White floor FEAR!! Should I be afraid? Modern kitchen!
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want a traditional AND modern white kitchen, help!
Comments (11)Thank you, rmkitchen! About the glass door, can the white panel be taken off too? I mean the grid which divide the glass into 6 little squares?? If this can be done, that will be great, one big problem solved! I was thinking about stainless apron front sink, but it will be next to a stainless front DW, will this be too much stainless? Should I get a white DW? Though, I'd love to keep all the applance the same color. I guess the backsplash can wait, though it would be nice to have some ideas. :)) Thank you, caligal, for the pictures, LOVE that kitchen, wish could copy it, but it's a bit too modern for my house. :(...See MoreShould I go Mid-century modern or 1930's-style?
Comments (30)Our cabinets, though old, were in pretty good shape and now look lovely with our new paint job. I think with older homes it is wise, as you are doing, to consider the period of the home and work with it rather than do what is currently popular. And I think each home has different needs so I'm sure you'll love your new cabinets! I have to admit I was a little sad to see our 1950's GE Stratoliner range be sold but that electric cooktop was so hard to do anything but boil water on and not much could be on simultaneously, and I fell in love with the Lacanche. Anyway, I also agree per above posters that style wise it doesn't have to all be one era. Our vintage artwork is from the 30s, our red formica table and chairs (not in the pic) are from the 50s and our cabinet pulls are newer but probably 50s inspired. I love the pulls you picked and I like the 30s-50s updated kitchen in the last several posts, which seems like it would work with your bathroom staying as is. One thing we considered is that if we tore out the kitchen and put in a true MCM kitchen it would look wierd with our 1950s extensively pink tiled bathroom and then that would need to be updated. By keeping the style of our kitchen to its era, the kitchen and bathroom seem more in sync and I don't seeing us (other than putting in new grout and maybe painting the walls) changing our pink tiled bathroom, which also made our approach more cost effective. I think doing a blend of 30s-40s to early 50s, your bathroom would fit nicely into the updated kitchen....See MoreAfraid to commit to hickory hardwood floors... Help!
Comments (19)We have solid, site-finished, 5" hickory planks in our house. We like them, but, I'm actually writing this to tell you to be very cautious about hickory floors. We've stained our floors dark and have a hardwax oil finish. Our floors were stained dark because we did not like the strong orange/yellow undertones. Staining dark is, imo, the only way to reduce or eliminate the orange/yellow tones and, from what we experienced, hickory is not easy to stain and also not easy to stain evenly. I know that first floor you posted is blonde/brown and beautiful, but, beware.... Hickory yellows over time, with exposure to light. They call it "ambering." I may be mistaken, but I am not sure if any finish will prevent color change of the wood, itself, over time. Someone else may know more about this. But...be very careful and do your homework before you purchase. So far as humidity fluctuations and hickory, I don't think that there's any way you're going to get away with solid hickory in your state unless you are highly committed to very tightly controlling humidity levels in your home. We live in CA, where we do not experience fluctuations in humidity that are anywhere near what you get, and our floors expand a little in the summer and contact a little in the winters, and so we do see some cracks open up a bit here and there in the winters. We knew hickory was a relatively unstable wood when we installed it and so we knew we'd see a bit of movement, so we were prepared for this. It was one of the factors that led us to use a hardwax oil vs a water or oil based polyurethane. If you are uncertain if hickory is for you, or if you like the blonde/brown look of that first floor you posted and you would be unhappy if you floor had, or developed, yellow/orange undertones like the second floor, I think you need to rethink hickory. Start asking questions about yellowing over time. Some finishes yellow over time and so you will hear about this. But, wood also changes color over time. Will any finish prevent this? I don't know. Finally, know that there is significant variation in color even with select and better hickory. I think that it's possible that one of the things you dislike about the second floor you posted is that you can see where the planks meet up....one plank is dark, the next is light, maybe a solid dark plank meets a plank that's half dark and half light. This phenomenon is not so obvious is the first photo, because that photo covers a much smaller area vs the photo of the second floor, which is of the entire room. But, I'd advise thinking about this. Some planks will be dark, some will be light. Many will have both dark and light areas. One plank may have a 1/2 inch strip of light on the left. Another may have 4 inches of darker wood on the left, etc., etc. Think about how the planks will look when installed, both next to each other and also where they meet on the ends. Plank length matters so far as overall look too. Your first photo looks like it has longer planks than the second floor....See MoreNew flooring and kitchen. What else should I update?
Comments (23)Littlebug- I’m definitely removing the raised platform. I’m also removing the carpet in the master bedroom, stairs and whole upstairs. I’m also updating my kitchen so it would just make sense to do all of the flooring and update the whole look of my house. The kitchen will be around $60k, floors $70k, so what’s another, I don’t know, $30k to update the rest of the smaller details and have a more updated look? I live in south Florida so I thought a lighter look would be nice. This home and community was built in 2002, the original owner did all of these improvements, none of this was stock. It has an old world, cozy Mediterranean vibe that I do like, it’s just if I’m spending all of this money I might as well avoid more red and dark tones that are dated. The only thing I can’t really change is the stone. Now for my next question for Beth and others. Would this color work better with the stone? I’ll hopefully be able to grab a sample tomorrow...See More
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3 years agoNot moved in yet but still working every weekend - I bought a big janitor style dust mop and walk around with that every weekend. No heavy trades yet, but we've been moving things all over it with carts and pallet jacks and it's been bulletproof.
I wanted it - I struggled with deciding to do it - had a lot of folks (like the installer) try to talk me out of it - but I love it.
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