Rosie...tell me more about your small kitchen idea
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Comments (3)beuhl, I know! As soon as my kitchen was done, I was obsessing on the bathroom! Luckily, this was a 1 month, not one year project!!!! :) I finished it in June, and here are some before and after pictures, and some details. The room is 7'x8', but this includes the closet, tub, etc. This was a "semi DIY" job, in that I hired a contractor to do the electrical, plumbing, window replacement, fan installation, and used his guy to do the marble fabrication. I did all the little stuff: recaulked the tub and surround, painted, installed lights and cabinets, tiled, etc. I was going to buy a stock dual vanity cabinet, but my contractor works with a cabinet maker who built a custom unit for me, which I purchased as raw wood, then did the finishing/sanding and hardware myself. I called this "semi low budget" in that I just decided it was worth it to me to hire pros to do stuff that gave me a headache to think about, but I did a lot in my spare time, and this made the job go by very quickly, too. We were only without a usable room for about 1 week. I was really tempted to pull out the whole tub and surround and replace it with tile, but decided that for my budget and sanity, I could dress it up with decorative tile on the edges, add a new curtain and rod, and call that good enough. Nothing in the room moved, and the only structural changes were a new dual pane window, a fan venting to the outside (no ventilation before), and a double vanity where there had been a single. We did surface mount medicine cabinets because I wanted BIG units, and we would have had to cut studs in the wall to install these. Also, our bedroom is on the other side of that wall, and I was not sure I wanted the extra noise through the wall if the cabinets were recessed. It is hard to get good photos of a bathroom! I did not bother to include pics of one corner of the room, b/c it is just a closet that got a fresh coat of paint and some new organization. :) Costs: Vanity- about $1000 Marble- $40 (remnant!) Marble fabrication and installation: $420 (2 undermount sinks) 2 Faucets, 2 sinks: $360 2 Medicine cabinets: $500 3 lights: $130 Above toilet cabinet: $130 Flooring: $450 (this could have been a LOT cheaper, but the vinyl sheet material I chose was only available in 13' widths, so I now have enough flooring left over to do my other tiny bathroom AND my parents' small bath. I also paid to have it installed, and watched them, so I'll do the other two baths- easy!) Contractor (all the stuff listed above): $2000 Tile for backsplash/decor around tub: $300 (also I certainly could have made this way cheaper, but I had my heart set on a certain tile, and the #@**!! dome liners were $7 each. I already had the tools for installation, and borrowed a tile saw.) New shower rod, curtains, hooks, other accessories: $220 Total: about $5500 Hope this helps! Thanks for asking! BEFORE: AFTER:...See MoreTell me about your alternative small home dreams
Comments (28)I officially hung up my pipe wrenches and retired on New Years day 2006. At the time my game plan was to go aboard my 36' houseboat for a two to three month cruise then return and build a tiny little one bedroom retirement home that looks like an English gate keepers cottage that I had been designing and dreaming about for the last ten or so years. So much for long term plans...LOL. I have had so much fun on the boat I don't anticipate ever building another house. So far i have cruised the Ohio river from Pittsburg to Cairo, Ill, Un the Mississippi to the Illinois then up to the Chicago sanitary ship canal to Chicago, then back downstream to New Orleans, turning west on the Intercoastal waterway all the way to Brownsville, Texas and back to Ohio, and next summer we plan to circumnavigate the entire east coast of the USA. Mississippi River to chicago,,across the great lakes to New York, Erie canal and Hudson River to NYC then the coastal waters to southern NJ where we will take the Intercoastal waterway around florida to New Orleans and up the Mississippe river and Ohio river back to our starting point. When we feel in a festive mood we can go down river about 40 miles from our home marina and tie up to a casino boat for a day or two. When solitude is in order we anchor in a quiet cove in a wilderness section of the river where i can quietly sip my coffee and watch deer, bear and other wildlife come to the river for water. When we are tied up in a marina and must make those obligotory pilgrimages to walmart we have a motor scooter on the stern deck that we can set off. Laugh if you will but it gets 60mpg at 50mph with two ppl so it is fine for us. The boat is totally self contained with a 20KVA generator, a marine geothermal HVAC system plus we can heat the boat with circulating hot water generated by the engines when we are cruising. (the same method as a car heater). Full size LP gas range and oven in the galley, plus microwave and all the other non-sensical trappings of a full kitchen. Two bedrooms with queen size beds plus the galley can be converted to sleeping berths when we have extra ppl on board. (We can actually sleep 10 ppl comfortably.) The Head (bathroom) is a bit small but it has all the required amenities,tub/shower, toilet, vanity etc. About the only thing we don't have that we might have in a new house is a mortage and utility bills..LOL....See MoreShow me pics of your SMALL kitchen island
Comments (14)Hi - my island is about as small as a rectangular island comes, and is in a small kitchen (12.5 x 14' I think). There are only 3 practical places to put it but they're pretty limiting as you can imagine. One is to turn it parallel with the long counter (that has the sink in it and two windows above); the other way is to make it appear to be coming out of the old furnace chimney (has the mushroom painting hanging on it) - almost like a built-in counter; and the final way is to do the latter only pull it out from the chimney a little to make its edges line up with other edges in the room (e.g. edge of stove or doorway to mudroom) to give it a feeling of more symmetry and make it more centered. Here are the pics - apologies for the dirty kitchen! The first one is of the island parallel to the long counter: (I'll be replacing the stainless top of the island w/ butcher block since our new counter will be stainless and I don't want to go overboard...that counter will have a white farm sink and gooseneck faucet BTW - I'm always defending it and trying to explain how it won't look too modern in its surroundings! ;) Here is a link that might be useful: Kitchen island parallel w/ long countertop...See MoreTell me about your laundry in the kitchen!
Comments (20)Ooh, that storage compartment is pretty snazzy! We are looking at counter height models regardless of whether we stack or don't, so from that perspective not sure it makes much difference for folding--could have a counter for that either way. The one appeal to stacking is that we could conceivably use the remaining space to keep the table and seating, but I just have a feeling that will end up a bad move in the end. Right now I'm leaning towards doing them side by side with a 15" cabinet on either end, which fits perfectly in the space and is a slightly simpler project (just requires shortening a window, vs. stacking which requires narrowing the window too). We do currently run laundry at night so often leave the empty baskets and laundry in our garage overnight (but one appeal to moving it into the house is to be able to finish the loads without having to go out late at night). I'm assuming they will probably live on the countertop over the machines but we may also explore some other solutions. One of the cabinets will definitely be a pull-out hamper for the kitchen laundry. Still need to figure out if there's also a way to integrate a drying rack (since we use a freestanding one in the middle of the kitchen right now--less than ideal!)...See Morelavender_lass
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