Coretec samples don't match pictures posted online?
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Comments (13)Sorry for not posting back until now; all our things are finally moved into our new home. Now to clean the old one so we can get renters! Thank you all for your opinions and advice! I did go ahead and order the Kenmore range. I considered a GE range, but in the end, I would have had to pay almost 2xs as much for a similarly featured range. I did research through consumer reports, and for 2013, GE and Frigidaire tied for first, for brand reliability in the gas range category. Kenmore was just one point behind. I also have a Kenmore range in my old home (don't know if it was made by Frigidaire at that time), and it is at least 12 years old. It doesn't look pretty, but everything is still functioning well. Anyway, for the price I couldn't justify the GE purchase. There are both good and bad reviews for both brands. It seems you either luck out with a good appliance, or a problematic one, in either case! Thanks again!...See MoreHelp! Newly installed white cabinets don't match paint swatch.
Comments (13)Thank you everyone for all your advice and suggestions. I have read each and every one of your posts. thank you- First let me back this up by saying this: My cabinets were initially installed with a sprayed paint on them- a "Pittsburg" paint that my cabinet maker (yes he is old school!- fantastic builder and very nice to work with) had matched up to BM sImply White. Pittsburg is the paint he prefers to use over anything else b/c of it's commercial grade quality. We did not ask for a sample of how the actual color would look but we did however see what a sprayed cabinet looked like. Separately we saw what BM simply white looked like. I guess that's where the mistake was b/c even though it was color matched using a "formula" the cabinets casted a faint lime green tone. The kitchen looked like a "white kitchen" but when you held up real WHITE- you could see a huge difference. SO, without hesitation, our painter took our cabinets down and re primed and sprayed what he could and hand painted the other cabs which had the granite on it. Before he did the "2nd paint", he showed us the white we would be using and asked for approval. It looked white and much better than what was there, so we approved it for our cabinet builder to go ahead and re spray the cabs. Ok- 2nd install- cabinets go it, some look WHITE and others look really off. No consistency. NOT HAPPY!! That's when I wrote my first post on GW. SO, we had our cab guy here today and again, with a great attitude and willing to solve this "white" issue we are having, we decided to talk to the people at BM and do some more research and we are now testing BM Simply white in the ADVANCE. This came highly recommended by the BM people. Apparently the yellowing that you MIGHT see in an oil base is not for YEARS to come- and that's very slight. BUT the oil base paint is the best when it comes to preserving the cabinets from nicks and scratches and with white cabinets, you have to be very careful of that.So with all this being said, my husband and I just held up two painted SIMPLY WHITE BM boards. One on the corner upper and one next to it. BOTH the same white. The one on the curved cabinet is a different color than the one next to it- it has almost and icey bluish tint to it. NOW we think it may be the lighting. So, my husband just ran to Home Depot to get a different bulb for the ceiling light. We will try this before we have our cabinet guy take down everything and repaint!!! I just think white cabinets in our kitchen may just be very inconsistent. Go figure, we have a slew of big windows with natural light and a ton of high hats. this kitchen reno is just part of a huge reno on our house/ gutting and addition- that went smoooooth. The kitchen cabinet part is what's giving us a hard time. going on 5 months without a kitchen. UGH!...See MorePictures of Coretec Sand Dollar Oak in a room
Comments (8)When I had finished looking at flooring samples and was down to two main contenders I purchased one box of each. I laid out the pieces in my living room against my fireplace and then set one of the pieces of my sectional sofa next to the one side and set my coffee table on top. Where I purchased my flooring the sales rep told me I could not "return" the one I didn't want, but they would allow me to exchange one of the two boxes for the other color. Even if I couldn't exchange or return I would rather spend the money on a single box and find out if it is right or wrong than spend the money on enough to cover my whole home or a whole room and then find out it isn't working well....See MoreIsland quartzite seamed pieces don’t seem to match
Comments (27)The bar is 99” long and backsplash on it is 2 ft in height. They cut the bar and the extra piece for island out of one slab. Then the remainder of the bar out of the other slab. In the renderings it doesn’t show two different tones in the island. That is the main concern. These were supposedly two book matched slabs that we picked out in person and looked exactly the same. so that was never a thought that they’d be different colors. The veins don’t match great now that it’s in installed but in the renderings it looked much better. We have the fabricators coming today to Look at it, I will update after they leave! Thank you for all your help and comments. I appreciate it....See MoreCDR Design, LLC
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