Renovations complete: new kitchen, new shower
fawnridge (Ricky)
3 years ago
Nothing fancy in the kitchen. We're both cooks, not chefs. Cabinets by KitchenMaid, installed by Home Depot. Quartz counters and tile backsplash.
The shower, on the other hand, is where we got creative.
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Elizabeth
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When to start kitchen renovations in a new house?
Comments (20)Work on your layout as a hobby until you get it right. Post it here for some impartial help. Once you get that worked out enough to know the scope of the project, then dream a while on the finishes. Many times, that's the most flexible portion of the project, and on a long project, a lot of people are already tired of what they picked by the time that the end of the project rolls around. Be sure that your choices aren't just "design ADD" where "oooo I LOVE every zen modern kitchen that I see on Houzz.....look there's a Tuscan one too!" It's fine to have an infatuation with many different looks, but only marry the one that suits your home's bones, and your family's living style. Minimalism is my personal sought after style, and it works with my house, but not as much with my design samples everywhere just this side of hoarding lifestyle. I'm hoping that redoing my home office will help with that, but I'm trying to be realistic by making sure that every single piece of furniture that I own will hold "stuff" and keep it from becoming clutter. Be similarly realistic about your home's bones and living style. A winery in Tuscany might be your retirement home sometime in the future, but decorating a 1980s Colonial Revival like it's that winery will not work with those bones. Maybe a painting of Tuscany, and use some of the colors with traditional wood cabinetry could work....but not the overly faux glazed and faux distressed and grapes and leaves and olives and wrought iron wine caves...etc....See MoreMy new $300.00 kitchen renovation is complete!!
Comments (23)Ok so here is the lowdown on the insurance. We do not have any special policy, just regular homeowners insurance. Originally my husband called our insurance agent and he was told that insurance would cover replacing a similar cabinet to the one that fell off the wall, but would not replace all of them. He suggested doing a different cabinet finish as an accent cabinet. I did NOT want that at all and was bummed out for a few weeks! Then we decided to call our insurance company directly. They sent out an adjuster to see the damage. The guy was great-- he said that because the cabinets were discontinued we would have to replace all the cabinets. He mentioned that he had to submit the claim as a cabinet "collapse", not a brown/cracked cabinet. Not sure what the difference is in the insurance world, but he said it had to be written up as a collapse. He took lots of pictures and also wanted me to email him the pics I took the day it happened with the broken glass all over floor and the broken cabinet outside on our lawn. He also said formica would be replaced because there was a knick in it. I was trying to hold back my smile when he said that! Then i almost keeled over when he noticed 2 small gouges with exposed wood in the hardwood floor on the table side of the peninsula. He said if water got in there it could start to rot the wood. Because we have a continuous open floor plan they will pay for the kitchen, dining room, hallway and computer/study room to be refinished. Said we couldn't do just the kitchen area because there would be a noticeable change and would take away from value of our home. Now I get all new hardwoods too! YAY!! He said he was going to submit his proposal to the insurance company and we would hear back from him in a week or so. It took over 2 weeks so i didn't think that was a good sign. Then we got the call that it was approved!!!! I had to look over the figures and sign off on them before the check was issued. Basically, they gave us $15,500 for the initial check. Arbella Insurance does what they call a "depreciation holdback" to ensure that all the work is done. After all work is completed, I have to submit receipts to get a recoverable depreciation value, not to exceed $2,100.00 I also received a check for $625 for personal property damage- plates, bowls, serving platters, stoneware that were broken the day the cabinet collapsed. So grand total from insurance will be $18,225.00 after I submit the receipts to prove work was done to get the depreciation holdback check for $2,100. We did not do any of the work ourselves and still managed to only go $300 over the budget. :)...See MoreNew kitchen remodel completed
Comments (9)Hi all and thanks for the kind comments. Lyfia The doors are each 8 1/2 inches high. THe center doors each are 17" wide, and the flanking doors are each 16" wide. The interior height is 8 1/8 inches for the flanking cabinets and 8 3/4" for the center cabinets. The interiors do have "ceilings" rather than opening to the kitchen ceiling. I had alot of crystal, much inherited from my parents, that I occasionally use but not on a daily basis, so these cabinets were a way to store the crystal so that it would be visible. To soften the effect I lined the back of all cabinets with yellow dupioni silk over foamboard. The lights are low voltage xenon--I tried to use LED but could not find any that could be used with concealed wiring running in the closed space between the cabinet and the ceiling. This was possible with the low voltage xenons, which are on dimmers and are switched separately from the general and the task lighting. I put some close ups and better pics of the cabinets, the doors and the interiors on the kitchen remodel link that Evaberconti kind enough to create a direct click link to at the bottom of their post. Thanks all for the very kind and generous comments....See MoreNew England Contemporary Farm House Kitchen Renovation Progress Thread
Comments (48)My sister put in a lux vinyl. It looks like stone yet has that bit of give that a wood floor system provides. You can't tell from looking if it is stone or porcelain? I've heard that ceramic or stone can be hard on the back or legs when standing in the kitchen....See MoreElizabeth
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3 years agoThere's a plastic frame below the tile pieces. The whole thing lifts out for cleaning. Six individual pieces had to be cut and glued in place.
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