Help needed for kitchen new build
Nina Louis
3 years ago
I am in love with my magnolia bend Chesapeake gray floor and I selected silk painted cabinets. what countertop should I select? Picture shows Vahalla
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Nina Louis
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoRelated Discussions
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Comments (30)Those prices all seem very reasonable to me! If the $1250 price for painting includes different colors for different rooms (2 coats) and different trim color, that is a steal. Yes you can do it yourself later but your time is money also. It is also a lot easier when the house is empty. If the $1250 is one color for the whole house the added price is probably for edging out the trim. FYI It cost me $1000 in Maryland just to get my hallways, ceiling, and trim painted on 2 floors with relatively cheap painters ($550 per day for 2 painters). I'd def get all the pre-wiring. The kitchen island can always be added later, agree with that. $1400 for INSTALLED faux wood blinds for 19 windows and a sliding door is also a steal. It is about $500 for labor, estimate 2 hours per window since you are a novice and you will be paying about $10/hr labor. Even $20/hr is a good price for labor imo. It's all cost vs your labor....See MoreNew build farmhouse kitchen with fireplace, help with design!
Comments (12)I played with your plan a wee bit, turning the laundry room and baking pantry on their sides and moving your kitchen appliances around quite a bit. =) Both laundry room and baking pantry are wider in this plan, which means that you have better aisles in both spaces. I didn't realize until I working on your plan how narrow your baking pantry was. If you were spec'ing standard depth counters & cabs along one wall and 12" cabs on the other, you're left with less than 29" for the aisle. That's fine if you don't intend to work in their but since it sounds like you want to do baking prep in here, that's not going to work well at all, especially if you want your kids to help you. My plan does mean no window in your laundry room but you could always add clerestory windows between baking pantry and laundry room to let light flow from one to the other, like they did between spaces in this home. Okay, into the kitchen. I removed the wing walls on each side of the dining area so that you're not pinched for space around the table. However, as I wrote above, if you want to keep the walls, you can bump the space out instead. I moved the fridge out of the corner and against the pantry wall. That puts it close to your baking center; shorter walks to get eggs, butter, etc. I moved your clean up sink and 2 DWs to the wall next to the fridge. Here are inspiration pics for sinks against walls, not under windows. Moving the clean-up zone, opened up space to move the range top and hood to an exterior wall. Since you're concerned about noise, you should definitely look into adding an remote blower to your hood. This runs ducting up the exterior wall to your roof where your blower will sit. You'll cut noise quite a bit. I moved the ovens to right next to the baking pantry door so it's an shorter walk with pans of batter. I added a prep sink to your island to give you a good work zone between pantry, fridge and range top. The downside of this plan is that it puts the clean-up sink and dish storage the farthest from the dining area. It also means that anyone wanting to grab last minute items from the fridge to bring to the table will walk through the cook zone. Not ideal but I can't think of another way to address that at the moment. Oh, the other thing I did was recess the full depth fridge into the pantry wall so that it appears to be counter depth. I've no idea what your aisle widths were because you hadn't marked them but you have a large enough space to go for generous 48" aisles....See MoreNeed kitchen colors help for new build
Comments (5)Stop right now and do not do black stainless . Just plain old stainless then you are not stuck getting all applliances from one maker since no one maker makes everything well. I aslo agree gray cabinets will be a huge mistake unless you really love gray everywhere . I find grays (which I love BTW) hard to work with they all have undertones and often do not play well together. IMO a white kitchen is timeless . Wall color is IMO the last thing along with backsplash to choose but builders want to paint the walls before they install flooring so I would just do a white the same color for the trim in a semi gloss for trim and matte for walls . Ideally the same color as the white cabinets that would make the rest of the choices so much easier....See MoreNeed help with kitchen layout in new build
Comments (7)You need about 10 feet for a dining table. That's table + people pushing chairs back and getting close to hitting what's behind them when they do. You also need 5' between back to back seating (minimum). You have about 28'9" in width. Your kitchen + island would take up about 9'9" of that. Add in 5' between counter & table, + 3.5' table + 3' for chair space and you're left with only 7.5' in your living room. Enough room for maybe 2 chairs by the fireplace. Probably not what you're going for. You actually only have ~10' between your island and sliders now (17'-7" - 4' - 3.5'), so you really are tight in your dining space. You won't be able to have 5' between your island and dining table, especially since people usually like to leave more space by their sliders so people can get through. We have 4' from our dining table to our island and it's too close. Definitely get backless stools, and don't make your island any wider than 3.5'. Leave your kitchen and dining where it is. Having your hood line up with your island completely doesn't matter...your kitchen isn't symmetrical (island is offset by the aisle width already) so forcing things to line up while sacrificing light in your kitchen is not good. Option A is the best version. ETA: things are ALWAYS smaller in person than they are on paper....See More
mainenell
3 years agoNina Louis
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoill post pictures of just the flooring and cabinets. I’m not sure if I should select a different countertop...maybe bianco montanho (montana)?? any suggestions on countertop? should I just change the cabinet color?
Nina Louis
3 years agoTrem Wills
3 years agoTrem Wills
3 years agoI tried to find inspiration pics with similar flooring but it’s kind of difficult. Anyway here are some with dark cabinets which I like and then the rest with white.
Most of the counters seem to pick up the grey from the floor, I think that’s the direction you should take - grey veining.
Nina Louis
3 years agoHU-187528210
3 years agomegs1030
3 years agoJamie Skadra
2 years ago
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