legallin's Kitchen

WOW!!!!!!
What a beautiful transformation you've completed. I love your cabinets ~ you did a great job with the crown molding and matching the paint/glaze. You'd never guess they didn't come from the cabinet company.

Relax for a while and enjoy a remodel well done!!

Elizabeth

I may borrow your idea for Saran Wrap storage. Where did you find the holder that you attached to your sink drawer???

Great job. It looks 99% done to me!

Karen

It looks so fantastic. You should be proud!

Love the kitchen! It looks great. So elegant, so lovely. You must be
thrilled. I'm sure you've begun cooking in it, right? We're not quite
there yet, but maybe this week. Backsplash is going in tomorrow and by
Wednesday, trim should be finished and I think we'll be set to go.
Can't wait!

You emailed me, I think, about having a good laugh about the picture we posted of me taking and counting steps from the frig to the prep area, right?

Where did you get the slide out white wire unit above your frig? And also the step down spice unit?
Both look exactly like something I'd like to have.

Be well and congrats on a job well done!

I love the faucet, of course :)

The counters are ones I remember stroking and envisioning in my family room someday
- so beautiful. You did a great job on the molding - that is a very
difficult DIY job! And the red is amazing. Wow, wow wow!

Congratulations on a job well done!

Lauren

CONGRATULATIONS!

Remember back when you and I were "kitchen buddies," not all that long ago! We
started around the same time and got finished around the same time. Of
course, you have some things to finish, and I do too, but we're really
almost there!

Wonderful job! I love it! You know, your cabinets
were the ones I wanted originally when I started thinking about a
remodel. And I'm so glad you went with the red walls! That looks
awesome...I can't imagine another color that would go so well with your
cabinets.

And that stove looks familiar (wink wink!) Don't you
love yours? I love mine! Cooking is a joy for me now, because of that
stove.

And if you coud see me right now, you'd see that I've
turned green with envy over your granite. I'm so jealous! It's
gorgeous.

And I agree about the molding. How amazing that is
that you did it yourself! How were you able to matching the color of
the cabinets so well? Congrats to you for saving money, too. And if I
remember correctly, you found an installer for your backsplash for a
very reasonable price. He/she did a wonderful job!

It's just so nice! I'm so happy for you!
Beth

congratulations!!!

I can hardly believe that is the same kitchen space! You've done a
wonderful job. I love the colors, and the cabinets, and the crown
molding. And your puppies!

Your granite is so pretty. You've
fit an amazing amount of storage in that area. How does that fold out
spice rack work? It looks really neat.

You should be very proud of your work. I can see great dinner parties coming out of that design!

Lovely, truly lovely. I hope you enjoy it for many many years.

Seriously, I went to your pics and thought I had clicked on a "before" shot. Up
popped those beautiful painted and glazed staggered cabinets and I
thought "That has to be after, because no one would rip out those
beautiful cabinets!" LOL!

Congratulations on a beautiful new space. Like Beth, I feel like we went through this process together and are better for it. Thanks for all your help and enjoy your new space.

Kelly

Loved your kitchen! Question for you - how did you decide on the Fridgedaire
slide in range vs. a Kitchenaid model since you were going with the KA
Ultima OTR unit?

Just curious since the Kitchenaid range looks
very similar - only it looks like the Fridgedaire has a nicer sized
window inthe door. Was is price/specs or what? I can't decide if I
should go with one vendor for all applicances or not. I'm concerned
about having the stainless match, but it looks like yours matches
perfectly...

Beth,
I really enjoyed being your "kitchen buddy." You have nothing to be
jealous about -- your kitchen is gorgeous. Yes, I have granite,
finally, but you have to remember, that my first FOUR kitchens were all
laminate (gosh -- I didn't even know about granite back then!)

For those of you who asked about the floors, I'm assuming you mean in the
pantry -- that is Pergo Presto in white oak from HD. The "main kitchen"
is currently concrete with leftover mastic and paint splatters from all
the colors I tried out! Hopefully I'll have the Kahrs white oak
installed in a few weeks. I used Pergo in the pantry because that is
the doggies' "home base" and thought it would hold up a little better
with their food, water and accidents -- this brand/color was the best
match for the wood I will be using.

Carol, I didn't go with the matching KA slide-in because it was a LOT more expensive than the Frigidaire (which has so many features, and which I love). I was going
for price/value for most items, as this was a "semi" budget remodel.
Fortunately the two items match perfectly, even down to the same
handles!

Linda

Beth

It looks so wonderful; somehow I was imagining you had a much smaller
kitchen, but this looks so *grand* (yet not at all overdone). The
moldings came out so well! Love all the choices; enjoy what you've done
and post those little updates down the line.

Also, good luck with your great college tour! I remember traveling all over the eastern U.S. with my DD (who is now 29, a doctor and mother of 3!). You picked four great
campuses to visit -- and, they are even prettier in the spring/summer/fall! I'm very familiar with the schools you visited: I went to Denison (and spent a lot of fun weekends at Kenyon, which was all-male at the time); all four of our children went to Miami (which is an outstanding school, great value and is considered a "public ivy");
and my daughters went to tennis camps at Wooster in the summer. You
have so many choices to make -- enjoy! Linda

Thank you so much for all the kind comments! I'm glad you like my kitchen,
and I would be glad to help you in any way that I can (sorry it took so
long to reply -- we were having work done on the other part of the
house and the computer was unhooked for several days).

I did the soffit molding in 3 steps. Crown on top (4-1/4"), grapevine molding
(that I purchased on the Internet), and then a smaller molding at the
bottom edge to hide the unevenness between my unlevel soffits and the
cabinets. The grapevine molding was composite, rather than the solid
wood, since I was painting it anyway. I forgot what the website is, but
I will look it up and let you know. I did have my contractor cut my
soffits back a few inches so that they were even with the wall-cabinet
fronts (instead of sticking out), and so that the corner angle matched
the corner cabinet.

I am very happy with my Premier cabinets. They look great, the operation and quality of construction seem very good, and they had all of the options I needed at a price that was so much lower than other cabinets I was considering. Premier customer service was also very good on the few items that had to be exchanged.
Do get the full-extension, dovetail joints -- it was only $15 extra per
drawer, and well worth it. I also really like the fact that the fawn
glazing is very subtle -- I thought some of the glazing on other brands
was very heavy and almost amateurish looking. The only suggestion I
would give concerning the cabinet color is to check it out in your
kitchen if at all possible. Depending on the lighting and what color it
is next to it, the cabinets can look more yellow than they did in the
store. I do like the warmth of the color, though. I had an all-white
kitchen before and was ready for a change, yet I wanted to stay "light"
colored because of the lack of windows in my kitchen.

Anyway, good luck, and let me know if I can answer any more questions.

Linda