Finished quarter sawn oak kitchen

15 years ago

Here are a few pictures of our remodeled kitchen in our row house capitol hill home. there is a pantry beside the white fridge. Across from the pantry and next to the window is a padded bench with shelves underneath for my toddler's toys.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27083372@N08/2950363661/

If someone has advice on how to get flick photos to show up that would be great. Meanwhile the attached link should work great and you can see other photos there too of the kitchen. sorry I don't know how to get it to actually post here in the screen with flickr.

enjoy!

Here is a link that might be useful: open shelves

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raenjapan
15 years ago
What a gorgeous, classic kitchen. Here are the photos for everyone to look at.

I think the cabinets are just amazing, and those floors! Great job.
rhome410
15 years ago
Love the floors, and quarter sawn oak is my favorite. Enjoy!
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North Iowa here.. What no one on this thread understands is there are no "green spaces" here. We have Habitat ReStore. We have Menard's or maybe Lowe's or Home Depot. Iowa people help each other all the time. Craig's list has junk. I did a kitchen gut 10+ years ago with Menard's hickory cabinets and laminate counters. No back splash. Existing Vinyl floor. Used my just fine white appliances. My house was built in 1880 so no open concept here. My kitchen is a room. A small room by comparison to almost all kitchens on here. I had a handyman who worked cheap. I had known him for at least 30 years so when I left for work I knew he'd deal with whatever came along. He was gone when I got home and I did clean up. I also did the gutting of the old kitchen; dead mice in the light fixture but he warned me about the potential so I was prepared. Maybe I was very, very lucky but I got a great kitchen for $10,000. I don't know what inflation would do to that price today. Compared to what I started with I now have a palace. You are a long way from final plans and I think you will do just fine. It takes a lot of price comparison shopping to get there. And shopping on eBay and Menard's sales. Don't over look the consignment shops. If you do Menard's cabinets wait until they have the 11% off. If you visit the cabinet people there regularly and tweak your layout, you will find people you really like and who like you and they will tell you when the sales are coming up. You can also make your own laminate counters for cheap. I didn't do that 4 inch backsplash thing and even though I didn't do any other kind of backsplash, I'm glad I didn't add it. Right now I have wallpaper but I'm thinking I might tile some paneling that's cut to fit so that if I get tired of it I can pull it off and put something else there.
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Did they put a stain on the new section to try to make it match the old section? And did they refinish the wood floors in the old section at the same time, or just finish the new flooring? I am far from an expert in flooring, but it almost looks the there is a difference in stain or type of finish rather than a difference that is based on how the the boards are sawn. When we bought our house 5 years ago, it came with 60 year old red oak in our living and dining rooms that looks very similar in color to your old section. In two separate renovations since then, we replaced the floor in two adjacent rooms to match. In both cases, there is far less color difference than you see in yours. In the first case of our family room, it was a dead on match and you would never be able to tell at first glance from the color that the family room and living room were installed 60 years apart. In the second case, our new kitchen floor ended up being just a hair lighter than the existing floor, but it’s a pretty subtle difference that might be exaggerated by a bit of an optical illusion due to chance — the doorway where the kitchen and dining room meet ended up with the new section having a couple of the lightest boards butt up against a a couple of the darkest boards from the old section. In your case, I’d be tempted to get a second opinion from a flooring contractor to see if there is anything that could be done stain or finish-wise to better make the woods match, or if it is really a difference in the character of the wood, or the way the boards were sawn. EDIT: Added photos to give you a sense of how close the matches in our house are. First photo is living room/family room, other two are the kitchen.
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jennabanenna
15 years ago
LOVE it! The shelves look beautiful with the backsplash. What tile(and grout,if you know)did you use??
oruboris
15 years ago
Very nice, wonderfully different and personal.

You have my admiration!
laxsupermom
15 years ago
Beautiful job! We need details. Looks like soapstone(which I love), which variety did you use and where did you get it from?
louisa_smith03
Original Author
15 years ago
thanks for the comments and for reposting the photos correctly for me!!

the tile is just plain old white subway-- after driving myself nuts trying to decide on which lovely Ann Sacks tile to use, I gave up and just asked the contractor to pick up whatever white subway tile is cheapest.

The grout was something else-- I asked the contractor to use one shade, then went with a different one and then when I pointed it out, they agreed to take it all out and redo it at no extra change because it was their misunderstanding!

i don't recall the grout I ended up with-- there was so much drama about that grout but I am very happy with what I ended up with. Maybe I can go look through the archives and see what I posted at the time. Right now the archives don't seem to be working, but maybe tomorrow?

The soapstone was purchased, delivered and installed by Old Mill Soapstone of Virginia. They called it "old original." I was free to pick out the slabs I wanted-- Sally was very helpful at showing me the ones she thought I would like. I really love the slabs that show the way slates of stone will shift and reform over time-- as if you can point it it and say-- "see, you can see how an earthquake caused the lines to break up."

Thanks to everyone who gave me so much great advice and support to persue a kitchen that is a personal expression of who I am! Perula, you were the first to make me rethink what a kitchen can look like, but there were so many others out there too. thanks!!
cat_mom
15 years ago
Nice looking kitchen! Love the floor, too!
victoriajane
15 years ago
What a lovely kitchen. I love all the beautiful wood. Enjoy.
starpooh
15 years ago
hi louisa_smith03 ~
May I archive your kitchen in the Finished Kitchens Blog? If so please submit the FKB Category Checklist so I can categorize your kitchen.
Thank you!

Here is a link that might be useful: FKB Category Checklist
malhgold
15 years ago
Great job. I love the thick wooden shelves. Not sure how I missed this post the first time around. Congratulations!
pluckymama
15 years ago
I missed it too! What a wonderful kitchen. Love the open shelves and the quarter sawn oak with the soapstone is perfect. Very nice job.

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