Historic Bungalow Restoration: Kitchen & Bath configuration
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Comments (9)Check out Duron's Colors of Historic Charleston and Carolina Low Country Collection. Duron is owned by Sherwin Williams, so all the colors are available even though they don't carry the color cards in house. SW will match BM colors too. BM has some historic color collections. Buyaurapaint.com has a comprehensive listing of their colors. If you click on the color it will show you the LRV Light Reflective Value rating and sometimes tell you whether the color has a warm or a cool undertone. I have found this immensely helpful. Lastly, check out Lowes if you have one in your area. Their Valspar line has National Trust Historic Paint color palettes. I'll post the link below. If you find something you like, you can get SW to match it for you. A tip about Sherwin Williams. Go when it's not busy, typically a weekday after 10 am. The pros are all in there first thing in the morning. It might not be the right time to get someone to work on matching a sample. I've gone in in the mid morning or early afternoon and find that I have the sales person's undivided attention and get the match I'm looking for. BTW, two SW off whites I like are Westhighland White SW7566 (lighter) and Restful White 7563. Dover White 6385 is also pretty, but a bit yellow-er. Other sites: oldhousecolors.com http://www.oldhouseweb.com/suppliers/paints-and-sundries/historic-paint-colors/ Sorry to lob so much info your way. I hope it helps! Kathe Here is a link that might be useful: National Trust Historic Paint Colors...See MoreBungalow Bath Finished!
Comments (47)Thanks Kellie. Yes, it did change the exterior, but we tried to do it sympathetically. I don't have any current exterior photos, but here is the front of the house and the side before. The new bathroom is on the back of the house, an almost mirror image of the front gable. Here are a few photos from earlier this summer when we got the house listed on the Alabama Registry. I have since refinished the dining and living room floors so they flow nicely with the kitchen we did last year. Cyn427, here is the view from the bathroom window. It's a beautiful view, but the horse boarders do come and go from the barn at random times, so I can't count on privacy. I give my DH a hard time about the curtains, but they are probably a necessity! The upstairs is kind of hard to explain, but it originally had two large rooms on each side of the central hall and the little front gable. One of the large rooms was never finished, but the rest had all wood walls and a level seven foot ceiling. The new bath is a gabled dormer off the back, but the unfinished room will be our future master bedroom. We loved the higher ceilings, so we kept the vault in there. It lead to spray foam insulation everywhere, as it was the best choice for sealing an old house and let us keep the vaulted ceiling. Here is a photo of that room in progress where you can see the sloped ceiling. Marti, the bath is technically just the upstairs hall bath, but it's right outside the door to our future MBR. We thought about trying to put a connecting door through, but it didn't work out because of the low sloping roof line beside the gable. Since we can't have kids, it'll just be us up there, unless we really have a houseful of guests. The downstairs bath is more like you were thinking; it has a door to the bedroom (the purple one I posted above) and another to the mudroom. So it could serve as a true master bed/bath combo if someone needed first floor living. Here's a view of the upstairs floor plan with the new bath (although it was before the gable dimensions changed and the door swing had to be switched). Lake_Girl, that's funny you had the same idea with the sconces. I'm sad Lowes discontinued them, but it allowed me to buy them on clearance (although I had to go to two different stores to find enough). I'm not from Alabama (ninth state I've lived in in just over three decades), but we've adjusted over the past few years and found many things to like about it. Are you near Lake Guntersville, by any chance?...See MoreSmall Arts & Crafts bungalow kitchen
Comments (109)It took me multiple readings of this thread to understand your room's dimensions and obstacles but I think I finally got it. Think being the operative word here. I'm sure I missed something. ;-) Anyhoo, it seems to me that the biggest hurdle you face is having too many interruptions on each length of wall. I agree that if at all possible, the DR hutch and built-in ex-ironing board cab should be kept. And it seems a shame not to take advantage of those recesses on each side of the DR hutch. So I turned my attention to the opposite wall and and played with the idea of moving the doorway from the outer room into the kitchen. I realize this means moving utilities and all that but it might be cost effective if it means you don't need to do as much customization of cabinetry in your kitchen. I just checked and with a few minor tweaks, you can make this plan work with Ikea cabinets. This is what I came up with: The outer room will be on large space, a mud room with utilities (behind doors), W/D and whatever else you want to keep out there. Moving the door down to the end gave me enough room to put the fridge, DW, sink and range all in one section of your kitchen, creating a very efficient work zone for 1 cook. The fridge is slightly recessed into the wall so that it's bulk is less obvious. The DR hutch is bordered by 2 pull-out pantry cabs with a shallow cabinet between them. You could mimic the DR hutch, giving a nod to your home's past. It also gives you a decent section of shallow counter to set down bags of groceries or a place for small appliances such as toaster, coffee maker, etc. You can fit the GE spacemaker MW above (it fits in a 12" deep upper cabinet). You could also make this section standard depth, sitting slightly proud of the pantry cabs on either side. You'd still have a 49.5" aisle, which will help your smallish space feel less squished. As someone above suggested, I moved the ex-ironing board cabinet. I shifted it over towards the window, next to the range so that it can continue its life as your spice cabinet (love this!). With all the storage on the DR hutch wall, I think that you just might be able to go without upper cabinets elsewhere, which will also help your kitchen feel spacious. You can fill in the old doorway space with an interior window - fixed or working, your choice. If the view isn't nice but you want the light, put in a real or fake stained glass window or other type of obscure glass. Or you can just make it a wall. Note: aisle measurement is counter edge to counter edge. I assumed a 1.5" counter overhang....See MoreRemodeling to add a bath within existing footprint of a bungalow
Comments (13)Thanks! We are planning on a pocket door for the bathroom wherever we put it, so would need enough wall length for that but not space for it to swing open. (The hope is to reuse one of the existing doors.) I think I'd just sort of accepted that the only storage would be in the vanity, given the minimal space available. I've contemplated putting the laundry in the bathroom--there is room to do it by taking the space of the linen closet and part of the second bedroom's closet--but there wouldn't be anywhere to store baskets or fold clothes. It seems like a much better fit for the underused space in the kitchen (and in fact, it was in the kitchen when the house was originally built, and at some point was also against the window there since there were old hookups on that side). I hate having it in the garage, but it was prohibitively expensive to move it when we did the kitchen in 2010 (and our machines, which won't fit in the kitchen, were only a few years old). Now they are past the 10-year mark so (though they still work fine!) it seems more reasonable to think about replacing them, and we are feeling better about abandoning the idea of an eat-in kitchen (given that we haven't eaten in there for the past eight years!) Yes, 3/4 would just be a stall shower. I'd love a soaking tub but not really willing to give up bedroom space since it's a tiny room to begin with. The existing bathroom is okay-but-not-great. It was a Lowe's remodel circa 1997, and looks it. The tub isn't quite level so water pools in one corner, which is irritating although not a dealbreaker. The storage built-in is well-built but 60 years old, so could use a facelift. We gave the room a cosmetic facelift a few years ago (new paint and light fixtures, put a built-in medicine cabinet back where there had been one originally) but didn't attempt to fix any of the deeper issues. It is totally functional, but if money were not an issue I'd happily gut it and change a lot of things. That said, if we add a master bathroom, I will probably not care as much about many of those things if I'm not a daily user of the space. I'll see if I have some photos. The one lingering question for me with the space is whether there is a solution that might involve gutting the existing bathroom and reconfiguring it into two (with the addition of some space somewhere). The hallway/linen closet area is pretty underused and the deep end of the closet in the top bedroom isn't very accessible either, so I periodically contemplate reconfiguring all of that....See MoreRelated Professionals
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