Love this buffet cabinet but...
I don’t think I’m going to like the color.
The only other furniture in the room will be a table similar to this, and these chairs.
I have several other mission oak pieces and I don’t want more, so I don’t want a matching buffet/sideboard. The dining room has a lot of detailed molding and I’d like to keep the furniture pretty clean lined to keep the focus on the architectural detail. The other furniture on the first floor is mostly a mix of Stickley mission oak, some walnut tables from Room and Board, and nonfussy upholstered pieces.
I’ve even looked at some Asian cabinets but didn’t find anything quite right. Other ideas? I am going to another big antique store tomorrow...
PS the goal here is “counter” space for entertaining as well as storage for dishes. I don’t want open display storage, definitely prefer solid doors.
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Comments (10)Creek, nice to read you like the hot pink butterflies too! Sometimes when I start decorating, I have second thoughts if the added bling should be there.haha I so hope the new flooring is what I want. Candy, we bought both of our Mothers plates like that one. As it turned out, that was the day our little angel went to be with his Savior. It's sad but after I lost DM I kept it. After 38 years, I can now display it w/o crying my eyes out. My DMIL still has hers hanging in her DR. I agree our group is not as active now days. So wish others who enjoy seeing what we do would comment. I promise I will be back sharing ASAP. We all miss our Dear Karen not being on here daily! She has done so much for our Holiday forum. Jeanne, it's almost a challenge trying to decide what to display in that BIG hutch. As I'm packing I keep telling myself I should keep the same in it all the time. However, that wouldn't be any FUN so that will probably never happen until I can no longer move.LOL I'm so amazed that all of you like the Butterflies so well! Makes me Smie! Nana, I'm never sure if I'm adding the right accent plates to my hutch. So thanks for the comments. Seems like I use those green plates alot on here. Will have to work on changing them up when I get done with the flooring. You are so right! So many memories shared. Makes me think I need to do this for Christmas. I have ornaments from DGM and DM that I could display. I'm sure I have more things too.haha Again, thanks so much ladies for all the sweet comments. I'm off to work now. Punk...See MoreGreat cabinets but....
Comments (16)teddas, thank you for your kind words. The stone on the wall is white austin stone, and the floors are walnut. Kren, On the size topic, I agree with the idea that they not be too big (or long) to not take away from the beautiful design. I won't use cup pulls for sure - don't think they work here, and knobs won't work on the big drawers for sure. I'm not sure what to do on those large deep drawers on the lowers. They are so long that a small bar pull might look silly. What do you think? I saw some cabs in a spec home that I really liked. They are all custom, so probably pricey, but for the kitchen I want to really find something special. Here are some pics of the spec (not my house). They use three different styles! Sorry for the bad photos - I took them with my phone. Here's the whole kitchen: Here's the pulls on the long drawers: And the upper cabs: The drawers have a little ring pull, which I think would be a pain in the patooty. Are those long pulls too much? I just think they are really cool....See MoreDark cabinets below, white up top. BUT! What about opposite?
Comments (16)I need an opinion along these lines, but in the more conventional direction. I'm about 3/4 done with a reface job in my kitchen that I've been working on for years. Photos here. At the time I bought the materials, the only choices that weren't dark wood were the harvest oak (which you see in the photos) and "natural" which looked unfinished. The supplies were from Quality Doors, which is no longer in business. As you can see from the photos of the base cabinets, they have many problems. This is a 1950's cape cod house, and the cabinets are stick-built, which means they aren't even really cabinets, but were built on site. The uppers look OK, and I can live with them, but the base cabinets are giving me fits. One is a blind corner, which I hate. The drawers are really beat up, but the wood "slides" make it difficult to replace them. I'd have to have custom drawers made. A colleague suggested that I just get new base cabinets, but matching the oak veneers exactly would be hard, and do I really need all that oak? So I got to thinking...what if I got new base cabs, painted them black or a dark chocolate brown, distressed them perhaps just a bit, added some furniture-leg trim so they don't look so boxy, and then put down an oak sheet vinyl floor and a lighter granite countertop (something like ), a cream subway tile backsplash, and light buff/yellow walls (such as what you see behind the cooktop now). The kitchen is 9-1/2 x 17, but the cabinet area is pretty much 9.5' x 9.5', L-shape. I want to replace the cooktop with a range because right now there's a wall oven that just cuts this nice-size kitchen right in half. Opposite the cooktop is a blank wall -- no windows, no nothing. I'd like to put some cabinetry in there, perhaps something like where you see the microwave in this Crown Point gallery...only using up most of that wall. So I'm not sure what color I would pick up in that piece -- the oak or the dark? Decorators? What do you think? http://www.crown-point.com/gallery/page2.html...See MoreCabinet have arrived, but...
Comments (36)Agreeing with those who point out that slab for small drawers is traditional and not a mix of styles. Real Shaker furniture (i.e. made by actual Shakers rather than Shaker-style) used 5 piece construction for large doors and drawers because it gives the large panel made of several boards room to expand and contract in the frame with weather. They used slab for drawers small enough to be made from one board. 3 doors and a drawer front had to be remade for our cabinet order and they came pretty quickly - maybe a couple of weeks. It didn't take nearly as long as the original order. If your cabinet company is as fast, you could have them before Christmas. They didn't take the old ones back so those are still in our garage as extra pieces of cherry. You might ask if they will want them back and if not, you can mount the hardware on the current ones while you wait for the new ones if the replacements will take a long time. The drawer fronts on the modern cabinets are often screwed onto a drawer box. The drawer box wouldn't have to be changed out - only the drawer front. You might even take off the wrong fronts and mount the hardware on the drawer box which has all the structure that you need while you wait for new slab fronts. A piece of wood under the pull could be used if needed to make the thickness right for the screw lengths. We put the bin pulls centered on the top slab drawers, the same distance from the top of the other slab drawers and on the top rail of the large 5 piece drawers. It puts the pulls higher for less bending and we like the look....See MoreRelated Professionals
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6 years agoThis is on the Boston CL at Manchester by the Sea for $575. It's a bit shorter in height than you showed, but otherwise fits your criteria -
It measures 60"w x 19"d x 31.5"h.
https://boston.craigslist.org/nos/fuo/d/vintage-mid-century-modern/6583002710.html
West Newbury BUFFET - GUY CHADDOCK - SIDE BOARD - $650
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Guy Chaddock Collection Country English Buffet-Breakfront-Side Board
($5000 original price). Very solid and well made.
6 drawers and 3 cabinets with shelf inside.Could paint any color you'd like -
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You guys are the best! So, I went to Nadeau today -- it just opened 6 weeks ago and is about 10 minutes from me. They had some cool stuff, but nothing quite right for this space. I might go back again because I'll be looking for a small bookcase for my home office.
Then I went to the big antique market and did not find a buffet but I did find a perfect-sized end table for the living room...for $90! It's not a fine piece of furniture but it's got interesting lines and I have been looking for a while for this size (28" round, 24" high). Just need to polish it up a bit.
I found this, too, online locally, and thinking about going to see it. I would want to darken it a bit, I think. It is a little deeper than I wanted but it could still work. And if I decided I didn't like it in the dining room, I could use it in my son's room.
My3dogs, thanks...I do want something a bit taller because I think it will look better in the space not to have the two main pieces of furniture at the same height. The chair rail in the room is at 39" or so, so I thought somewhere around 36-38" would be good.
I wish I could see the Hayneedle/PB piece in person. It's so tempting at that lower price. I may ask my painter, who's working at the house, for his opinion on painting it.
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At first look, it reminded me of Hooker furniture. Look over their selection. You could always find a retailer or designer and order through them.
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Adding to my dilemma is the fact that this sideboard/buffet will be seen from several rooms due to the layout of the house, and because the dining room has so many architectural details, I feel that it needs to be fairly simple so it’s not competing with the elements in the room.
I kinda like this, even though I’m not into MCM generally. I think the dark knobs make it work well with my dark wood dining room table.
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