Country Kitchen Island | The Lettered Cottage

My friend, Lucy. helped us find these old wood corbels earlier this year, and we re so excited to use them on our soon-to-be country kitchen island:

Right now, the island doesn t reflect our personalities at all, so we re going to have fun giving it a farmhouse/cottage-style makeover over the next couple of months.

The new bar top will stick out a little further than the existing one because the corbels are about 4 inches deeper.

I m excited about that little addition in surface space because we plan to use the bar as extra seating when we have more people over than will fit at our dinner table.

We also plan to replace the existing countertop with something a little more laid back, and then we ll pick out a cheerful new paint color for the base of the island. We had been thinking that we d paint the corbels the same color as the island, but now that they ve been stripped, we re sort of diggin the idea of just sealing them with wax.

What do you think?

PS- The winner of the Handmade Walls e-book is:

Congrats, Mari. I ll be in touch shortly!

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