Help with kitchen remodel! Wainscoting or brick?
6 years ago
Hey all,
We are currently in the middle of a major remodel of our kitchen, pantry, and laundry room. Our cabinets are coming in this week (finally!) and I have been nailing down some of the other design ideas while we wait. Here is our current situation:
Kitchen. Dining room is through opening with slate blue walls and wainscoting.
Peninsula looking into living room.
Looking over peninsula from living room. Breakfast nook to the right.
We will be applying wainscoting to the laundry room and redoing the cheap wainscoting in the dining room. This is the board and batten style we will be doing:
For the floors we will be doing brick veneer in the butler's pantry and the laundry, and wood-look tile in the rest of the house. Here are a few options for our brick floors, I am still debating about the 45 degree herringbone vs the squared off herringbone.
My question is whether to do brick veneer on the back side of the peninsula as a kick guard for the counter stools, or if we should repeat the wainscoting on the back side of the peninsula. We will be casing the exposed drywall corner that butts up to the peninsula to make a column so there isn't an awkward transition to the full wall from the peninsula, whichever option we choose. Here is the picture again, for reference:
Thanks in advance for any suggestions/advice!
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Comments (4)From your post, it sounds like your budget isn't that big. Once you start in with the soffit, it will snowball from there, and you will be in for an entire kitchen overhaul which will cost tens of thousands. Here are some quick ways to update your kitchen without spending a lot. Halve the number of plates along the top of the cabinets. It looks old-fashioned; just pare the display down to the best ones. Remove the window valence, which is fussy. Change out the chandelier over the dining table to something more current. Not an ultra-modern light fixture, cause that would look jarring. But that chandelier is a faux 1930's style, and changing it out for something without curlicues or little lamp shades would update your kitchen. Also remove the doily/wreath/candle from the table. Remove the stuff on top of the microwave, the picture above the paper towel holder, and the chicken clock. Your range and microwave both have clocks, so adding a chicken clock makes the kitchen look old-fashioned. If you want to get more ambitious in your update, I would change out the counters, sink and faucet before I'd change the backsplash. The backsplash isn't bad at all....See Moreremodeling master bathroom with beadboard/wainscoting
Comments (11)I would get the bathroom done first and then think about the bedroom. You will want your style to flow from one room to another, but that doesn't mean you need to carry the beadboard over, and some rooms can have a little different take on your style. A good place to get inspiration is to look at good examples of colonial / vintage style and avoid the "faux" - which is why I am not so fond of the glazing in the pic. I find going back to the past and avoiding the trendy helps create a more timeless look. Even though I said avoid the "faux" I do mix an occasional Hobby Lobby or similar decor piece in, though I like to walk through the many antique stores in my area to add some truly old pieces. I've picked up pretty, but very inexpensive mismatched china for the walls in my kitchen. (Unfortunately, I am old enough that some of the decor I bought when first married is showing up in some of these places - apparently having hit vintage status.) I also have used the beadboard wallpaper - especially in areas that I want beadboard but either want to think about it, or need to change something else first. I used the wallpaper in my powder room and will switch to the real thing when I eventually change out the countertop. https://www.houzz.com/photos/my-pics-work-in-progress-phvw-vp~45787943 Since you and your husband like projects - I refinished an older wood bathroom cabinet I had removed from another room, removed the door panel and had it replaced with glass: https://www.houzz.com/photos/my-pics-work-in-progress-phvw-vp~45788623 Although it is "faux" the wallpaper looks surprisingly real and might be a way to try a look out as it is only $20 roll. I have real beadboard in my laundry room which is right across the hall from the powder room and I am never hit with a feeling of "this looks so fake next to the real thing". However, I would use the real beadboard in the bathroom....See MorePaint the brick wall? Kitchen Remodel
Comments (31)I actually think you have a nice kitchen, without doing much at all. The creamy white is not helping it appear brighter at all. Install more lighting, and change the creamy white to a bright white. That appears to be an oven in the brick wall. Not sure why the counter runs in front of that. If you dont need that counterspace, I would eliminate that section of countertop. You dont need to paint the walls white, you can pick a white with a hint of color in it, so you get a bit of interest in there. I would also leave the brick the way it is. If that is the oven in that brick, I cant even imagine how hard it is to use, with that counter in front of it. I am also not fond of the new choice for countertop, you picked. I would keep the cabinets like they are, and pick a new countertop, in a whiter white. Make sure your lighting is about 4000k led daylight bulbs....See MoreRelated Professionals
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