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Lucy
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10-08-2002

Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 9:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wappy, When we remodeled our kitchen we chose brushed nickel because we were trying to match our stainless appliances. You may want to go to a nice bathroom supply store and ask them for their advice based on your needs. Maybe you can find what you like, get the model # and order it online.

Prisonerno6
Member

08-31-2002

Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 11:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I like brushed nickel instead of shiny chrome, because you don't need to polish it so much. Chrome to me always looks dirty if it has the least little water spot on it.

Ginger1218
Member

08-31-2001

Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 8:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
PLEASE HELP!!!! Okay, I told you all that I had ordered Terra Cotta porcelain tiles for my kitchen floor, and the building management was charging $500 for installation. Tiles cost about $600. They originally told us if we did not put down out own floors they were gonna put down crappy vinyl tile floors. So, now, they are telling us that they decided to put down the beautiful hardwood floors in the kitchen, highly polyurethaned, and it will be free. Now, I have to decide what to do. Should I return the beautiful terra cotta tiles, and get hardwood floors and save over $1,000 dollars? Are wood floors beautiful in the kitchen? Are hardwood floors durable in the kitchen? I already asked that and I think I was told yes. I am so confused and have to decide by tomorrow I think.
HELLLLLLPPPPPP


Urgrace
Member

08-19-2000

Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 8:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wow Ginger! That is such a bargain and you get back your $1000. Go for it. They told you the floors will be polyurethaned and that means durable. Beautiful too. I love the terra cotta, but would take the freebie wood floors because they are beautiful too.

Max
Member

08-12-2000

Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 9:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Go for it! I have hardwood in my kitchen and I love it. Free is a VERY good price! :-)

Hippyt
Member

06-15-2001

Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 9:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ginger take the tiles back. You are getting a hell of a deal.

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Thursday, February 03, 2005 - 9:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ginger, hard to turn down a deal like that. Just remember to become a very tidy, well-coordinated cook, because I am not and my laminate wood floor shows every little speck.

Ginger1218
Member

08-31-2001

Thursday, February 03, 2005 - 1:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well, I thank you all for your advice. But, I called Lowes, and to return them, since they were special order - it would be a 25% restocking fee, plus I would have to pay about 50-80 to return them, they are very very heavy, and need to go on a truck. Then I went to the building and saw the tiles and fell in love all over again. Then I saw the color wood and the color of the kitchen cabinets and did not like the way they looked together. Sooooo, since I already paid for it, and since I was already used to the idea of spending the money, and the tile guy also told me I am better off with the tile, (easier to clean) and would look better, I decided to keep the tiles. LOL, spent all night talking to myself. Thank you all for your advice.

Luvmyjrt
Member

09-18-2003

Saturday, April 02, 2005 - 9:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wanted to post a picture of my newly repainted "Apple A Day Red" Kitchen. And to see if the resizing worked:



Wendo
Member

08-07-2000

Saturday, April 02, 2005 - 9:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ooh, I like it.

Luvmyjrt
Member

09-18-2003

Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 6:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Wendo!

Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 7:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Very nice, I like the red with the white cabinets. Warms it up i think.

Luvmyjrt
Member

09-18-2003

Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 8:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Mocha.....looking forward to seeing your boudiour!

Wendo
Member

08-07-2000

Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 6:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That's what I like about it too, the red with white cabinets. Really very nice.

Luvmyjrt
Member

09-18-2003

Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 7:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thank you one and all!

Darrellh
Member

07-21-2004

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 10:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Question: I just painted my bedroom and bathroom in shades of Byzantine Gold from Benjamin Moore. I want to change my faucets and showerhead to compliment this, but don't really want to go with shiny brass finish. Any suggestions?

Also, anyone have bamboo flooring? Thinking about putting that in my kitchen.

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 10:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Do they have a brushed brass or brushed gold finish out there? Or copper? Black?

Tashakinz
Member

11-13-2002

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 11:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Antique brass has a softer look than polished brass if you want to stick with brass.

Darrellh
Member

07-21-2004

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 11:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'll have to go look. The only thing I saw so far is a bronze finish and I'm not too sure about that.

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 11:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    

these aren't faucets, but they show a couple of options that might work...

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 11:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
here's a link to get ya started on different options:

http://www.plumbingexpress.com/faucetscollections.html#Manufacturer

Darrellh
Member

07-21-2004

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 12:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
WOW! Very nice site. Thank you. I think I can probably find what I'm looking for on this site. Thanks!

Prisonerno6
Member

08-31-2002

Saturday, April 09, 2005 - 7:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
So, I had a guy from a window company come over to talk about replacement windows. They had an ad in the local coupon thingie that looked interesting, so I thought I'd put him on this list of people I needed to talk to before investing.

His spiel started out very nice, low-key, no pressure...until I made it clear there was no way I was going to sign up for $8000 worth of replacement windows without thinking about and getting some other estimates. I swear he was just itching to say something like, "Why don't we wait for your husband to get back?" (My platonic housemate left for his walk just as this guy showed up.) The sales pitch ended rather abruptly with me saying, "I'm a pretty smart cookie. I managed to buy a house on my own, I think I can figure out replacement windows."

The next day I went to the store where I bought my french doors, and today I talked to my contractor when he came out to make plans for my back steps. I can get better windows and have the contractor install them for half the price the other guy quoted. No wonder he got all pissy when I said I'd be talking to other people.

Actually, I've been pretty lucky with the guys I've worked with on the house. This was the first one who got all testosterony on me, treating me like I'm an idiot because I don't have a Y chromosome.

Riviere
Member

09-09-2000

Tuesday, April 12, 2005 - 5:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Best improvement I made last year was all new windows.. Double paned Low E with the white grilles inserted, tilt in easy clean, open top or bottom. Huge change from 31 yr old aluminums all corroded and rattling in winter storms. The heat bill went down 30% from last year.. Speaking of being a "smart cookie" I did a really stupid thing when the 3 windows installers came over. My parrot, Sailor, he's in a huge iron cage in living room. I keep a smaller portable cage for travel and moving him. Sailor gets antsy around strangers and the workers were just tearing out the big windows when I went upstairs to get that parrot out of angst's way..
I cheerily yelled, "Hey Sailor, wanna go for a ride?"..... All work and noise ceased.. One of life's ironic little moments etched in time.. I carried Sailor's small cage over and loaded him, told the workmen, carry on, just getting Sailor here out of your way! On the way downstairs I heard one mutter he wondered who I was talking to, and darn, it was a parrot hiding in corner. I think my face was never as red...

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Tuesday, April 12, 2005 - 7:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
l Thank you, Riviere, you have started dh's and my day off very "cheerily".

Prisonerno6
Member

08-31-2002

Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 3:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    

quote:

I cheerily yelled, "Hey Sailor, wanna go for a ride?"..... All work and noise ceased.




BWAHAHAHAHA! *Giggle*splort*guffaw*

OK, that was funny. :-)

I ordered 7 replacement windows yesterday for about $1250. They are just as you described, Riviere, 100% vinyl, welding joints, double-paned, low E, argon gas, grill inside (uppers only), tilt-in top and bottom, and half screen. I haven't got an estimate from my contractors on installation, but since they've always been very reasonable in their work, I think the "installation costs as much as the windows" estimate is a good one. That means going this way will cost about 40% less than what the window guy quoted.

(And he wanted $4000 for a bay window...at the window and door supply store, the bay unit would cost about $1000...)

Jagger
Member

08-07-2002

Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 12:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Your right with your guess that installation will be about the same price as the window itself, most time even more than the window itself. My roommate does that for a living so I saved a few bucks on the cost of the windows, he passed his discount on to me, but had to pay him his standard rate for installation.

Riviere
Member

09-09-2000

Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 3:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
You will love the windows, Prisonerno6! I'm just still in shock they open by fingertip and glide. Used to wrestle with original aluminums and their built on half storm windows.
Wow, that's a better deal than we got, but we did get the patio door replaced, it's an Anderson, was 30% of total price.. The lame brain builder had the door open in S corner of room, so extra work required to swap that to N side.. When the workmen showed up and unloaded, one fellow immediately gushed his apologies the order being wrong. The door they'd brought opened from oppsoite side.. I said that's fine, it's what I ordered. He was so relieved!
After my embarrassment over my parrot Sailor, I think it may have been worse. I have this big Greyhound named Romeo. The workers first did the lower story and it was upstairs work affecting Sailor, I'd wisely brought Romeo downstairs just as soon as it was done. They saw my home office corner and my tv lounge and my bed, oh joy. So, I can imagine what they'd have thought if I ran upstairs to yell, "Hey Romeo, let's go downstairs now!"...
Next time I have home improvement workers over, I'm going to take my pets to the garage and hide!

Prisonerno6
Member

08-31-2002

Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 9:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm beginning to think we may live in the same house, Riviere. :-) I already had patio doors installed. Actually, I had French doors installed to replace a small dining room window. Since that side of the house faces east, I now get loads of light in the morning. They are swing out doors (since I have a small dining room -- no room to swing in) with the retractable screens. The only problem with swing out doors is the wind tends to blow them shut! The set of French doors with screen cost almost as much as all 7 windows combined...

Suitsmefine
Member

07-29-2002

Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - 6:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Our Central AC went out and we had a serviceman come look at it yesterday....The whole system is fried. It is 11 years old and when it was installed SOMEONE put a 4 ton unit to a system designed for a 3 ton! So We were just happy it had lasted as long as it has and without setting our home on fire!
Anyhow, We are looking at replacing it with a Split system Heat Pump...anyone have an opinion on Heat Pumps and How well they work...any suggestions on brands,or advice on where to find the best price?

Tk4x5
Member

07-10-2004

Sunday, May 22, 2005 - 4:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sorry for butting in here, but am looking for a place to post about a problem I'm having w. my refrigerator. Thanks and sorry if this is the wrong place to post this.