Help me design around my ugly painted beige kitchen cabinets!
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Comments (4)We just painted our ugly pink laminate countertops with Rustoleum's countertop paint. It went on very easily and looks great -- just a very light sanding and one coat. This is a temporary fix until we remodel, and we just did it last week, so I have no idea as to the durability, but you could try a sample. Limited colors, but if white is what you're looking for . . . I used to live near Galveston! Miss the beach days. Here is a link that might be useful: Rustoleum...See MoreDesign: please help me style my kitchen!
Comments (29)It depends on the ceiling height of your room regarding the cabinet height. If you get rid of the cabinets (visually lighten) the sink wall, I think you can use taller cabinets on the range wall because the room will feel lighter even with the taller cabinets. You need to simplify the trim. I would make the trim the same size and feel as the stiles (or rails) of cabinet doors to visually simplify the elements that are introduced. I actually LOVE this type of look with very thin stiles (or rails I am not sure of the term) on the cabinet doors. (again, emphasizing the light) Often that is expensive because they are not stock cabinet doors. Regarding your kitchen: even though you would like your DW to be on the sink wall, I see this is counter intuitive to how an average person/kid would behave. My kids would dump dinner plates on the large counter space which would be the island.... I would be asking them to drop it next to the sink every day. My kids never stack anything on the counter when they drop off dirty dishes in the kitchen. Even adults don't stack. You see this at parties. It takes an anal retentive person like me to stack dirty dishes at a party when the entire kitchen counter has been covered with dirty dishes... With my kids, there would not be quite enough counter space around the sink to use it effectively as a clean up area. I think you would be frustrated.... (at least I would be) Regarding concrete counter top: the edges will be too heavy. Concrete edges are often 2 inches thick. The counters in these Euro kitchens are quite thin, less than 1 inch. These are standard 2 cm slabs. The thinness is what gives the sense of airiness and light feeling....See MoreHelp me wrap my head around grey walls!
Comments (21)Thank you all for your wonderful grey resources. I just tried to paint my bathroom EK Berry Red. Wish somebody told me I needed primer! Once I got the gray primer on, I decided I liked it better than red for the bathroom. I'm now trying to choose a shade of gray. I'm loving PPG Dover Gray, as well as it's lighter cousin Flagstone. I've also ordered samples from Barbara Jacobs for some of her full-spectrum grays. Since I had last seen her page, she's added eight new colors to her collection. The one that looks really promising is called timeless gray. Full spectrum gray seems kind of like an oxymoron doesn't it? I'll let you know how they look when I get them!...See MoreHelp me de-ugly my family room
Comments (23)While I love painted brick, inside or out, and think the example above is yummy, it just might not be your style. Before taking such a drastic step I would do the following : replace the mantle and, if possible, have cabinet man build a nice surround. Select a paint tone in a pale golden beige or warm gray... colors that seems to be in your brick (pic is a bit small to see well). Take all off the shelves except books with nice bindings, and fill them up. One or two special accessories on one or both of the bottom shelves, perhaps. Can't see the rest of the room, but believe it might look nice to paint the walls in the same shade as the wood work. This I'd try first....See MoreRelated Professionals
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