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Snapshots Of Kitchen Ideas

September 11th, 2009

I’m starting with the bathroom, but thoughts are churning like crazy about the kitchen.  I was flipping through a Woman’s Day Kitchens & Baths magazine (vol XIX No. 2, 2009) and saw several ideas that I would like to incorporate – or at least consider doing so.  We’ll see once I get going on it what I’m able to do frugally – after all, it will be a ton more fun and interesting that way!

I apologize for the very poor quality of the pics. I took flash photographs of glossy magazine pages and doing some cropping seemed to
add to the blurriness. Hopefully you’ll be able to get some idea anyway.
 

Just the other day I was thinking of adding a small shelf under the cabinet between the stove and fridge (possibly for trays, etc). This is similar to what I’m thinking of: 

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A major change I want to make in the kitchen is to add small cabinets over the existing ones. We don’t have high ceilings, but we do have wasted space over the cabinets and quality storage around here is at a premium. 

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I saw this and just. love. it.  I’d love to replace our stove exhaust with something like this (though it may prove to be more than I’m currently willing to invest) and I love the idea of open shelves over it instead of regular kitchen cabinets. 

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Speaking of open shelves, I’m wondering what the possibilities would be of taking a partial wall that creates the doorway to the laundry room, removing the sheetrock and adding narrow shelves the depth of the wall (am I making sense here?).  It would be more for décor
than anything else, but even space for décor is hard to come by around here.  It wouldn’t look like this picture, but this pic is what triggered the idea:
 

 

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Lastly (for now), I would like to add a narrow, pullout cabinet between the fridge and wall next to it.  We do not have a pantry, so anywhere I can add space for food items is a plus. These are lower cabinet pull-outs, where-as I’d want something as tall as the fridge. 
We’ll see how expensive it is when I get around to it and go from there on whether it happens or not.

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Use Molding To Upgrade Bath & Kitchen Cabinets

September 10th, 2009

Check out this instructional video from Better Homes & Gardens about adding molding to bath or kitchen cabinets to get a very nice look for a minimal out of pocket expense.  I’ve been planning on painting my kitchen cabinets as well as adding hardware to change the overall look and may add some decorative molding to them as well to really add some style (they are quite plain right now).

 
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