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We need some color matching advise. We are planning to do a major kitchen reno. We are going to gut out everything and get new floor tiles, stainless steel appliances, cabinets, counter top, back splash, etc. I have attached a pdf of our kitchen floor plan and some pictures of the doorway to the kitchen under different lighting to show the color of our oak hardwood floor. We have our heart set on getting Adel medium brown cabinets and we are leaning towards a whitish quartz counter top like Zodiaq Bianco Carrara or Silestone Lagoon or Ceasarstone Misty Carrera or Cambria TorQuay. We don't like dark counter tops and would prefer to keep the kitchen on the lighter side as oppose to the darker setups we see a lot of in showrooms. Given this two things (cabinets and counter top color aforementioned) we are not sure how to go about matching the rest of the room (floor tile, back splash and wall paint). What would be a good color scheme if we want these two items in our kitchen and will it look good transitioning from our oak hardwood floors? Does anyone have pictures of their kitchen they can share that have done something similar? Any and all suggestions are welcome.
I can't suggest any specific combination, not knowing your color and material preferences for floor, backsplash and walls, but I can suggest a website to visit. At Houzz - Home Design, Decorating and Remodeling Ideas and Inspiration, Kitchen and Bathroom Design you can view thousands of pictures of finished kitchens and create a scrapbook of pictures that interest you. Once you have a good collection going, you can analyze what the common characteristics are and start putting together a combination that you like.
Thank you for the link. We will definitely review it.
Also, to add more info. For the floor and back splash we prefer to use porcelain/ceramic tiles and for the rest of the wall just regular paint. We do like the look of marble and that's why we list those quartz because they look a bit like marble.
Thanks again for your suggestions.
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I can't suggest any specific combination, not knowing your color and material preferences for floor, backsplash and walls, but I can suggest a website to visit. At Houzz - Home Design, Decorating and Remodeling Ideas and Inspiration, Kitchen and Bathroom Design you can view thousands of pictures of finished kitchens and create a scrapbook of pictures that interest you. Once you have a good collection going, you can analyze what the common characteristics are and start putting together a combination that you like.
in this version, I moved the refrigerator out of the corner so that the doors would open fully. With some fridges this is a major issue, some are engineered to work around this.
I also gave you sort of a hutch and a corner banquette.
Interesting layout. We actually thought about putting the fridge there but the access to the 32" outside door would be a bit tight for our liking. In any case I have provided the link below to our planner file. Its very bare bone. Feel free to have a look and give feedback. Thanks.
in this version, I moved the refrigerator out of the corner so that the doors would open fully. With some fridges this is a major issue, some are engineered to work around this.
I also gave you sort of a hutch and a corner banquette.
We want to have a place to eat in the kitchen for me and my wife. Having extra seats for 1-2 guest would be a bonus. We do have a separate dining room for larger groups.
Here's our mission statement:
I want my kitchen to function primarily as an organized cooking space and eat-in for two people with descent storage and I want it to look contemporary and timeless without having it look out of place in our house and I want to feel warm, inviting and natural when I walk into it.
When I saw the double oven cabinet and the pantry, I thought a.) you needed more storage, another oven, and a place for your microwave and b.) getting into either of those is going to be problematic with anyone sitting at a table.
According to this + other stuff on the web, people are comfortable with a seat depth of 18", with some angles for knees and back. In any case, I allowed for the 6' shown here. I fiddled with the over-fridge cabinets. I envision each bench as so
Build a box 18" wide by 15" tall by 45" long and leave the one 15 x 18 end and the top open. Put a 15 x 18 partition 24" back.
Buy an 18" wide drawer from IKEA and a 15" tall, 18" wide door. Use the door as the drawer front.
Mount the drawer glides in the box and slide the drawer in.
Fasten a top on the box (allow for the 5 degrees that makes it a more comfortable seat) with a piano -hinged door over the non-drawer portion. Access to storage!
Cushion the top.
This is, of course, much more rudimentary than the instructions Handyman Magazine would supply, but I hope you catch my drift.
The 2 24" cabinets would provide a lot of very accessible storage, and be the back for one of the seats. This also opens the room up, more than a tall dark cabinet would.
The oven is now over next to the dishwasher, with a counter handy for that hot, heavy lasagne that has to be put down NOW! The microwave is mounted under a cabinet:
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Originally Posted by wombat94 I don't know if this works for you, but for best use of space, we decided NOT to use the microwave cabinet, and instead use an under cabinet micro.
Re: Need help with Kitchen color scheme
The Micro is a GE Spacemaker II PEM31SMSS. It hangs about 1.5 to 2 inches below the edge of the cover panel/light rail, but the cabinet above is a full cabinet that gives us a lot more accessible space than a micro cabinet would.
You have to buy the hanging kit (about $20) to install it as an under-cabinet.
The thing I really like about it is how "built in" it looks. It is just about 1/8" narrower than the full width of the cabinet (about 1" wider than a micro that would go on the micro shelf cab - because is includes the width of the side walls of the cabinet). And it is just about perfectly flush with the doors above it on the cabinet - it sticks out maybe 1/16"
Ted
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Originally Posted by personalshopper A possible problem-solver for some kitchen designers? I just stumbled across this over-counter (NOT made for over the range) microwave - a very handsome one, I think. It's more generously sized than the GE Profile that has been suggested quite often in the kitchen planning forum, so if the petite size of the GE model doesn't meet your needs, take a look at this Sharp model. It's available in stainless, black and white, and would fit nicely below a 24" wall cabinet. Sharp R121 1.5 cu. ft. Over the Counter Microwave Oven with 1,100 Cooking Watts, Defrost Center, Interactive Cooking System and Auto-Touch Control Panel
The sink is the fabulous daughter sink in a 30" cabinet with cover panels.
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Originally Posted by personalshopper
The sink.The major disadvantage to a double sink with standard size bowls is that, while 2 bowls are nice, neither basin is large enough to hold baking pans and cookie sheets. After spending most of my adult life with a standard double sink, I finally decided to treat myself to a deep offset double sink, with one very large bowl and one standard one. Even my husband, who had to do the installation, admits that it was well worth the time and trouble.
Our daughter's sink is also an offset one, and it contributed to this thread here on Ikeafans: Is this sink too big?
tbb123 you are brilliant! We never thought about organizing that corner (with the bench) that way. You definitely have given us something to consider. The bench and table could be a problem as it will require some "customization". Do you have any suggestions for the table? I mean its nice on your diagram but I don't suppose you know if Ikea sells that kind of table?
We will definitely try out our configuration and see what we come up with. How about color scheme? Any thoughts?
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Originally Posted by tbb123
When I saw the double oven cabinet and the pantry, I thought a.) you needed more storage, another oven, and a place for your microwave and b.) getting into either of those is going to be problematic with anyone sitting at a table.
According to this + other stuff on the web, people are comfortable with a seat depth of 18", with some angles for knees and back. In any case, I allowed for the 6' shown here. I fiddled with the over-fridge cabinets. I envision each bench as so
Build a box 18" wide by 15" tall by 45" long and leave the one 15 x 18 end and the top open. Put a 15 x 18 partition 24" back.
Buy an 18" wide drawer from IKEA and a 15" tall, 18" wide door. Use the door as the drawer front.
Mount the drawer glides in the box and slide the drawer in.
Fasten a top on the box (allow for the 5 degrees that makes it a more comfortable seat) with a piano -hinged door over the non-drawer portion. Access to storage!
Cushion the top.
This is, of course, much more rudimentary than the instructions Handyman Magazine would supply, but I hope you catch my drift.
The 2 24" cabinets would provide a lot of very accessible storage, and be the back for one of the seats. This also opens the room up, more than a tall dark cabinet would.
The oven is now over next to the dishwasher, with a counter handy for that hot, heavy lasagne that has to be put down NOW! The microwave is mounted under a cabinet:
Quote:
Originally Posted by wombat94 I don't know if this works for you, but for best use of space, we decided NOT to use the microwave cabinet, and instead use an under cabinet micro.
Re: Need help with Kitchen color scheme
The Micro is a GE Spacemaker II PEM31SMSS. It hangs about 1.5 to 2 inches below the edge of the cover panel/light rail, but the cabinet above is a full cabinet that gives us a lot more accessible space than a micro cabinet would.
You have to buy the hanging kit (about $20) to install it as an under-cabinet.
The thing I really like about it is how "built in" it looks. It is just about 1/8" narrower than the full width of the cabinet (about 1" wider than a micro that would go on the micro shelf cab - because is includes the width of the side walls of the cabinet). And it is just about perfectly flush with the doors above it on the cabinet - it sticks out maybe 1/16"
Ted
OR
Quote:
Originally Posted by personalshopper A possible problem-solver for some kitchen designers? I just stumbled across this over-counter (NOT made for over the range) microwave - a very handsome one, I think. It's more generously sized than the GE Profile that has been suggested quite often in the kitchen planning forum, so if the petite size of the GE model doesn't meet your needs, take a look at this Sharp model. It's available in stainless, black and white, and would fit nicely below a 24" wall cabinet. Sharp R121 1.5 cu. ft. Over the Counter Microwave Oven with 1,100 Cooking Watts, Defrost Center, Interactive Cooking System and Auto-Touch Control Panel
The sink is the fabulous daughter sink in a 31" cabinet with cover panels.
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Originally Posted by personalshopper
The sink.The major disadvantage to a double sink with standard size bowls is that, while 2 bowls are nice, neither basin is large enough to hold baking pans and cookie sheets. After spending most of my adult life with a standard double sink, I finally decided to treat myself to a deep offset double sink, with one very large bowl and one standard one. Even my husband, who had to do the installation, admits that it was well worth the time and trouble.
Our daughter's sink is also an offset one, and it contributed to this thread here on Ikeafans: Is this sink too big?
A booth-style table will be an easy project. You can google images of "trestle table" to see some versions, you could build your own from a number of plans out there (google "trestle table plans") or you could use Ikea's version of a booth table: VIKA BYSKE Table - IKEA
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