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| Tatiana |
Posted - Sep 26 2005 : 1:29:42 PM
I am trying to work on the remodel of my kitchen and know I will forget something really important. I like to cook and can quite alot. My kitchen was designed by a man I am sure or at least someone who never spends time in the kitchen. My counters are split up by appliances so I can't really have a large area to roll out dough. Plus I am always hitting my head on the counters. I have lots of gadgets and small appliances that I use.
So if you could redo your kitchen with endless budget, what would you do to make the space work better for you?
Tania in Boise |
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| JO AND AL |
Posted - Jan 04 2006 : 1:20:10 PM
 i had this ol farm kitchen done over and i have what they call fake beams with allof my stainless steel pots hanging on them. makes it sooo much easier to put them away, also a wood stove,works too!! wonderfull for drying the cast iron pans, that hang behind the old wood stove! it is rustic but at times i tink of taking out the old wood stove, but then when the power happens to go out, no no! don't think so, also if i ever had an island, i believe i would like to have wheels on it ha ha! that's what my sister wants in their new home they are doing now, and her hubby thinks she is crazy, but i don't blame her there! if u ever wanted to move it over for space, presto!!! just wheel it out of the way, i have oddles of basketts hanging also on these beams, great for the garden vegies in summer, about the only time they get well used though, i wonder girls will we ever see a dream kitchen, i do love mine, but i have seen some other lovely ones too, i hear ceramic tile is great, but wouldn't it be cold in winter? i spose nothen a pair of good slippers wouldn't take care of eh? they say they are easier to keep?? love reading about all of these ideas from all of the kitchens, after all isn't that where we do most of our daily chores, lol! jo!
love is all you need |
| Tatiana |
Posted - Dec 02 2005 : 5:44:06 PM
I sure have enjoyed everone's ideas. I want floor to cieling pantry along one of my walls too, Ellen. That with one big island that is raised. I need more working counter space so badly. Case in point: I had a friend over to make lefsa yesterday and had to move all my appliances to the floor so we could have enough room for the grill and room to roll out dough. It seems like it is that wa whenever I need to do anything big (often) like canning, holiday cooking, etc.
I don't look forward to cleaning a larger kitchen, but the efficiency would make up for it I think. |
| junebug |
Posted - Dec 02 2005 : 12:27:46 PM
Yes in deed Lynn, good job! Keep sharing pics with us, I love to take a peek in other's homes and see what kind of improvements they have done, and get ideas. Makes me want to start another project! LOL
" Aspire to Inspire before you Expire"
www.herbalfarmstead.blogspot.com
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| MeadowLark |
Posted - Dec 02 2005 : 05:40:32 AM
Oh Lynn, that is just beautiful! Your hubby's floor is so pretty! You both are so talented....thanks for sharing your pics!
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. |
| greyghost |
Posted - Dec 02 2005 : 05:34:59 AM
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Originally posted by MeadowLark
I love your kitchen and house Lynn! The kitchen is so bright and sunny and cozy too! I love sunny kitchens...your house is adorable too! It looks quaint and country and warm...the way all country houses should look! You are so talented and hard working girl! I really admire ya!
Thank you Meadow! :) You made my day :)
We actually haven't done anything with that house yet! It has a great floor plan which I intend to improve, right now all that attic space is completely unused, the access hole is almost too small for my hubby to squeeze through.
Here's a before and after of the kitchen in the mother in law suite - the whole place was disgusting before we redid it. (ahem... they were cooking drugs in this kitchen, so we had to gut the place anyway, shame for the solid wood cabinets.. but you cannot keep them after that)
Here it is after (sorry for the night photo! It is very bright during the day, especially now the leaves are off the trees!) My hubby did the design in the floor - isn't he talented?
Here it is from the angle of the stove to the LR:
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| junebug |
Posted - Dec 01 2005 : 1:00:01 PM
Frannie, I was born June 22, 59. We are empty nesters now, and I swear I got more done when all 5 kids lived at home and I worked full time? Don't understand it! lol
" Aspire to Inspire before you Expire"
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| MeadowLark |
Posted - Dec 01 2005 : 12:40:05 PM
I love your kitchen and house Lynn! The kitchen is so bright and sunny and cozy too! I love sunny kitchens...your house is adorable too! It looks quaint and country and warm...the way all country houses should look! You are so talented and hard working girl! I really admire ya!
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. |
| Fabulous Farm Femmes |
Posted - Dec 01 2005 : 12:34:30 PM
Darling house Lynn...your kitchen doesn't look so bad to me. But then I lived in Europe for 3 years and what passes as a kitchen over there does not pass for one here. Hope your remodel comes out like you plan...and more importantly on time and on budget!! |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Dec 01 2005 : 12:33:48 PM
sue .. june what? i'm june 5 .. honey junk is june 12 .. and we have LOTS of june birthdays in our family .. ha! i figure that mom's had more free time when school started in september!
True Friends, Frannie |
| junebug |
Posted - Dec 01 2005 : 12:15:09 PM
Frannie, thanks so much for posting the how to's, I'll have to play around with it as I get more time. I see Lynn had no problem, the house is cute and with your ideas will make a cozy home, you'll have to share after photos with us too. I'm junebug cuz I was born in June and I'm always bugging my hubby to start another project around this place, it paid off, we got ALOT done this summer!
" Aspire to Inspire before you Expire"
www.herbalfarmstead.blogspot.com
www.countrypleasures.motime.com |
| greyghost |
Posted - Dec 01 2005 : 11:08:28 AM
I'm going to be redoing the awful kitchen in the house sometime in the new year (we're living in the mother in law suite right now). I have worked hard to convince hubby we need to let the rafters be exposed and raise the ceilings - that would make the space seem bigger.
Here is a current photo of the kitchen (it's my greenhouse, and my hubby's storage space at the moment, I sure wouldn't cook in there!)
Outside front of the house. I want to make the kitchen windows the same height as the other windows, to brighten the space (I very much like light)
Here's the outside from angle of the elevation drawing next:
Here's the elevation drawing I have so far, so the ceilings will be higher:
and how I want to lay it out next (I have other drawings somewhere, I'd have to scan them though, but I drew all the cabinets out and figured out where drawers would be, a hidden wine cabinet (seeing as I am in the Bible Belt and in a dry county):
The current kitchen layout has the entry door in the wrong place, anyone walking through the kitchen would immediately be in your way, there is too much window (both are 5' wide, I want to shrink the width of the one over the sink) and the L shape simply does not work well at ALL for anything!
I plan to have all wood cabinets, and do an antiqued sort of dark redwash so they look older and a bit Italian country.
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 30 2005 : 6:05:41 PM
o.k. sue .. here goes: first go to Photobucket.com .. and register. Then, the instructions for 'posting pictures' is pretty self-explanatory. (So far, i've only done this with a 'floppy disk' with pictures on it .. sooooooo .. i'll give instructions for that way:
After you've posted some photos to Photobucket .. (and i did this on the ADD PICTRUES page .. i had a floppy disk in my machine with photos on it .. i clicked on "browse" .. then chose the picture i wanted to 'upload" .. (it will pop up in the 'picture' box .. then click SUBMIT ... it will 'upload' .. when you scroll down you will see your phot .. with
Url
Tag
Img ................. and a bunch of numbers and letters.
HIGHLIGHT this line .. click 'edit' (at the top of your screenand then click 'copy'
NO .. go to Maryjane's farmgirl connection site ... either start a 'new' message .. or if you are replying .. i had to go to the top of the page and click on Reply to Topic .. THEN a block comes up that has a bunch of little icons at the top (Carol gives good instructions on how to do this on the site) .
O.k. look at the little icon that is FOURTH from the righ t.. it is a square with a little mountain.
when you click on that .. this is what you will see:
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o.k. .. now .. switch back to your PhotoBucket web-site and find the picture you want to post: and go to the 'space' between the
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and edit/copy/paste the picture that you highlighted from Photobucket exactly in the middle of the two img's like this:
and 'hopefully' your photo will show up when you post your reply.
Above is a dolly that i made from Valentine's Day .. (part of the fireplace mantel decorations for Valentine's day a few years ago when i lived at Crooked Tree Hollow in Maryland.
o.k. .. i'm gonna' post this and see if it worked.
any questions or glitches .. let me know and we'll work this out sooner or later.
you might want to try and print these instructions .. or write them out.
True Friends, Frannie |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 30 2005 : 5:44:50 PM
hi sue .. (love the 'junebug' name .. how did you come up with it? what's the 'story' behind it?
i'll try and 'post' a picture and let you know step by step what i did.
True Friends, Frannie |
| junebug |
Posted - Nov 29 2005 : 12:49:05 PM
Frannie, I LOVE your kitchen and please do share more pics, even better, can you tell us how to post pics on these forums? I still haven't figured it out? I'd love to see a pic of your cabin! It's my dream to have a cabin someday and am always gathering ideas for the old notebook, aka wishbook! PLEASE!!!
" Aspire to Inspire before you Expire"
www.herbalfarmstead.blogspot.com
www.countrypleasures.motime.com |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 29 2005 : 10:00:31 AM
Ellen .. i will probably become absolutely obnoxious (but in a good way) with posting pictures! i love showing and telling .. and adore seeing the lives of my girlfriends too! look forward to lots of pictures being posted .. lordy! if "I" can figure it out .. anyone can! LOVE that photobucket.com site. thanks to you girls who suggested it to me!
True Friends, Frannie |
| Lavender Cottage |
Posted - Nov 29 2005 : 09:42:29 AM
Frannie-that is all so neat-I love it all-thanks so much for sharing! |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 29 2005 : 09:37:58 AM
deleted this .. cuz' the picture disappeared when i deleted it from photobucket. soooooooo .. if you want a photo to stay .. keep it in photobucket! |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 29 2005 : 09:32:23 AM
i deleted the cast iron photos from photobucket and they disappeared here on the forum. guess you can't do that! |
| Lavender Cottage |
Posted - Nov 29 2005 : 05:17:56 AM
I was climbing up on the counters and finally cleaning above my cabinets on Sunday and I thought-boy, would I love tall cabinets that go all the way to the ceiling. It was so nasty-greasy, dusty, yucky up there and so hard to clean. I even decided to find a new spot for my pottery and dishes because they are so hard to clean if I don't get to them often. And, it has certainly been too long since my last cleaning up there.
My dream cabinets would be just like grandma had-beautfil white-some solid and some with glass fronts-all went to the ceiling. She had a nice step stool to get to the top shelves too-red and white metal-very sturdy.
So, I add this to my list of dream things for my kitchen. I've gotten some good ideas from the rest of you. One day! :) |
| asnedecor |
Posted - Nov 28 2005 : 7:43:00 PM
A big island to do my baking at and kitchen counters that were built higher. Mine are so low I get a back ache after doing a few dishes or rolling out any dough. A dishwasher, DH and I are the washer and we are tired of doing it. A six burner gas stove with warming drawer and double gas ovens - boy could I cook up some holiday meals with that set up - Yahoo! Also would like room to have my round pine table in the kitchen for eating breakfast, sitting around drinking coffee, etc. Someday, when we get some $$$ together, we will remodel that whole kitchen area - hopefully before I am old and gray.
Anne
"Second star to the right, straight on till morning" Peter Pan
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| Meg |
Posted - Nov 28 2005 : 6:09:36 PM
Patricia, a full kitchen is the way to go! We call it bumpin' butts because we always seem to be running into each other (mine does get in the way of me quite often) while one of us farmgirls is cleaning dishes and one of us is measuring and one is mixing and so on. You should have seen all us girls canning together. What fun! My perfect kitchen always starts with a BIG window over the sink, then a big sink because that's where I spend much of my time! So fun to read everyone's perfect kitchen!
MaryJane's daughter,
Meg
megan@maryjanesfarm.org |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 25 2005 : 5:59:41 PM
i often fill mine with farm girls and city girls. nothing like a gathering of good gurlfrenz! xo |
| Utahfarmgirl |
Posted - Nov 25 2005 : 4:30:30 PM
I'd fill it with farmgirl pals.
Happy Wishes! |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 25 2005 : 09:41:50 AM
well, i think our kitchen is just about as perfect as i would want it to be .. i will sometimes find a 'treasure' to add .. but the basic bones are already there .. will sometimes shift furniture around too .. but no major changes. it's quite primitive and thats the way i love it. |
| QuiltingQueen |
Posted - Oct 05 2005 : 6:59:01 PM
If I could wish for improvements to my kitchen, I would definitely want more drawers and more counter space. I'd make silverware drawers the right width and depth to hold nice divider inserts, or get drawers that came with dividers. It would be nice to have countertop heights that worked for my height. And good lighting. Wide, deep sinks with drainboard areas and tall back splashes would be nice, too. Okay, I'd like to wish for Alice from the Brady Bunch to come hang out and cook with me, too. Wow, what a dream!
Jane
"Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action." ~ Mother Teresa |
