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		<title>The Final Reveal of our Historic Kitchen Renovation</title>
		<link>https://www.deucecitieshenhouse.com/2023/05/the-final-reveal-of-our-historic-kitchen-renovation.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2023 15:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Woah guys, Hello! To say this kitchen reveal is a long time in the making is an understatement, and I am thrilled to reveal our newly renovated kitchen and mudroom addition! This project has been in the works since 2017, and with the help of my trusty friend SketchUp, we were able to come up with the perfect plan for our home through countless iterations. We were asking ourselves big questions, like what does this house need that would make our life inside its walls the most comfortable? Our goal was to create a functional kitchen with room enough to cook and have friends over, a mudroom and utility closet that would work hard for our family, a powder room that would be easily accessible yet tucked away and private, a patio that could be used for summer cookouts, AND that we keep it all historically relevant to the era of the home. We were willing to make a big investment in our home to achieve that. Our home is a 1910 four square/craftsman mix, and we were committed to respecting its historical architecture in all of our renovation plans. Think 1910 in the details but with better plumbing and insulation. We came up with a plan that did a handful of things for us and how we experience our home. Our plan was to turn the space that was formerly the kitchen, pantry and mudroom into a single kitchen which would encompass the entire back quarter of the house instead of just a small portion of it like it had. We would extend out the back of the house, adding a small but mighty 11&#8217;x11&#8242; addition which would gain us a main floor powder room, a coat closet / pantry / utility closet and a mudroom off the rear entrance to the house. That solved a lot of the flow issues we were having on the interior. The addition also solved a number of issues on the exterior of our home too &#8211; I&#8217;ll make sure to follow up once the backyard recovers from last year&#8217;s excavation, but to sum it up quickly, the addition would create an intimate nook we could use as a patio and allow us a better entrance into the yard and garden. Historical Details The most important thing to us was to maintain the historical integrity of our home. We were committed to preserving [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>We&#8217;re Remodeling Our Kitchen and Adding On to Our House!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2022 19:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[People of the internet, greetings and salutations from my little neck of cyberspace. I wanted to write a post and share some exciting news, after 12 years of wanting to renovate our dysfunctional kitchen we are finally able to make it happen and we are going big! We have decided to extend the back end of our house and add on a mudroom, closet and half bath. This will allow us to make our kitchen larger than it currently is because we&#8217;ll be able to absorb the old mudroom and pantry into the future kitchen space. We&#8217;ve been working with a design/build team since November 2020(!) and plan on breaking ground early summer 2022. When we bought our place in 2010 the kitchen was almost a deal breaker. We actually had passed on the house because of the kitchen and then our realtor asked us to come see it again and we agreed that the house should be ours, and someday we&#8217;d remodel the kitchen. I never thought someday would be so far away, but I&#8217;m glad it is because now we can really afford to do build a kitchen that we&#8217;ll love for a long, long time. Drink it in! I&#8217;ve been working on my own designs of the kitchen for years, I probably started in 2018 and it&#8217;s evolved a lot since. I&#8217;m really glad we have taken our time with this because we&#8217;ve really been able to soak up ideas and change things around. Our design/build team has been great too, they&#8217;ve taken my sketches and fine tuned them adding some great insight and ideas. Would you like to see some sketchup renderings, because I&#8217;d love to share them with ya. Just a little disclaimer, these renderings are not the official drawings, it&#8217;s just crazy old me needing to imagine how the kitchen will act and feel from all angles. Some of the cabinetry will be changing size and function, and paint colors are not set in stone, but generally you get the idea of how the space will work. The architectural drawings throughout the post are the correct dimensions for cabinetry, cabinet doors, and drawers. Our current entrance into the kitchen is a very narrow 30&#8243;. We will remove a few sections of the wood paneling and widen the opening. This is how it will look from the living room. The living room currently has the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Lost Year : Cabin Kitchen Update</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scoops]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2021 16:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hey, wow! I never expected it to be nearly a year in between posts. Shit. How fucked up was that last year? What an absolute major bummer quarantine was. I felt like before covid I was in such a groove with the blog, and then it turned quickly turned into not being able to give any effs about anything and just surviving day-to-day. That sounds dark, but that year was dark! My kids did distance learning from March 2020 to June of 2021. They went back to school 8 weeks ago. I was pretty deeply depressed for most of the winter. It was hard to do most things; as I’m sure you all experienced in your own ways. Anywho, on the up and up! It’s nearly the end of October. I have been enjoying transitioning my house back to a house and away from being everyone’s everything – school, office, shelter, entertainment, social hub. You should see me; I’ve been cleaning closets, reorganizing, making beds daily. I’m just a veritable whirlwind of order and cleanliness. Jokes aside, I needed to get the house back to being a house before I could even think about coming back to the blog and sharing again. I did do a few projects here and there over the last 18 months – it just didn’t feel like sharing them was the right thing to do at the time. Now that I’m feeling more settled I thought it might be a good time to begin to catch you all up. I’m going to title this series “The Lost Year” and then share projects I’ve done around home and the cabin – most of them at the cabin. The first project I’m sharing is what I think is close to the final iteration of the cabin kitchen! To catch you up to speed, the cabin kitchen started out as a very basic kitchen that had been showing some wear and tear. The cabinets are all built from standard lumber with simple plywood doors and drawers. It all starts summer 2017 soon after moving in. My Ma and I removed the upper cabinets that blocked the view from the lake. I updated the floors and painted before snow hit the ground the first winter, that update went a long way. The VCT floor tiles were a great solution for updating the kitchen and I was able to cover [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Patching Tile</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scoops]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2020 15:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We’ve been so happy with our new range and range hood at the cabin. It looks great in the space, except for the patch tile patch job that needed to be done. Perhaps this has happened to you? Maybe you needed to remove an over the range microwave or hood vent and realized the new replacement didn’t fit quite the same way as the old and your easy update has turned into a can of worms, because now you have to tile to patch. Whatever your situation may be, patching tile is way less intimidating than you might think...]]></description>
		
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		<title>It&#8217;s Bonkers</title>
		<link>https://www.deucecitieshenhouse.com/2020/03/its-bonkers.html</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scoops]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2020 16:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wow!  I've been trying to wrap my head around writing a post for a while.  How am I supposed to write when all of our lives are changing?  Right now I am in our cabin bunk room writing this post from inside a small closet, my kids are working on their homework next to me on bedside tables that are now being used as desks.  This is all so weird.  My head actually hurts from the pressure and I feel exhausted at the end of the day from all the thinking power my brain is doing...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Reveal : Cabin Kitchen</title>
		<link>https://www.deucecitieshenhouse.com/2018/10/cabin-kitchen-reveal.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2018 18:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So stoked to share the cabin kitchen revamp (mostly on a budget) with ya, I mean it’s only been a year in the making. Talk about slow design! Of course, some of that slowness is by necessity, renovating a small cabin kitchen when you leave 120 miles away isn’t going to happen over night. When I get presented with a design problem like our kitchen cabin, my first instinct is to make the most trying to maximize design on a budget... ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cabin Update : The Kitchen</title>
		<link>https://www.deucecitieshenhouse.com/2017/11/cabin-update-the-kitchen.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2017 00:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hello, budz! It’s so weird writing posts without having the luxury of easily photographing the subject. We have such limited time at the cabin, that when I’m there, project time is strictly for projects and chill time is strictly for chilling. Get it? I bring you my best stab at on-the-fly documentation! I took the photos for this post within a matter of minutes while the fam was waiting for me in the car. I crossed my fingers hoping that I got good shots, and would be able to share the story of what I’ve been cooking up in the kitchen (and it ain’t no dinner bay be!). Let’s just take a little trip down memory lane, shall we? As seen below, the kitchen only a few short months ago when it was still pretty dang cute, but wasn’t just right for us. We weren’t interested in a total overhaul, just enough to make it cool and functional, and a little more cohesive with the rest of the main floor living space. BeeTeeDubs, this is the first time I’ve had to work with an open concept floor plan. I’m way not used to this way of designing. Obviously, everything needs to work together because it is basically the same room. Spaces need to be created using visual cues like furniture arrangement, and cohesion needs to be made using using simple pattern and repeating colors. Or at least that how I’m trying to approach it (aka wingin’ it). My ma and I took down the cabinets that hung over the peninsula before the ink was even dry on the mortgage. It changed the space instantly, opening it up the flow of the open living room to the kitchen. Not only did it allow the chef d’jour be able to chill with kitchen guests on the bar/peninsula/counter-thingy, but also allowed the cook to enjoy a sweet view while cooking – it’s hard to see through cabinets! You may notice that part of the ceiling still needs to be patched. Just pretend you don’t see anything – it’s that lingering job that I just don’t want to do. If I were a betting man, and I’d say I’d be lucky if it would be fixed-up by spring. God bless paint. The cabinets are simple plywood cabinets, nothing fancy. They were functional, but they aren’t in the best of shape. We’re in no rush [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cabin Update : Thinking Green in the Kitchen</title>
		<link>https://www.deucecitieshenhouse.com/2017/09/cabin-update-thinking-green-in-the-kitchen.html</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scoops]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2017 16:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hello people! I wanted to share with you a few ideas I&#8217;ve been knocking around for the cabin kitchen. A little background, the kitchen cabinets are currently painted a light sage green, and the cabin&#8217;s exterior is also green. Green is also my favorite color, so it seemed pretty natural to me to want to incorporate a bunch of green into the cabin design. For me, green is also a protest to all the red and black cabin decor that I am firmly not in to, because of it&#8217;s overuse and misuse. I&#8217;m taking a stance, I&#8217;m woke, I&#8217;m openly, and whole heartedly embracing the natural color of the woods! Okay, so. The cabinets need a refresh. I started with taking down the upper cabinets that hung over the kitchen peninsula so that the main floor felt more open (see pic in this post). Plus, when yer cooking, you can look out at the lake instead of looking at old grungy cabinets hanging from the ceiling. Of course we had to compromise, giving up cabinet space &#8211; howevs, those cabinets have been empty since we moved in, so no biggie. Removing the cabinets left a funny space on the side of the uppers, adding some open shelving here would help to balance the space and give the illusion that the tile goes all the way to the ceiling throughout the entire kitchen. The other big recent change is new paint on the base cabinets. I wanted a dark muted green with blue undertones. I found it in Olive Tree by C+K. Next time we visit the cabin, I&#8217;ll be painting the uppers white and removing that ~~~~ trim above the window. Unlike the gold mine we found on the main floor, there are no hardwoods hidden under the linoleum kitchen flooring. What&#8217;s a babe to do? I think it could be really cool to do a buffalo check style pattern using vinyl tile laid on a 45º angle. I know this plaid flooring is really trendy r n, and it might be a little bit too whimsical for the more mature and sophisticated cabin vibes I&#8217;ve already put together, but I think laid on a 45º angle it could elevate the overall feel. I am in no rush to lay new hardwood or tile, and I think this could be a good &#8220;in the meantime&#8221; solution. There is also tons [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Kitchen Table Makeover with Amy Howard</title>
		<link>https://www.deucecitieshenhouse.com/2015/10/kitchen-table-makeover-with-amy-howard.html</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scoops]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hello, Budz! I&#8217;m excited about this post, like more excited than I knew I would be. I got the chance to work with an amazing line of products, something that was a real game changer for me. Do you know about Amy Howard? I have to admit that I didn&#8217;t going into this, but have discovered a bit about her and a lot about her line of products, Amy Howard at Home. &#8220;I know&#8221;, I&#8217;m getting tired of myself starting these posts with &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know about this thing, but now I do, and it&#8217;s pretty cool&#8221;, but what am I supposed to do when that&#8217;s really true, and that really happened. Maybe I need to become a better story teller, or something. How do you feel about antiquing furniture and faux finishes? If you&#8217;re like me you&#8217;d say &#8220;meh&#8221;. However, once I got the Amy Howard at Home paints and waxes in my hands it was a different story. I was excited to use the chalk based One Step paint, and I was even more amped up after the first few strokes. This stuff went on like no paint I had ever used before. Can I say that it almost felt fool proof? It was nice and thick and smooth, it was easy to apply with a flat China Bristle brush (I was definitely doubting how well this would work) and within seconds I began to realize so many things that could be possible with this paint. I&#8217;m a real sucker for spray painted finishes when I want that flat matte look, but this One Step paint achieved that rich matte feel way better than my favorite can of spray paint could have. From now on I will have a can of black and white One Step on hand at all times. Discovering this paint was just the tip of the iceberg. I started by doing a little experimenting by using swatches of the flat black as the base. I then began to add different waxes and even the &#8216;Dust of Ages&#8216; powder to see what other sort of finishes I could achieve. Two things happened during this process, I realized that antique-ish finish and textures that actually pass for old might change the way I felt about &#8220;faux&#8221; finished furniture. Secondly, I was amazed by how easy, creative and relaxing the whole process was. Like, I haven&#8217;t been [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Kitchen : 16 Week Progress Report</title>
		<link>https://www.deucecitieshenhouse.com/2013/12/kitchen-16-week-progress-report.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2013 15:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Tiny Table Transformations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2013 18:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hey guys! Just over here finishing up a bunch of small projects left in the kitchen. I&#8217;m still waiting for the new light fixture to arrive before I can show the big kitchen makeover to you! I can barely stand it. In the meantime, let me talk to you about my kitchen table. I bought this table at a garage sale when I was 17 in anticipation of moving out of my folks&#8217; place and into my own apartment someday. I&#8217;ve had this table forever, and I totally am all sentimental about it. It&#8217;s been with me all of my adult life, and now my kids eat at it 3 times a day, I mean look at &#8217;em, too cute! I can&#8217;t part with with the table, and I need to make it work in our new kitchen space. Right now, it&#8217;s kinda just hanging out, all alone &#8211; not relating to anything. &#8220;Come on table, no man is an island, you need to get with the kitchen program, and start looking like you belong here already!&#8221; Seriously though, I am kind of at a loss for incorporating this vintage yellow formica table with it&#8217;s chrome curvy legs into my new, fresh, semi-minimalist, semi-industrial kitchen. I do have a few ideas, but I don&#8217;t know if any of them are really the right solution. First, I painted the kids eatin&#8217; stools grey on the bottom, the same dark grey I used in the pantry in mudroom. I left the top seat and step area the natural wood, and will oil them up, so they are lush and velvety like the new butcher block counter and shelves in the kitchen. I like the stools mucho better now that the bases are painted. I also added some artwork to hang in the window. Now that everything is white, the double window just felt like a vast bright hole on top of the white walls. Maybe, I&#8217;m just not used to white everywhere, but I thought adding a small framed piece above the table might give the eat-in space some weight spacially, so it&#8217;s not just alone, floating in a field of white below the window. That one little print really works, and makes the table feel more incorporated into the space. I didn&#8217;t really have anything in mind for the artwork I would use, so I started looking around the house. I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Kitchen : 10 Week Progress Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2013 15:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m so proud of this post, you guys! Look what I did! I made our kitchen so much better than it was before, and I love it! Heads up &#8211; I&#8217;m gonna be talking about myself like I rule the world for the rest of this post, I&#8217;m just so into how I slayed this kitchen beast! Remember when you guys gave me tons of feedback when I posted about the dilemmas I was having with this sad, lonely, confused side of the kitchen. I was keeping myself awake at night (many, many nights) trying to figure out how I was going to make this one wall look like it belonged in the kitchen. The layout was so strange; I was dealing with two entry ways, a huge refrigerator, a chimney, a weird cove (where a stairway used to be), and a window that was sitting next to the eat-in table. What is a girl to do? Fer real, it was a mystery, and I did not know what to do. What I did know was that I had to do something that would unify the space, and would embrace the differences. Remember, this wasn&#8217;t an expensive gut job, this was a coming-up-with-the-best-solution-on-a-limited budget job. I couldn&#8217;t get shelves out of my head, I knew it would help. Adding horizontal lines would bring the huge fridge, quirky old chimney and cove together and help them function as one. But no matter how much sense adding shelves made, I couldn&#8217;t shake the feeling that there had to be a better way. I was starting to get stressed out. I had painted and restored cabinets, tiled walls, and painted the entire kitchen, there was only one thing left to be done, tackle that weird-side-of-the-kitchen-beast. It was coming down to go time, I had scheduled this past weekend to install shelves, but I just wasn&#8217;t sure that it was the right thing to do. I continued to look for the solution and I was full of self doubt, and then it dawned on me, duh, add cabinets dummy! I thought of this genius idea on Friday, like as in 4 days ago Friday. If this were some sort of sports game, there would be seconds on the clock, and then I would come and make/dunk/hit/throw the most winningest goal/point/score/basket/homerun/touchdown you have ever seen. My brain got smart and just figured it out &#8211; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pulling the Trigger on a Light Fixture</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[School House Electric We made a decision on a light fixture for the kitchen, and I&#8217;m telling you it was H A R D ! About a month ago I installed the Foto pendant from Ikea, just to get a feel for what a big enamel pendant fixture might look like in the space, how it would cast light, and how it would function. I wasn&#8217;t ready to commit to a fixture, and for $29, the Foto pendant was worth the money to take the ol&#8217; light-fixture-test-spin. The Foto pendant is 20&#8243; wide and we have it hanging 28&#8243; from the ceiling, just hovering over my 6&#8242; 4&#8243; husband&#8217;s head. It&#8217;s similar in style to all the fixtures I was originally considering for the space. The Foto lamp didn&#8217;t cast the best light, it was kind of dramatic, and I liked it for that reason, but others were not as in to the dim light situtation. We have under cabinet lighting over all the workspaces, to me, the overhead light was just additional light, the new fixture didn&#8217;t have to replace the sun or anything. I get it though, the room wasn&#8217;t very well lit, and some people have issues with that. Also, Jeff was constantly ducking under the light every time he walked through the kitchen. So the large enamel pendant fixture I was hoping for was out of the picture. Back to the drawing board, dawgz. I was searching Schoolhouse Electric&#8217;s and Rejuvination&#8217;s websites, hoping there was something I missed, or didn&#8217;t consider, when I was on my original mission for an enamel pendant lamp. Then I saw it, the &#8220;Factory Satellite 3&#8221; from Schoolhouse Electric, it even came with color shade options. Now, I wasn&#8217;t originally thinking that I needed a colorful light fixture guys, I was thinking black or white, nothing crazy. But then, I realized that this light fixture would be a great opportunity to incorporate my fave place on the color spectrum (teal/aqua/seafoam/turquoise) into the space. I was planning on adding a lot of teal accents to the kitchen anyways, so wouldn&#8217;t this be the perfect spot to do it? Hold up though, investing $359 on a light fixture that has a very specific look isn&#8217;t something I would normally do. Normally, anything that costs dough in my house has to be neutral, that way if it needs to be repurposed down the road [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Kitchen : 8 Week Progress Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sitting on a heating pad as I type this. Did you know that tiling projects really hurt your body? Well at least the payoff looks pretty, don&#8217;t you think? I was actually just feeling really overwhelmed by how much is left to do on this project, but now that I sit here and look at the photos, I think that it&#8217;s actually starting to come together. Progress. I&#8217;ve been so busy since I saw you last. I&#8217;ve spent many coffee fueled hours in the kitchen. By the end of the day, I am totally drained and have nothing to give, but I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel! So this is what I&#8217;ve done&#8230; I&#8217;ve spent most of my time tiling. I started behind the oven 10 days ago, it took an afternoon, but the next day I was ready to move on to the backsplash areas, which I completed during two afternoons. Later in the week I moved on to finishing all my small cuts with a tile saw. Lemme&#8217; tell you something &#8211; small cuts are the worst and I hate them. Tile saws are awesome, but cutting and measuring and running from the house to the garage and back again in the cold is so awful. When I placed my last tile I was so, so happy to be done! I was sure I wouldn&#8217;t have to back-butter another tile for a long time. I rewarded myself and took a day off, and then started up again with grouting the tile. I was originally considering grouting the tile with a dark charcoal grout. I ended up liking the look of the pre-grouted tile so much that I went a shade lighter choosing &#8220;Delorean Gray&#8221;. I would prefer the grout just a smidge darker, but am hoping the grout darkens later on when I go to seal it. Oh, look at that? One Saturday afternoon while sitting in the living room, staring lovingly at my new kitchen tile, the thought occurred to me that maybe I should just tile the mudroom too. It would pull the spaces together a bit by repeating the subway pattern &#8211; I also decided that it would make the most sense to only tile as high as the under cabinet height of the tile in the pantry. That way, there wouldn&#8217;t be any visual differences in height [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Kitchen : 6 Week Progress Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2013 15:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The best thing ever happened yesterday, after 6 weeks of what seemed like non stop painting I finally finished the kitchen cabinets! Man, I had no idea when I started how tedious it was going to be to paint these things. I figured it would be easy to just paint a few as a time (which I would still do again as opposed to all at once) as I casually made my way around the room. The thing is, painting cabinets is never fun, no matter what! I know that now. I think I probably spent about 4-6 hours per cabinet; there was 24 cabinets and 4 cabinet drawers. It took me longer in the pantry area where I was repairing and painting the old cabinets &#8211; there was lots of extra patching, sanding and all around TLC needed. There wasn&#8217;t a day that went by that I didn&#8217;t spend at least an two hours in the dark lonely basement painting cabinets. It was the worst. I am so happy to be done, and even happier with the results. I am sure some of you thought I was a little nuts going from cream colored cabinets to white, but fer real, this bright white (All White by Farrow &#038; Ball) makes such a difference in the room. I love it so mucho. I am writing this post in the kitchen, just so I can hang out in here &#8211; that would&#8217;ve never happened before. I am excited to get moving on the backsplash tiling, I&#8217;ll be diving right in this weekend. I am a little scared, but have done my homework, and I feel like I can pull this off. After tiling is done, I can paint the rest of the room and get started on some smaller end-of-game projects. I am getting so excited to see everything come together, you guys! When the tile is finished it will be the greatest victory of all time! Also, I am happy to report that somehow I am right on target with my timeline. Maybe this kitchen will be done by Thanksgiving after all&#8230; In other news, Waff (aka Jeff, aka my old man) and I installed a new microwave! This is a huge deal for us because we totally suck balls at working together. We got this baby installed on a Saturday night with no swears at all, and after, we [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thinking About : Kitchen Lighting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2013 14:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[1 Ranarp Pendant Lamp from Ikea A new line of lighting from Ikea currently not available in the states, I hope we&#8217;ll be seeing it soon. 2 Factory Light No.7 from School House Electric 3 Foto Pendant from Ikea 4 Hektar Pendant from Ikea 5 Factory Satellite 3 from Schoolhouse Electric 6 Baltimore Pendant from Rejuvination You wouldn&#8217;t think that choosing lighting would be so hard, but for me it is. I don&#8217;t often get the chance to replace lighting in my house with cool new lighting, and the task of choosing something is stressing me out. Originally I thought I would get the Hektar light from Ikea to place in the main area of the kitchen, but after almost pulling the trigger, I wimped out &#8211; the size of it is just too big. I do love the look of the Hektar, but combine the ceiling height with my super tall husband and there just isn&#8217;t enough room for it all. While I was at Ikea I did grab myself two of the small Hektar pendant lamps for the pantry and mudroom areas, and I totally love them. More to come on that in that next kitchen update post. As a stop gap for the main kitchen lighting, I picked up a $30 Foto lamp from Ikea, not knowing how long it would be before I actually found the perfect fixture. So here I go on a mission to find the most awesome lighting for the kitchen. Above is a list of my favorites so far, although I am sure that will change as I continue to hunt. I&#8217;ve got a big crush on enamel shades right now, I don&#8217;t think I would&#8217;ve predicted that I would have been so obsessed 6 months ago, but I am. I guess I&#8217;m worried that this is just a phase and I&#8217;ll get over it, and then I won&#8217;t like my light anymore. I think the prudent thing to do is wait a bit more before I lock in &#8211; I mean, I gotta see how the kitchen comes together. I am really excited to find the best light ever though, I kinda think it&#8217;s gonna be the icing on the cake you guys.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Kitchen : 4 Week Progress Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 16:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hey Guys! I&#8217;m here to fill you in on my progress after another 2 weeks (give or take a few days) spent hard at the kitchen game. This lifestyle is becoming a little too real for me. I&#8217;m finding myself waking up constantly throughout the night realizing I&#8217;ve been dreaming about the kitchen and then I start thinking about the kitchen. For most people, waking up in the middle of the night to think about something would indicate that one was stressed, but I&#8217;m not having stress dreams. I think I&#8217;m waking up in the middle of the night because I spend all of the free time working on this project. It&#8217;s kinda like when you dream about a job you hate; when I was in high school I would have dreams about checking other peoples groceries, and when I was a 20 something I would have dreams about taking pizza orders. Now that I&#8217;m old and domestic and spend all my time doing the monotonous task of precisely painting cabinets, it&#8217;s all that I can dream about. I&#8217;m not stressed though, honestly, I&#8217;m kind of enjoying this kitchen reno thang, granted I&#8217;m starting to hate painting cabinets, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m stressed. I love the adventure of just making something that was okay, way better. Plus, I&#8217;m being a little risky. If I don&#8217;t like something I just tear it down, not really worrying about it because I just want it to be good in the end, even if that means figuring out how to fix it later. So if you remember, last week I left you off with a butt load of things that I was in the middle of. I&#8217;ve been able to check a few thinks off my list and I&#8217;m excited to share them with you. Yes, I am still painting the cabinets, I figure I have about 10 more days of cabinet painting if all goes well, so that job is not done, but I&#8217;m chugging away at it. Really, I have finished some stuff though. All the pantry cabinets are painted, all the hardware is stripped and all the doors are repaired to an &#8220;it&#8217;s pretty alright&#8221; standard. Of course I&#8217;m not going to ever be able to make those 100 year old cabinets pristine, but I made them much better, and now each and every one of them closes and latches! [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tips on How to Paint Vintage Paneled Cabinets</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 19:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Unifying Spaces in the Kitchen</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My kitchen is really good at being segmented. Remember the floor plan I shared with you from the other day? There is the &#8220;pantry&#8221; and mudroom areas, the main kitchen area, and then there is this strange chopped-up wall on the far side of the room. When I took this photo on the lower right, I made this wall look good. It&#8217;s all thanks to a little styling trick I call cropping. See, no fridge! Honestly that wall really doesn&#8217;t look anywhere close to that good in real life. It&#8217;s a strange place on that side of the kitchen. Lined up on one wall is an entry way, a huge refrigerator, a brick chimney, and a little cove where a stairway used to be. The stairway was removed and the wall closed off a long time as a way to save space I assume. Do you see what I&#8217;m saying about that wall though? Weird and choppy! I thought if I&#8217;m spending so much time making the rest of the kitchen look beautiful, I better address this crazy wall too. The above photo is the solution I have come up with to make this space cooler. I figure why not unify the wall with a few shelves, the lowest of them being counter depth. I could buy some butcher block for a reasonable price and use cleats to mount the shelves to the wall. The wall and shelving could function as a &#8220;baking area&#8221;. Imagine this: I have my mixer, a few cute bowls and canister set all hanging out on those nice new shelves. It would look pretty, right? Then maybe someday I could get a nice fancy fridge and a marble table! Last year I was gushing over this marble table in this old kitchen that I had seen in the BHG magazine. The table could be multi functional, using it for casual family dinners and as extra space for baking! I mean who doesn&#8217;t need a baking zone &#8211; I&#8217;m not really sold on the baking zone idea, but it&#8217;s the best use of the space I can think of so far. Best other idea would be to use it as a coffee zone. Decisions, decisions. I really like the idea of tiling the cove area on the right side of the wall with subway tile, just like the rest of the kitchen&#8217;s backsplashes will be. I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Kitchen : 2 Week Progress Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 16:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kitchen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kitchen Renovation]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hey Guys! If you follow me on instagram you already know that I&#8217;ve been chugging away at my big fall kitchen project for a few weeks. I got really into it this weekend, and it felt SO great! I&#8217;ve been working on my kitchen in chunks and I am estimating that I should be done with it around Thanksgiving. And since everything I do takes longer than planned, I&#8217;m allowing another month after that for the unexpected thangs, and hope to be wrapping it all up around Christmas time. My plan is to move around the kitchen, removing old hardware and restoring it, while at the same time repairing and painting all the cabinetry. I have to do it this way.. ain&#8217;t no way my kitchen is going to be out of commission for months. First I&#8217;m starting in the &#8220;pantry&#8221; area with all the old cabinetry, I figured this would be the toughest spot, so why not get it out of the way. Also, I imagine I&#8217;ll have all the kinks of my painting process figured out by the time I move onto the nicer, newer cabinets in the rest of the kitchen and mud room. I so wish I had a good before photo to share with you of these base bins and cabinets in the back of the pantry. The bin cabinet (the one on the left) had been sitting ajar about 5&#8243; for over a year. We had been using it as a recycling bin, and had lost a few cans back behind it, oops. Those cans were causing the bin not to close all the way, and were driving me crazy on a daily basis. So why not just remove the bin? I had tried previously to remove the hinges. I got one hinge pin out, but the other was in such a precarious spot that there was just no way of getting at it. Even after stripping the hinges of layers of paint, the pin would still no budge and I was unable to get at it with a hammer and chisel. Enter plan B. As I was standing their one Tuesday morning (in a skirt) staring at the cabinet wishing it would just close all the way, I realized that I could possibly access the back of the bin if I created a hole in the adjoining base cabinet. I didn&#8217;t have any [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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