I am remodeling my kitchen and have a full set of St. Charles metal cabinets. White and some of the cabinets have walnut colored wooden doors. Selling the whole set and located in Ok. Willing to work with anyone that is interested in getting them to you. You can email me at pjcuffe@gmail.com

Zoe, to be completely honest, I probably wouldn't have taken your cat-scratching-post couch either, because it costs a fortune to have things reupholstered to look halfway good (and as chisue found, you may not even get halfway good out of it)! I've been watching Craigslist for furniture and thought I had come across a few decent things... until I found out what it would have cost to have them reupholstered, even with cheap fabric. Shocking! Even slipcovers are expensive too now - if you want something that actually fits and stays in place for more than a few minutes without being mostly sweaty, itchy spandex, it can cost as much as a complete reupholstering. (Let's not even talk about how many Craigslisters are completely delusional about what their worn-out, ugly furniture is worth. If you bought a couch from Billy-Joe's Discount Furniture and Bait Shop for $750 and let the kids and the dog jump all over it for 5 years, it sure ain't gonna be worth $250. It's very debatable whether it's worth $50, or really belongs out on the streetcorner for the scavengers.) BTW, with the upswing in bedbug and other infestations, some charities in my area are refusing upholstered items entirely. I also found out the hard way (and they may have gotten burned by this as well, thus rejecting all pieces with any cat damage at all) that an upholstered chair that had "a few cat scratches" had had a lot more "cat activity" on it than that! It was out of a storage unit in winter so I couldn't smell anything but as soon as I got it inside a nice warm apartment - whoooeeeee. Fragrant. As Frances points out, it's all very nice to recite the mantra that "everyone should buy only 'quality' furniture" (huge pet peeve: using the word "quality" when you mean "good quality"!) but let's be realistic. Most people of ordinary means can't come up with what "high quality" furniture costs these days. I went shopping for a sturdy, not fancy but reasonably nice-looking wooden bed frame year before last and got quite discouraged at the outrageous prices - but having something made was even more bruising to the checkbook. (Frances, I'm curious, does that $250-300 worth of supplies include the tools required to make a nice piece of furniture? If so, I'd very much love to know where you're buying your tools!) dabunch, I go to Dollar Tree every few weeks. It's a great place for consumable stuff like greeting cards, paper towels and baby wipes (for the dog), and they have some great knockoffs of pricier products. I don't see why I should pay $4 for a pint of Plax mouthwash when 1 1/2 pints of an identical product in a less-attractive bottle is $1.

Interesting, especially for a 1960 kitchen. My hips would have a lot of bruises from that corner!

Once you mentioned it was a row house, the whole place fell into perspective. We don't have houses like this in my neck of the woods - I didn't even know there was such a thing until the last few years - , but now I've seen a bunch of them on the HGTV shows that work on Canadian houses. This one is really well done - I think the rugs/runners on the lovely wood floors really help it flow from room to room without seeming like a skinny church hall. The "arches" add character, but definitely funky. The kitchen was a shock though. It's kind of like the Jetsons of the 60s meet European modern meet Mrs. Cleaver. Nothing a good makeover couldn't fix. Is that the only bathroom in this house? If so, well, it will cut down on remodeling expenses to only have to do one.