Kitchen Renovation

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HeirloomGardens · 09-09-2009, 10:21 AM

After being out of commission for so many months, the gardens have become a lost cause and I've decided to ignore them until next year. LOL. In the meantime, I thought I'd start doing some work inside the house. I figured I'd start with the kitchen and was looking at kitchen ideas this morning and found this...

http://www.thekitchendesigner.org/st...n%20design.jpg

Ugh!

gardenbug · 09-09-2009, 10:24 AM

Now THAT is motivation to get back in the garden!

redstar · 09-09-2009, 10:26 AM

Certainly would be a kitchen to deter me from cooking in it. There is someone for everything, and everything for someone.

We renovated our kitchen 2 years ago, still finishing up stuff. We did the work ourselves. Gutted the whole old thing, yep we did, even took part of ceilings down, yep. But its all worth it in the end.

HeirloomGardens · 09-09-2009, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by gardenbug

now that is motivation to get back in the garden!

rofl!

Cindym · 09-09-2009, 01:17 PM

So what are you thinking about doing? How major a renovation? Ours was part of a larger project and took considerably longer than anticipated. We contracted the work. Had a temporary kitchen for just shy of a year. Did dishes in a bus bin in the bathtub every day. We don't have kids, so it was just the two of us and Mike was gone half the time. Still, there were days it was a challenge.

Angela · 09-09-2009, 02:43 PM

That kitchen picture is truly dreadful. It would give me nightmares. Good grief.

karma · 09-09-2009, 02:44 PM

Is it Halloween yet?

I tackled this a year ago and I'm still working to get the color right on the cabinets. Wishing you the very best!

SunnyDay · 09-09-2009, 04:01 PM

Remember the playing card kitchen? Yikes! I see this one as about the same...LOUD!

Looking forward to your project as it progresses.

dahlianut · 09-09-2009, 05:45 PM

DJ, we also just did a kitchen remodel and I stepped out of my comfort box, white, only because my kids said I needed to. It took me a long time to get use to the new colors and I do like them now. But that kitchen you posted is --god awful!!!
Hope you find just what you are looking for.

HeirloomGardens · 09-10-2009, 05:57 AM

This is a project that has been languishing for years. Sometime back when we first moved in (7 years ago), we ripped out the kitchen peninsula and a wall between the kitchen and the office. We never fixed up the wall of the chimney flue where the peninsula had been attached, nor did we put up a new wall between the kitchen and the office.

The whole thing that started my current project is the chimney flue. I'm sick to death of looking at the part that got messed up during demolition, so I thought a quick fix would be to put beadboard over it.

Of course it would be one thing if I was just fixing up the chimney flue, but that would be too easy. *snort* I decided that since I'm at it, I'd rip off the ugly "tile" panelling behind the washer and dryer. I intend(ed) to rip off the same panelling behind the stove, too, and behind the refrigerator and just get rid of that stuff once and for all. I've despised it ever since we moved in. I even put one coat of primer over it at some point just to help make it blend into the background until I figured out what I was going to do to replace it. At any rate, I figured that if I was going to do that, I might as well do something about the mastic that runs along the entire backsplash at the same time.

Well, you know how one things runs into another... If I was going to have nice clean beadboard I thought it would make sense to fix up the whole kitchen and be done with it until we get around to gutting it and doing everything right. LOL. Soooo, I'll be painting the unbeadboarded portions of the walls either a curry color or a warm red, repainting the cabinets white, repainting the cabinet interiors red (probably/maybe), removing the ugly scroll trim above the kitchen sink, and putting nicer trim below the sink window. There are other details I'll fix as I come to them, like replacing the trim missing around the door going into the office and above the door that goes to the dog room.

Here is what the kitchen looked like on our walkthrough prior to buying the house. Notice the peninsula, 1950s wood panelling, and ugly green "tile" panelling.
2009-09-10-kitchen-renovation00.jpg

Note the ugly counter surface and matching backsplash.
2009-09-10-kitchen-renovation01.jpg

More green panelling, and see how worn and dirty the cabinets are? I always marvel at how nice the kitchen looks in these old photos because the cabinets were so filthy that even engine cleaner didn't get the fingerprints off of them. I can't stand that scrolled trim above the kitchen window. We have matching scroll above the big window in our living room, too. Uck!
2009-09-10-kitchen-renovation02.jpg

The walls, the floors, and the wood beam above my husband's head were absolutely disgusting. So much grease, dirt, and grime. Sometimes I still smell cigarette smoke in the kitchen and neither one of us smokes.
2009-09-10-kitchen-renovation03.jpg

This is how the renovation began seven years ago. Out came the wall. Don't ask why; I have no idea except that my husband didn't like the panelling and wouldn't listen to me when I said it would be livable if we just painted it. So, the panelling went and then he ripped out the studs, too, and an electrical outlet. *sigh*
2009-09-10-kitchen-renovation04.jpg

Then he started removing the countertops and backsplash, leaving behind ugly black mastic. I eventually painted that white to make it blend in, just like I did with the ugly green tile. We also temporarily covered the counters with floor tile. I'm thinking that depending on how the beadboard looks, I might just butcher block the counters while I'm at it and skip the eventual gutting and remodelling... leave it all for someone else's headache.
2009-09-10-kitchen-renovation05.jpg

This is after I painted over the mastic and painted the cabinets because I just couldn't get them clean. The brown on the wall and floor in the foreground is where the peninsula used to be. The mask on the wall hides a bad patching job that we discovered when we removed the wallpaper. It's this area that I am sick of looking at and that made me start the current beadboard project.
2009-09-10-kitchen-renovation06.jpg

Here you can see where part of the floor has been torn up. I don't remember why we did that, but I think it had gotten wet somehow. It turned out to be a really horrible project and was the only area we removed. The floor just cannot be cleaned and we'd both like to get rid of it, but we're saving that project for the gutting... if we ever get there. The towels hanging over the top of the door are to keep out the draft that comes through due to trim missing on the other side of the door. The dog room is on the other side and because that room is missing the ceiling and isn't insulated, it gets down to freezing in there in the winter, making the kitchen very cold when the towels aren't in place... so the towels stay there year round. *joy*
2009-09-10-kitchen-renovation07.jpg

The green "tile" panelling is almost bearable when painted white, but I can't take it anymore. You can also see where I started painting the floor tile a creamy color a long time ago just so that I wouldn't have to look at it or touch the dirt.
2009-09-10-kitchen-renovation08.jpg

Here you can kind of see why I want to beadboard the chimney flue (behind the mask and side table). I've used numerous things over the years to hide that wall... stereo system, giant Boston Fern, cookbooks. Time to be done with it once and for all.
2009-09-10-kitchen-renovation09.jpg

09-09-2009, 10:21 AM	#1
HeirloomGardens Gardenbuddy Join Date: May 2007 Location: MA Country: USA Plant Zone: 5	Kitchen Renovation After being out of commission for so many months, the gardens have become a lost cause and I've decided to ignore them until next year. LOL. In the meantime, I thought I'd start doing some work inside the house. I figured I'd start with the kitchen and was looking at kitchen ideas this morning and found this... http://www.thekitchendesigner.org/st...n%20design.jpg Ugh!

09-09-2009, 10:24 AM	#2
gardenbug Gardenbuddy Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Ontario Country: Canada Plant Zone: zone 4/5	Now THAT is motivation to get back in the garden!

09-09-2009, 10:26 AM	#3
redstar Gardenbuddy Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: PA, Chester County Country: USA Plant Zone: 6	Certainly would be a kitchen to deter me from cooking in it. There is someone for everything, and everything for someone. We renovated our kitchen 2 years ago, still finishing up stuff. We did the work ourselves. Gutted the whole old thing, yep we did, even took part of ceilings down, yep. But its all worth it in the end.

09-09-2009, 01:17 PM	#5
Cindym Gardenbuddy Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Louisiana Country: USA Plant Zone: 8b	So what are you thinking about doing? How major a renovation? Ours was part of a larger project and took considerably longer than anticipated. We contracted the work. Had a temporary kitchen for just shy of a year. Did dishes in a bus bin in the bathtub every day. We don't have kids, so it was just the two of us and Mike was gone half the time. Still, there were days it was a challenge.

09-09-2009, 02:43 PM	#6
Angela Gardenbuddy Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Washington Country: USA Plant Zone: 7 Blog Entries: 4	That kitchen picture is truly dreadful. It would give me nightmares. Good grief.

09-09-2009, 02:44 PM	#7
karma Gardenbuddy Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: PNW/WA State Country: USA Plant Zone: Z-denial 8	Is it Halloween yet? I tackled this a year ago and I'm still working to get the color right on the cabinets. Wishing you the very best!

09-09-2009, 04:01 PM	#8
SunnyDay Gardenbuddy Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Michigan Country: USA Plant Zone: 5	Remember the playing card kitchen? Yikes! I see this one as about the same...LOUD! Looking forward to your project as it progresses.

09-09-2009, 05:45 PM	#9
dahlianut Gardenbuddy Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Washington Country: USA Plant Zone: zone 8	DJ, we also just did a kitchen remodel and I stepped out of my comfort box, white, only because my kids said I needed to. It took me a long time to get use to the new colors and I do like them now. But that kitchen you posted is --god awful!!! Hope you find just what you are looking for.

09-10-2009, 05:57 AM	#10
HeirloomGardens Gardenbuddy Join Date: May 2007 Location: MA Country: USA Plant Zone: 5	This is a project that has been languishing for years. Sometime back when we first moved in (7 years ago), we ripped out the kitchen peninsula and a wall between the kitchen and the office. We never fixed up the wall of the chimney flue where the peninsula had been attached, nor did we put up a new wall between the kitchen and the office. The whole thing that started my current project is the chimney flue. I'm sick to death of looking at the part that got messed up during demolition, so I thought a quick fix would be to put beadboard over it. Of course it would be one thing if I was just fixing up the chimney flue, but that would be too easy. snort I decided that since I'm at it, I'd rip off the ugly "tile" panelling behind the washer and dryer. I intend(ed) to rip off the same panelling behind the stove, too, and behind the refrigerator and just get rid of that stuff once and for all. I've despised it ever since we moved in. I even put one coat of primer over it at some point just to help make it blend into the background until I figured out what I was going to do to replace it. At any rate, I figured that if I was going to do that, I might as well do something about the mastic that runs along the entire backsplash at the same time. Well, you know how one things runs into another... If I was going to have nice clean beadboard I thought it would make sense to fix up the whole kitchen and be done with it until we get around to gutting it and doing everything right. LOL. Soooo, I'll be painting the unbeadboarded portions of the walls either a curry color or a warm red, repainting the cabinets white, repainting the cabinet interiors red (probably/maybe), removing the ugly scroll trim above the kitchen sink, and putting nicer trim below the sink window. There are other details I'll fix as I come to them, like replacing the trim missing around the door going into the office and above the door that goes to the dog room. Here is what the kitchen looked like on our walkthrough prior to buying the house. Notice the peninsula, 1950s wood panelling, and ugly green "tile" panelling. 2009-09-10-kitchen-renovation00.jpg Note the ugly counter surface and matching backsplash. 2009-09-10-kitchen-renovation01.jpg More green panelling, and see how worn and dirty the cabinets are? I always marvel at how nice the kitchen looks in these old photos because the cabinets were so filthy that even engine cleaner didn't get the fingerprints off of them. I can't stand that scrolled trim above the kitchen window. We have matching scroll above the big window in our living room, too. Uck! 2009-09-10-kitchen-renovation02.jpg The walls, the floors, and the wood beam above my husband's head were absolutely disgusting. So much grease, dirt, and grime. Sometimes I still smell cigarette smoke in the kitchen and neither one of us smokes. 2009-09-10-kitchen-renovation03.jpg This is how the renovation began seven years ago. Out came the wall. Don't ask why; I have no idea except that my husband didn't like the panelling and wouldn't listen to me when I said it would be livable if we just painted it. So, the panelling went and then he ripped out the studs, too, and an electrical outlet. sigh 2009-09-10-kitchen-renovation04.jpg Then he started removing the countertops and backsplash, leaving behind ugly black mastic. I eventually painted that white to make it blend in, just like I did with the ugly green tile. We also temporarily covered the counters with floor tile. I'm thinking that depending on how the beadboard looks, I might just butcher block the counters while I'm at it and skip the eventual gutting and remodelling... leave it all for someone else's headache. 2009-09-10-kitchen-renovation05.jpg This is after I painted over the mastic and painted the cabinets because I just couldn't get them clean. The brown on the wall and floor in the foreground is where the peninsula used to be. The mask on the wall hides a bad patching job that we discovered when we removed the wallpaper. It's this area that I am sick of looking at and that made me start the current beadboard project. 2009-09-10-kitchen-renovation06.jpg Here you can see where part of the floor has been torn up. I don't remember why we did that, but I think it had gotten wet somehow. It turned out to be a really horrible project and was the only area we removed. The floor just cannot be cleaned and we'd both like to get rid of it, but we're saving that project for the gutting... if we ever get there. The towels hanging over the top of the door are to keep out the draft that comes through due to trim missing on the other side of the door. The dog room is on the other side and because that room is missing the ceiling and isn't insulated, it gets down to freezing in there in the winter, making the kitchen very cold when the towels aren't in place... so the towels stay there year round. joy 2009-09-10-kitchen-renovation07.jpg The green "tile" panelling is almost bearable when painted white, but I can't take it anymore. You can also see where I started painting the floor tile a creamy color a long time ago just so that I wouldn't have to look at it or touch the dirt. 2009-09-10-kitchen-renovation08.jpg Here you can kind of see why I want to beadboard the chimney flue (behind the mask and side table). I've used numerous things over the years to hide that wall... stereo system, giant Boston Fern, cookbooks. Time to be done with it once and for all. 2009-09-10-kitchen-renovation09.jpg