HELP! New cabinets & quartzite look terrible together!
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Comments (14)Honestly I would just mow it short and do nothing until the fall when you zap the whole yard with Roundup. Unless you are going to use KGB exclusively you're only talking 1-2 weeks MAX before you have a nice bed of green (to appease the wife). Much better results and much less work/$$$ than what you plan to do. Just live with a somewhat bad looking lawn for the spring/summer (honestly if you mow short all the bad spots will fill in with weeds and grass and not look horrible from a moderate distance). Think of all the extra time you'll have to do other home projects! That fence looks pretty awful. :) Since you don't have to worry about harming the grass why not power-wash and stain! When I first moved into my house (10 years ago now) my backyard was a beautiful green, dense, lush.....mess of clover and broadleaf weeds. When cut to 1.5" or so unless you were looking at the individual blades I constantly got praise for my "lawn". For years I tried this or that product not willing to go and Roundup it and start from scratch and a lot of time and money was wasted. I ended up successfully renovating it to fescue but it was a TON of work. In hindsight I should have either stuck with the weeds and mowed low, or completely started from scratch (my recommendation for you)....See Moreoak cabinet stain looks terrible!
Comments (25)Sorry to tell you but once you have poly urethane on it once it cures it is totally a differant surface that nothing will adhere properly to that is why you have to scuff up the whole surface with 220 or 180 sand paper and reapply poly urethane to it again the sandpaper rough surface gave it some thing to cling to or it will eventually peel off in time like paper and unadhere plus you should have first washed the whole cabiney with borax and vinegar to kill all the mold fungus type color you wre talking about or it will reappear under the surface again and detach the new surface or grow into it after you wash it with the borax vinegar let dry then sand as I stated then what ever heavy duty thinner you use with the polyurthane wipe the whole area clean do not use any other coatings over it it will look good for awhile but it will not last after all that get some new polyurethane that is a deeper color that has the darker pigment in it already they sell it like that you have no choice cause you have a somewhat sealed surface already now if you do it this way hopefully it will last minjimum 15 years maybe 25 or your life time sorry to say the Pro"s that gave you the advise were wrong and it will be only a quick temporary fix that looks good but will not last that long...See More? absolute black granite & supreme white quartzite together
Comments (3)I'm linking you to my finished kitchen. I put leathered absolute black on our perimeter with white macaubus on our island....same concept light patterned island (though my pattern is more linear) and solid perimeter. The absolute black reads as a solid even though there is some interest to it. It's really pretty installed. Here is a link that might be useful: babs711 finished kitchen...See MoreWhat quartzite works best with creamy White Dove cabinets? Please help
Comments (49)Yeah, same here, like it's a dolomite or marble. You get so tired of looking, you're like "I don't care any more!!" lol. Actually, it's not funny. It's a true investment that gets used daily...so it DOES need to hold up and endure. I too am a messy cook and am a person that doesn't mind if something sits on the countertop for a few hours esp when you're having a party -- what's on my countertop is my least concern!...See Morefelizlady
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