November 2020 Building a Home
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Comments (337)You guys are very kind! Here are the specs/selections for my kitchen stuff: @mtpo - here's what I can gather together on my selections for the kitchen As I mentioned, cabinets are Windsor White shaker cabinets from a company called Koch Cabinets. If you happen to be in central Virginia, our vendor is Chesapeake Bay Cabinet Company. They've been great. The island is that same cabinet maker but in their Driftwood finish. I don't have a good photo of the counter tops yet but they areTechnistone Noble Areti Bianco (white quartz with subtle veins) Sink faucet is Delta Trinsic Pull Down in Arctic Stainless This is the kitchen sink The backsplash tile is called "Par Avon" by Crossville. The color number is HWR05, and obviously we did it in the 3x6 picket shape, but we debated doing the gothic picket shape for a while too. This brochure has all the details. Our local tile vendor in central Virgina is Mosaic Tile Co. Flooring is red oak stained on site with Minwax Weathered Oak. Not water popped, just applied per instructions and a satin poly applied on top. These are the pendants over the island (very dusty in my photo due to construction dust obviously) Wall paint color is Sherwin Williams Eider White. Trim paint is Sherwin Williams Pure White. More photos of kitchen. The ones without the backsplash installed are before counters and before floor staining. I'll post more photos when the backsplash is done and the clutter is off of the counters (should be in the next day or two!)...See MoreMay 2020 Building a Home
Comments (391)@N Kay, here's the link to the Wi-fi bridge I'm planning to use: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002K683V0/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_1?smid=A3HCET3UGETZ2B&psc=1 @Trish Walter, we are also doing a woodburning fireplace and looked at the Heatilator Icons. We almost went with the Icon 80 but found another brand, Majestic, that offered identical specs but with a more ivory/tan interior in their Biltmore series. Ours is 42" wide. If a June thread hasn't been started, I'll start one :)...See MoreJune 2020 Building a Home
Comments (315)@K H Apparently there was a miscommunication between our realtors. Mine received the rejection of our counter offer but not their counter-counter which we did accept last Friday! It's not too bad for what's going on around here market-wise, less than we paid for this place 20 years ago, these guys are getting a good deal with the improvements we made. All we have to worry about now is the inspections, because it's a VA loan and those are notorious for falling through because they ask for the moon. Fingers crossed we can deal with whatever they don't like without breaking the bank. In the meantime, just in case it all works out, we're sorting and packing and moving things into storage that we won't need should the deal fail. If it all works out we have to be out of here before Labor day, and will be paying $50/day rent for every day past closing....See MoreOctober 2020 Building a Home
Comments (501)@a - I can't tell what the dimensions in your kitchen are but if you can swing the changes toward your idea I like it. You could see if you could get narrower cabinets on that wall to help, I know some you can get only 21 inches deep. Otherwise you could do a wall of shelves or something, but you'd lose counter space, of course. My kitchen is smaller but I'm having a minimum of 3'8" between, the minimum recommended distance for wheelchairs. I saw how my dad struggled for 13 years in a wheelchair in an older house not built for it and I decided I'd rather not take chances because you never know. I'm still getting a decent side island. @Rebecca Delo, aren't windows wonderful? We were lucky in that the way our house is built the windows were in last year. Now it's a matter of DH and I putting the garage doors in so we can really close the place off this winter and use one of those bullet style heaters so we can finally continue working all winter. (or at least part of it, we could use a break sometime!) @Keepthefaith MIGirl, I love you're going to paint your chandelier. DH had this idea a couple of months ago that I was handy and creative enough to find some old fixture somewhere and make a brilliant (and cheap I suspect is his real thinking!) looking chandelier for our dining room. I'm willing to give it a try but I made NO promises! lol...See MoreKat
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