I think my kitchen knows that I am planning the renovation...
Lady Driver
8 years ago
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I know I am a pain, but I am confused. A Newbie in the group.
Comments (6)Hi lovetogrowflowers. I don't think you are bothering anyone. Lucy is right, try not to stress yourself out. Take deep breaths. LOL. I think your plan for the two potted ones are perfect. I read in one of your earlier post asking about if the crawl space was ok and someone I believe said yes. For me, I WOULD strip the leaves first. The brug will be trying to take care of the leaves instead of useing its energy to go dormant. Plus you wouldn't want bugs to sneak in on a leaf and spend the winter eating your brug. :( As for the one in ground...well people cut back or don't cut back for different reasons. One of the biggest I think is for safety and the health of the plant. During the winter the brug branches will freeze so they cut them back so there is less of a chance this will happen. Who wants a mushy rotting brug in spring? How tall is the brug you still have in the ground? How close to the ground is the Y? The experts can chime in if this is a bad idea, but how about if you...1.Stip the leaves. 2.Cut off only the top green tips. (Save them) 3.Mulch as high as you can get it, at least to the Y if it's close to the ground. 4.Cover the brug with a REALY big rubber trash can or tub. 5.Maybe even cover that with an old blanket. Or would that be over kill? The cuttings you could take in and root them. Hopefully none of that was bad advice. Me and Lonny are newbies too. This will be our 2nt winter. We killed one of the two brugs we had last winter. But that was because we brought them in and tried to keep them growing. This year we brought all in again. This winter we have many more, plus young ones. We made a Brug room and have been learning lots. So we are going to give it a try. If they had been bigger, we would have left them out in ground to go dormant. Now that I have writen a novel.(sorry, long winded) Try not to worry, you brought them back to health and they are doing well enough to be around to overwinter, so I think you are doing well. Kim...See MoreI'm planning to renovate my kitchen
Comments (5)What are the pros and cons of different layouts? How to pick the materials for cabinets and countertops? These are questions you should ask in the kitchen forum. You should make a post asking for layout help and give detailed information about the kitchen/family room or kitchen great room you are going to renovate. Dimensions of the room including ceiling height and where windows,doors,water,and gas are located. For Cabinets and countertops you need to establish an overall budget first.Then decide what you want to be your focal point. Flashy counterops with subdued cabinets or vice versa?There are plenty of theads on this topic in the Kitchen Forum. Or maybe subdued countertops and cabinets and a very prominent range and range hood. For selecting appliances you need to establish an appliance budget first. Decide whether you want to cook on gas or electric/induction. A range or seperate rangetop plus wall ovens. I think advice GW in general gives to everyone is select each appliance on its own merit and don't buy a suite of appliances from one manufature in order to "match." No single company makes the best appliance in each segment. Giving detailed answers to all your questions would be to summarize the entire Kitchen Forum and Appliance Forum in one post. I don't think anyone wants to do that. :)...See MoreI am starting to think about renovating my kitchen and
Comments (1)Yes, a gut remodel should have everything in the room removed back to the studs (for ease and cheaper running of the needed new wiring and plumbing) and then you rebuild everything from the inside out, and the bottom up....See MoreI think I have my final floor plan
Comments (22)Dorothy - if you're putting in a 2-bowl sink, then I don't see how you can possibly fit a decent-sized one in the corner and still only take up 42" (not counting the pullouts) on each side. 2-bowl sinks should be 36" wide to have decent sized bowls. If you're putting in a 30" single-bowl sink, then 42" is about right. A cooktop or range of 30" will take up around the same space as a 30" sink. is that a 30" in your plan? I thought it looked like 36" (it wasn't labeled). The difference is that you will spend far more time at the sink than the range/cooktop and it is very rare that more than one person needs to work at a cooktop/range at the same time. Kitchen work studies show: 70% or more time spent in the Kitchen is spent preparing a meal or snack - uses the sink 20% or less is spent cleaning up - and that includes not just sink work (hand washing a few items), but also non-sink work such as loading the DW (if you don't pre-rinse your dishes), unloading the DW, clearing the counters & table, wiping down the counters & table, and sweeping up at the end of the day. - uses the sink 10% is spent cooking - stirring, adding ingredients, watching food cook Based on the above, no more than 10% of your time will be spent at the cooktop while 90% or more will be spent at the sink - so it makes the most sense to have the range/cooktop in the corner where it's used much less and the sink out on the straight run where it's more accessible and easier to use and allows you to have a wider sink base & overall sink size. This is how a 30" range would fit. BTW...how wide is that "south" window and exactly where is it located?...See MoreLady Driver
8 years ago
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