Bath Update Stainless steel
Frances Ward
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Help with updating a tired kitchen
Comments (8)Although you say you have limited budget, the things you said you can do are brilliant enough to freshen up your kitchen. A good paint job is probably the best improvement, perhaps paint your ceilings white and replace your lights with a nice spotlight strip. They are cheaply sourced and illuminates the kitchen really well. As your kitchen cupboards are traditional looking I would go for a modern farmhouse look, they're really fashionable at the moment. And adapts to refurbished kitchens really well. Perhaps you could paint your cabinets a light sage green or a blue grey and keep your dark worktops as they are. It's important not to use too many strong colours as that could suck out more natural light and make it feel smaller. How about changing your door handles, that is a fab and cheap way of updating a kitchen. As for tiles paint them one colour to stop it looking too busy. Your floor tiles would coordinate really nicely to a modern farmhouse look. To help your kitchen look uniform why not invest in the same style/colour small kitchen appliances such as kettle, toaster, small cost but it immediately dresses your worktops. Perhaps you have a stylish large charger plate or deep wide mouth vase to pop your fruit in to dress your kitchen. That would look lovely and make your fruit look interesting. I see you have a shelf for a vintage looking radio and some cookbooks. Why not replace them with a couple of solid looking floating shelves perhaps to match your new painted cabinets and stylishly dress the shelves to add character. Such an exciting project, good luck! http://houzz.com/photos/16560353...See MoreKitchen update
Comments (20)It is an advice forum and asking on her behalf is thoughtful and sensible. I think it hasn't helped having so much advice on what to change when you'd started by saying that your daughter doesn't want to paint the doors, retile or change the counter tops. Not everyone reads everything it seems. In my view, it's impossible to decide until your daughter has moved in and seen how her own accessories fit or don't fit and then make a judgement. The things that bother me are the stark white walls and the colour of the floor - neither does justice to the funky black or the orangey pine. A warmer paint colour - or an interesting wallpaper - could make a huge difference. Although rugs can be a nuisance in a kitchen - they move around, are trip hazards, and can get mucky - throwing something down on top of the floor might help to give her ideas. If the owners are taking away the washing machine and dishwasher, replacing them with stainless steel would immediately tone in better or, if the doors are still made, integrating new appliances (as someone else has suggested) would also make a difference. If there were more of a match between the colours in the room ... there might well be scope for adding some teal or turquoise accessories. There's also scope for hanging a huge painting/print/poster, or several, on the wall above that radiator (the existing picture is far too small and the wrong shape - landscape would be better). Good luck to your daughter - I think she can make modest changes to the walls and floor that will turn it into a lovely kitchen....See MorePlease I need your advice on how to update a "yellowish" kitchen?
Comments (16)I was going to suggest to change the cabinets doors/handles and the plinths ? and keep the carcass, for the island replace or add on a side end panels matching the doors as it does in the picture? lets hang that out of the window for now but don t let go until your positive that you don t want it? firstly , the floors , if your planning to change just the tiles so it keeps the kitchen separated from the dinner/living ? brown wood style porcelain tile or going through out with the brown tiles For the walls Farrow & Ball ,Cooking Apple Green xxx it seems ,You have a backdated ? cooker/oven,extractor fan, microwave, fridge , it does remind me off some thing from Back To The Future , THEY NEED TO GO,stain less steel all the way Mosaic tiles, brown with a mix colours, above the kitchen work top upstands , or you can continue the paint for the walls i can t see the sink ,is it white?, probably you will need to up date it as well ? stainless steel and a its wise to get a deep base...See MoreBath or shower
Comments (11)The "sellable" argument is, pardon me, a very British one to make. For a non-Brit, the answer to that question takes two forms: First, if this _is_ a major consideration then do one of two things: either - give up on the shower-only thing and instead opt for a larger / higher end bathtub that'll provide "space to shower" comfortably. Companies like Bette or Kaldewei make a range of steel tubs with a large size more than suitable for it. Or - plan "open space" in your layout to allow for the later addition of a tub. Potentially even with capped / hidden plumbing done ready right there, so that just adding a bath could happen whenever. That'd be a technical solution for the "what if ..." case. Second though: if it actually is not the main driver then ... why are you asking that question ? Purchasers are frequently annoyed having to rip out (expensive) fittings because they want something different anyway. You buy a new place and "make it yours " so you need to / will change things anyway. Why do you assume your "aged and used " generic place is preferable for a purchaser some time down the line to the slick and freshly painted developer project two doors down the road ? Enjoy your bathroom :-)...See MoreFrances Ward
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