Posted by Rachel | Posted in Coffee and Accessories | Posted on 08-09-2008
Tags: coffee, cooking, food, howto, kitchen coffee bar, kitchen coffee decor, kitchen coffee mill, kitchen coffee stations, kitchen coffee theme, shopping
decorating kitchen with a chocolate / coffee theme?
anyone have any accessory ideas or good websites they can recommend. I suck at decorating
AllPosters.com and enter “coffee” into the search box.
You might try buying some whole coffee beans and pouring them into a shadowbox frame (a “picture frame” with glass in the front and a panel in the back with some space between the two.) Perhaps search for some vintage coffee labels online, print them out and center one each against the glass front and then fill with whole beans. Instead of hanging by the traditional wire, pick a 1″ wide grosgrain ribbon in a color that complements a color in the coffee label, cut in half, secure one each to the upper frame corner, tie a bow in the center and suspend with that, trimming and letting the tails hang down a bit (you may have to secure the knot in the bow with a few stitches or super glue to prevent the weight of the frame from untying the bow.) Hang this out of direct sunlight as the heat build-up will cause the beans to leech out their essential oils.
Install (or paint) tiles in various and randomly arranged shades of browns ranging from light tans to dark sepias.
Find an old coffee logotype you like online, print it out really big, tile it together, tape it to your largest blank wall, transfer to the wall using carbon paper (available at art supply stores) or LIGHTLY poke through the lines with a pin about every 1″ or so just deep enough to see them on the wall, remove the paper pattern and fill in with acrylic paint (You could even “age” the logo by using very thinned out brown washes over the logo to give it an old paper look.)
On your biggest blank wall, lay out vertical stripes of varying widths (maybe ranging from 6″ to 1/8″ wide) and fill in with varying shades of brown (kind of like the tiles). If you want crisp, sharp lines, use masking tape for the edges. If you want slightly more organic (wiggly) edges, paint by hand with only light pencil lines as your guides.
Buy some burlap and stencil coffee plantation text on them (“100% Colombian” “100 LBS” “Premium Coffee” “Producto de Brazil” “Peruvian Arabica” etc.) and use as stool covers, curtains, placemats, throw pillow covers or wall art.
Glue styrofoam coffee cups together in a half sphere and secure over your central room light (if appropriate) (see link) (be wary of heat build-up! Or purchase a cheap set of christmas lights and push a light through the bottom of each cup!
Or… secure a string of white christmas lights on a white cord across the ceiling, back and forth from wall to wall and poke each light through the bottom of a styrofoam cup (the cups will be hanging upside down) OR EVEN BETTER: Starbucks cups lined with brown tissue paper (or painted with brown glass dye available at your local craft store) to simulate them filled with coffee (and even the “top” of the coffee could be a strip of tissue taped around the cup lip and twisted to a point to simulate whipped cream! Be sure to lightly fleck it with brown paint to look like cinnamon or nutmeg!) This serves two purpose: 1) it hides the naked bulb contained with the cup and 2) it’s whimsical! It’ll look like a whole flock of filled Starbucks lattes hanging from your ceiling!
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