June 20th, 2007
Its time for me to move on to the next (and last!) kitchen decorating decision, the subway tile backsplash! Here are a few images I’ve collected off the net: A colored tile with no liner/trim tile (I would probably do a greenish color though) Cute and very vintage looking colored tile with black liner. (Those […]
read more...June 11th, 2007
It was an exciting weekend with the arrival of the kitchen appliances and the hanging of the new cabinets and a little frustrating as well. The weekend started with another trip to ikea friday night because I had decided I wanted the “Stat” doors instead of the “Lidingo” doors because I realized I might want […]
read more...June 7th, 2007
Thanks so much for all of your wonderful responses to my Kitchen Floor Conundrum post of yesterday morning! Here’s an update..  Once I had the idea of a “washed” wood floor look in my mind I knew I had to consider it as an alternative to the not-quite-rightly-sized checkboard floor. Back at the floor showroom […]
read more...June 6th, 2007
First of all, I forgot to post that I finished painting the kitchen… and wonder of all wonders, I actually like the color (now there’s a first!) I wanted it to be similar to the silvery blue of the dining room but with a touch more green. So I went with Benjamin Moore “Silver Crest” […]
read more...June 1st, 2007
My wonderful husband Jeff travels alot for work and has an uncanny knack for not being around in times of crises…like yesterday for example. Known as Thursday May 31st to all of you, but to me it was officially “The-Last-Day-of-the-Sears-Appliance-Sale-on-which-I-MUST-choose-all-my-appliances.” I have spoken to you about my pathological indecisiveness before in regards to paint colors, and that’s bad enough. […]
read more...May 29th, 2007
Leafing through a past issue of “Remodeling & Makeovers” magazine, I spotted these faux crocodile porceline tiles from Walker Zanger’s Matouche Line: I LOVE these! I wonder how they would look as a backsplash behind the stove? It looks so elegant in the bathroom below: I also really dig their new Metal Tech tiles shown in the […]
read more...May 29th, 2007
You know things are bad when you go to Ikea TWICE in one day.. just walking through the showroom with its snaking paths and corridors takes up at least half a day, and that’s if you don’t actually stop to look at anything! We were in the market to find 39″ wall cabinets to replace […]
read more...May 22nd, 2007
Surprisingly, we didn’t come up with the idea to get rid of it until recently… its amazing what being in a space for a while can open your eyes to. Here is the before photo: See the 2+ foot drop above the cabinets? It also runs over the side by side windows over the sink, […]
read more...May 9th, 2007
Our house has two built ins that we knew we were going to knock out immediately (more on those later!)  But once we had all the cabinet doors off we could see through the large cabinet that hangs just over the passthrough from the kitchen into the living room. I think that being able to see […]
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