Kitchen Ideas
Make It Cohesive Create a balance between the cabinets and the counters by choosing a unifying element. Here the designers opted for black cabinet knobs, which match the black countertop. By using the same black tone in a detail on the cabinets, they created a space that feels harmonious and considered.
Don’t fancy white cabinets? Increase the effect of natural and artificial lighting in a small U-shaped kitchen with reflective finishes. This could be in the form of stainless steel appliances or glossy cabinets — both will work. Picking long, horizontal handles for drawers again visually stretches out the room.
I like the vintage inspired white fridge alongside the vintage bracketed open shelves
interesting how the fridge is placed in this kitchen
Stand-alone furniture benches. Built-in bench seating in a dining nook off a kitchen is highly prized for its comfiness and storage. But when you can’t afford the built-in approach, or it’s not practical, consider a stand-alone furniture bench
like the light fixtures and clock
like how the window shade hangs from the very top of the wall
like how the countertop colour changes
my kinda kitchen
Whirlpool sunset bronze appliances
beige and grey can get along too as long as they have the same undertones
Maritime kitchen? soft yellow walls, period lights and cabinet pulls..
dark cabinets playing up pottery etc
backsplash
not sure but think i like the fridge
color blocking
love this stove
kind'a like the backsplash
contrast
colour blocking cabinets
drawer organizers
like the off-white stove and hood fan
Choosing budget materials also helped keep their costs low. Using basic subway tile was a cost-effective way to lighten the kitchen and add visual interest through pewter-gray grout applied in thin lines.
Glazed cabinet doors. Michele and Ryan replaced the wood inserts with Lexan polycarbonate sheets on a few of their original cabinet doors. Ryan is well-versed in electrical work in addition to being handy in general, and he added LED strip lights down the sides of these cabinets to illuminate the interiors. Michele carefully curates the items that are displayed in the clear-front cabinets. The glazing “opens up the kitchen, especially since there are no windows, and allows me to show off some of the older dishes I’ve collected. The white mugs were my grandma’s, and the green pitcher is jadeite Depression glass,” she says. She scored the new cabinet hardware from a private seller on Facebook. With the new paint job, the Lexan inserts and the addition of new cabinet pulls and knobs, it’s hard to believe these are the same cabinets. Phase 3 Budget Painting supplies: $150 Cabinet Lighting: $100 Lexan sheets: $45 Drawer pulls and door handles: $40 Pot rack, extra pot hooks and extra chain: $78 Knife rack: $119 Total: $532
Prep. Michele first got an estimate from someone to paint the cabinets for her. It was $3,200. “There’s a lot of things I can’t do and am more than happy to pay someone else to do and do it right. But I can paint,” she says. She began by removing the cabinet doors, drawers and hardware. She cleaned and degreased the cabinets thoroughly, attacking them with a trisodium phosphate, or TSP, cleaning product. “When I saw how much dirt and grease that wood was hiding, I was thankful I had decided to go with a dark color instead of white,” she says. Lower cabinets. Michele knew that getting paint to stick to wood would not be easy. In her research she’d learned that chalk paint sticks to wood cabinets well, so the meticulous cleaning job she did and adding a chalk paint powder by B.B. Frosch to her latex paint saved her from having to sand them. Once her first coat was done, she decided the color she’d chosen was a little too bright for her tastes and she added some black paint to it. She used two coats of paint on the lower cabinets. “One issue with chalk paint I read about is that you have to wax it once a year. I was not up for that,” she says. So instead she applied several coats of...
I like the organic feel
Phase 2 Budget New stainless steel range: $950 New stainless steel dishwasher: $650 Used stainless steel refrigerator: $350 New stainless steel microwave: $250 Total: $2,200
Barb Purdy kitchen. cabinet colour bottoms and white uppers, stainless steel appliances (I don't see the microwave)
like the colours
like the shade of beige and herringbone placement of tiles
backsplash and cupboards are different shade from wall colour
like the pattern play of chairs an backsplash
Create Big Blocks of Blue Two-toning does not have to be divided along upper and lower cabinet lines. In this seaside Massachusetts kitchen, designer Kathy Marshall created a blue back wall using a hand-blocked Galbraith & Paul wallpaper and Farrow & Ball’s Hague Blue paint on the beverage station’s cabinetry. The color repeats on the island.
pendant lights are nice
dark upper cabinets and island contrasted against the white lower drawers and cabinets
two tone chair
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