Please DO Eat the Daisies!

Please, please don't eat the daisies
Don't eat the daisies please, please
S'posin' it showers
While you're eatin' flowers
The hours are wastin' away
~William "By" Dunham

Come into our kitchen!  I want to show you how I covered up these hideous lovely tile squares in our (Mine for Now) kitchen.

Now you see them...

Before

Ain't they jest beautimous?

Now you don't!

After

Before

Please don't eat the daisies!

After

Seagrass

Each $5 sample of rattan, etc. was bought on Guam in 2008 and is framed sturdily around and over wood.  They came from a rattan/wicker furniture store.  Furniture shopping?  Select the style you like, then from the samples, choose the type of weave/finish you want.  Neat, huh?

Banana Leaf

I actually made a "headboard" with all nine of these for the guest room in our previous house.  It was a cool "headboard," too!  (Sorry; couldn't find a photo!)  I just hung them in three rows of three.

Water Hyacinth and Rattan

The sample, below right, had to be hung wonky because that's the way the tile was laid on the wall.  Oh, well.  Works for me!

left, Seagrass

right, Seagrass and Banana Leaf

These babies sat in a stack here in the Loop until one afternoon before Thanksgiving I got an AHA! moment and was inspired to hang them using plate hangers I already had, too. Hung in a diamond pattern like the tile, they did the trick!

left, Seagrass and Banana Leaf

Rattan

White Banana Leaf

Peel Rattan

(the latter three below)

They add tropical textures that delight and are easy to maintain.  Whip meringue or splatter chocolate cake batter on 'em?  Take 'em off the sticky wall hooks, rinse 'em off and hang 'em back on the hooks!  They're au natural!

Chalk up another one for shopping the house!

Linking at Linda's Coastal Charm's Nifty Thrifty Tuesday No. 97.