Week 12
Quartz LG Hausys Rococo
Stone Specialists Arriving
Installation with Suction
Above the Range
Around the Window and Sink
This Kitchen is Ready for Work!
Love the Blending from Counter to Backsplash
Under Cabinet LED Lighting
Bathroom Vanity Ready for Plumbing Connection
Pendant Light with Crystals
Can’t Have Too Much Marble!
Week 7
Roasted Cabbage & Beef Roast is Our First Dinner in the New Kitchen
Roast Beef in the GE Advantium 120 Oven
Bottom Round Beef Roast Studded with Garlic Cloves
GE Advantium 120 Oven
Love the GE Advantium 120 Oven! We roasted a beef roast and also roasted cabbage wedges. The oven is quick to preheat, browns the food nicely & cooks in less time using the convection oven. Microwaving to reheat food is easy too. Switch the cooking trays and voila! It is interesting to have a metal lined microwave oven. Reading the Owners Manual is essential. This is not your typical microwave and oven.
Top Knobs Pulls in Venetian Bronze
Pantry with Pulls
Frig with Top Knob Pulls
Crystal Knobs in Venetian Bronze too!
Yes, that is snow out there
The beautiful hardware from Top Knobs is in. There’s even matching pulls in larger sizes for the pantry & frig. The cherry panels are on the frig too. It’s a Kitchen Aid that is called “panel ready”. It is actually black. Owens Cabinet made the panels and installed them.
Florida Tile in Silverscreen with Light Gray Grout
Rugs from Target
Loving the porcelain floor and Twister is cozy in his matching gray bed too. I found the best matching area rugs at Target: Threshold in Grey Trellis pattern.
Week 6: Friday
The frig was delivered midweek and today the rest of the appliances came and are in the garage waiting for installation. All except the GE Advantium Oven which is now in place ready to go! I bought this space saving oven rather then a double oven and microwave unit. The Advantium can switch it’s function from a standard oven, a convection oven, a warming oven and a microwave oven. It is sturdy and sleek and takes it’s spot as a built in unit. Our friends in Barcelona have a similar type oven.
Built In GE Advantium 120 Oven
It’s a Fancy Microwave/Convection Oven!
Stainless Interior!
The barn doors were installed Friday. They are awesome and add a lot more fun to laundry day! We replaced the old bi-fold doors which were always falling off their track, with two new six panel pine doors. Bridget Owens recommended the barn doors sliding concept. I found a HUGE variety of barn door photos at Houzz.com. Most were by RusticaHardware.com so I ordered from them, out of Utah. They offer all kinds of options. You can also order different types of stunning barn doors from them. After staining, the doors were hung with the new hardware. The rollers at the top are a very smooth black nylon. They glide seamlessly. My hangers are an arrow shape, but there are others to choose from. The floor guides are a wall mount adjustable double roller guide. Even though the doors hang from the top, the floor guides help keep the doors in place. The pulls are 8 inch Santa Fe style. Love love love it!
Old Style Bi-Fold Doors
Bi-Fold Doors Removed from Laundry Closet
Barn Doors in Place
Barn Doors Opened
Hardware Close Up
Arrow Hanger in Flat Black with Nylon Black Wheel
Wall Mount Adjustable Double Roller Guide
As week 7 approaches, we wait another two weeks for the quartz countertops which were measured this past Monday. During this time, the cabinet hardware and frig and dishwasher panels will be put into place and the remaining appliances will be connected! This weekend I began moving our kitchen belongings into the new space. It’s beginning to feel like home 🙂
Week 6
The white cabinets were installed this week. They are painted a very pale grey in the same family as the Repose Gray walls. Eider White by Sherwin Williams. This is the two tone kitchen look. It gives a contemporary twist to the traditional cherry wood kitchen.
All the cabinets go to the top of the eight foot ceilings for maximum storage and for a sleeker look. The staggered height cabinets are popular today, but in our space this made more sense.
The tile is porcelain Florida Tile in Silverscreen from Premier Tile and Stone and Beaver Tile and Stone. Woodward Electric is here often, lots of electrical. I especially like the LED can lights. They should last 50,000 hours/5.7 years of continual use.
Two Tone Kitchen: Clear Cherry and White Painted Cabinets
Counter area to left and space to right for GE Advantium Microwave/Oven/Warming Oven
Dishwasher and Frig Ready!
Gas Range/Electric Oven and Fan Delivery is Friday!
The Picture Window is an awning style. It cranks out from the bottom
Mirrored chest turned into a vanity
Delta Trinsic wall mount faucet and a 12 inch glass vessel sink
Powder Room waiting for ceramic backsplash and mirror
Week 4
This week Griggs Building & Design is installing the gray Florida Tile. The color is Silverscreen. I chose 12×12 tiles that are slightly beveled and shiny because they have an old world marble look. The newer styles are the larger 20×20 inch squares or rectangles, but my open floor space is not that large, so I thought the smaller tiles would make a more noticeable pattern.
I had been contemplating the grout color until the last minute. When I saw this tile installed at the beautiful showroom of Beaver Tile & Stone outside of Grand Rapids in Wyoming MI, the grout used was Oyster Gray. My problem was the installers use a different brand of grout, with different names. Also interesting is that the color of yellow fall leaves reflect through the kitchen window onto the tiles, sometimes giving them a beige cast 😦 I’m sure the color changes will continue as the cabinetry is added and the LED light bulbs are installed.
Installing a tile floor takes a sharp eye for keeping the lines straight, plus artistry, strength and flexibility. Thank you Terry!
The kitchen walls are painted with Sherwin Williams Repose Gray 7015.
Florida Tile – Silverscreen 12×12
Tiles with 1/4 inch spacers. Sherwin Williams Repose Gray painted on the kitchen walls.
Terry laying the tiles over the cement board, cementing each tile in place.
nina in the kitchen 