Our Kitchen Remodel Journey
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Long Journey - New Kitchen after 7 years of planning
Comments (22)Hi jojo, we love our OKM stove! The oven has a more stable and accurate temperature than our old one. Each of the burners has a double burner, so it can do both fairly high heat and a low simmer. There are a couple drawbacks though. The ovens are small, and the left "oven" is a height-adjustable broiler rather than a true 2nd oven. The racks are also a spaced too closely together to fit cake pans and pies on the middle 2 racks. The stove also has a little quirk in that the right burners sometimes have a hard time lighting if the oven is on (we use a match or use the left hand burners when that happens). We still love the stove though. It is magnificent and everything about it (the knobs, the doors) feels so solid. One thing that is helpful is that there are a lot of repair folk in our area that specialize in these old stoves, and a wonderful man checked it out and adjusted the burners for us when we installed it. I might be more reluctant to get one if that were not the case....See MoreMy Kitchen Facelift Journey
Comments (150)Greenhaven, I think it depends on how you grow up. My dad was a jack of all trades because his dad was that way. Well long story short I was a big tomboy and tagged along with many of my dad's jobs (metal fabrication, machine fixing, electrical, plumbing, small building jobs like decks and garages. Also at home I was the one that helped him bleed the breaks on his old 1952 1 ton box truck. I also helped him rotate the tires, change fluids and general maintenance. I was also in awe when he had to get out his engine lift (doesn't every one have one?) to put a new engine in his old truck. DH is also very handy because he grew up on a small farm and learned woodworking from his grandpa. I even felt competent enough the other day to fix my leaky S trap all by myself. I fixed up the front porch on our old house (have to sand again and paint since winter came early last fall. :( It will be pretty when I finish, and I can transplant my little seedlings outside. I agree with everyone else though that learning to be handy seems to be a lost art, and I told DH we will have to teach little DD everything we know. It won't be hard though since he loves to help with everything. I am looking forward to your second thread and hope it goes as well as the first one....See MoreHow many kitchen remodels have you done?
Comments (34)5 gut renovated kitchens and 1 facelift. Only 3 'Gardenweb' kitchens though. First gut reno was in my flat in London. Picked everything out of a catalogue, went on vacation for a week and came home to a new kitchen. It was perfect for the flat (condo). Nice maple cabinets, laminate counters, new appliances. Second gut reno was a one bedroom condo in Hoboken. It sold the condo when we decided to buy a FSBO across the street. We asked them to give us a week to sell it. Sold in 2 days. Ahh those were the days. The facelift was the FSBO. New appliances, counters, pulls and backsplash. We moved from that 2 bedroom condo after a year into a new construction 2 bedroom condo and made a bunch of money. We were in the new construction condo 6 months when I started to get a bad feeling about the condo market (2006 I think?), so we sold that condo and made a good profit as we had paid pre construction prices. We bought the row home in 2006 and discovered Gardenweb! That was gut renovation number 3 and our first high end renovation. It took pretty much a year. Then DH was laid off and out of work for 6 months. When he got another job it was a 1.5 - 2 hr commute each way so we sold the house (at a great profit) and moved to Philly. We rented for almost 2 years while the crash was happening and then bought a house in Philly. That was gut renovation number 4. We ended up renting out the Philly house to go traveling around the world for 4 months before trying for a baby. Then our tenants asked to stay another year and the rent was so good we couldn't refuse. We rented a one bedroom and then a friend's house until we saw our current house on the market and decided to buy it on the spur of the moment. We sold the Philly house for an ok but not amazing profit. This has been gut renovation number 5. It's come out beautifully, but we have itchy feet. Anyone want to buy a house? ; )...See MoreFramed cabs & drawer glides - bottom or side?
Comments (4)It is a trade-off. I have Blum soft-close tandem bottom glides and love them! Your drawer box doesn't need to cover the entire opening, which may give you back some space. The top drawer in my 3-drawer stack is 4" deep and the drawer front is 6" tall, which is fairly standard. The glides fit up inside the box bottom, so you don't lose the entire height of the glide during installation....See Moreandreak100
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