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I hate what HGTV has done to America!
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Carboys Desire |
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Posts: 2793 (07/13/08 1:51 AM) Registered user |
Thanks!
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TheCatcherInTheRye |
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Posts: 1158 (07/13/08 2:24 AM) Registered User |
Adorable dogs!! Aww.
I don't like SS appliances at all because I think they look too industrial, plus they are this decades avocado green. I want something more timeless and less trendy. Granite I like, but only if it's not real swirly. |
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joeyrd1027 |
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Posts: 278 (07/13/08 2:26 AM) Registered user |
I hate what HGTV has done to me! Ever since my mother has starting watching his abortion of a channel, I've had to put up with doing all these new fucking
projects. Including new tiled floor (after literally ripping up entire floor of the kitchen), new hardwood floors, painting walls, painting some of the wooden
furniture, new plants that she thinks that she can grow herself, brick steps leading out the door that leads into the garage, a brick bottom step at the bottom
of the deck, new lattice completely around the house, and moving a whole lot of old shit and brining in the new shit and putting the old shit in the new shed,
and much much more.
*cuts* |
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quietsurvivorfan |
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Posts: 15488 (07/13/08 2:30 AM) Registered user |
I picked corian countertops for my new condo when I had it built 2 years ago. I wanted a rose colored countertop. It looks lovely against the lighter finished
cabinets and lighter colored laminate flooring. I got the kind of corian countertops that has the sink built in, so we have a very deep double sink that is
seamless because it, too is corian, only an offwhite color. It is very easy to keep clean.
I didn't like the granite countertops they were putting in houses a few years ago, they were all too dark. The pictures you guys posted here are really pretty counter tops. |
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SmrtAss |
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Posts: 3384 (07/13/08 4:08 AM) Lazy ass bitch, please |
Carboy, your granite is gorgeous. I want it!
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brokemom |
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Posts: 4735 (07/13/08 6:07 AM) Registered user |
Good looking kitchen, carboy.
And you did it without the loudmouth lady on Spice up my kitchen. Just for the record, I will be leaving the fake paneling in the laundry room/pantry area. They can suck it and shut the damn doors if they don't want to look at it. |
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Tres Gay |
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Posts: 3646 (07/13/08 4:43 PM) Registered user |
I kind of like the white tile counters, but I bet they would be a bitch to keep clean. Will SS appliances eventually become the avacado green/forest gold of
the next generation?
I have tiles in the walls of two of my bathrooms. They aren't ceramic though, they are some sort of composite plastic. When I put up the new toothbrush/soap holders I was surprised when the drill went through so easily .. that's when I discovered the plastic. Does anyone else have these? How do I get them to be shiney and pretty? How do I clean the "grout" in between them? The grout suff is cracking but the tiles are firmly on the wall. I've never had tile anything before so I'm not sure what to do. |
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CBRetriever |
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Posts: 19569 (07/13/08 4:51 PM) MESS member |
if you go with tile, seal the grout real good and inset in a marble or granite slab someplace wher you can use it to roll out stuff.
you can also use granite tile socked up real close together on a counter and edge with wood. we were gonna do this for ours |
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2old4MTV |
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Posts: 1300 (07/13/08 4:55 PM) Registered user |
I hate these threads because I have the single ugliest kitchen in all of the land and no money to do a remodel. I've tried to come up with a way to do it
in pieces, but everything depends on everything else, so I have to wait. *sigh*
And Tres, I don't have that kind of tile, but I do have some tile downstairs that had bad grout stains and some cracking. I just cleaned out all the grout (and reaffixed one tile that fell off in that process) and regrouted. Then I sealed the grout and all has been good for 5 years. Grouting is easy. Sealing takes some time, but it's worth it. I am sad to know that tile counters are out as I was planning on doing a tile counter in my master bathroom later this summer. Are they only "out" for kitchens or do bathrooms need all granite now too? Can I get away with just buying one of those all-in-one sink/counter/cabinet things at Home Depot or Costco and installing that. What if it uses granite for the countertops? |
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CBRetriever |
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Posts: 19571 (07/13/08 5:03 PM) MESS member |
Tile still seems to sell on House Hunters - that's all I have. Think about using granite tiles as shown below - they're way cheaper and you could
probably install them yourself. Since they're bigger than regular tiles, they'd have less exposed grout.
I'd think in a bathroom tile would be fine. We did one with tiled counters and the other has a pedestal sink with a 4' standing cabinet nest to it so there's something to put toiletries on while they're being used. I often look at these bathrooms with pedestal sinks and no cabinets and wonder where the women put their makeup while they're applying it. |
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MsJones4 |
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Posts: 2933 (07/13/08 5:06 PM) Registered User |
I want one of the new oiled Bronze refrigerators. Of course - I'll have to wait for my next house as it wouldn't go with my current all white kitchen.
The stainless looks much better.
I have white corian countertops, I didn't pick them. While they are better than formica, I would rather have Granite Slab. Tile are a nightmare. The good news about the white corian - I can bleach the shit out of them and they look brand new. |
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NewOrleansIsSinking |
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Posts: 10413 (07/13/08 5:10 PM) Registered user |
Westie thread!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Trixie Delight |
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Posts: 24985 (07/13/08 5:11 PM) put Angel in the corner
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I love stainless but if you have kids around or people hang in your kitchen a lot, you're gonna end up with windex permanently attached to your hands.
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goner1 |
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Posts: 5186 (07/13/08 5:12 PM) Registered User |
I like tile counter tops. There I said it.
Granite looks great but I don't know how people justify the expense when laminate will last for 30 years. |
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CBRetriever |
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Posts: 19574 (07/13/08 5:18 PM) MESS member |
'cause ours got water under it along a crack and warped within 10 years of buying the house, not the mention the nicely curved part where the backsplash
met the counter top, that Mr CBR put something through. and the fact that the pattern was totally worn through next to the stove.
and we didn't get granite, but silestone and I love it - I thin, for the space we had, laminate would have only been about 30% less plus, if you're gonna remodel, you really should give a nod towards the day when you might have to sell the house |
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CBRetriever |
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Posts: 19580 (07/13/08 5:54 PM) MESS member |
what do you do with them?
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CBRetriever |
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Posts: 19582 (07/13/08 6:03 PM) MESS member |
I guess I hang mine to dry mostly, but it's only on the bar at the end of my butcher block table - I don't have much counter space and hate to clutter
it up
and I throw them in the wash after they're dry the next morning - I hate putting wet stuff in a hamper |
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Trixie Delight |
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Posts: 24989 (07/13/08 6:03 PM) put Angel in the corner
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You gotta use wipes for stainless? Well that is just fucked. Windex should work fine!
I have a fancy Corian with waterfall edges. I wish I'd gone with the silestone that I liked better, but after the hurricanes they were charging 4 times as much for it. Same with granite. |
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CBRetriever |
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Posts: 19584 (07/13/08 6:12 PM) MESS member |
granite, corian and silestone were all about the same price, at least for the ones I liked, at the time we were picking out what we wanted, so I was able to
compare other things about them and the no sealing and heat resistance won out.
plus it was cheaper since we did all the prep work ahead of time - all the installer had to do was cut and put it in place, then put the sink in - that probably saved us a $750-1000 in materials and labor. |
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