Oh what to do with this window???

We bought our house a few years ago and the kitchen was in need of some TLC!

It was OK at best and a little drab dated for our taste but the rest of the house was FABULOUS (for us that is)!

We were hit with a wonderful unfortunate situation with a water line, and the entire kitchen had to be gutted.

I wish I could say we did the kitchen ourselves with a super easy DIY project, but sadly, we are not that handy.

The pros did this for us:

If you look really close in both pics, there is a hideous gorgeous vineyard border at the top of the walls.

We literally tried every trick in the book to remove this stuff but it wasnt going anywhere.

I worked around it and we now have a wine themed kitchen!

We have a problem with window clutter. (shhhh!)

You can't see it in the pics above, but this is what the window looks like now:

I hate love the curtains! Don't you?

These came with the house and it is TIME they go!

Hubby decided he needs to brew his own root beer and my window sill is his storage for empty bottles.

It also serves as the medicine cabinet, box top collector, vinegar stand, coffee can dryer, yadda, yadda, yadda!

My mission this week is to redo this chaos and finish off the window to match the rest of the kitchen.

 I bought this panel:

It is just the panel. I will update you later this week when i am finished with the transformation.