Help. Redo kitchen nook support post!
Em Wang
6 years ago
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Mark Bischak, Architect
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Comments (26)Teeda - thank you so much! Newdawn - I posted on your thread about the armoire. I listed steps to authentically age a piece (minus the giant oven that one guy I know uses to literally bake and crack the paint on his pieces) but it may be more than you are looking to do. That bureau looked AWFUL close up! Very splotchy. I've tried spray painting pieces and my finger would spasm before I was even through w/ the whole can! Rent or buy a sprayer - it will work soooo much better and clean up is a snap. It's also so much quicker than a spray can! Yes that's DH and me in the photo. My dad actually built that wine pulpit in the back of the church replicating the original one. Because of that we were able to get permission to be married in the church. OT let me just say what a wonderful one rm. church that is in Brickerville, Lancaster Co. PA. When my dad was working on it I would always go along and sit up in the 2nd level for hours because all of the original scribblings of bored kids during Sunday services were still left on the walls. I remember some dating back to the 1700's. There is a massive oil chandelier in the church - no electric. It sets on top of a hill overlooking ,miles and, miles of Lancaster Co. farmland. The inside is all cream and wood aged to grey. Rmkitchen - I'm in the burbs outside of Philly fairly bundled up too. I really liked the original green of the bedroom but I felt too 'weighed' down by it. Not very good when one deals w/ that whole lack of sunlight close to depression thing! I adore NO style so I am very flattered by your comments - thank you very much! I would LOVE to see a pic of your pillow! I was lucky enough to score those pillows for $14.99. They are down filled and the covers come off so I was thinking about some type of monogram in the center one. I love monograms so I would be so very interested in seeing yours! They a monogramming place around the corner from me....See MoreNeed MAJOR help with redoing and reorganzing the kitchen
Comments (20)If your mom just wants to spruce up her cabinets, that's what she should have. I'm wondering just how old this dodderer is, though, and how many more years she'll be living with them, with her table problem, and with anything else she's never liked or doesn't work well. My age, so another quarter century at least? A decade or two younger? Or has she advanced to a walker, with family worrying about how long before you have to take away her stove? In any case, if she can still see a keyboard she might just get on here herself looking for ideas for what to turn her SIL loose on. Wish I had one like that too! Well, first off, if a wall is built closing off the living room, a couple of new cabinets with counter extension could go against it for more work space. Of course. Curved counter/table area #1: Could you take everything out and widen the opening to make more room for the table and chairs? Maybe the table could be turned 90 degrees even? That little piece of wall could be changed to an attractively finished support post. This version would have the kitchen, dining, and den open to each other. That thick, vertical chunk of wall to the right of the table looks ominous--masonry something? If no one wants to tear it out, could the dining-table doorway be widened on that side too, with the built-in cabinet on that side replaced with a modern one with pullout shelves that is repositioned further into the kitchen? If you can visualize, I'm imagining a bit shorter cabinet pulled forward into the kitchen so that its back is now against a newly framed wall on a line with the little support wall/post on the left. For a replacement for that cabinet, she could look at Ikea's tall storage cabinets as a possible something nice to do for herself. :) They hold a great deal in very little space. Open the door, and the shelves pull smoothly and silently out so you can see everything you have right in front of you, then they glide quietly and effortlessly back in. Nice! They're also comparatively very inexpensive for what you get. A truly good buy. Curved counter/table area #2: This version leaves the table where it is and has the kitchen and dining in either a completely separate room or one with a half-height wall separating it from the den. Instead of widening the opening, close it up, either completely or with a half-height wall--but this time set the wall in line with the wall on the right, behind that cabinet, to give more room in the kitchen to the dining table. Almost certainly also move, resize, whatever, the storage cabinet on that wall to make a nice place for dining. The storage could be split and placed on each end or even moved into the laundry. Then you could put a mirror and some pictures on wall. The single thing I'd want to do for myself in the work area would be to get the dish drainer out of my prize work area by the stove. Is it there because of some problem your DH could fix? If it's there because she just wants it on the right of the sink (probable!), could the stove be moved to the new wall on the living room side? Does she ignore her dishwasher, preferring to hand wash, or could one be put in as a big but inexpensive upgrade? You know, assuming there's an Ikea within a couple hours of you, you guys should go check it out for ideas. It's fun and interesting, and kind of weird for those who have never been (I always remember someone who one day just walked out on her husband going there and leaving with a car full of new apartment.) All their kitchen stuff is on display for pulling out and checking over, and you'd all be commenting on what'd be worth having, getting ideas, etc. It's very low in price and--for that range of prices--excellent quality and very efficiently designed. She could decide lower-price Ikea was less expensive than refurbishing her old cabinets, or just decide to add a couple of pieces to what she has. You literally buy them by the piece, unassembled in boxes, and drive them home. The cabinet boxes themselves are all the same and very inexpensive. The various door styles come in a whole range of prices. Then, of course, new paint, flooring, the rest of the fun stuff. I hope she enjoys herself and ends up with something she really likes. Now that she's had enough (I know THAT point!) it's time for it....See MoreHelp with support post acceptance and planning
Comments (11)Location of the post is very clear to you because you know your space but maybe not so clear to some of us....well, me at least. Are you saying that the post is going to be at the end of the 9 foot wall by the sitting area window??? If that is the case, why make it a post? How far would the post be from the outer wall? I think framing out the post to make a short wall would be better than a post...but maybe you mean at the other end of the current 9 foot wall???...See MoreNeed help with an island in my kitchen nook area please.
Comments (10)Depending on your lifestyle and given this area leads to the patio, i think there are some options WITHOUT a renovation (Jan Moyer is spot on with her advice). make this room into a cool bar area by placing a wall of cabinets on the left wall with a mini fridge, wine fridge etc. and maybe small round table in the center-- It would be nice to have two bar stools at the counter but there is no knee space so you would have to play with it It seems like the concept of the island is really driven by the desire to have a larger more open kitchen which would be a major cost with potentially little return. You could see if you can do a mini reno and take down the wall where the corner cabinets are- you would lose the two cabinets but would gain allot of openess for less $$$....See Moretatts
6 years agoEm Wang
6 years agoSusan Davis
6 years agoMark Bischak, Architect
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