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Deb,
I LOVE your choices! I have nearly identical pendants in my kitchen and family room but in oil rubbed bronze from Hudson Lighting.
If you paint your beadboard in a good quality semi-gloss it should hold up fine. Our old house just had painted wall board as the backspash and it did fine. We used a water based acrylic latex - some people swear that will not last with water exposure, but we never had one bit of trouble.
Gorgeous choices; all of them. Yep, Gray Wisp = Silver Sage. At the HGTV Mesage Boards, the Colors Forum, you will find several color and painting experts, Casey, Fun Colors and RXLS (or something like that). They despise RH paint. Poor quality and like Ben Moore. Other great colors are Rain Washed, by Sherwin Williams I think and Atmospheric. Gray Wisp is awesome though.
I concur with everyone else that everything works together to make a consistent look. I suppose it'll look something like this one from Rejuvenation (I lived in Portland, Oregon long enough to discover their store, so my Florida house has gradually been accumulating lighting, knobs, and whatnot from them). Rose City: Classic Schoolhouse Pendant
I love beadboard painted a pale sky blue with white cabinets!
I would suggest possibly replacing the back of the glass-front cabinets with the same beadboard you use for the backsplash for a bit more custom look. And I'd go darker with the floor if you're planning on soapstone or a dark granite. Are you going to use matching toekick or a contrasting?
And I'd go darker with the floor if you're planning on soapstone or a dark granite. Are you going to use matching toekick or a contrasting?
Thanks....
We are going with the hickory trafficmaster allure flooring - looks like a dark hardwood flooring.
I eventually will have a darker granite but only after we live with the kitchen for a while and decide that the small space carefully planned is a good choice for us. In the meantime we are going with the oak numerar wood counter - i would like it to be a bit darker but have yet to decide if that will be the case or not.
Have yet to figure out the toe kick - we were thinking of going with a darker one so it is hidden and then do a custom toe kick up closer to the front of the cab but not sure if that is going to happen after seeing all the dog hair all over my floors- although it will look good it might just be a good dog hair catcher....so that is yet to be decided as well.
well I should go and sweep - could make a few more dogs with the hair on the floor right now.....and is has only been 24 hours since i last swept up.
This is when i wish I had one of those little Zoomba's ( I think that is what they are called) but would need a much bigger version for all this dog hair....
dalbrough,
i can't believe no one's addressed your sink/window centering issue! we are pretty obsessive when it comes to stuff like that (we're both engineers). but when we planned out our kitchen, because of the wall & window locations, and cabinet dimensions, it left us with no choice but to have a sink uncentered with the window. i thought it would drive us crazy. but, i have good news.
we don't notice it at all. the sink is slightly to the left of the center of the window, but here's one thing that helps: our faucet has 2 fixtures. the left one (the actual faucet) is centered with the sink. the fixture on the right side is the lever. and the two fixtures together are approximately centered with the window.
i hope that helps, and i'm including some pictures. good luck!
That uncentered sink looks quite elegant, especially with its basket. You could just about hang out the dishes to dry in a basket on one side of the sink. Hmmm. Do I see a case for large, deep sinks?
thanks! i always thought i wanted a double bowl sink, but our small kitchen wasn't going to allow it. the only ones that fit consisted of 2 small sink bowls. i'm much happier with one big, deep one.
and the little basket is great too! we wanted to avoid a dish rack on the counter, which would take up too much space. and this little thing forces us to rinse out dishes regularly, since there's not much space to leave them sitting around in a big dish rack. we got it at target for ~$10.
yes, it is a 30" cabinet. but, we did have to do a slight modification to it. we simply routed out the top edges of the cabinet sidewalls, so that the sink would sit flush in it.
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