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Kitchen Cabinets Are Hung
The kitchen cabinets are hung. (and it only took 4 freaking trips to IKEA.) We agreed early on in this process that we would keep all the lover cabinets. As far as we can tell, they were installed...
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Tile Backsplash
We didn’t even know what we wanted..SO we just grabbed one of everything that we thought might work….. A couple mixed glass mosaics, subway tiles in stainless and cream ceramic, a solid khaki glass...
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Grout That Tile Backsplash
Now for grout. We picked 3 that we thought would work, (a lite one, a medium one, and a third that I just knew was way too dark.) I made a sample board with the 3 grouts… Here they are dried…and whiped...
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A Little Under Cabinet Lighting
We thought a little light under the new cabinets would be a crowning touch to our remodel. These “puck lights” from Home Depot ( We bought white ) are meant to be plugged in, but we cut the cords and...
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New Appliances
We discussed buying new appliances. It was agreed that we definitely didn’t NEED any new appliances…..that it was entirely a “want” situation. Since we had been aiming all our cash towards this kitchen...
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Where to Store Our Wine?
Neither of us are wine drinkers. The Good Lord knows that I prefer the occasional beer, and I push Jamie towards Rum and Coke for his “Peace and Quiet Juice”. Sometimes, I will buy a bottle of wine if...
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New Kitchen Hardware
We didn’t like the hardware in our kitchen. We didn’t like the size, we didn’t like the placement, we didn’t like the scale. NO-Sir-E, not one bit. BIG doors on the pantry…little bitty handles.. That...
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The New Kitchen is Revealed
Well, It certainly took long enough…. After all, we started shopping for granite counters on February 11…..the workmen started tearing up the old kitchen on February 18. For the past couple months, we...
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DIY Post on Stagetecture
Remember that A-Ma-Zing Spice drawer that we built when we did our kitchen remodel a few months ago? Let me refresh your memory, Oh Yeah! There it is…….Pretty remarkable, We know. Wanna know how we did...
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The Cavender Diary on Apartment Therapy’s theKitchn
It happened….and we are overjoyed!!!!! The wise editors of Apartment Therapy found our kitchen update worthy of sharing with the A.T. community. Our remodel was born of necessity, we couldn’t get past...
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