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I'm impressed by how seemingly well laid out everything is - I really like the colour scheme, and the pretty contact paper lining in the kitchen cupboards. Inspires me to try doing the same in my kitchen! Well done!

Thanks for the ideas, everyone. FYI, the cupboards are laminate, not solid wood.

Oh, and hejiranyc, don't post a comment if you can't even be bothered to be decent.

Re: Creative gift labeling/tagging: my mother-in-law saves her holiday cards for tag-making the next year. She cuts up the fronts of the cards (funky scissor edges optional), punches a hole in them, then attaches with ribbon. Good use of pretty holiday cards that you don't know what else to do with!

You can also convert an expandable dining table (i.e. with space for extra leaves inside) to a storage table if you take out the extra leaves and put in a solid bottom. Our IKEA Norden table has this type of storage area.

Following on the kraft paper idea ... a friend and I have a tradition of passing a piece of paper back and forth for random holidays/birthdays, each time adding a decorative element to it - stamps, stickers, doodles, etc. We've been doing this for years and it looks pretty rad now.