Adding Gold and Brass To My Kitchen

I can’t believe these words are going to leave my mouth but…..I disliked gold and brass until about 5 years ago!  {gasp!}  It’s true!  I only wore silver and I only had silver accents in my home.  And then things changed.  Gold made a comeback and all of my jewelry started to include a LOT of gold pieces.  And then this year…gold accents! I have started adding gold and brass to my kitchen and I’m going to show you how I’m doing it!

First off, if you are a regular reader and visitor here (thank you!!!) or follow me on Instagram you probably know that we’ve been moving around a lot with my husband’s company and have been renters.  Luckily, our next move is permanent.  Until then, we’ve had to find rentals that are nice and homes that we can easily make our own.  I change out all of the light fixtures and install my own chandeliers, paint walls if homeowner approves, and do what I can to make it feel like “home”.  While this home is not my favorite, it’s a great home in a really great neighborhood.  However, we don’t get a lot of natural sunlight toward the back half of the home AND the homeowner used a grey paint that I feel is just too dark for my liking.

I wrote a post about tips for brightening your home HERE, and these tips certainly help!  But alas, I’m going to paint my kitchen, nook and living room white I think…next week.  Those are the rooms on the back half of the home that feel like a dungeon at certain times of the day.  They even have a lot of windows…just not facing the right way.  I needed something BOLD to break up the monotony of grey and white.  It looked like a black and white film in this area haha!  I decided, instead of a pop of color (mostly because the grey is so much), I brought in some fabulous GOLD and BRASS accents.

First task, the barstools!  They were the silver industrial barstools that are very popular right now but I was getting so bored of them.  I happened upon these barstools somehow online a few weeks ago and knew that’s what I wanted!

They’re gorgeous and well-priced.  But I also don’t want to buy new furniture until our permanent move next year when we are in our new home.  So I went and bought a BUNCH of different gold spray paints and tried them out.  Ugh, I’ve done something like this before and remembered how hard it was to find the right gold. Some are too orange or brown or a funky brass look.  This one was too muted….

It’s a pretty gold and I love muted gold.  But NOT for this project.  Nope!

I actually used this same one (NOW I remember) on my fabulous IKEA hack coffee table shared HERE but I’m going to go back and use the new one (below) and go over it with this better gold.  I tried a BUNCH of others but THIS was the one!  You can see the other {muted} gold in the background and then the new Rustoleum metallic gold here.  The difference is much more noticeable in person. Note, they are both Rustoleum brand so you need to make sure you buy the green and white can with the gold metallic top.  And I suggest buying the 6-pack I linked below because you’ll definitely go through them all if you’re doing your bar stools and accent pieces.

Don’t they look great in my kitchen?!  It’s just what this kitchen needed and will look even prettier when I get rid of these dark grey walls (also darker in person….I’ve brightened the photo just a bit).

I removed the 80’s light fixture above the kitchen nook table (cringe) and installed this gorgeous Lillian Chandelier and then also did a “recess canned light to pendant light conversion” with THIS KIT and hung a matching chandelier above my kitchen island as well.  These Lillian Chandeliers are from Wayfair (sister company to Joss & Main) and they give just the touch of glam I needed here.

I originally wanted those gorgeous brass pendant lantern light fixtures that are so popular right now but I’m going to save them for my next home so that I have something to look forward to.  That is, unless my taste has changed by then ha!  It usually does, but we will see.

I grabbed my spray paint again and spray painted my paper towel holder and I love it!  The painting in the background is by yours truly (my first attempt at art in years so don’t judge haha) and I found this awesome vintage frame with the gold, ornate inner frame at a vintage shop in Downtown McKinney, Texas.

It flows well with the room off my kitchen, my living room, as I added gold in there as well (also getting painted white next week).

Since it’s fall, I added little white pumpkins to this gorgeous brass hurricane I found at Home Goods and it made for a gorgeous centerpiece coupled with these simple place settings of white and gold pieces.

This is where we eat dinner as a family most nights.  If we have company, and often do, we move into our formal dining room.

My bowl of fruit gets put in a lovely brass bowl with a couple of other fun coordinating pieces…

A trio of quatrefoil mirrors running vertically down a narrow wall, dividing the kitchen from the living room….

And a few more fun accessories on the counters…

I swapped out a stainless steel holder to a brass lantern to hold some of my cooking utensils next to my stove.  You can get creative!  I love love love these new white and gold canisters from Global Amici, part of their new line just released. Look for these at Home Goods or I have linked them below for your shopping convenience.  There are four of them: flour, sugar, coffee and tea.  I separated mine.

So there you go!  I love the way this gold brought that WOW factor that this space needed.  I can’t wait to paint the walls white and then even add a pop of color after the holidays. I think it will be stunning!

Here are the items from this post below for your shopping convenience and some fabulous gold bar stools as well if you are not up to a DIY project and just want to go for the gold!

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