A POOPIE redo with an extra bonus

This is my first attempt to replace a POOPIE, I've got so many it's overwhelming. I decided to give the entire hutch a new look, ya know how one thing leads to another, and another...

So outside I'm taking the fake ivy and grapes out of their basket that they been in for many years.

Lo & behold I find the missing piece of a bracket that I've been searching for since we moved back home after Katrina...3+ years. I realized once I saw the oak leaves what happened. We hurriedly had to move every bit of salvageable STUFF out of this house while the house was open to workers rebuilding. Things got piled on top of each other. We lived at MIL's, all my STUFF, JUNK, and LAMPS took up every bit of space inside and in her garage. This basket was in her garage for all those months, oak leaves blew in that winter.

I'm so glad to find this. Now I can fix and find a new home for these brackets. If I could only find the 12 Waterford Linen place mats that disappeared. I think hubby threw them in trash heap. I'll never forgive him for that, they could have been cleaned.

So I threw some white paint on the hutch and a little red on the backboard, put away the pink & green plates. I bought 2 little curly-edge ferns. Trying to find the right container to keep them in so they'll be easy to water.

Below won't work: Ohh...this pic is so whiteish and bright....not what it really looks like...

This container is the perfect size but the black and gold just doesn't look right. Thought about painted it white, but I really like the black and gold in a different room. Just have to keep looking.
Below pic is more true in color.... sorry for my bad photo skills!

The red sure gives the kitchen some spark. My kitchen is so bright, especially in fall and winter as sun gets higher. I've got to do something about window treatments. Ugghh! the to-do list gets longer and longer!