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I'm a
new member
from Southfield, just outside Detroit, MI. I'm so excited to have found this forum.
DH
and I are getting ready for a HUGE kitchen redo, and I know that we'll have questions for experienced Ikea fans.
A little info about me: By day, I'm a mainframe programmer, although I loathe my day job. I work for a computer services and software company, who contracts me out to clients. After being at the same client for 7 years, I recently started at a new one. But I'd far rather be focusing on my home-based business, selling kitchenwares ("Spoiled Cook," rhymes with "Hampered Jeff" - I'm not allowed to list the company name in profiles on the internet). It's that business, in part, that has precipitated our kitchen remodel, because I have a lot of stuff I need to store.
Our house is over 70 years old, and has a horrific kitchen layout. Unfortunately, the room is non-cooperative for a remodel. Every single wall has at least 1 door, window or doorway. I think I went through 17 potential layouts before I finalized the new kitchen. We bought the cabinets on Monday- the last day of the 24-months financing offer. While chatting with the fantastic coworker who entered it for us, she mentioned this site, so I had to check it out. Well, after unloading the truck and recovering with some pizza.
I'm looking forward to getting some tips for installation, as well as sharing our kitchen odyssey.
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DH usually means Dear Husband (or, pick your own adjective starting with D).
I'm seeing more and more members saying they heard about the site through the store - yippee!
I have a 78 year old house with a kitchen that sounds similar to yours - no wall is without door, window, chimney or passthrough. Or 2! We're glad to have you here and we look forward to following along with your progress.
Thanks, Susan. I'll post the plan at some point (I have it posted as a PDF on another forum I'm on). We were luckiy in that there's an in-kitchen dining area as well as a dining room in our house. So we're using the in-kitchen area for more cabinets. I'll have a 21-foot run of lower cabinets along the back wall.
Oh- and 60 square feet of granite countertop. Yum!
The guy at one of the stone places we went to said that, in the Detroit area anyway, they just weren't selling quartz compared to granite. And the couple of places I looked at it, it was either too manufactured looking, or far more expensive than natural stone. I'm already spending a LOT on this room (it's a complete tear down to studs and sub-floor), and couldn't justify spending twice as much for the counters when I could get exactly the look I wanted from granite.
I know exactly what you mean about spending too much time at the store. I try to keep myself busy enough that I can't head over there. And it's still 1/2 hour from my house, so it's not a quick pop in type place.
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