Winter Home Decor Ideas from Goodwill Northern New England: My Thrifted $30 KitchenAid Mixer

If you’re looking for winter home decor ideas that start right in the kitchen, let me introduce you to my newest Goodwill Northern New England find: a white KitchenAid Heavy Duty Series 5-quart stand mixer that I scooped up for just thirty dollars. I spotted her the minute I walked through the doors, plugged her in, watched that mixer whirl to life, and knew she was coming home to our Maine kitchen. In today’s post, I’m sharing how this one thrifted KitchenAid mixer is inspiring a whole season of cozy winter days at home, complete with an easy blueberry muffin mix from Stonewall Kitchen and a few simple styling touches you can try too.

Teaming Up with Goodwill Northern New England for Winter Home Decor Ideas

I’m back with another seasonal collaboration with Goodwill Northern New England, this time sharing winter home decor ideas that start right in the kitchen. If you’re new here, Goodwill Northern New England is a network of Goodwill stores throughout Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont that support local communities while giving secondhand treasures a new life at home. Over the past year, I’ve shopped their stores for spring, summer, and fall decor, and today I’m taking you along on my latest winter stop at Goodwill NNE in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on this first day of winter. Get Directions

If you missed the earlier posts in this series, you can catch my spring, summer, and fall Goodwill home decor ideas here.

The $30 Goodwill KitchenAid Mixer That Sparked My Winter Home Decor Ideas

I barely made it through the doors of Goodwill Northern New England in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, before I saw her. Sitting on the shelf in the housewares aisle was a white KitchenAid Heavy Duty Series 5-quart stand mixer, complete with its heavy-duty stainless bowl and a handful of attachments. The price tag read thirty dollars. Knowing these mixers often sell for well over three hundred dollars, I did a double-take, checked the tag again, and flagged down an associate to ask the only question that mattered: Does it work?

She pointed me to the outlet, so I plugged it in, turned the dial, and watched the mixer quietly whirl to life. The head locked in place, the speeds shifted smoothly, and everything sounded exactly the way a hardworking KitchenAid should. When she reminded me that Goodwill Northern New England offers a seven-day return policy on electronics, that sealed the deal. I was so thrilled with this one thrifted KitchenAid mixer that I did not buy a single other thing on that visit. Now it is sitting on our old wooden countertops in our Maine home’s country-style kitchen, just waiting for the next snowy day and a batch of blueberry muffins to kick off our winter home decor ideas.

A Stonewall Kitchen Blueberry Muffin Mix To Match

On my way home to Maine, in the middle of all the holiday hustle, I swung into Stonewall Kitchen and picked up one of their blueberry muffin gift bags to celebrate my KitchenAid score. Inside was a blueberry muffin mix, their iconic wild Maine blueberry jam, and the cutest little blue spatula. On the next snowy day, I’ll be whipping up easy, cozy blueberry muffins with that mix in my thrifted KitchenAid mixer, all Maine-inspired.

Winter Home Decor Ideas: Styling A Thrifted KitchenAid Mixer In Our Maine Kitchen

There is something about a white KitchenAid mixer that feels right at home in a vintage Maine kitchen. Once I cleaned up this thirty-dollar Goodwill find, I set it on our old wooden countertops and started building a simple winter vignette around it. I stacked a few favorite cookbooks beside the mixer, including my mother’s well-worn Betty Crocker New Picture Cook Book, a Real Maine Food book, a vintage Nova Scotia find called Lobster Rolls and Blueberry Pie, and a Breakfast and Brunch collection that feels just right for slow winter mornings.

To bring in more of that cozy, collected look, I tucked the books next to our bread box, then added the Stonewall Kitchen blueberry muffin mix, wild Maine blueberry jam, and the little blue spatula right in front of the mixer. The whole scene sits against a backdrop that looks into our dining room with the pewter hutch and old-fashioned details, so even before I bake a thing, this thrifted KitchenAid is already working as winter home decor. It feels like a tiny winter baking station on the counter, ready for the next snowy day.

Thrifted Winter Kitchen Decor Ideas To Pair With A Mixer

If you want to create a similar winter kitchen moment, here are a few easy things to hunt for at Goodwill Northern New England:

Mix a few of these pieces in with your own mixer, a favorite baking mix, and a pretty jam jar, and you have a cozy winter home decor idea that is both practical and pretty on the counter.

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Winter Home Decor Ideas in the Kitchen: Blueberry Muffins on a Snowy Day

When the forecast called for snow in coastal Maine, it felt like the perfect excuse to really put my thirty-dollar Goodwill Northern New England KitchenAid mixer to work. On one of my Antiquing in New England stops at The Willows, I had picked up a vintage muffin pan to go with it, so I grabbed unsalted butter, a stack of paper cupcake liners, and my Stonewall Kitchen blueberry muffin mix and jam, and settled in for a quiet winter afternoon in the kitchen.

I added the ingredients to the heavy-duty bowl, clipped on the attachments, flipped the switch, and this thrifted mixer purred like a dream. It mixed the batter better than the one I bought retail for our Vermont home, and I am still in disbelief that this beauty came home with me for thirty dollars.

Warm blueberry muffins coming out of the oven made the whole house smell like winter comfort. I tested them with a simple toothpick, then moved from the kitchen into the dining room to set a small breakfast table for one before my drive back to Vermont.

I stacked the muffins on the glass cake stand I thrifted from Goodwill Northern New England over the summer, paired it with my Bennington Pottery that I once gifted my mother on trips from Vermont to Maine, lit a pewter candle, and set out one of my brass whale knife rests from a favorite little shop at Mount Snow.

It is the simplest winter home decor idea, really: a few thrifted pieces, a plate of blueberry muffins, and a cozy table waiting in the morning light. All of it started with one thirty-dollar KitchenAid mixer and a snowy Maine day, and I will be enjoying these small winter moments here before family arrives and I head back to Vermont.

Winter Home Decor Ideas Worth Thrifting For

At the end of the day, this whole winter home decor story started with a quick stop at Goodwill Northern New England and a thirty-dollar KitchenAid mixer that I still cannot believe I found. A vintage muffin pan from The Willows, Maine’s largest flea market, a few well-loved cookbooks, a glass cakestand, Stonewall Kitchen blueberry mix, and a simple breakfast table were all it took to turn a snowy Maine day into something warm and memorable. These are the winter home decor ideas I love most. They are practical, a little nostalgic, and built from pieces that already have a story to tell.

If you are dreaming up your own winter home decor ideas, I hope this encourages you to check the aisles at Goodwill Northern New England, scoop up a few vintage kitchen finds, and let them inspire a cozy morning at home. You can find more of my seasonal Goodwill Northern New England posts here, along with plenty of Antiquing in New England adventures and simple vintage decorating ideas to enjoy all winter long.

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