Make Your Life Your Happy Place.
When we got this house, I knew I wanted a coffee bar. When I found this yellow beauty, I knew it needed to come live in my house. And then, when I couldn’t decide if I wanted to make it a coffee bar or a wine bar (how do you choose between two great loves?), Christopher stained a wine rack yellow so I could have both. He’s the best.
It makes me so happy every time I see it. It’s such a bright, cheerful corner of my house, and it makes me want to make every corner of my house happy like that. It makes me want to make every corner of my life like that.
I will pour a cup (or three or six) of coffee every single morning. Why shouldn’t it be in an area that makes me happy?
I only have one life, and it’s the same one I wake up in every single day. Why shouldn’t every corner be filled with bright and happy things?
From the music I listen to, to the things I make for dinner, to my job, to the way I spend my free time, to the clothes I wear…if it’s something I can control, it should be happy. It’s my life-I’m the one who has to live here.
My bright yellow coffee bar may not make everyone happy. But for me, a little bit of effort (mostly on Chris’ part, haha) turned something normal into something that makes me happier every day. And lately, I’m feeling challenged to do that for myself in every area that I can.
I want to be able to peer into all the corners of my life and think, “Yeah, that makes me happy.”
Maybe it takes a little bit of extra effort, but isn’t the extra happiness worth it?
What makes your life your happy place?
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Your coffee and wine bar is too cute! My happy place actually came about because we ran out of cupboard space for all of my tea mugs haha, so my mom painted a small white shelf that is now in my dining room with all of my mugs on display =)
I love little things like that that just bring extra happy to your space/life! It's amazing how little things like that really do make you happy every time you see them 🙂
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I really, really love this picture. Yellow is my favorite color so those two piece of furniture make me happy, too!
My husband built me a wine bar and he built me a mug rack to display my mugs. I love love love walking into the kitchen and see those things because I love what they hold and I love the man who man them with me in mind 🙂
Oh my gosh your coffee bar is sooo cute, I love it too! I also have the same mentality, I try to make my home and surroundings a "happy place", and it really is worth the positive impact it can have on your day to day mood.
WHat a fun color for a coffee bar!!! That sure would brighten up my day too! Plus, I love the wine rack you have above it. So sweet of him to stain it for you to match. I am working on a gallery wall for my living room to be my happy place.
LOVE love love love. the coffee/wine bar AND the post. My bff and I were just chatting about how we habitually choose to focus on the happier aspects of our lives rather than dwell on anything negative for too long!
I love this so much! I'm always doing little things around our house that create happy vibes – my husband thought I was crazy at first, but now he openly admits that the little changes really do make a difference in the atmosphere – aka HAPPY PLACES 🙂
I love the whole concept behind this post. Especially in a house, you should fill it with things that make you happy even if they don't make sense to other people! That's what makes it a home. 🙂
This makes me want to create a coffee bar right now! I'm about to redecorate pretty much my entire house and will be keeping all of this in mind =)
LOVE this post and love the space Christopher created for you. What could be happier than a place in your home for both coffee and wine time? The color is perfect for bringing daily cheer into your life <3
Green Fashionista
I love your coffee bar. I try to do things around my home that make me happy too…like my Easter tree, my bar cart, my coffee corner…life should be nothing short of happy!
This is such a great post! I love that you painted your coffee bar yellow 🙂 I think I need one of these in my life. After all, coffee makes me extremely happy!!
Love it, so cute! Your husband really is great, how sweet of him! Definitely agree with your philosophy here, girl!
I have a bar cart that I'm thinking of turning into a coffee bar instead… I love yours so now I'm feeling especially inspired to do more with it. The yellow is so pretty and cheerful looking!
i love your coffee bar- and have the white and black striped mug! so cute
Coffee & wine bar? What an awesome idea! Plus, I love the idea of having a "happy place". I definitely need to incorporate something like that into our future house (it's too hard to do that in a tiny apartment). I try to do this at work since I work in a cubicle. It can be kind of draining & negative at times so I add some cheery decorations or a funky background on my computer to try to brighten things up!
Painting a wine rack yellow to match! What a genius. Both of those things make me crazy happy!
How cute! I love the bright yellow. We have yellow curtains in our room and they are very cheery.
My happy place is my corner of plants and I totally agree with you. Having something or a place indoor home where you can look and smile makes a difference on those not so great days.
This is too cute! My current happy place is my wine bar as well but I am moving soon and can't wait to create a new one!
I'm totally in love with that yellow coffee & wine bar!!!! We're moving soon and I hope to create a little happy coffee place.
I think it's pretty dang adorable.
love this! it took me a long time to realise that everything in my life should make me happy, not just the big things. i look over at certain things in my house and they make me smile just as much as travel – which used to be my only real source of happiness, as weird as it sounds. anyway. love the matching wine rack and coffee bar! so cute.
It's so funny you posted the coffee bar/wine car/bar cart debate here, because we are in the same boat! I love how happy that area is — even just looking at the photo, I smiled! I agree, you need to make all aspects of your life happy. I loved this post Chelsea 🙂
Love. Even though we're still renting, I've been trying to do the exact same thing. No use not loving where you live!
This is PERFECT! So… we did a coffee station in our kitchen several months ago (I think I posted about it in April) and it is seriously my happy place. Sometimes I just smile in that general direction…. haha! Love yours!
Perfect! I love the yellow. That is the sweetest thing that he stained the wine holder 🙂
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I LOVE this and want it in my house immediately, if not sooner!