mistybear11's Kitchen

Diana

Enjoy.

Thanks so much for sharing your kitchen. Hopefully you're loving it to pieces.

Our first home had knotty pine cabinets and I'd love to have them now, but honestly, I had no idea they could look so good! Are they custom?

And yours is *definitely* a gem. That knotty pine just gleams, and the backsplash talks perfectly to it. You know, if you really want the black granite counter, you *could* do a granite *tile* counter (much less expensive, DIY kind of project) with teeny tiny grout lines and have it sooner :) Just a thought...

sundial: Thank you so much! I had wanted black countertops but maybe that would be way overboard.

dinobambino: Thank you

momj47: How kind of you to say

MariposaTraicionera: Thank you

allison0704:Thank you

bunglogrl:Thank you

Leelee7: Thank you so much. The tile is called Kia Blue, irridescent. I purchased it at The Home Depot. It comes in a sheet. 12" square with the tiles already placed and all you have to do is cut inbetween to get the size you need to fit. The only tools we had were a pair of scissors and a pair of tile nippers for the real tiny pieces needed. We just bought premixed mastic made especially for the glass tiles. We did this last Feb. and I do hope this Feb. we will get it grouted.

meskauskas: Thank you, I know what you mean about the warmth you feel from knotty pine. I felt if we had put in oak the feeling wouldn't be the same. Too cold with all the tile and other oak furniture.

athomein1914: Thank you. Yes I am a colour person. I have shades of purple everywhere else and since we had purchased an enamel blue heat stove before we moved here I was determined that it was coming with us and I had to figure out a way to encorporate it in the open concept. I do really love it the way it is and I am always thinking of a way to make it even better. Even though my dream is to have a blue enamel stove for the kitchen I think it will be a long time before it will happen.

Free_at_last: Thank you. The builder had his own kitchen cabinet guy and when I spoke to him my biggest want was to have as many pot drawers as possible. I have never regretted for one moment on that decision. So as for being custom I guess they were a little. The end corner pieces were extras that I had to have to finish it off and I have a lot of stuff I like to set in there. The cabinets doors were the standard that we were alowed. If we had wanted raised panels that would have been another extra.

mythreegirls: Thank you: It took me awhile to get the wall colour right so I could get the benefit of the true colour. I ended up using a deep purplish-raspberry around the outside of the tile about 10" to bring out the irridescence.

FlyLeft: Thank you. How kind of you to say. Thanks for mentioning about the black tile, I had thought of this as well and wondered if it might be too busy with all the grout lines, but I suppose you can get real dark grout. I think that may take the formality out of the granite. I wasn't sure if the granite and the pine might just fight one another a little too much. But I will consider this again.

fisheggs: Thank you, I absolutely adore the pine. I have it everywhere in the house. I have the same cabinets in the bathroom upstairs with as much contrast as you could possibly get with the black toilet, sink(same counter top as the kitchen) and tub surround. I also have knotty pine baseboard, trim and window casings throughout the house. It ages so beautifully, a colour you just can't get with a stain.

Linda

sunny_NE: Thank you, the knobs are actually purple ceramic. Hard to see in the picture. They bring out the purple shades in the counter top and match the walls.