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New home- new kitchen pics.

12 years ago

Our custom build was completed last month, and I am really enjoying my new kitchen. As I worked with the interior decorator and the kitchen designer, I objected to almost everything they suggested, so I just knew my new kitchen would be a disaster. Our last home had a great kitchen, also new, with excellently crafted white cabinets. I was so tired of looking at the white cabinets and wanted to go a little darker. Well I went a LOT darker, and much to my amazement, I love how all the different elements came together.

Altough it is a smaller kitchen, we were able to pull off cooking a Christmas dinner for 14 in about 5 hours, and quickly found out that 2 cooks work great in this kitchen!

Countertops: Giallo Fiorito

Cabinet color: Ebony

Wall color: Sherwin Williams Bamboo Shoot

Backsplash is a tumbled tile, I don't have the specifics on hand.

Floors: Somerset wood floors in Natural color

Appliances: Kenmore Elite to include convection microwave

Sink: 16 gauge Ticor S305D

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motherof3sons
12 years ago
Lovely! Congratulations on your new kitchen. Your comment that you knew it would be a disaster hit home with me. Enjoy your new space!
Jody
12 years ago
Absolutely gorgeous kitchen and dining area. Love your granite with the dark cabinets .... and also loving the wall color. A very *happy* kitchen to work in ;) Your kitchen puts a smile on my face!!!

jody
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First of all congratulations on the completion of your build. I agree with the PP, take your time. I completely remember the excitement and wanting to do everything right away. We moved into our custom built home 3 years ago. We are just now getting to the point where the key homes feel complete: family room, library, kitchen, dining, master suite. I haven't even touched the basement or secondary bedrooms yet. The few items I rushed to purchase in the first 6 months are the only ones that I regret. The idea of an interior designer is a good one. Most will give you an overall plan and you can purchase pieces over time. Here are my ideas: Do not touch the formal dining right now. Iwould focus on the family room. I'm not sure a sectional will work bc you have traffic coming into the family room for all sides. I would probably do a sofa facing the fireplace and chaise along the window wall. Do you really want a rug under you kitchen table? For your family room, start with the rug and then pull your colors from there. I think 9x12 would be a good size. Your home is quite traditional but it seems like you lean towards a transitional style. I second some of the vendors suggested so far: crate and barrel room and board west elm Mitchell Gold Lee industries Oly studio Ethan Allen Ballard design Also, look at vintage/antique pieces. Especially for case goods like end tables, sideboards. 20K is a good budget. Personally, I tend to mix high and low. If you have a few key splurge pieces, it will raise the whole room to higher level. Good luck and enjoy the process!
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My suggestion is that you combine the living room and dining room functions, but keep the kichen separate. Don't get yourself wrapped up in trying to replicate all the features of much-larger spaces. A dining room table can be easily intergrated into a living room and do double duty there as long as you don't try to copy the big table with chairs all around it plus sideboard. Think of a table (with leaves) that generally sits behind a sofa, for instance. Some times it's a sofa table, some times it's a dining table. The chairs need not stand around it all day long. They can be spread around the room, or even in different rooms if you don't use all of them for every day meals. The sideboard function can be handled by a cupboard, or a hutch, with some books as well as linens, serving pieces, and other DR accoutremnts. Bookshelves that are wonderful in a livng room are also fab for the walls of the DR space. You may be able to get a few seating postions (one or two) at a small island in the kitchen for those times when you have a kitchen companion hanging out with you, or when you're just grabbing a quick snack. I would concentrate on making the kitchen the most efficient and highly functional that your space allows. Since this is working area, function will really make or break the space. Think of your downstairs as having two rooms: a sitting room with the dining table in it AND a well-designed kitchen with a great place for another person to hang out with the cook. "Opening up" the rooms is a currently a popular trend, but its pouplarlity will wane (like all highly sought after and endlessly copied things). Meanwhile if you have made major structural changes in your building you will be stuck with them. Save yourself angst and money and make two great rooms -- you'll be way ahead of the style curve and you'll have two wonderful rooms that really work. Don't worry about "sliders here" or "sliders there" question at this point - think of the rooms' uses and work on those questions first. Once you have that worked out you can see how to integrate the fenestration pattern with what you already have. I think part of the current urge to open up the kitchen to the other rooms is because of the enormous size of most houses. In smaller houses there isn't as much os sense of estrangement between the people sitting in one room and those in another. Don't think you have to copy the "remedy" for the faults of houses that aren't like yours simply because that's all you see in shelter mags. Small houses are special, not the least because they are very human scaled and require you to think very carefully about your space and the choices of how you use it. I suppose you are familiar with the work of Susan Susanka of the Not So Big House fame. If not highly recommend getting her books from your library. She is a master of wonderful, small space planning. Above all else, don;t think you have to rush into a renovation. The most successful ones are those which start with a period of living n the house to see how it feels. This is the standard advice for new owners of old houses, but even less-than-antique houses have much to teach you about how they feel that you can't tell just by walking around in it a few times. Live there for 6 months ot a year -then you'll know what needs to be done and you'll have fewer regreats about your choices. HTH L.
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sixtyohno
12 years ago
The space is so beautifully done. The colors are wonderful and the whole kitchen looks friendly as well as practical. Have a great time in your lovely new kitchen.
nini804
12 years ago
So pretty...everything looks lovely together! Is your hardware Jeffrey Alexnder? I have that style in my master bath! I think it is so pretty!
gr8daygw
12 years ago
Everything is just gorgeous!! I love your dark cabinets and the colors and finishes you have chosen. Thanks for sharing! I enjoyed looking at the photos of your beautiful kitchen!
poohpup
12 years ago
Beautiful! Love the stacked stone and those gorgeous cabinets. Very rich look. I really like the bar stools too. Very similar to ones that I'm considering but I like them better. Can you share more about them? Who makes them, where they were purchased? Thanks! Enjoy your new kitchen!

Demo is 3 weeks from today!
mtnrdredux_gw
12 years ago
I love your wall color with the very dark cabs. Very pretty.
User
12 years ago
Very striking and pretty. I love the color of your cabinets with the counter. I'd love to see the room through the arched doors, the dining room?
tea4all
12 years ago
Lovely kitchen! Your colors are so pleasing together. I love your Somerset wood floors! It must be a joy to work in.
mmhmmgood
12 years ago
Great kitchen! I love the stone on your island - a nice feature. Makes me think of the rugged rockies ... perhaps you live somewhere mountain-y? And as others have said, I like the wall colour with your cabinets. Very comfy and inviting kitchen. Enjoy!
Pcandlyte
Original Author
12 years ago
Thank you all! I've never been much of a cook, but I've been very inspired to cook more often in this kitchen.

Marti8a, the rest of the house is on the builing a home forum under the It's January 2012- How's Your Build Progressing, but I'll add pics of the dining room here. We haven't purchased new furniture for our home yet, and the dining room table and chairs will be purchased eventually.

The stone is Arizona Ledge Stone by Centurion Stone of the Carolinas. We had the stone from the family room fireplace pulled into the kitchen to tie the rooms together and to save money. Originally I had the kitchen designer schedule for beadboard to be put under the bar area to mimic the dining room and tie the dining room and kitchen together, but the beadboard cost double the amount of the stone. So it was a money saving move that worked out and doesn't look like a cost cutter.

Poohpup, I purchased the bar stools about 5 years ago on JCPenny.com. They are counter height and cost around $50-$60 each. I think I paid around $120 including taxes and shipping. They were supposed to be temporary to get us through holiday entertaining, but I liked them enough that they are still with us. They are very durable. They were the closest thing I could find to match the table and chairs that we picked up on the side of the road that you see in the breakfast nook. They get their "aged" look from the awful movers we had during this last move that was government sponsored. Almost all of our furniture was damaged between our last residence a few states away and our new home.

Nini, you are correct about the hardware. I like it so much that I carried them over into the master bathroom too.

MMhmmgood, We are in NC, however we are several hours from the mountains. I love bringing the outdoors in with colors and textures, hence the mountain feel. Plus my favorite colors are green and oranage, fall inspired, and fall reminds me of the beautiful mountain regions of NC.

Dining Room

Fireplace

Here is a link that might be useful: It's January 2012- How's Your Build Progressing
jjdcl
12 years ago
I love it! The stone is wonderful. It would be so functional for us because my three little boys love to swing their legs and kick at my cabinetry as they are sitting on the barstools.
Liz C
3 months ago
Pcandlyte, how are you liking your somerset floors now that its been 11 years? We are looking at installing the same floor & color. Has it held up well?

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