Post by mustloveerica on Oct 8, 2015 8:09:43 GMT -5
A and I are in the middle of renovating our kitchen. All of our cabinets are in now and I'm so in love. We used to have a tiny galley kitchen with no counter space and now we have a very large kitchen with tons of storage and an added 9 feet of counter to the galley area. I can't decide what my favorite part is. It might be the rearranged appliances (the refrigerator used to be on the end so all you could see of the kitchen was a ginormous black box), it might be the frosted glass uppers because they're so classy looking, it might even be the pull out dog food cabinet that holds 50 pounds of dog food.
What's your favorite part of your kitchen?
If you could change anything about it what would it be?
Post by spicysalmonroll on Oct 8, 2015 8:19:59 GMT -5
That sounds awesome!! Love that you have the dog food drawer, I've been trying to figure out where to put the giant cat food bin. Our starter home for the last few years had 3 cabinets, no drawers, no dishwasher, and a broken 1950's built in oven. So yea, we just sold that house and bought our forever home and even though the kitchen is builder basic it seems AMAZING compared to what we had!! I love the whole thing! Eventually I want new counters and tile backsplash.
Post by ♪♫choppinbroccoli♫♪ on Oct 8, 2015 8:25:37 GMT -5
I love having an island. Although it tends to hold mail, keys, and other random things a lot, it comes in sooooo handy when Thanksgiving comes around (or any get together).
That sounds so exciting mustloveerica! You must AW pics when you're done.
I think I've shared this before but my favorite part of our kitchen is our new countertops. We got quartz countertops in June and I looove them. We are planning on painting the kitchen this winter and I can't wait.
My dream kitchen would be something like this- lots of white cabinets and lots of natural light.
I love having an island. Although it tends to hold mail, keys, and other random things a lot, it comes in sooooo handy when Thanksgiving comes around (or any get together).
Also, slow-close drawers are the shiiiiit.
We got slow close drawers and cabinets!! Love! I play with them a lot. I like watching the cabinets close themselves haha.
Post by mustloveerica on Oct 8, 2015 8:30:31 GMT -5
pinkcat is that by any chance Quartz Reflections counters? It looks very much like what we are getting. I'm glad I'm not the only one that likes the white on white look :-)
Post by requiressnacks on Oct 8, 2015 8:32:16 GMT -5
I fucking HATE my kitchen. There is a remodel in my future, if we don't spend all of our cashola trying to make a baby.
Let me list some of the the ways why I hate my kitchen: 1. The cabinets are original from 1952 (for serious) and DH bought the house before he knew me and just painted them. They barely work. They don't shut. 2. Someone who didn't know what they were doing (ahem, DH and DH's BFF) did a shitty tile job. The tile is crooked and they chose white grout. WHO PICKS WHITE GROUT? 3. There was a wall oven removed and never replaced. I just have a giant hole in the wall that I keep my coffee maker in. Very unsightly.
I am jealous of all the nice cabinets and islands. I hope to have that soon!
So jealous of the dog food holder, mustloveerica! I love that our giant island has plug-ins. So handy when using the griddle or setting up a buffet with all my crockpots. I HATE our dark cabinets. They look gorgeous for roughly .09 seconds before they are all smudged. My dream kitchen looks a whole lot like pinkcat's. WHITE!
mustloveerica, yes, white on white is a great combo It's called Silastone and the color was Stellar Stone. I can't wait to see pictures of yours!
Ah yeah I have a sample of the Stellar Stone. The Quartz Reflections is very similar but more flecks of the glass in it. I can't wait. They came and templates yesterday so we should have counters in a week or so!
I fucking HATE my kitchen. There is a remodel in my future, if we don't spend all of our cashola trying to make a baby.
Let me list some of the the ways why I hate my kitchen: 1. The cabinets are original from 1952 (for serious) and DH bought the house before he knew me and just painted them. They barely work. They don't shut. 2. Someone who didn't know what they were doing (ahem, DH and DH's BFF) did a shitty tile job. The tile is crooked and they chose white grout. WHO PICKS WHITE GROUT? 3. There was a wall oven removed and never replaced. I just have a giant hole in the wall that I keep my coffee maker in. Very unsightly.
I am jealous of all the nice cabinets and islands. I hope to have that soon!
Your kitchen sounds like how ours was originally. The cabinets were from the 70s and they were plastic on the inside. Yellow plastic!! The drawers always fell in and the shelves cracked if you put something heavy on them. DH wanted to just painted them and I was all hheeellllll no we are ripping that shit out.
I fucking HATE my kitchen. There is a remodel in my future, if we don't spend all of our cashola trying to make a baby.
Let me list some of the the ways why I hate my kitchen: 1. The cabinets are original from 1952 (for serious) and DH bought the house before he knew me and just painted them. They barely work. They don't shut. 2. Someone who didn't know what they were doing (ahem, DH and DH's BFF) did a shitty tile job. The tile is crooked and they chose white grout. WHO PICKS WHITE GROUT? 3. There was a wall oven removed and never replaced. I just have a giant hole in the wall that I keep my coffee maker in. Very unsightly.
I am jealous of all the nice cabinets and islands. I hope to have that soon!
Your kitchen sounds like how ours was originally. The cabinets were from the 70s and they were plastic on the inside. Yellow plastic!! The drawers always fell in and the shelves cracked if you put something heavy on them. DH wanted to just painted them and I was all hheeellllll no we are ripping that shit out.
RIGHT?! At some point there is no painting of the cabinets. I get that it is a cost-effective upgrade, but there is no reason my shitty, original cabinets should have been salvaged. They are terrible!
My kitchen is blah. Nothing particularly special about it. We did put in a gas line when we renovated the tenants floor below us so we could ditch our electric stove, so that was nice. Nothing beats cooking with actual flame.
Also, we're currently downgrading (to upgrade...) because we bought another house. The one we're moving into isn't as fixed up as our current house is, but it's got more expansion potential. Re-doing the kitchen is lower on our list of priorities because we have a whole empty 3rd floor walk up that we want to turn into a master/en suite and additional bedroom first. *sigh* we'll get there eventually...
In the meantime, here's what I'd like my future kitchen to be like:
Post by spicysalmonroll on Oct 8, 2015 8:41:27 GMT -5
requiressnacks, that sounds identical to the kitchen in the house we just sold! 1950 knotty pine cabinets painted grey that never closed properly, and a broken wall oven that we didn't remove for that exact reason of it just leaving a hole lol. We got real good at using the grill and crockpot hahah
requiressnacks, that sounds identical to the kitchen in the house we just sold! 1950 knotty pine cabinets painted grey that never closed properly, and a broken wall oven that we didn't remove for that exact reason of it just leaving a hole lol. We got real good at using the grill and crockpot hahah
So you were able to sell the house without upgrading it? This give me hope.
requiressnacks, that sounds identical to the kitchen in the house we just sold! 1950 knotty pine cabinets painted grey that never closed properly, and a broken wall oven that we didn't remove for that exact reason of it just leaving a hole lol. We got real good at using the grill and crockpot hahah
So you were able to sell the house without upgrading it? This give me hope.
My FIL does construction as a side job so he actually ripped out the oven and custom made doors for that hole to be a cabinet, and we lost the existing lower cabinets to a traditional oven/ stove. But he did that just for us to list and sell the house, we didn't even get to enjoy living with it. We knew our house was at a low price point since it was a 2 bedroom in a bad school district so it wasn't worth replacing the entire kitchen. But yea, after he did that he replaced the 50's mint green bathroom tiles- it sold in 3 days!
I love that one wall of my kitchen is ax-hewn timber. The cabinets themselves are ugly (too much wood IMO) but I have lots of storage. I would love to stain them a darker brown to match my dining set and redo the countertops white if we were staying in the house. Also our floors are ugly but I have no idea what I'd replace them with. sorry mobile - I know these will be huge.
Part of our house is 1900s square timber, they built and upper floor, basement, and addition onto it. There's only a couple rooms that you can't see the timber
Post by thelittleredm on Oct 8, 2015 9:22:59 GMT -5
Favorite part: I love the lighting. All our other rentals had crappy kitchen lighting.
Changes: Lots lol There is quite a bit of cabinet space but the pantries barely have any shelves which sucks. And there are only four drawers and only two are deep enough to hold much.
Hi. I'm new here. We built our house new this year so our kitchen is "done", but one thing I wish we could have fit in was a walk-in pantry. Our old house had one and I miss it. My favorite thing is my vented hood over the stove. I love to cook but before our hood was just a recirculating one and always smoked up the house if I was making steak or something like that. I also like my quartz countertops and 2 ovens in the range.
Hopefully the picture will show up... it was from before we moved in.
I also forgot to add that I love white kitchens. But, they are not popular here... white cabinets were very expensive, even more than the walnut ones we picked. And while we plan on staying in the house a long time, we did still try to pick things that would help with resale just in case.
Hi. I'm new here. We built our house new this year so our kitchen is "done", but one thing I wish we could have fit in was a walk-in pantry. Our old house had one and I miss it. My favorite thing is my vented hood over the stove. I love to cook but before our hood was just a recirculating one and always smoked up the house if I was making steak or something like that. I also like my quartz countertops and 2 ovens in the range.
Hopefully the picture will show up... it was from before we moved in.
I both love and hate my kitchen. I LOVE the space, my island, the way it opens into the diningroom with the big bay windows. I love the layout. I even don't mind the counters (although they are dated looking...)
What I hate is my cupboards. One of the previous owners must have gone to a liquidation sale or something because I literally have the same cupboards in the kitchen, laundry room, and both bathrooms. They're white with wood trim and just look old and dated. I love the size of them. Just not the doors. LOL
NOT MY KITCHEN: But pretty similar to the cabinets I have
Post by samanthasays on Oct 8, 2015 10:39:41 GMT -5
pinkcat I love the cat butt photo bomb! And your dream kitchen is the same as my dream kitchen! I literally think that is one of the pics I have on my Kitchen Ideas Pinterest board!
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