I'm Finally Seeing Some Progress
ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
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Some progress (finally!) on my kitchen
Comments (27)Oh, Becky. You actually make me chuckle. How could I have possibly forgotten you!! You should only know how much I treasured our conversations on vintage stoves and what to do about rescuing my kitchen layout when my Smoothtop stove -- the "grand old dame" --involuntarily retired mid-reno. LOL! Luckily, though, some reno disaster stories really do have good endings. And I've got one of those. Truth is, I totally adore my Aga!! She's everything I could have wanted in a modern day replacement for a vintage range: great period looks matched by contemporary pro style performance. As such, I'm very, very happy! Meanwhile, my beloved Smoothtop is sitting, disassembled in my basement. I didn't have the heart to trash her but I also haven't summoned the heart to try to sell her either. She's priceless (even if she needs total restoration at this point)! My hope is that one day, I'll coincidentally meet up with an antique stove lover in the area who will be more than pleased to adopt her as a major project. In the meantime, as she sits in my basement, she serves as a nostalgic reminder of her glory days when she used to hold court in the old kitchen. And, honestly, I do send her a loving wink each time I pass by her. Sigh. But getting back to you. . . these additional photos of your kitchen are even more striking than the first batch! Without a doubt the room comes off as warm, cozy and inviting. Even better, it looks downright authentic as a real family kitchen with loads of personality! No over-designed and/or puzzling design statements going on there. And I love it! (Love that yellow paint too -- it's similar to what I chose for my own kitchen walls.) Lastly, I just have to give you a special thumbs up on the DIY work. Most of us can put together a lovely kitchen design with enough money to buy things and rely on the sage advice of the GW community and/or hire experts to do so and to put it all together for us. But far fewer of us have the time, patience and competent DIY skills to actually pull off the kinds of kitchens we would want to live in, work in and show off to others. So, whenever that happens, my thinking is that the DIYers deserve an extra bow. In short, Becky, I'm thinking you should get ready for that extra bow because, from what I'm seeing, you and DH are deserving of big applause on this one!...See MoreSome progress, finally
Comments (26)I'm with them...it looks wonderful. The soft yellow is a wonderful companion to the slate. For your drapery, I'd choose an unstructured Roman shade with the cords at the outer edges, so they just drape a little in the center. I'd hang them at the ceiling and just barely wider than the window frames, so you can keep them pulled up far enough to let in all the light. As to fabric - depending on your preferences, anything in soft blue with a white ground would look great - a simple stripe or large-scale windowpane check, a trellis pattern, or a swoopy ironwork pattern come to mind....See Morelining up butcherblock counter section with base cabs?
Comments (3)Doh! I hadn't even THOUGHT of that. I guess I just assumed that it would overlap slightly onto either adjoining cabinet or that some underneath kind of support would be put there. Neither the GC nor the cabinet maker ( or for that matter, the soapstone and butcherblock fabricator) even mentioned the question. Guess that would have been par for the course in this renovation though...get there, then someone smacks there forehead and says....DOH! Guess we shoulda thought of that!...See MoreI'm back! Need to make some final decisions. Expert Advice Needed!
Comments (20)Jpmom, you home is gorgeous already! The 12" crown will look perfect with the already tall baseboards. Then add all the other woodwork in, the fireplace mantle, wainscoting, and pillars in the dining room. So pretty! My first reaction was to continue the white painted woodwork. It seems naturally connected to that bar wall from the the LR and DR with the baseboards and wainscoting. Oh and I also love that transom window above the other doorway too! My other thought was that I know from experience how the backsplash tile can completely change colors due to the lighting and what is directly next to it. I would want the two areas in the kitchen with the backsplash to look related. It may look completely different with one being next a window with white cabs and dark counters verses the other being in low natural light with black cabs and white Quartz. I'd definitely wait to decide on what to do with the bar area until the rest of the kitchen is painted white as Romy suggested. I do think it might look great either way, but I'm just one who needs to see it in real life before committing. I am sure either way it is gonna be stunning! ETA.... Could you possibly find a remnant of the Volga blue to fit the bar top if you went with white cabs on the bar? Or possibly just cut the granite and add a dark walnut type wood butcherblock section that reads dark above the wine fridge? Think romy's dark wood top next to the granite? Just a thought....:-)...See Moretitian1 10b Sydney
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