Andre.

I browsed through enormous amounts of old pictures for inspiration and I realized I wanted this retrofuturistic kitchen with strong 50s colours and checkered floor. There´s a lot of red, but it is atually much milder in real life and when the lights are off. Most of the kitchen furniture is custom made by an Estonian kitchen company, but the blue doors are in fact from IKEA, like the door knobs and the retro-looking oven, which I love.
  The polka dot toaster wasn´t like that when I got it, some spray colours and tape make miracles. The kitchen towels and oven mitts are from the nearby supermarket, I fancied the colourful matrjoškas and they make the kitchen more vivid.

 The polka dot containers were the most common ones during soviet times, because there weren´t any other to get. They are in really good shape and I like the typography and the fact that there is a whole tin box just for cinnamon or bay leaves

The saltcellar next to the stove is another of soviet time´s common things- everyone had one of those. It belonged to my mum, but we painted it blue and white to match our kitchen. It used to be this awful greasy wood. But now it´s just cute.

 Oh, and I love my fridge also, it´s almost like Smeg, but much cheaper-Bompani. As I am still a student, these things matter. Maybe someday I will upgrade.There is still much to do, but all-in-all I´m really pleased how the kitchen turned out. It´s modern with an old timey twist. Fave.