Please help with designing our galley kitchen!! Designers help!
I am planning on renovating my small kitchen and I need lots of design advice. We are replacing the cabinets, floor, countertop, sink, dishwasher, and backsplash. All appliances will stay in the original location b/c we are on a tight budget. From the pictures posted of my kitchen you can see the wall with the tiny pass through and the key hooks - we are knocking down that wall to open up the kitchen. (See last picture for 3D rendering) We are adding a cabinet under the Africa art to make up for the cabinets we are losing from knocking down the wall. I want to possibly extend the counter to add a barstool or two. I am stuck on colors of cabinets, floor and paint color. I have no clue what backsplash to use. I need lots of help! I wanted to do a two tone kitchen - Do you like the colors on the 3D rendering? I designed the kitchen on IKEA and might use Semihandmade doors but I don't love the color options. I have posted some pictures from the IKEA design tool for reference. We have a tight budget so custom cabinets are out of the question. The kitchen doesn't get much light, but hopefully once we knock down the wall it will be a bit brighter. White floors are out of the question!! I have white floors now and I hate them. The wall that has the chalkboard paint on it cannot be knocked down because it has a vent. That wall will have to be painted or have the backsplash or ....? The last picture is a 3D rendering of what the kitchen could look like (not sure if I want shaker cabinets). I would welcome color suggestions and any advice or pictures of kitchens you think I could replicate. Thanks so much! Any links to lighting/backsplash/colors/paint/pendant lights, etc!
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BATZ
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Comments (9)Use a kitchen designer either remotely or local to you. Getting the design right is critical. Also, please make sure you pull a permit to do the changes. Here in my area permits are required if you are moving plumbing and electrical around - but not if you don't move those items. Here it would be a real problem with code enforcement which can fine the property owner up to $1000 per day. I mention this because many people aren't aware that if they didn't pull a permit to remodel/change their space there are steep fines. Check your municipality's building department so you have accurate info from your town....See MoreNeed help on designing a galley kitchen
Comments (4)There seems to be a lot of space wasted on hallways on the kitchen side of the house. If it were me I would put the kitchen where the dining room is, and have a great room open area with living/dining side by side and a larger kitchen. To me an eat at island, plus breakfast nook, plus formal dining room is a bit overkill. So I'd move the office to the breakfast nook, and use the old office space as the pantry, and use the old pantry space to expand the guest bedroom suite. Here's a quick sketch. I traced your floorplan so it's approximately correct....See MoreSmall Corridor/Galley Kitchen Design Help
Comments (29)Wow, your dimensions are very similar to my house, although we have no basement and a prior owner did an addition off the back. The good news is that you can do a lot if you're prepared to utilize space from the dining room for the kitchen. There are (at least) 3 factors you need to think through carefully. One, opening up the wall between the kitchen and dining will make your kitchen visible from the front door. Not everyone likes that; for us, it was a perfectly reasonable compromise and I don't have a single regret. Either way, you want to think about the design with that perspective in mind. Even more important, you need to get the function right. Opening up the wall would give you 23 feet of length ... but it could mean a huge trek between the sink, range, fridge, trash if you don't plan carefully. Do you have a staircase to a second floor - does it run above your existing staircase? Finally, your budget looms large here. Opening up the wall was less exorbitant than I initially presumed, but in a small old house there are lots of costs I didn't initially anticipate. Your windows may need to be moved/resized among other things. I joined Gardenweb thinking we could just replace our existing layout and estimated it would cost about $15k. The eventual cost (including a heavy up, opening up the wall, and moving the gas and plumbing on a slab) was at least double that, and we'll add a bit more storage and counters in an upcoming addition/remodel. For us this made sense; we're here for the long haul and we still have one of the least expensive homes in our zip code. But YMMV. Finally, take a look at these two kitchen reveals that I remembered from wayyyy too much time on pre-Houzz Gardenweb. The first one looks larger than yours, but it's worth looking at since they did such a nice job of expanding without completely blowing out the wall separating the kitchen and dining: Cape house kitchen reno (So does this more recent one btw.) This one has a different layout than your kitchen but it shows how you can maximize every inch of a tiny kitchen if you plan carefully: beautiful small kitchen reveal I found this one when I was looking for the links to the others, another great example of what you can do with a very small space: tiny kitchen/dining reveal...See MoreNeed help with kitchen design and our design style
Comments (7)i don't have anything to say about the island, but your options for backsplash are pretty broad. presumably you want the dramatic counter to be the star, in which case your backsplash should play a supporting role -- white, or some cool gray taken from the stone veining. If you want something more unusual, bring in the interest by way of texture -- a shiny or iridescent white, say -- or tile shape -- like fan-shaped tile....See MoreRebekah Gibbs
4 years agoI think your design looks great with the space you are working with! Not sure how you feel about bold color but I think a teal on the lowers with a bright clean 3x6 subway tile would look great. If you could swing it some walnut stained open shelving around the sink to keep it really open and then white uppers on the refridgerator wall. Brass pulls/and pendants like your insperation pic would compliment the teal. I would just carry the same wood flooring you already have into the kitchen.
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4 years agoBATZ
4 years agoRebekah Gibbs
4 years agoI think a bright white subway tile (or also pictured a bright white mosaic), with a nice white stone or quartz counter will help keep it bright without windows for natural light. Since you hated white tile floors what about a black hex tile?
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4 years agoBATZ
4 years agoRebekah - I love the idea of geometric tiles. I actually was looking at the grey ones below. I think the dark black might be too dark in that space. Right now there is absolutely no natural light. What do you think of the color tile below?
I also like the chevron pattern for a backsplash or the pattern below (not sure what it is called) but I don't know if I could do geometric tiles and geometric backsplash. Seems like a little much to me. Thoughts? I do like that last picture you posted with the mosaic backsplash, but I have no clue where to get that. I've never seen it before.
Any suggestions on paint color to use for the lower cabinets? If I use Semihandmade I would get the DIY cabinets and get them professionally painted. I also need a paint color for the back wall and wall that has chalkboard paint on it.
BATZ
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoAnna (6B/7A in MD)
4 years agoRebekah Gibbs
4 years agoHI Rebecca, I love that grey floor tile. I think as long as you stay with neutral colors on the tile two different geometric shapes will be OK. Below is an inspiration pic that ties it all together to see how you like it as a whole. For the cabinets I did a quick search and Benjamin Moore has a pretty teal called Dark Harbor or the color Magnolia Home by Joanna Gaines line at Ace Hardware. There is a pretty geometric white star pattern similar to the picture at Lowes: https://www.lowes.com/pd/EPOCH-Architectural-Surfaces-Geometric-Star-White-12-in-x-12-in-Ceramic-Uniform-Diamonds-Mosaic-Moroccan-Dimensional-Interlocking-Tile-Common-12-in-x-12-in-Actual-11-42-in-x-11-81-in/1000271885. The countertops in the photo are LG Minuet Quartz. Sorry, I don't really know the best route on the cabinets to buy I have never purchased cabinets before!
BATZ
4 years ago@Anna (6B/7A in MD) Thank you for your suggestions. You ladies are swaying me to possibly due a bold lower cabinet, but I might want to do more of a blue. I posted what I think are scaled plans of the layout below - it's just really hard to read.
@Rebekah Gibbs You are amazing with your suggestions and guidance! I love the pendant lamp and the cabinet hardware. Do you know where I can source hardware like that. I also like that backsplash a lot, but my husband didn't feel the same way. He likes the white subway tile, which I find kind of boring - however, if we go colored cabinets and geometric floors maybe that will add the spark I need?I was thinking of using this light for my ceiling light
I really like the pendant lights you posted - I'm going to have to search for something similar. I'm not sure I'm sold on the teal. I was looking at different blues and Johanna Gaines line has this blue I thought was more my style - Thoughts?
Or if I went the grey route still I found this paint from Farrow & Ball:
Here are the scaled plans @Anna (6B/7A in MD)
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