Here's the first one: FINALLY - My kitchen reveal (work completed in Aug 2016)!

The third one: Kitchen Reveal continued - part 3!

I can't seem to find the second one, though.

Becky, thanks for that! I searched high and low and just couldn’t seem to track that thread down!

Love your stove!

I like the inset uppers with euro lowers. I was worried it would be glaringly obvious that the styles were different, but I am happily wrong on that point.

I wonder if it will still look ok if I do qso bases with antique white uppers in a shaker.

I like that they're slightly different! I detest kitchens with walls and walls of cabinets that are all the same. If you look at the cabinet next to the refrigerator, you will see that it has a center stile. It was a mistake done when ordering it. I didn't even notice it at first but decided that I actually liked that it was slightly different and chose not to have them replace it. I like that some of the cabinets have glass doors, too. I don't think I would like it at all if it was yet another sea of gray cabinets on that wall. And, of course, I also have the custom sized cabinet for everyday glassware near the sink.

I quite intentionally did not have it go to the ceiling as the others do, as I wanted a place to put my collection (actually it was my mother's collection!) of vintage copper. It's quite shallow and is just a cabinet hanging on the wall.

For me, this is what makes my kitchen unique - not just yet another gray kitchen on Zillow or Pinterest. I would hate that.

Thank you - I adore my stove, too. I've had it now for about 36 years and can't imagine ever having anything else. Again, it makes the kitchen look a bit different - pot rack does, too, as they are totally out of fashion these days. I could care less - I need to be able to grab the pots I want and use the most often. Others, are in the deep drawers nearby.

But then I mix everything up in my house - even my bed and certainly my wardrobe!

Hi Anglophilia-

I can't find your most recent thread where you went into detail about your kitchen.

I wonder if Houzz has a search function where one can find the threads users have written.

I remember that you said you put two coats of polyurethane on your wood floor in the kitchen.

Was it oil or water based or a hybrid? Do you remember the product? Are you happy with it? What influenced your decision?

I thought about it just now after reading this thread-

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/oil-based-polyurethane-or-water-based-for-hardwood-floor-refinishing-dsvw-vd~1004701?n=63

As you can see, my thread catch-up is as slow as ketchup!

Thank you!

I have no idea what kind of poly the floor guy used in our kitchen. I had the devil of a time finding someone that would do such a small job and had it done while we were out of town (no way to do this with cats/dogs and this the only exit to the fenced in back yard!). He did not do a great job, but I'm accepted this.

I have had a wood kitchen floor before and liked it very much. Having tried multiple types of tile on this kitchen floor and found them all very high maintenance with muddy-pawed dogs (at one time I had FIVE!) and a muddy-pawed husband, the only two floors I have found user-friendly were site-finished hardwood and Vermont slate. I loved my slate floor in our Maine dorm apartment, but my realtor told me that in KY, people in my neighborhood expect hardwood in the kitchen and don't even understand slate. Slate is also expensive and difficult to remove, so hardwood it was.

This small kitchen gets a LOT of traffic as the door to the back garden is in it. Dogs and people use it. It's been in now for nearly 15 years and is only beginning to show a tiny bit of wear on the finish, all right in one place. It's small enough, I may have my SIL screen-sand it and apply poly - he's done that in their kitchen - again hardwood, small, door to backyard, and two boys plus a SAHH - lots and lots of wear. Oh, also 3 cats!

I know that in our house in St Louis, we used oil-based poly but that that was in the late 70's. I sort of remember that water-based might have been used in our KY house, both upstairs on new floor and when flooring had to be replace on 1st floor due to broken pipe. Whatever it was, it still looks great - upstairs 32 years later, 1st floor 18 years later.

A good site-finished hardwood floor lasts a long time. I do prefer the gym floor finish (high gloss) as it's the easiest to dust and the gloss does wear down quickly. I think the high gloss just plain wears better than satin - DD has satin and it does not look as good as mine does, many years later.