White Dove remodel: White Kitchen
The cabinets were delivered a day or so ago, and today they were fixed in place. No drawers or doors yet, but ...... well, I'm excited. It is really looking like a kitchen where cooking can happen. All the appliances are in place EXCEPT for the gas range and the Sharp microwave drawer. The sink is waiting inside the cabinet beneath the window, as is the 2.5 gallon point-of-use water heater dedicated to the dishwasher and the sink. The window seat is in its spot and installed, but not the top and the file drawers for beneath. I anticipate the file drawers will be very low use, but I'll get a drawer and so will my Dearie. Meanwhile, I'm "editing" the paper documents I keep, including tossing all the piles of magazines and catalogs kept throughout the remodel planning process.
I hope you all will enjoy the first pictures. I'll put up four here, and give the link to the 41 or so pictures in their Flickr album. I just finished uploading them tonight. Please feel free to ask any questions, and to comment on anything that you find interesting one way or another. I've made personal choices that may not be according to the trends, but which are according to the way we live in this little house which has increased in size by another 300 square feet. I figure it is about 1450 sq feet total heated/cooled space.
Meanwhile, I have the Bertazzoni 24 inch gas range ready to come inside and be the star of the show. It's only been sitting in the Teahouse since December 2011. Its hood and ducting boxes are already inside. Next week should be an event filled time, with the countertop guy taking final measurements, the HVAC guy putting in the range hood, the electrician giving my lighting a chance to shine, the plumber perhaps doing the sink--but mostly I hope he replaces the sewer line which backed up on my new floors about 2 weeks ago! What a bummer THAT was. Tree roots, don't you know...sigh.
The plumber also installs the gas range.
Hope you enjoy the interim photos. I cannot wait for a final reveal to share what a difference this remodel is making to our simple little stucco and plaster cottage.
Back door to the left. Tall empty cabinet is pantry on top, laundry basket stuff on bottom. (Bulk items like P-towels and T-paper go in the new hall closet.) A GE under-counter refrigerator to the right of the big Whirlpool fridge with top drawer mine, bottom drawer HIS. Temp inside stays at 38 F.
Cooking side of the kitchen. Bertazzoni 24 inch range goes in the gap. The tall bar (shown with bar stool) will hide the cooking from the living area. I'm thinking the rolling cart is going to work in this spot more or less, I've grown fond of using it for everything. Countertops either side of the range will be stainless, all tops elsewhere will be Silestone Stellar Snow (same thing we used in the Massachusetts kitchen). The bar is 54 inches wide, room for two stools. Two swing arm sconces will be high on the wall, extending over three stainless shelves over each set of cabinets. The microwave drawer goes to the left of the range.
This is the "wet" side of the kitchen and that window comes down to the countertop which extends into the sill. The wall cabs have beadboard backs, and no doors. The one on the right will have a dowel-style plate rack. A 30 inch wide and 10 inch deep undermount sink by Kraus goes in at some point. NO tip out drawer (I hate those things) in front of the sink. A 2.5 gallon point-of-use water heater (got it from Home Depot I think) mounts next to the dishwasher. Trash rollout to the right. Might be a single can due to the location of the drain line though. I'm debating about silverware in the top drawer on the right, and everyday dishes in the two drawers below. That cab is 27 wide, the sink cab is 36 wide
View of the peninsula. My toaster oven goes on a shelf above it. Best little oven ever--a Breville Smart Convection oven does wonderful baking as well as toasting. My pop-up mixer stand will be where those long boxes (the 6 stainless shelves mentioned above) are located. The coffee pot may sit on this counter, I don't want it putting steam on any of the wall cabs. My baking goods will be here, and the top left drawer is a bread drawer. The bottom left drawer is my tool drawer.
Can I sneak in more photos? Hope so. There is the dining room window seat and cabs to show you. I think table silverware should go in the top drawer of the cab to left of window seat. It is 24 wide. A cushion or foam mattress goes on the window seat. These wall cabs have beadboard backs and will have glass doors, Our 39 inch square mahogany slab table goes in front of the window seat with 2 chairs only...the other 2 are in the living room pushed together like one wide chair. If I choose the window seat for dining, only ONE chair will be opposite me, and I'll move the 4th dining chair into the sitting room until we need it.
There is no progress on mounting the TV on the wall opposite the window seat, so no picture. I may have to take matters in my own hands there. A continuous shelf above the cased openings will circle the dining room, and LED rope lighting on a dimmer will be used on that shelf, as if it were cove lighting. I may display some few things there, but not many. You know how "things" collect dust and make work which is uncalled for.
That's it for now. More next week. Here is the link to the full album.
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White dove vs simply white for kitchen cabs. Can't decide!
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Comments (11)Thanks, Jay. You are just the one I want to ask about this. I wanted to put simply a SEALER and nothing else on the door, which will be used inside. Surface mounted. It is structurally sound, although some of the joins seem a little separated....but it is solid not wobbly. Some of the wood is chewed up from paint seeping into the nail holes of past screen replacements. I took out I don't know how many copper tacks with big heads on them, took out the screen, and of course, the strip of molding around it was about 1/4 x 1/8 however long, old style, not the flat kind nor was it a spline because this is old. And that doesn't look too too bad, I was careful with it. Then I sanded, and leveled off the signs of paint but left it in all those holes and cracks..... This one of the pair of cypress doors will be mounted inside. Perhaps I will wind up oiling it but not changing the color. I can try it first on the second of the pair, which will be used outdoors, mounted on heavy hinges, and it will be able to swing 90 degrees at least on the tall post beside the outdoor shower. If I'm using it, I'll swing it to shield the view from next door. And if I'm not using it, I'll turn it to block any view of the workshop, which DH painted white, and which now glares into the sitting room area. At least, it used to glare into the bedroom, which irritates me, and swinging the door should do the trick. I think about something I read not long ago. "The problem is the solution." Have you heard that? My take on it is, I would not have discovered the other old cypress door had more than one use if I did not have the glare problem. In thinking what could be pretty, AND useful AND inexpensive AND not look weird, I realized the door could solve my privacy problem along with the glare problem....all it will take is a set of door hinges. So now I will be doing a less rigorous sanding job on the second cypress door. On a different issue but still the work done by me after all the crews left. I dismantled the bed today, the nice cherry queen bed, storage drawers beneath. I decided to try doing the queen foam mattress myself yesterday. I got this heavy duty box strapping tape. I huffed and puffed to drag the queen mattress off the bed. It had no handles. When I get a new one, believe me, NO HANDLES IS A DEAL BREAKER. But when one end hit the floor, I grabbed the other end and flopped it over more or less getting the top and bottom together. Then I grabbed the tape, and went all the way around at that first paired edge, making sure I went well past the join spot. Then I went to the other side and pulled those two ends together and taped them same way. And then, mind over matter, I got my leverage beneath one end and stood it up as it scooted on the floor, and I squeezed it into the closet door, pushed it beneath a hanging rod, and slammed the door! When the finishing crew comes tomorrow, if they begin knocking down the stucco preparatory to coming into the living quarters, I'll have the headboard, drawers, and bottom frame of the bed ready for them to take out to the Teahouse for storage....once they make a big hole in the wall. Now to make sure I don't lose the screws I took out of the bed frame. :) I'll put pics below. Also, I'll include one pic at the last about the ceiling fixture I chose....See MoreWhite dove(BM) or Dove white (SW) what is the difference
Comments (9)Benjamin Moore White Dove OC 17 LRV 85.38 / Undertones: Creamy greige / Temperature: Slightly warm White Dove accommodates a lot of different paint colours because while it is a warm white, it has an almost greige base that calms it right down. This way it doesn’t come off as creamy/warm as Cloud White, but also isn’t as stark/cool as Chantilly Lace. White Dove is a soft white, so it won’t act like white, but just a VERY slightly softer version of it. Pick it: If you want a versatile white trim/door/ceiling colour that will accommodate a lot of cool and warm toned paint colours throughout your home. If you want a warm, but not too yellow wall colour Ditch it: If you prefer a more clean, crisp look Instead: Check out Simply White or Decorators White SW Dover White has more yellow undertones, so is a more creamy white IMO....See MoreWhite trim: Benjamin Moore (BM) White Dove vs. Cloud White
Comments (6)I said on another post that i think Cloud White is highy underrated. I find it to be milky, but not creamy. More of a warmer white, not too stark, but not yellowish. They probably wiuld bith work with the colors you selected. I have cloud white with SW Contented and BM Carrington Beige and it works well with both. To my eye, white dove looks more creamy (yellow) in samples than it does in pics of people's cabinets. BM also lists them as coordinating colors. Your best bet is peobably to get large paped samples or sample pots of both to look at in the space once the floors are installed and cabinets are installed. Maybe one will jump out as the right one, but they will probably both work....See MoreUser
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9 years agoWell Monday the countertops come about mid day which is progress. I planned work in garden bought car full of pine bark and miraclegro it sits until it stops raining do not want a mountain of wet bags in way of slabs of Silestone and stainless steel....
Meanwhile enjoy a pic of my Hosta garden
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