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Cinnamongirl
Member
01-10-2001
| Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 11:23 am
Well hmmmmm, if its not wood, it must be thermafoil/vinyl.. wood does expand and contract with heat and moisture so hairline cracks might appear at the joints way WAY down the road. Thermafoil is definately the cheaper way to go, it looks nice but can peel. We give a 5-10 year warranty on wood, and only a 1 year on thermafoil products.. I'm in the cabinet business (family company) If it were me, and this was the house I planned to be in for many many years, I would go wood.
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Cinnamongirl
Member
01-10-2001
| Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 12:28 pm
Oh and... Yes, Tile in kitchen..for sure!! We do an awful lot of undermounted sinks. Thats what I would do. Granite and Silestone are our most popular countertops by far.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 9:52 am
I can't wait until this is all done . . . . I found a page on a message board about Thermafoil. Many negative comments. Now I am NOT getting Thermafoil. Good ol' wood! I looked deeper into the "This Old House" web site and did find that they installed Thermafoil cabinets in the East Boston project beach cottage kitchen. I also remember the owners of the two flat wanted to keep the budget for the project down. That may be the reason for Thermafoil there. Sky's not the limit for me, but I do have a few more $$ to spend if necessary. Still going with tile floor and wall tile. And Staron all-in-one countertop (without backsplash) and sink. I LOVE tile. I have a bunch of good hardcover books about tile. I'm a sucker for decorating books. Twelve - thirteen years ago I had wallpaper put up in the kitchen. It's a small kind of abstract print (looks like leaves) in green and white. I still love it. Ron said he can work around it and leave it on the open wall spaces. Yippeeee! I have a key lime (Key West) theme going on in my kitchen. Green (not all shades) / teal / aquamarine are my favorite colors. Water colors = Colordeagua.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 11:00 am
Lol Color we'll need to see some pics of your tile.
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Cinnamongirl
Member
01-10-2001
| Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 12:25 pm
Very cool Colordeagua! AND very exciting (a little stressful too!) You won't regret going wood, it'll be worth the extra $. Besides, when you're going with such a beautiful countertop, stick with beautiful wood. What colour will your countertop be? STARON COLOURS
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 1:04 pm
Pat (Mrs. Ron) helps with decor. (I'm sure she has training. I have a good eye for it too.) Pat and I decided on the very light sand color -- sanded cream with a white (all-in-one) double sink. No backsplash as part of the countertop. I'm seeing a brushed nickel faucet. Floor tile (which I'm hoping to match some I already have) is grayish stone looking with just a very slight greenish cast (14" squares). Have yet to look at wall tile. I do like subway tile, but . . . . I think I would like to work a few glass tiles in for accent. And some color in the wall tiles. This is all fun, but I wish it was done and I was cooking (such as I do) in my new kitchen.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 1:28 pm
Also pretty sure I want reeded (or frosted) glass panels in the two cabinet doors over the sink. Glass, but you can't really see through it. Nothing fancy to display in there for clear glass. Also, kitchen appliances are white. (Didn't want today's popular stainless stell.) Got all new appliances over the past couple years. I had lived with old harvest gold appliances for a little over twenty years. Enough of those. (Though they still worked fine.)
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Riviere
Member
09-09-2000
| Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 11:31 am
One option to frosted / etched glass might be an insert as my china hutch doors have. A lightly raised motif in many styles stick on and look like etched. Easily removed / changed for the season or your mood. It is simple peel & stick clever and fools everybody.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 12:36 pm
That's a possibility, Riviere. For sure will get other than the wood panels in the two doors above the sink.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 4:44 pm
OK. Went to cabinet showroom today. Decision IS oak beadboard with a whitewash finish (white with grain showing through just a little). Cinnamongirl, the cabinets are from the Haas Cabinet Co. Have you heard of them? Dealer is in the Chicago area where I am.
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Cinnamongirl
Member
01-10-2001
| Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - 1:48 pm
Hi Colordeagua.. Yes, absolutely I've heard of them, big name (and I'm pretty far from away) They've been around FOREVER. Can't go wrong there. LOL on the Harvest Gold...my parents had those for years...now they have a mix of white & stainless... I have great comic strip pic to show you, you'll love it. if I can figure out how to post it....
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Thursday, November 01, 2007 - 10:06 am
I was hoping to match floor tile I had laid ten years ago in other areas of my condo. It's no longer made. Will be choosing something else this afternoon. Something kinda similar I hope. Good if the same size -- 14" squares.
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Monday, November 05, 2007 - 11:40 am
I always thought this was a good magazine, surprised they are closing. House & Garden to Fold http://http://www.wwd.com/issue/article/120055?src=breakingnews
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Monday, November 12, 2007 - 9:16 am
Somebody push me...I've demo'd my back room (just a room to store the garbage can, vacuum cleaner, recyle box, etc) and don't feel like putting it back together. I have to finish building a new stud wall and insulate. I don't care about the prettiness of the finished project right now, I'm just doing it to re-insulate it with a way better R-value and to square and plum some walls that are more crooked than that street in San Francisco. My house is a hundred years old and it's pathetically crooked. I completely gutted and refinished my bathroom last year, have the kitchen nearly completed (am doing it retro style and have installed wainscot all around), and now this. I think I just like to demo. I have 2 days of "fair" weather, so I won't freeze out there finishing it, but where am I but sitting in my warm living room playing on the internet. Since I have a terrible back, I do need rest periods fairly regularly, but I'm taking advantage of myself. hee hee <bends over to receive kick of appropriate swiftness>
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Monday, November 12, 2007 - 9:58 am

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Cinnamongirl
Member
01-10-2001
| Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - 11:03 am
Hows the reno going Color? When do you get your cabinets? will it be done before Christmas? *never did figure out how to post the comic strip big enough to read
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Wednesday, November 21, 2007 - 7:07 am
Now primarily waiting for the cabinets. Though I guess the floor tile goes down first? I chose the wall tile -- glass mosaic. That goes in after floor and cabinets. So as of yet, I haven't "moved out" of my old kitchen. Wall tile, which is done last, won't be in until Dec. 19. So I guess order of things is floor, cabinets, countertop and sink, and wall tile. Relative to Christmas, doesn't matter when it's done. I'm by myself on holidays -- no relatives. The first year after my mother died, I tried Easter with friends. That did NOT work.
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Cinnamongirl
Member
01-10-2001
| Wednesday, November 21, 2007 - 10:40 am
Oh man, you must be getting so excited! The wall tile is gonna be great! I love the glass! So many people get so stressed when doing renos close to holidays. LOL re:Easter, although it probably wasn't funny, just hard. Are you taking before, during and after pictures?
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Wednesday, November 21, 2007 - 1:43 pm
No digital camera. Well, I've had one for about five years that I have never (I mean NEVER) used. That Easter I spent with a friend and her BF. (Just the three of us. [She and I were app. 50 at the time. He a little older.] I didn't know the BF at all previously.) She was coming out of a rough divorce. So when we sat down to dinner, she started crying. Oh no. Got over that. Then the two of them started talking baby talk. I mean really baby talk. And they kept it up. I could not get out of there soon enough.
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Cinnamongirl
Member
01-10-2001
| Wednesday, November 21, 2007 - 5:11 pm
Ewwwwwwwwwwwww!! R.U.N. LOL funny story!
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Riviere
Member
09-09-2000
| Sunday, November 25, 2007 - 1:55 am
My small bath remodel did this order: walls first, tile floor 2nd, plumbing 3rd and cabinetry last. The walls were messy demolishing to studs and a new floor didn't need immediate abuse. The floor was least of decorative worry being white sans a design as the tile walls have. Knew the priming & painting would be messy without extra headache protecting a new floor so wall tiles could be cut onsite, too. Just a time saving idea!
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Sunday, November 25, 2007 - 9:03 am
Actually, I'm guessing about order things are done. Trying to remember from my neighbor's kitchen remodel about a year ago. I'm not doing any of it . . . so whatever. Still waiting on the cabinets.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - 7:02 am
I've always thought of my self as easy-going, go with the flow, flexible kinda person. NOT. I hate it when my life / routines are upset. Ol' fogy here. Finally, kitchen remodel will start on Friday. Today and tomorrow have to empty out the kitchen. All into the living and dining rooms. I'm in a one bedroom condo, so rooms aren't big (but they are comfortable size). So though kitchen isn't big either, putting all that stuff into the other rooms. Ugh!
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Cinnamongirl
Member
01-10-2001
| Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - 12:26 pm
Ugh is right!! but.. just think how worth it its going to be..a pain in the butt for sure..but you're gonna be wishing you'd done it sooner. I'm so excited for you.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Thursday, December 13, 2007 - 9:00 am
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Ugh!
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