I have countertops!
10 years ago
Well most of them are installed they had a small hiccup on one and had to go back to the shop but omg I absolutely love them!
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Anyone have KA superba dishwasher with extra cutlery tray?
Comments (26)Monica, thank you for all your help. I did find an unopened package in the kitchen (I had a new employee here and I just did not notice the package on my kitchen table that had other papers on it about dishwashers that I was analyzing). They never opened the instructions or they would have seen a separate instruction small pamphlet explaining how to install the moisture strip and this was in a separate plastic sealed package inside the sealed instructions. Amazing, Eric from KitchenAid did not tell me about this pamphlet and had no idea that the moisture strip was with the instructions. Also amazing that the installers do not read instructions when installing a new model. I am feeling so sad tonight. Monica due to your gorgeous granite counters with the coloring that I love so much and the black color of the dishwasher, despite the controls showing, it looks right since they are not half showing so it matches and to me looks intentional and pretty. But mine looks like the dishwasher was not closed all the way and the dishwasher is 2" too long for my counter and I feel I should have realized this from my prior posts in measuring but at Karl's (I did not buy from them but he is the one who told me it would fit and explained why and he was so wrong) I was told it would fit perfectly since the hose is under the dishwasher. So I stopped looking at the Bosch that would have fit perfectly. So I guess I will have to live with the lighter shade of stainless that is lighter than my refrigerator, the pretty thicker handle that does not match my LG Refrigerator's much slimmer handle, and the controls showing due to listening to the guy at Karl's when I was questioning if the KitchenAid may not fit all the way in due to the measurements of my counter only being 1/2" longer than the measurements depth of the dishwasher. But my dishwasher is 2" too deep for the space. Maybe one day I will have money to change out the counters but I know I first have to change the 20 year Linoleum kitchen floor, the 20 year old almond colored range and my 20 year old hot water heater so it may be awhile before the kitchen cabinets or the counters can be changed since I have only my income and a high mortgage. It just cost me so much money to install the Brazilian Cherry hardwood floors downstairs and porcelain tile in the two foyers right after last year having to replace the air conditioner/heat/compressor unit that was amazingly very expensive. One day, I would like to have counters the exact color of Monica's....See MoreMy first ever post, thanks to total kitchen remodel!
Comments (13)Hi florantha, I know exactly what you mean by lots of space but no space! That exactly describes my home. In fact, I don't really have a space for a desk right now because of that. I wish I had my computer so I could upload some pictures (I'm using my iPad right now), but I will just have to use words to describe my space for now: When you walk into my house, you walk right into my kitchen, which is 13ft x 12ft. So if you think of a square, the front door is on the bottom side at the far right. The right side is a wall, along which is the recessed pantry, and this wall stops at the end of the 12ft. There is a walkway in front of you, and the rest of the bottom side (to the left of the door) has the fridge and a short counter. The left-hand wall has that counter continuing from the corner, then a sink under a window, then a counter over the dishwasher, and then a wall oven with microwave and short cabinets over it. There is no fourth wall ahead of you - the tile just transitions to wood floor and there is a wood beam overhead to divide the rooms. So if you walk to the end of the tile, you are in the left half of a rectangular room, and our dining set is in the same room at your right. So, the dining room is a 15ft 7" by 24ft rectangle, and my current kitchen is like a square under the long left side of that rectangle. The dining set fits into the right-hand 12ft stretch of dining room, and the left-hand side (that my current kitchen opens onto) is useless empty space right now. So I'm pushing my kitchen straight backwards into that space, and my current kitchen will be the mudroom/entry. That was probably clear as mud, but it's the best I can do for now, sorry! The place where my wall oven and microwave are, will house a tall cabinet which will contain the stacked washer/dryer. The sink und the window will be replaced with a utility sink and keep the short counters at either side - I'm hoping to make that all soapstone. So the will be both top and bottom cabinets at either side of the sink (and under it), and I was thinking of having those cabinets and the tall one housing the W/D similar to the kitchen cabinets. The fridge and short counter, to the left of the front door, will be replaced by the coat stand. So that's where I'm agonizing over having the different stains. They would be right up again each other in that corner... Would it look terrible if they were different, as I described in my post above? I'll be putting in a long countertop between the two rooms to separate the mudroom from the kitchen, leaving a 4th walkway from the door straight to the kitchen, and adding an open shelf right under the ceiling beam as well, to separate the spaces. I figure that can be a handy folding area as necessary, or we can use the dining room table. I don't sort, really, and my pantry is big (7th x 2.5th) so if need be, I can shove the hamper in there out of sight when company comes. Hampers stay in rooms/closets until I do laundry, so I don't think it will be a big deal? And the ironing board can go in the pantry too, with one if those wall retainers which holds the iron up above. I never hang clothes and I suppose I could always use the coat hooks and a hnagerrs for rare occasions, too? Does this all make sense or have I created mass confusion by now?...See MoreMy Reveal!!!
Comments (94)I think my kitchen’s huge size contributed to that feeling but i think that styling can definitely help (adding in wood elements on the counters or baskets or things with texture). I also think brass helps. I love my pendants and wonder if I had done brass hardware if that would have been a good idea for adding more warmth or if it would have been too much brass and too trendy. Definitely backsplash could change things up too. I hesitated to use real marble in the backsplash worrying that it would make the quartz look too fake. But I have since seen many people pair marble with quartz and i think it looks great. I think using smaller scale marble pieces can help also. Part of what made it feel stark was just getting used to it being white too since it used to all be dark. Good luck!...See MoreWeek 130 - Remodel Updates - how's your progress?
Comments (32)I certainly didn't start out with much more skill than most people, and a lot less than some. But I grew up with a mom that didn't wait for dad to do much of anything. Sometimes it was just moving furniture. Sometimes it was tearing down a wall or laying ceramic tile. DH didn't realize how handy he was, having gotten to 43 before ever being a homeowner. He helped his dad with a lot of big projects when he was in his teens and twenties, but it still took a couple of years in our house before he didn't look at me like I was crazy when I said we could and should do things ourselves. Ive done a lot of online research on building codes for the plumbing and framing, so I'm confident that our house won't fall down and we'll pass inspection when the time comes. DH has watched lots of YouTube when it's something he's really unfamiliar with, like waterproofing newly framed windows. Really I think most people could do it, they just either don't realize it they can, or they really don't want to or have time to, but can afford to pay someone to do it for them. One of my neighbors dropped in today while I was putting up drywall in our closet under the stairs. She said "women can hang drywall?" and wasnt totally joking. Like so many things, it's nature *and* nurture. The best things about doing it ourselves are not having workmen in the house all the time, that we alone drive the pace and don't have to wait on contractors that may or may not come on time, and that we know the quality of the work being done. Our house prior to purchase was spruced up by a handyman that did incredibly shoddy work. We don't want that. Of course the huge down side is that our weekends are all work and we're tired tired tired....See More- 10 years ago
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Janey I freaked out when I saw that but it's the light fixture overhead reflection in the stone. It really does look like eyes. Matt jjust sent me the picture of my rolling island table for the kitchen! I am so excited to see it. Totally custom made, I can use my wheelchair and my rolling chair any where around it. They are very heavy duty industrial casters that lock and the frame is extremely heavy duty steel.
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The stone is fantasy brown quartzite. I need y'all to vote on my backsplash tile option or say yes or no. I have it on the kitchen forum here. These tiles are solid color but for some reason on the picture they don't look solid also in real life the colors of the tiles are exactly colors within the fantasy Brown quartzite.
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