Beth's ideas
Rug-like floor tile in Long Beach. While in the process of renovating her family’s kitchen in California, Kim Claridy was smitten with the black and white handmade ceramic tile she found at a showroom, and thought it would look great on the wall as a backsplash. The family’s designer advised them to reconsider the application, and they instead used the graphic tile to create a design element on the floor. “Now if I get sick of it, I can just throw a rug over it,” Claridy says.
Clever cabinet hack in Rexburg, Idaho. Joshua and Amanda Price gave their kitchen more height and dimension by taking out cabinets above the kitchen sink and adding a barn-style light and a faux Roman shade. They also gave their existing cabinets a fresh coat of white paint. After taking off one set of cabinet doors, they turned the lower part of the cupboard into a plate rack with cup hooks beneath it to keep things visible and organized.
The light fixture.
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