Do you think this inspiration pic is dated? Kitchen refresh idea
My kitchen, bottom pic..ugly orange oak cabinets. It's pretty much the same except there is a boob like where the ceiling fan is, no wall phone and no trash cans out. Orangey oak cabs with greenish/black faux granite looking laminate countertops...I know, funky.
I'd love to get new cabinets, new countertops and backsplash, sink, faucet...but my wallet says "hold on sister". I have a new range and microhood coming soon (stainless) and all I can think of his how really crappy everything will look once it's installed. I want to at least get the cabinets stained a little darker to get rid of the orange before they are installed. Then the next step would be countertops and backsplash/sink/faucet.
My options is staining cabinets or painting the cabinets black or white. I've googled/pinterest to get
ideas, see what looks I like etc. Black cabinets, light countertops, white cabinets, light or black countertops. So I'm at staining my oak cabinet to get rid of the orange and then new countertop and backsplash, sink/faucet.
I'm liking this look in terms of working the cabinets I have. But I sorta of get stuck on, would I want to to do the next step and put new countertops on cabinets that I would like to replace down the road. But it would be a ways down the road before I could do new cabinets.
If I go with refreshing my cabs and updating countertop/backsplash, do you think this look is already dated?
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3 years agoThe kitchen isn't as dark as it looks in the picture, but no, there no window...this is the dining area off the kitchen. I have a wired fixture now though, no swagged fixture.
I have no plans to move. It's a one story condo and will be fine for me for the rest of my life. In terms of layout, I don't have much of a choice unless I wanted to dump a lot of money in to it to bring someone in to come up with taking out a wall and redesigning the area but I really don't see that happening. Msteezy, I did think about looking at a different color laminate to hold me over. And yes, definately want to add hardware.
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3 years agoWe used this pic as one of our Inspiration pics! We got a cheaper quartz, backsplash. and added a new sink (gave the sink cutout to the countertop people and they put it in place, and my hsband actually hooked it up). We already had decent cabinets and appliances from a prior homeowners renovation about 15 years ago (only fridge is new)- just added new hardware to the cabinets. Hope this helps one way or another!
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