OK, Bob Villa. Lend me some more of your expertise. :-)
So, this is pretty much my dream kitchen:
(And according to the ad, it's "functional!") I love the cream cabinets, the French country look. Just what I want. In person, they have a bit of a "distressed" finish, which just adds more charm.
This is the kitchen that is in the 3 BR:
Not great, but workable, and definitely better than the green tiled monster in the other one. I would like to paint the cabinets, and I know this is not hard to do, but I'm getting conflicting info. I've heard that it's best to sand them down before painting, although some sites recommend just cleaning them well to get any grunge and grease off of them. Any thoughts on this? As for the countertops, my ex and I got our old countertops from a wholesale/salvage shop in Elizabethton. We redid the counters in our whole kitchen, from nice remnants, for $48, and just installed them ourselves.
I would HAVE...absolutely have to have a dishwasher. I'm pretty sure that the cabinet to the left of the sink could be removed to install one there, do you think? That's obviously a job I'd need to let my cousin tackle, but I think it's manageble. I'd lose a bit of cabinet space, but..to gain a dishwasher, I don't care!
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So, this is pretty much my dream kitchen:
(And according to the ad, it's "functional!") I love the cream cabinets, the French country look. Just what I want. In person, they have a bit of a "distressed" finish, which just adds more charm.
This is the kitchen that is in the 3 BR:
Not great, but workable, and definitely better than the green tiled monster in the other one. I would like to paint the cabinets, and I know this is not hard to do, but I'm getting conflicting info. I've heard that it's best to sand them down before painting, although some sites recommend just cleaning them well to get any grunge and grease off of them. Any thoughts on this? As for the countertops, my ex and I got our old countertops from a wholesale/salvage shop in Elizabethton. We redid the counters in our whole kitchen, from nice remnants, for $48, and just installed them ourselves.
I would HAVE...absolutely have to have a dishwasher. I'm pretty sure that the cabinet to the left of the sink could be removed to install one there, do you think? That's obviously a job I'd need to let my cousin tackle, but I think it's manageble. I'd lose a bit of cabinet space, but..to gain a dishwasher, I don't care!
Again, thoughts and comments are appreciated. :-)