Traditional Classic Styled White kitchen- 99% finished!
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Comments (21)Thanks so much everyone for the kind comments! I will definitely do this space justice and use a real camera and post pictures once we are all done. Just to quickly follow up with some questions: -hardware is from hickory hardware in polished nickel...bought at our local home depot which happens to be a superstore, know reg. Home depots don't seem to carry......can go online to hickory hardware to see who sells locally too.... -dining table and chairs crate and barrel ( love the glass top, kid friendly an bein a small space opens the room; once I save me money hopin to get a colorful rug to warm up the space-in love with the mandala rug in blue from Madeline weinrib at ABC carpet and home -the range hood I had custom designed from our cabinet maker, plain and fancy. Wanted a bit formal because we tore down wall between dining room and galley kitchen to make one big space and you can see the hood when open front door so wanted something pretty and inviting... All the Best, Rosie -dining pendant is Pearson pendant from restoration hardware...See MoreMaydl's 99% Finished Kitchen
Comments (29)Ramses, I so appreciate your response. I never would have thought of a pashmina shawl as a table covering. What a great idea! Right now we're using eight wooden placemats side by side on top of a sheet of plastic--it looks barely OK to me, yet guests are intrigued by the look, go figure. We're in the market for an oriental rug for the sunroom, and the colors of that rug will drive the "palette" for the rest of the furniture and window coverings still to be purchased. Your idea about the shawl could be perfect to carry out the theme of the oriental rug. Thanks! Missopinion47: I don't think your question is off topic because, after all, you're asking about the decoration of our new kitchen! Most of the items in our collection of Middle Eastern metalwork (what's in the kitchen is just a fraction) are Persian in origin. We're uncertain of the ages of the pieces, so some might be old enough to actually be "Persian", and others are probably just new enough to be Iranian. On many of them there is calligraphy in Farsi or Arabic that we have yet to have translated. We also have pieces from Syria, Tunisia, and Morocco, and maybe some other countries we're not even aware of. Very few of them were purchased overseas. We bought most of them at antiques stores all over the United States. Also in our collection are lots more metal trays like the ones hanging on the walls in the kitchen, as well as inlaid wooden boxes, and Persian miniature paintings. We started collecting these items because we felt more comfortable with them than with more mainstream paintings or sculpture....See MoreA Thank You, and my 99 % finished kitchen
Comments (35)Yea! The link worked. I don't know why I found it so hard, but it wasn't. Thanks, rhome410. Thanks to everyone for all your nice and supportive comments. It means a lot, coming from this very kitchen-savvy audience! chinchette: I have a correction about my hardware. They are RH's Duluth, but they're brushed nickel, not polished chrome, as I said. After a while you make so many decisions you get your BNs confused with your ORBs. We were originally going to go with cup pulls for the drawers, thinking they were more traditional, but turns out they didn't fit the top drawers, as they have teeny raised panels. But I think I love these more. I think they help to marry traditional with clean contemporary styling, the look we eventually were trying for, more than the cup pulls would have. They kind of echo the handles on the fridge, range and DW, a happy design coincidence. vwhippiechick: I was concerned too about exposed bulbs with the island pendants, but that actually turns out not to be an issue. When we're at the island, we're either working away on a meal, and you need the intense light, or I'm having my morning coffee, reading the paper, when my aging eyes also appreciate the brighter light. If we're having a casual meal, we might not turn them on. Everyone here has said it, and it's so true: Providing a variety of lighting sources, and plenty of them, is one of the big bonuses of renovating a kitchen. I feel like a set director every time I walk into the kitchen, as I decide what mood I want to set with the lighting. I love being in my new kitchen. Oh, and divamum, I totally sympathize with your paint color dilemma. We also had about five or six color samples on our kitchen wall before we decided. I don't have any real advice, cuz I find paint decisions really vexing. I tend toward the beiges, and my husband tries to get me more into colors, especially because our house can be very dark with all the dark woodwork. The way we do it is this, I pick about 10 colors I think work, and put them on, and ask him to quickly tell me which one works. What helps us is that in the two years we've been in this house, we've had to pick paint colors for basically every single room and hallways, usually on a deadline, so we weren't able to agonize for too long. We actually work best under pressure. Good luck with your choices. Your kitchen is looking great....See MoreFinished kitchen reveal - classic white, black, brass & marble
Comments (59)Thanks for the kind words and kitchen love, everyone! oakparker22 We used Amish Custom Kitchens. Very happy with them! nosoccermom I'm sorry but I'm not at home this week, so I can't answer any dimension questions at the moment. But in terms of layout, I wouldn't change a thing. Thought maybe it would be annoying to have the fridge a little farther away from the work area, but it's not an issue at all. katieleabrown86 The black is not hard to keep clean. Sometimes crumbs do show a little more, but that's easy enough to fix. Because of the leathered finish, streaks don't show at all....See Morestarpooh
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