Favorite: Backsplash. It has glass and stone. Plus my marble toped cart. Least: Gallery style kitchen. I had to place the cart pushed up against a wall instead of using it as an island.
I'm not a fan of the stove tops in the islands. I would dirty up the counter that's centrally displayed cooking on it. I tried to look for my ideal kitchen but too many pics. Did anyone watch Sarah's House on hghtv? Or Candice? I loved their design aesthetic.
julie524 my mom's old kitchen had a walk in pantry. I loved it. I guess it's not a modern concept for reno's or usually not space effective?
Well, our old house was built in 2008 and it had one, but the kitchen was kind of tucked back in a corner too, and it was a 2 story so there was more room on each floor to play with. This new house is a ranch style with basement, and is the big open great room concept... so there just wasn't room. The builder had an option where we could have put it in that back corner of the kitchen but I decided it would waste too much space and look funny. That is why we added that pantry cabinet by the fridge though, with the microwave in it. I wanted my range hood instead of a micro hood, and I wanted a pantry, so that was our solution.
Post by spicysalmonroll on Oct 8, 2015 12:51:30 GMT -5
julie524, Yea we have a closet right outside the kitchen 3 feet from the fridge that is supposed to be a coat closet but I already made DH buy shelving so I can make it a pantry. Won't be a walk in but still good enough for me! There is a closet right next to the garage entrance so that will make more sense to be our coat closet.
We have a tiny/kinda shitty kitchen, but we're in a small apartment so it makes sense. One day I'll have a big kitchen where we don't have to dance around each other whenever we're both in it.
My dream kitchen would be something with white cabinets and drawers, dark grey granite, a nice tile back splash, stainless steel appliances, and dark wood floors. Something like this
I love all these pictures. Our kitchen is okay--tons of cabinets (more than we need, really) and lots of counter space.
We want to open it up a bit, so it looks into the dining room. I'd love an island but we'd never have enough room. I also want the "drawer cabinets" or whatever they're called. Kitchens I like:
Post by BabyStandish on Oct 8, 2015 14:08:00 GMT -5
I hate our kitchen. It's on the list of possible renovations, but we will probably move before that happens. It's 90's style light wood, white laminate counters that curve up and turn into the backsplash. It's weird. The counters get easily stained and I have to use bleach cleaner to get them out. It's at least open concept into the living room.
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I am so obsessed with the tile that looks like woodgrain laid in a herringbone pattern. One day...
LOVE THIS. Also, would love to have an outlet in the floor. So handy.
Edit: Question for all- would it be possible to pull this off on a second floor? We have very dark laminate that we dislike because it is so hard to keep clean. We have carpet on the stairs and the 2nd floor that we also hate, because ew, carpet. We are unsure if we can match the downstairs laminate upstairs, so, could we completely deviate and go with something like this? If so, how would we transition? It would be super affordable for us because my dad is a mason. I grew up w/ all tile, so it isn't weird to me, but I completely get that it is isn't everyone's cup of tea.
Post by samanthasays on Oct 8, 2015 14:31:50 GMT -5
lgraceh I think this would totally work upstairs. I can picture it in my house, and I would LOVE it. We have a loft at the top of the stairs, and it would look stunning with this floor. I hate hard floor under the bed, so I would need a big ass rug. I think the stairs would have to be the material from the first floor, I cant picture this material working so well with stairs. If you do it I want pics
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Post by mustloveerica on Oct 8, 2015 14:53:04 GMT -5
If you want tile in bedrooms it would be fairly easy to transition. If you left the stairs and I'm assuming a hallway the same material as downstairs your transitions would look something like ours. DH and I tiled 400 square feet of our first floor. There is hardwood in some rooms and a different kind of tile in the bathroom. We may redo the bathroom too but for now we left it and just put a threshold strip down. They even make thresholds for different height floors. For example, our hardwood is almost a quarter inch lower that the tile so we have a height change threshold.
We also did a herringbone pattern but straight instead of at an angle.
lgraceh I think this would totally work upstairs. I can picture it in my house, and I would LOVE it. We have a loft at the top of the stairs, and it would look stunning with this floor. I hate hard floor under the bed, so I would need a big ass rug. I think the stairs would have to be the material from the first floor, I cant picture this material working so well with stairs. If you do it I want pics
samanthasays, Our stairs open into a loft as well. I like the idea of making the rise of the stairs white w/ the tread dark brown to match the current laminate. Maybe do a beige or grey runner as well? I feel like the two-tone/runner combo may help mask and differences in color if we can't find the exact flooring we have downstairs currently. And I agree w/ the rugs!
mustloveerica, I love your tile. Did you guys DIY? It's beautiful!
samanthasays, Our stairs open into a loft as well. I like the idea of making the rise of the stairs white w/ the tread dark brown to match the current laminate. Maybe do a beige or grey runner as well? I feel like the two-tone/runner combo may help mask and differences in color if we can't find the exact flooring we have downstairs currently. And I agree w/ the rugs!
mustloveerica, I love your tile. Did you guys DIY? It's beautiful!
Yes we did it ourselves. I would not recommend. It was really hard back breaking labor and since we both work full time it took us a full month to remove the old ugly yellow tile and put down the new. It's also not perfect and the tiles aren't perfectly even. But it's pretty good for DIYers I think. Our kitchen Reno is the first thing we have hired other people to do. I wasn't all about taking down walls and moving plumbing lines by ourselves.
Ugh. Why did we do that I loved our kitchen soooo much. We gutted the whole thing and redid it ourselves.
Lol. We are building a house right now and we will have white cabinets with light counter top and a dark floor. It will be open to our great room and totally worth it. Comically it is going to basically be the same kitchen you see up there, but bigger, with and island and lighter counter tops. Plus we will be putting up this back splash.
Oh I'm so overwhelmed with all the pretty kitchen pics!! I hate our kitchen with a passion. It's small, has this ugly linoleum floor and...wait for it...bright orange Formica countertops!! I want to knock the wall between it and the kitchen down and redo the whole thing...or move. I do have an island cart thing that I really like and I have a nice fridge I bought when I moved in...unfortunately it doesn't open all the way bc of a wall, sigh. Oh yeah...kitchen also opens onto our deck so the dogs run straight into the kitchen from outside and leave paw prints on said linoleum...double sigh. Did I mention the orange Formica? Ok, good.
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Oh I'm so overwhelmed with all the pretty kitchen pics!! I hate our kitchen with a passion. It's small, has this ugly linoleum floor and...wait for it...bright orange Formica countertops!! I want to knock the wall between it and the kitchen down and redo the whole thing...or move. I do have an island cart thing that I really like and I have a nice fridge I bought when I moved in...unfortunately it doesn't open all the way bc of a wall, sigh. Oh yeah...kitchen also opens onto our deck so the dogs run straight into the kitchen from outside and leave paw prints on said linoleum...double sigh. Did I mention the orange Formica? Ok, good.
Oh I'm so overwhelmed with all the pretty kitchen pics!! I hate our kitchen with a passion. It's small, has this ugly linoleum floor and...wait for it...bright orange Formica countertops!! I want to knock the wall between it and the kitchen down and redo the whole thing...or move. I do have an island cart thing that I really like and I have a nice fridge I bought when I moved in...unfortunately it doesn't open all the way bc of a wall, sigh. Oh yeah...kitchen also opens onto our deck so the dogs run straight into the kitchen from outside and leave paw prints on said linoleum...double sigh. Did I mention the orange Formica? Ok, good.
I have a passion for orange Formica.
Well by all means...you're welcome to mine. The funny thing is when I was doing the home inspection my grandma was visiting and I said...the first thing I'm doing when I move in is change those countertops. She laughed and said, I bet you'll live here for ten years and never change the countertops...I'm on year five so far. Wise woman.
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TTC since July 2014. CP March 2015. IVF #1 March 2016, 5R, 3M, 2F with ICSI. Transferred 2 on day 3. CP. Surprise BFP and then CP August 2016 (prep cycle for IVF). IVF #2: zero eggs retrieved IVF #3: 6R, 5M, 5F, 3 (2 8A and 1 11A) transferred, one "B" graded embryo frozen on day 5. BFP (at home 7dp3dt, confirmed 14dp3dt with 1552 beta) and U/S at 5w5d, 2 sacs and 2 yolks!
teraiin, I had those in an apartment. I absolutely hated the doors.
littlelion - We made the walk in pantry work in our house. I insisted it had to be there.
I know, aren't they awful? MH has suggested either painting or putting handles on the doors.
I don't know dude, I think they just are ugly and suck. I love the size of them so I wouldn't be against switching out the doors, but I feel like it would be hard to find something that looks good/matches?
teraiin, I had those in an apartment. I absolutely hated the doors.
littlelion - We made the walk in pantry work in our house. I insisted it had to be there.
I know, aren't they awful? MH has suggested either painting or putting handles on the doors.
I don't know dude, I think they just are ugly and suck. I love the size of them so I wouldn't be against switching out the doors, but I feel like it would be hard to find something that looks good/matches?
The wooden part was constantly falling off of the laminate part, no matter how well maintenance glued it back on. I was so glad to leave those behind. I seriously doubt that you could find something that's pre-fab. You might be able to get some if you went with custom doors, but I would then prefer to just spend all the money and get new cabinets the general size of your current ones with any improvements you wanted to make.
I know, aren't they awful? MH has suggested either painting or putting handles on the doors.
I don't know dude, I think they just are ugly and suck. I love the size of them so I wouldn't be against switching out the doors, but I feel like it would be hard to find something that looks good/matches?
The wooden part was constantly falling off of the laminate part, no matter how well maintenance glued it back on. I was so glad to leave those behind. I seriously doubt that you could find something that's pre-fab. You might be able to get some if you went with custom doors, but I would then prefer to just spend all the money and get new cabinets the general size of your current ones with any improvements you wanted to make.
Late to this party, but we moved about 1 1/2 years ago and we gutted the kitchen two months after we moved in (which wasn't soon enough for me). Appliances were in weird places (even blocking access to some cabinets), not enough lighting, bad back splash, yellow oak cabinets and a laminate countertop that stained really easily. There were TWO LAYERS of vinyl floors that we had to remove.
We did the demo ourselves to save money and we let our friend who is a contractor do the rest. It took about two months from start to finish but we had a usable basic shell after about 6 weeks.
New cabinets (we took the cabinets all the way to the top of the 8 ft ceilings), counter, sink, appliances (including venting the microwave exhaust to the outside), new tile floor, under cabinet lighting, soft close doors/drawers, new wood trim, new pot lights in the ceiling and a new table and chairs. Because of the layout we also put the new tile and wood trim in the laundry room/mud room off the kitchen and in the downstairs powder room. Since we were redoing the tile we spent the extra $500ish to replace the toilet, vanity, lights and hardware in the bathroom as well.
It cost more money than I wanted to spend but my only regret is that we cut out the in floor heating to save money. We are getting ready to renovate our master bathroom this winter and even though the heated floors are going to be about 10% of our total budget I'm NOT cutting that out. This is our forever house and while I don't want to waste money I don't want to regret renovations because if we had just spent a little more money it would have been perfect.
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