Hello, This is my first time being here.. Also, this is going to be my first bedroom set in 10 years of marrage. I have been searching almost 1 year for the bedroom set. I found american drew-J McClintock - Home searies. Our local shop only carries one king bed, 2 BACHELOR CHEST, 1 oval mirror. All together the cost is 1,900. I need to buy the dresser separately. I think it will cost around 2,000. So entire bedroom set is going to around 4,000. Now, the huntington bedroom set... All sets are going to be 3,400. Here is my problem. My bedroom size is just 14*14. It will fit everything except dresser. For American drew, the dresser is 68 inch wide, but my bedroom allows 64 inch. So the dresser will stick out little bit towards the main door. (however, it will not disturb anything.) For the huntington, it is great set, however it is kind of too dark and huge. What do you think? The american drew or huntington? The dealer told me that I cannot buy american drew in that price in any other place. Because they are missing one dresser they are selling it cheap. Is it really cheap price? Thanks in advance.

They are both comparable however.... IMHO - Sherrill is a little better.

In your situation, especially if the workflow of the kitchen is decent and the current appliances don't look bad, I'd put in beautiation rather than a new kitchen. Was the room originally the kitchen? If so, is there a hearth? If you put some period-look accessories there, cast iron andirons, old ash bucket, etc., and paint the walls an appropriate color, that will go a long way. If there's any open wall space, that's also a good opportunity to take down your personal things and hang some old impedimenta. A bit of harness. Some cooking implements. Put in an accent light fixture that looks period appropriate. These "antiques" can be reproductions, and can be anything that looks like it predates WWI. Give the old cabinets a fresh coat of milk paint, with some distressing, so that the underlayers of paint show where they would be worn, giving an instant hit of "history" to to the room. Change the Formica to one of the new slate look ones. Use an unexpected, period possible textile. Cushions or a valence or something. Something colorful, bright and fun. If you're feeling more energetic, you can also take the doors off the upper cabinets for an open shelving look, or even take down the cabinets, fix up the walls and put in chunky board shelves. You can go a step farther and replace some lower cabinets with an old sideboard. If there's room, put a beat up old farm table in the middle. I really think you can get a feel that works with the house with an investment of $1-2K in set dressing and some creativity, rather than going into debt over a new kitchen, which, inevitably, the new owners will tear out because it doesn't have a beer tap, baking station, or kimchi fridge, or because they really want a Pedini kitchen and all the magazines say it's okay to put a sleek, Modern Italian kitchen in a very old house. The point is to make the kitchen feel like it belongs to the house rather than being a jarring let down. You can sell a house with, "Obviously, the kitchen will need to be redone," as you know, if you can keep it from looking like it doesn't belong in the house at all. And when it comes time to sell, bake some kind of antique recipe instead of chocolate chip cookies. :) (Or buy blueberry tarts and reheat them...)

I've had Century cabinets in my kitchen now for 8 years, going on 9 years. I'm fairly happy with the cabinets. The build is good quality and they are glossy and as nice looking as the day we bought them. They survived a wild child crashing into them with toys and everything else without scratches or chipping. They clean up fairly easily too. We occasionally wipe them down and clean them with murphy's oil and thats about it. We have soft close drawers, which I like, but some of the drawers stick from time to time and dont close all the way. Not a huge deal, since opening and closing them again usually fixes the problem. It might have more to do with the amount of stuff in the drawer rather than a hardware failure. We did not get soft close doors, which I do regret. The hinges can easily be replaced to upgrade. Speaking of hinges, we have had a couple hinge failures, where they snapped and we had to replace them, but I think it has more to do with my wife's "bull in a china closet" style handling. Having done extensive research of different cabinet brands, build materials and quality standards, I can tell you that many brands are equally good when it comes to quality. Just look for brands that use at least 1/2" plywood sides (solid hardwood for a premium option), solid hardwood face frames and doors and a plywood backing. Finding a brand that is KCMA Certified cna provide you some peace of mind that the company has taken additional steps to ensure that the cabinets are a quality build. If you are going with custom cabinets, thats all the research you will have to do, but if you are trying to save a lot of money and want to go with a semi-custom cabinet, look for brands that have extensive catalogs of cabinet sizes, options and accessories. This will give you a lot of flexibility in your design. We followed this advice to build our kitchen and laundry room and have been very happy with the results of both. For our laundry room, we chose the Shenandoah Cabinetry brand. I didn't expect much from a brand sold at a box store that is semi-custom, but we ended up being more impressed with their product than Century. Not only is the look and build quality equal to our Century cabinets, but the customer service and ordering process was so easy. Century was not so easy and it seems that they prefer to work directly with local installers. Shenandoah had a huge catalog of sizes, styles, options and finishes. We had no problem custom fitting their semi-custom product in our space. The end result seems to impress everyone who comes over, while the Century cabinets in the kitchen rarely gets gets many accolades.