liljestad Kitchen LARGE island

**GardenOfDarwin** · Apr 21st, 08, 9:21 pm

Beautiful! I love the trim - can you give us some details on the customizations that you did? You've got the custom trim, the angled cabinet under the window, and the little door on the wall above the pantry door that I can see....care to brag a little? You did a wonderful job, and we'd love to hear about it!

Susan

istion · Apr 23rd, 08, 12:42 am

We're listed as the top 10 on MSN.

Please feel free to vote for our kitchen at/ or around: Sympatico / MSN Real Estate : Renovating : Renovation Redux : PHOTO_GALLERY_REALESTATE_TOP10RENOS2 : Top10Renos2

I know it's silly, but I feel a reel sense of pride. It was alot of work, a lot of stress.

Appreciate you're vote.

Ken

istion · Apr 23rd, 08, 12:04 pm

Home Depot, Oak Dental Trim in three sizes. Really once you get a color match for wood, then you can do anything you like. I used plywood ontop of the cabinets painted the same color, bucause it is visible from upstairs. The door in the corner, is a stock ikea door, cut through the middle, nailed to a backer, and sanded and painted to fill in that gap.

I also used oak laminate around the opening for the beer fridge in the island, and laminate under the 2 wall cubbards so if you look under it is color matched like only the most expensive cabinates i've seen.

The angled cabinate is actually just a cabinate angled. So they transition from the 24 inch pot cubbards to a 12 cabinate and filler peice to go around the corner.

I redo all the edge taping as well. I reinforced the kitchen cabinet front, used doors as cover pannets at back and at top of the large pantry.

in the end, some of the mistakes I make earlier in the design end up being you're friend because then you're forced to stop, and figure out solutions and the typical solution ends up being more fancy.