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 5
Owens Cabinet based in Midland Michigan is a family business. They built our new cabinets and are excellent craftsmen. Bridget Owens is our kitchen designer and we think the world of her!
This week our cherry cabinets were installed. They are a clear cherry without stain which will darken with time. Since our house is a traditional style, we chose the raised panel style.The crowned molding was installed at the pantry so far and is gorgeous! The color and finish of all the cabinetry is exquisite! We are so happy and pleased.
The hardware/jewelry is from Top Knobs. I love them! Tuscan bronze with crystals from the Chareau Collection
Our countertops will be measured Monday and will take 2 weeks to process. They are a man-made quartz by LG Hausys called Rococo. I am going for the Carrara marble look.
I wanted the powder room to be unique and interesting. Up in Petoskey, Michigan at Lake Street Design Studio we found a mirrored gothic style wood chest that fits perfectly. We also discovered there an ornate metal mirror that is a cool curvy old world match to the chest. For a splash of color we are adding a small blue glass vessel sink. The faucet will be a Venetian Bronze wall mount called Trinsic by Delta. We’ll add a backsplash made of ceramic with a Carrara marble look.
Next week the phase 2 of our two-tone kitchen cabinets will be installed. White-grey painted.
Owens Cabinet is here!
Island with frig cabinet in back. Lower cabinets installed below window
Counter height desk area with pantry to right
Pantry with soft close pull out drawers
Lots of drawers! Notice the pretty crown molding.
Cubby ready for GE Advantium Microwave/Convection Oven/Warming Oven. Corner lower cabinet saves floor space
Corner cabinet swings open from middle
Island with gas range opening at left back. Sink below window and dishwasher to right of sink
Powder Room floor with finished floor and grout. Florida Tile in Silverscreen and light grey grout
Mirrored wood chest with glass vessel sink
Metal mirror with backsplash tile sample. Thank you Terry and TJ.
LG Hausys quartz in Rococo for the kitchen.
Jewelry! Top Knobs pull and crystal emerald knob from the Chareau Collection
Your suggestions and comments are welcome! Thank you for your interest 🙂
nina in the kitchen 