another move another kitchen remodel...
Rebecca Rakusin
6 years ago
hey Houzzers we just bought a new home and were moving December 5th! the kitchen is in great shape and everything is working except the fact I have zero cabinets for storage. I don't even have a lot of stuff and it still wouldn't all fit. I'd like to keep the csnjryd to save some money and continue it along the wall where the stove is. then I'd like to put an island where the sink and dishwasher are, just configure it. my question is:
should I paint the doors? get new ones? what colour? backsplash? white uppers and dark colours/different coloured lowers? I'd liken to continue the island and make it a 2 level so if would be like a built in dining table...
I'll attach photos of my new space. then of the style i like.
should I paint the doors? get new ones? what colour? backsplash? white uppers and dark colours/different coloured lowers? I'd liken to continue the island and make it a 2 level so if would be like a built in dining table...
I'll attach photos of my new space. then of the style i like.
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Rebecca Rakusin
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Ready to move and do another kitchen!
Comments (9)The closing costs on the mtg and the costs of moving make it worthy to do for serious reasons, but not for a whim. Each time, you lengthen how long you will be paying. I am sure your kitchen is not awful and is quite workable as it is. Perhaps a few cosmetic spiffs would make it feel even better. There will always be someone with newer, bigger and better. The goal is to use your house and live your life. A nice kitchen is lovely, but not worth messing with everything else for. You just went through this a few years ago. I'd wait at least 5 more before doing anything big to it. The hassle involved in moving and then renovating a kitchen is no minor thing. Assuming most houses need other tweaks for each new family moving in, you will be spending a lot of time getting that squared away. If you have kids, it is an upheaval for them as well. It is easy to become addicted to renovating just as some people can't stop with cosmetic surgery. Just like getting a new cars every 2 years, it will cost you, big, to keep switching. You will pay an atty, engineer, taxes, realtor fees, etc.... every time you think of selling. With mortgages as high as they are these days, closing costs are quite high. Just to refinance our mtg, we are paying approx $10k. Uncle Sam, federal and local, takes a bigger bite than he used to. In our case, it is still worth the costs to get the lower rate and consolidate our 2nd loan for the reno with the first. The rate is lower than the first by some but lower than the 2nd by a lot. We will save over $500 a month. It will extend our first payoff date by approx 2 years and the 2nd by 1 year. The interest saved will be worth it. Our new kitchen is great but there are a few things in it I wish we did differently as well as in some other rooms. It is all so much better than before that I will choose to look at the glass as 90% full and go on to enjoy my free time and not spend it painting and dealing with contractors once I can help it....See MoreYearning to move to do another kitchen
Comments (12)In general, it costs 10% of the price of your home to move. 5-6% for real estate commission plus 1-3% of closing costs on the new house (appraisal, inspection, title search & insurance, bank fees, etc) plus the cost to move your stuff (even if you DIY it by renting a truck, professional movers can cost much, much more). Would a new kitchen cost less than 10% of your house price? We're in a somewhat similar situation. We moved to this house due to a corporate relo & bought the "best of what was available" - which in the end is not a great fit for us. But we're here and it's cheaper to renovate the place than to move - plus there isn't much out there that we won't have to remodel anyways. Might as well do it here, where we have a lot and neighbors we really like. Hindsight is 20/20 but since your kitchen is still pretty new, could you donate the cabinets & such to a Habitat for Humanity ReStore? That would be a nice tax write-off and defray the cost of your new kitchen by a teeny amount....See MoreYet another code question about moving a kitchen sink
Comments (11)Hi, Pauled99, I am not sure I understood your question exactly. It may be easiest for me to try to explain it in my terms. Both vertical pipes from the basement serve the same purpose they did originally. I just crossed them left-to-right before they came up from the basement. The leftmost copper pipe, which extends vertically from the basement and makes a right-angle turn to become horizontal and enters the galvanized tee in its middle port, only vents a sink in a bathroom in the basement. Obviously, the horizontal section is well above the flood rim of the basement fixture. The right copper pipe comes up from the basement, turns 90 deg to the right to become a horizontal drain (sloped at 1/4" per foot), turns vertical, and is teed into the stub-out for the kitchen sink with a sanitary tee. Above this tee, it is now considered a vent. It then turns 45 deg (remaining a "vertical" vent), and then turns 45 deg the other way to go into the bottom port of the galvanized tee. The vertical galvanized pipe vents both the basement and kitchen fixtures. In the basement, the two downpipes are joined by a sanitary wye below the point where the bathroom fixture joins the left-hand downpipe. The single drain then goes below the basement floor to join the main (?) house sewer line. After that picture was taken, I put steel plates over the stud notches to protect the pipes from screws/nails. The plumbing inspector took a look at the work, *briefly* thought about squawking about the galvanized tee before realizing it was strictly a vent at that point, and then admired the job and gave it a thumbs-up. If this explanation is not clear, feel free to ask a follow-up question. What I learned during this process is that the plumbing codes actually make sense, even if not at first to the uninitiated. For example, as a novice, I would have turned the drain for the sink vertically instead of horizontally, and teed it into the horizontal drain line. However, that would have made the section to the right of that tee into an illegal horizontal vent. Stuff that goes down the sink could splash to the right (i.e., upstream). Since there is no water flow there to wash it down, it could get lodged there and obstruct the vent. This was not obvious to the tyro, but makes sense to me now. Again, a thousand thanks to lazypup....See MoreCan I move plantation shutters from one window to another?
Comments (2)Depends, ultimately, on how they were attached and glued in. If you are careful and don't apply over pressure to the frames, you should be able to salvage them and move them. Keep in mind that the frames are designed to support any weight and are basically decorative until they are installed on the window. They are quite flimsy in most cases so less is more here when it comes to the amount of elbow grease to apply....See MoreRebecca Rakusin
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6 years agoThat inspiration photo is beautiful. You could do white top cabs and dark lowers, or you could do all the perimeter cabs in white and just the island in a dark/different color. If your husband can reuse and reface the cabs, that would be great!
Here's some other colors I thought you might like. Some of these pics are not the same style, but just look at the color.
I love this green with the white counters. It's such a rich color and I tihnk it makes a statement. Not as common as using blues, so it stand out.
This is a fun color if you're looking for something lighter and it still goes well with the style you like.
I love this countertop. Saratoga quartzite I think. It looks like you are looking at light counters, but if you end up using a light cab color or doing the perimeter cabs in white, this could look great!
Hope it goes well!
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