Before and After - Kitchen Remodel in Post and Beam Home
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Comments (27)@gr8day and @taggie - Thank you! Yes, the range has been sitting in house for a week and we finally got it in last night (which was a disaster but wont' tell that story, but will say that Lowes is ordering us a new glass top!). Thank you for the sweet feedback about the kitchen. Considering it's an "accidental" kitchen design, I'm grateful it turned out as well as it did....See Moretankless water heater - install before kitchen remodel or after
Comments (5)Thanks for the info. Can we have an old style gas water heater (in the attic) AND tankless water heater downstairs servicing the same house and gradually phasing out the fixtures (room by room) with end result of eliminating the old gas water heater after remodel complete? This post has helped me realize that my main desire is to try to do this in phases rather than one job (which I'm sure would be cheaper.) For one reason, the smaller jobs help us evaluate the contractor and decide whether we want to continue using him (he gets to evauate too). It also helps us keep from having so many "change orders" before job is done as we learn more about our 77 year old house. (think I will cross post this in the "old house" forum as well) background: I think we are committed to going forward because we LOVE our neighborhood but neighboring homes are old like ours so besides prices being quite high though footprints are small (in center of major metro area), we are afraid we would buy another old home that was in worse shape than ours and would still need to do work....See Moreremodeling kitchen in 1864 post and beam house
Comments (38)The OP stated that "also, we cant move the entrance to the dining room to near the front of the house since that is actually across from the bathroom." I think this means Jillius's plan would have to be tweaked to make it work. Lisafromvermont, do you like the blue cabinets and are they something you want to keep? I've owned 50 year old plywood cabinets, and they are as solid as all get-out, but they have all had a distinct odor, which DH and I refer to as "that old plywood smell." For us, painting the cabinets did not remove the odor. We even tried sealing them with poly, and still the odor remained. (We still kept those cabinets, distinct smell and all!) The old cupboards are cute, but, if you hang around here awhile, you'll learn of the virtue of "drawers, drawers, drawers!" for storage. This doesn't mean you can't do an unfitted kitchen, but it could mean you will be looking for some solidly built dressers if you don't want to go with stock cabinets. I agree with Lazygardens of the importance of nailing down your workflow in the kitchen first, establishing the eating area, and then finessing the cabinetry. I would keep the pantry! Many of us would love to have a pantry like that but can't find the space. Yours is already there! : ) Here's a floorplan I sketched up for you. It does keep the blue cabinets, which would make for a really nice baking area. I put in a peninsula where you could work facing the view out of the front windows. (I love to work facing a pretty view.) The prep sink could be shared by the stove's prep area and the baking area at the blue cabinets. I couldn't get a table to fit in this plan without removing the blue cabs, so I put in peninsula seating instead. Hopefully you'll get lots of other good ideas when people filter back in as the holiday season calms down....See MoreBefore & After: Beach House Kitchen Remodel!
Comments (13)@ Mari Zone - it's much easier to remove extra cabinets at a vacation house than at your regular house....so much less stuff to store!! :)...See MoreMcGuire + Co. Kitchen & Bath
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