Last minute decision on window location. Please help!
Katie S
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Comments (4)the heights are different in the 2 pics. The second is higher-note inner shelves on the sides. The first has a wider cooktop-more burners-no inner shelves-ovens outside the area somewhere. The cook in the first picture would be moving side to side a bit more while cooking but reaching outside the space for supplies. The 2nd person would be fixed in that stance with needed items on those shelves-less side to side movement , but more head and shoulder room, so it works. What do you need for what you will be doing, how it's set-up and your body type? They are both nice:the first is more formal,refined. The second is more useful/inviting.If you are going higher-use the space wisely as in pic 2....See MoreTile above window- last minute decision- husband tiling now.
Comments (18)My vote is not to tile above the window. I know that tiling all the way up to the ceiling and around the window is on trend right now, and industrial-inspired look that also harkens back to the fully-tiled kitchens of the 1920s (at least hear in the mid-Atlantic where I live) But I don't think tiling all the way up is the right choice for your kitchen. I also think it is nice to have some wall for paint, something that can be changed more easily over the years than tile....See MoreLast minute paint color dilemma - please help asap!
Comments (57)OK another update. I took the can of slip back and had them tweak it -- they tried for Violet Pearl but because there were already pigments in there that weren't supposed to be, I ended up with something darker that looked a lot like BM's Piano Concerto instead. I used it to repaint a few of the slip walls and liked it better -- it went from little girl's room lavender to a darker lavender with a bit of grapey tinge. But it was still pretty intense and not grayed out enough. So I went back to the store and grabbed sample cans of Hampshire Rocks, Violet Pearl, and After the Rain - the three lightest on that paint strip. (After the Rain had been a finalist in my earlier deliberations.) Hampshire Rocks was an immediate no -- in the room it looks pink with a gray tinge -- not lavender at all (and -- STOP READING NOW IF YOU HAVE HAMPSHIRE ROCKS ANYWHERE IN YOUR HOUSE CAUSE I DON'T WANT TO RUIN IT FOR YOU -- awful as it sounds, it reminded me of the color a dead person's skin after the undertaker makes them up for the viewing - yikes!). Violet Pearl and After the Rain have serious potential though. The sample cans are some other kind of paint that takes MUCH longer to dry than the aura, so I painted some largish swatches and am waiting for it to dry down fully. More pics tomorrow I guess! I brought home a chip of Capitol White during my first paint store trip and it is beautiful -- it's like the color of vanilla ice cream. But the trim paint is Ben Moore's Simply White which has a creamy tinge. And really, it's a color match done into a different brand of paint that is ended up even creamier than the real Simply White. So when I held the Capitol White up to the trim, there didn't seem to be enough contrast -- it looked like a slightly "off" version of the trim color. I will keep Capitol White in mind for future projects though - it is pretty! LisaD82 - funny you say that about Ocean Air - I wouldn't call it spa blue or baby boy blue -- in real life, it's more like a tiffany box blue. It's pretty but somehow it seems to fight with all the gray in the stone, grout, etc. And Roarah -- I think your room is beautiful and not boring at all!!!!...See MoreLast minute decision 9' or 10' walls.
Comments (13)For me the price isn't much different. I don't believe the price difference is small. Not when you look at the big picture: taller ceilings require more /taller everything: taller windows, taller doors, taller (or stacked) cabinets, more tile, larger artwork, taller drapes or shades or shutters. Up-sizing these things comes at a higher price. Then comes the never-ending up-size: more heating, more cooling costs. I personally think that 10' ceilings only work on a really large house And often not then. More is not automatically better....See MoreKatie S
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