Challenging kitchen remodel
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Comments (1)Food prep areas need more light as opposed to other areas like the living room. Light layers are actually separate sources of lighting that you could turn on/ off or dim as you please. If your ceilings are ~ 10+ ft, you could contemplate having cove lighting as a third layer of lighting. I've written a short thread on LED recessed cans for kitchens. Some of the principles would apply to other lighting. http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/lighting/msg010127153310.html?14 There is also a thread on UCL. http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/lighting/msg1223052432349.html?19 Hope that serves as a short intro....See MoreBathroom remodel challenge
Comments (19)I love your inspiration picture! Totally the direction I want to go when I remodel my master bath. Are you going with a white marble tile backsplash? With a plank wall? Or just the rustic style cabinet? I'm having the same dilemma, because if I do wood cabinet with a lot of grain, I'm worried about it clashing with the flooring. Plus I have reddish oak wainscotting in my bathroom and I don't like reddish tones woods all that much. But I think I am going to paint the wainscotting white. It's nothing special. I'm going to save your photo to show my SO. With the taupe wall color he might just go for it! It can certainly be dressed up or down with a wide variety of accents as the years go by. Please keep us posted, I am so excited to see what you come up with. And hats off too you for the ambition. With the flooring, I guess if you go with wood look flooring, it might be OK as long as the wood stain is the same tone in both cases, either brownish or greyish. I think you'd get into trouble if one was reddish and one was brownish or greyish, but what do I know. I love the slate look stuff too. A lot depends on the stain you pick for the vanity. Are you thinking to go brown like the inspiration picture or blackish? Or greyish. I might start with the floor, go with something that can be skewed a couple of different ways, then pick a stain for the cabinets to go with that. I had a grey slate-look vinyl tile in my last bathroom--loved it for the flexibility it had with going with a lot of different colors and also didn't show dirt IMMEDIATELY the way a solid or lighter floor might have....See MoreKitchen remodel floorplan: challenging doors, windows...everything
Comments (1)moving the living room passage all the way to the right will allow a long U shape kitchen. Get the gas stove and sink onto the long 160 in wall....use 55 in wall and some of the door way inches once you reposition that doorway, for the fridge. turn the corner under the window at the top for the other short side of the U shape. The little jog by the back door is where you can put a small pedestal table for the seating you desire , once the stove is relocated. If you resist moving the living room passage to the right...then fridge goes on lower part of the pink 118 in wall....it is far better to have range and sink on the longer wall. Moving passage to liv room, to the right, is by far, the thing to do....See MoreChallenging 1965 bathroom remodel
Comments (6)To help it feel more open, you can do a counter-top storage cabinet instead of a tall linen cabinet. You make it 2/3 or 3/4 the depth of the counter. It still holds toiletries very well, and things don’t get lost in the depths. To protect the wood, you put another piece of counter material under the counter-top cabinet so that it is not sitting where water may splash up against it from the sink. It is elevated above the counter and looks nice, too. You can see several styles In THIS thread. I like the ones with little drawers for things like tweezers and nail clippers that tend to get lost in a drawer. You can often put an electrical outlet inside, so the tooth brush can be plugged in....See Moresheloveslayouts
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