Ideas on inexpensive update to kitchen?
Amy J
3 years ago
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Comments (29)Thanks, all, again. As you exit the bath, the kitchen is on your right. It is all one large open room -- thus my concern with the bath colors. nosoccermom: there is little to no grey in the tile. Any grey is just the shadows. If anything, there is a yellow undertone. I've looked at gel staining (for the kitchen) and read about all these disasters in the Kitchen FOrum when people try to do light maple. It makes me very afraid. I found some granite and quartz vanity tops with white sinks in prefab sizes online that may fit. I will check out the local warehouses today. The fortunate thing is that these builder vanities are a standard size, so no custom fabrication is needed. I decided to "Chip It" (the Sherwin Williams app), the photo of the rug and floor. Here's what it came up with. Sturdy Brown seems nice. I'll pick up paint swatches and see how they work with the other elements....See MoreMy quick and inexpensive kitchen/bath update
Comments (21)Wow, great updates! The bathroom looks so much nicer, I love the mirror tile and curtain. Thanks so much for sharing about the vinyl granite - we have old, marked up, yellow-y "cultured marble" in our bathrooms and I hate it. But the upstairs bathrooms have8-10' long countertops so replacing them would be very expensive. I think you just gave me the perfect solution, although I am not sure how it will work with undermount sinks. Perhaps I will have to replace the sinks (which have also seen better days). Too bad it won't be an option for our kitchen, which has tile. I think we'll end up going with laminate there....See MoreInexpensive kitchen update
Comments (22)(cpartist that's not to suggest your updates weren't amazingly and cleverly done. i don't know your then-kitchen, but i know-to some degree-you lol. you're cpartist. not everyone is. i find that many people would do a huge favor to future buyers by not attempting for-resale upgrades) The problem is you and I are happy doing updates ourselves and like me, you probably prefer to do your own. I know I'd rather walk into a total gut job, get it for a good price and do exactly what I want to do, vs someone else's idea of a good kitchen. However that's me. Too many people can't see past what is in front of them. My DH is one of those. If it doesn't look right to him, he can't figure out how to make it right. I didn't change the layout of the kitchen at all and I didn't over improve by putting granite on top of very old cabinets. However the old paint job was chipping and it looked dirty after 16 years of use. The floors were the original yellow linoleum from the 50's. The counters were beige laminate from the 70's. There are times it pays to freshen up and this was one of those times. Same reason I repainted all the rooms in the house and refreshened the bathrooms. A couple of thousand probably saved me tens of thousands in someone wanting to lower the price. And yes I agree about the huge favor because in so many cases people with no sense of design will do something because they think its the thing to do. Then they wind up with something worse looking....See MoreNeed help- Inexpensive Updates
Comments (41)What an amazing room! I know real estate listing photos are deceiving, and it's probably not as spacious as it appears but those windows and that view...WOW! I have seen painted furniture in person and it was not good. A valance, is different, and a temporary fix, which I don't find objectionable. I didn't look at BeckySharp's links, but I'm wondering how one might handle the tight tucks around the piping-like trim. The backsplash looks like laminate. Are the counters not the same blue? Laminate can be painted or tiled over. Tiling over it is possible, not not cheap once you factor in all the supplies. For example, I tiled a 14 SF countertop, and it was $300 when I added up all the materials for the job. That was basic 4" square white tiles with trim pieces. It is a less expensive alternate to stone, tho....See MoreSammie J
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