Finally...my kitchen reveal.
Kim
6 years ago
last modified: 6 years ago
We started in early February with a complete tear out...I’ll try to give some before pics. We were supposed to be done in April, just before Easter and, well, the last major piece (grille inserts in my coffee center cabinets) was done last week, June 23….Phew. Felt like it would never be all done! (We do have a few punch list items, but nothing major). Thanks to all of you who weighed in – the good, the bad and the ugly were all welcome and helped me sort through a whole lot of decisions. I’ll try to list everything, but to be honest, I may not be able to recall all the manufacturers/colors of some things.
Designer/Builder: Kitchens by Eileen (Megan Coggeshall)
Cabinets: Signature Custom Cabinetry in custom color, Benjamin Moore Pale Oak
Cabinet grill inserts: polished nickel with mesh behind
Island: Signature Custom Cabinetry in Cherry (cannot remember the stain color)
Countertops: Sea Pearl Quartzite (natural stone)
Backsplash: Sonoma crackle tile in gardenia
Drawer Pulls: RK International “Plain Pull” in polished nickel
Drawer Knobs: Emtek Georgetown (base is polished nickel)
Island Lights: Look-alike with Eureka Snowlab I (Cannot remember where the look-alike came from – only difference is mine is not halogen)
Kitchen Table: Canadel
Kitchen Table Lights: West Elm
Sink: Blanco Performa Cascade in metallic gray
Faucet: Waterstone traditional pull down (5500 series) in polished nickel with a matching filtered water faucet.
Wall Color: Sherwin Williams Chelsea grey
Trim: Sherwin Williams (Superwhite?)
Floor: American guild -glory russet
Oven: GE Monogram 30” French Door Oven in stainless steel (LOVE IT!!!)
Cooktop: GE Monogram 36” Induction in black
fridge: thermadore freedom 30" (all refrigerator) with custom panel
If you look closely you may be able to identify 5 cats and a dog...lol. No changes there!
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Comments (36)I love it! The brick, the wood grain, everything! It feels like it has some history to it, even though it is new. I've been trying to plan storage for my vitamix in my new kitchen, thinking it would need an extra tall space, but I might copy your method, and store it with the container next to, rather than on, the base, inside of an appliance garage....See MoreOnce again, my kitchen "just works"...
Comments (19)Thank you all for your lovely praise! I love my kitchen! I bought the stove when we moved to LA - got it in 1982 -adore it! I think it cost about $275. The hardware finish is solid polished brass that was unlacquered. I should have taken them and had them lacquered before they were installed. But I loved the unlacquered, polished look - a bit more "mellow" than lacquered brass - and didn't. When one has a gas stove with 5 pilot lights, the fumes cause metal to tarnish. I finally had all my antique copper lacquered as polishing lasted about two weeks before it started tarnishing. The pulls on all my uppers have darkened considerably; the pulls on the bottom have hardly changed at all - fumes from the gas rise. The fox string holder was found on eBay. I had an unpainted rabbit one I had bought decades ago in San Francisco, and I wanted another and I originally thought I would stack them on the side of the refrigerator cabinet so I'd see them when I come down that hall to the kitchen. I couldn't bear putting nail holes in those lovely new cabinets, so I only used the fox on the wall under the brass ship's clock. It kind of picked up the color of the copper in my kitchen. And I adored his " spectacles". He's made by Babbacome in England. There are several for sale now on eBay. I just love him - he makes me smile. My house was built in 1948, and to me, anything built AFTER WWII, is a "new" house. Of course, that's ridiculous- I was born in 1943 and I'm not "new" in any way! So my kitchen had to work with the rest if the house, even though it's a separate room. My house is very traditional and very English - lots of antique wood furniture and chintz and linen print fabrics. I prefer painted cabinets as new ones just look "wrong" with all the antique English wood furniture in the rest of the house. My inspiration was the English kitchen cabinet company, Plain English". It works in traditional, very old and stately English homes, so I knew that would work for me. I did NOT paint my cabinets grey because it was trendy, but because a white kitchen would be too bright and stark, with that huge west-facing bay window. The grey is light, neutral, and very calm and serene - also crisp enough with the white woodwork to look smart. Moving the refrigerator to the back wall opened up the doorway to the back hall. Of course, building it in with cabinetry made a huge difference as well. But it opened up that doorway corner of the kitchen. It also gave me 5ft of counter space next to the stove, instead of 2 ft - huge difference. Yes, I gave up 3 ft on the back wall, but that was really unused space. What is left is a perfect place to tuck in a small microwave, the cookie jar and the KA mixer. Planning and lots if thought is what makes or breaks a kitchen. It's not just about a pretty CAD drawing of pretty cabinets, countertops and backsplash- it's about how YOU cook, how many people will be in your kitchen helping, having designated areas for different preps. Having a place for the ingredients and pans one needs near that area. Yes, having the dish cabinets near the dishwasher is nice, but I'd never trade my huge bay window for that. That window was put in 32 years ago and I've never regretted that decision. It makes a small, ordinary kitchen special, and it brings my garden into the house. Of course, today there is very little cooking going on in kitchens anymore - women too busy, too tired, just not domestic. For them, any old kitchen will be just fine, so long as it looks new and au courant....See MoreGray kitchens...now
Comments (9)I think it is wonderful your kitchen makes you smilie. I do not dislike gray kitchens but dislike the sameness of the kitchens I see - as if some are fearful of showing their personality or little quirks of decor. You have not been afraid to do so - making your kitchen uniquely yours and lovely too:) Some do not have a good sense of design, so do what they see on TV. Some are afraid to go for their own look - not sure why - I guess some still suffer from fear of not making the grade with their friends and peers - sad. Some are led by a designer who jumps on the trends without considering the client. Houses are being built in my area very cheaply - less than paying rent - but the choices of finishes are limited, so not surprisingly the whole neighborhood has the same look. The gray that will be going out is the gray floors, gray walls, gray fireplace look - room looks like a black and white photo look. I remember a recent post in which a person wanted to liven up their gray living room - she wondered if a grouping of black and white photos would help:) Just as beige and white are never truly gone, neither will gray. It has become sort of hip to say things like "I hate beige" - I mean seriously, think of all the beiges out there and a person hates them all? Or "I hate orange wood" - is it really orange? What I "hate" is people afraid to be creative with their space and make it their own and those hyper critical of the home of others:) With all the disasters this year, I am grateful for living under my own roof - when so many need to rebuild....See MoreFinally! My little socal 1930s Spanish kitchen reveal
Comments (32)Oh I’m so glad your sweet little kitchen reno popped back up! I’d meant to comment on it when you posted it, and then I lost track of it. What a great job! Your material choices are spot on—it all feels right for this kind of house. I love how you treated the backsplash, and I applaud you for reusing the blue sink. It was a ballsy choice, and it totally works ;-) Hope you are enjoying it well!!...See More
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5 years ago@Joan Black- they put quarter round on the inside of the back of the grilles to hold them in place. I cannot tell beyond that if they did something more before they attached the quarter round. See the pic.
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