Blue and White Kitchen with Long Island
Details from beaglesdoitbetter on 9/19/2012
Link to beaglesdoitbetter's Gardenweb finished kitchen post
Link to beaglesdoitbetter's blog with photos
Introduction:
The kitchen was part of a new home build. It was completed in February of 2012.
Kitchen Highlights:
- Cabinets: Dutch Wood Kitchens (Custom cabinet makers in Myerstown PA. (717) 933-5133
- Counters: Island is bookmatched blue bahia, Perimeter cabinets are Statuario Marble
- Sinks: Custom fabricated marble and custom fabricated concrete (Paco Originals did the concrete work). Instant hot and chilled water from Wasteking.
- Appliances: Miele 42"" cooktop; Jenn-Air ovens; Bosch integrated refrigerator, Sub-Zero fridge/freezer drawers; Sharp microwave drawer
- Tile mural: Custom-made by Stone Impressions
- Knobs: Custom-made glass knobs, Designer Glass Mosaics. China cabinet knobs are Schaub mother-of-pearl
KitchenDetails:
1. Kitchen Basics
Type of Remodel: New Kitchen/New House
Kitchen installation: Hired General Contractor
Budget: High Budget
Location Type: Rural
Basic Other Information: Home construction was Elite Home Builders in Reading PA.
2. Kitchen Design
Kitchen Design Family/Function: Just The Two Of Us
Kitchen Designer: Self-Designed
Kitchen Size: Large (over 350 sq.ft)
Kitchen Dimensions (WxL):
Kitchen Height: Height 9 feet or less
Kitchen Style: French Style, Traditional Style
Kitchen Island: Island with one level, Oversized Island
Kitchen Island#1 Size (WxL): 156L x 48W
Kitchen Island#2 Size (WxL):
Kitchen Island#3 Size (WxL):
Kitchen Seating: Cozy Accent Chairs
Design Special Features: Coffee Center, Custom Range Hood
3. Kitchen Cabinets
Cabinets New/Reused: New Cabinet Doors and Boxes - Custom Sizes
Cabinet Manufacturer: Dutch Wood Cabinets
Cabinet Manufacturer Details: Completely custom cabinets, all interiors designed for organization. Highly recommend my cabinet makers, the prices were very reasonable, the cabinets were extremely high quality, communication and timeliness was great and they never said no to any suggestions or ideas, they made everything I wanted happen.
Cabinet Door Composition: Solid Wood Cabinet Doors
Cabinet Door (Wood): Maple Cabinet Doors
Cabinet Box Composition: Solid Wood Cabinet Boxes
Cabinet Box (Wood): Maple Cabinet Boxes
Cabinet Framing: Framed Cabinet
Cabinet Door Overlay: Full Overlay Cabinet Door
Cabinet Door Style: Raised Panel Cabinet Door, Cathedral Cabinet Door
Cabinet Color: White/Cream Cabinet Door
Cabinet Height: Cabinets to the Ceiling
Mixed Cabinets? Blue accent color on hood, sink cabinets, china cabinet back
Cabinet Special Features: Soft-Close Cabinet Drawers, Cabinet Inserts of Clear Glass
4. Kitchen Countertops
Countertop New/Reused: New Countertops
Countertop Composition: Granite (slab) Countertop, Marble
Granite Countertop: Blue Bahia
Marble Countertop: Statuario
Countertop Color: Blue Countertop, White/Cream Countertop
Countertop Finish: Honed Countertop, Polished Countertop
Countertop Edge: Ogee Edge Countertop
Mixed Countertops? Mixed Countertops perimeter/island (multiple colors/shades/finishes)
Countertop Supplier: Blue Bahia from European Granite and Marble, Marble from Imperial Marble and Granite
Countertop Fabricator: Island fabrication done by Big Brothers Marble and Granite, Marble fabrication and custom marble sink from Imperial Marble and Granite.
5. Kitchen Backsplash
Backsplash New/Reused: New Backsplash
Backsplash Material: Marble Backsplash, Mural behind stove
Backsplash Type: Mural Tile Backsplash
Backsplash Pattern: Mural Backsplash
Backsplash Size: Full backsplash
Backsplash Color: White Backsplash
Backsplash Manufacturer: Mural from Stone Impressions (custom designed)
Backsplash Special Features: Mixed Materials in Backsplash
6. Kitchen Appliances
Appliances: New/Reused? All New Appliances
Refrigerator Manufacturer: Bosch
Refrigerator Color: Custom Wood Paneled Refrigerator
Refrigerator Special Features: Bottom FreezerRefrigerator, Built-in Refrigerator, Refrigerator Drawers, Counter-Depth Refrigerator, Under Counter Refrigerator
Refrigerator Details: Bosch full size integrated fridge, Subzero fridge and freezer drawers
Range Hood Manufacturer: Vent a Hood
Range Hood Max CFM: 401-600 CFM Range Hood
Range Hood MUA:
Range Hood Color: Painted Wood Range Hood
Range Hood Special Features:
Cooktop Manufacturer: Miele
Cooktop Color: Stainless Steel Cooktop
Wall Oven Manufacturer: Jenn-Air
Wall Oven Color: "Stainless Look" Wall Oven
Dishwasher Manufacturer: Kitchenaid and Bosch
Dishwasher Color: Custom Wood Paneled Dishwasher
Dishwasher Special Features: Dishwasher Drawers
Dishwasher Details: Have two separate dish drawers plus full size dishwasher
Microwave Manufacturer: Sharp
Microwave Color: Stainless Steel Microwave
Microwave Special Features: Built-in Microwave in Drawer
Additional Appliances: Dishwasher Drawer, Refrigerator Drawer
7. Kitchen Plumbing
Plumbing: New/Reused? Installed All New Plumbing Lines
Main Sink Manufacturer: Paco Originals (custom)
Main Sink Material: Concrete
Main Sink Shape: Farmhouse w/ integrated drainboard
Main Sink Bowls: Single Bowl Sink
Main Sink Width: Main Sink 35 to 40 inches
Main Sink Cabinet Size: Main Sink Cabinet over 36 inch
Main Sink Mount: Apron Front Sink
Main Sink Special Features: Unique Sink
Main Faucet Manufacturer: Whitehaus
Plumbing Special Features: Air Switch, Pot Filler, Instant Hot Water, Tapmaster - Eurostyle, Under counter water chiller
8. Kitchen Electric and Lighting
Electric Outlet Covers: Plugmold used under open cabinets and island. For areas w/ no uppers, we had the plugs built into the side of the refrigerator cabinet and the appliance cabinet and had magnetic wood pieces fitted over so the outlets disappear
Electric Special Features: No Outlets in Backsplash, Plug inside cabinet, Plugmold under Counters, Plugmold under Cabinets
Lighting Special Features: Chandelier in Kitchen, Under Cabinet Lighting
9. Kitchen Hardware
Hardware Type: Both Knobs and Pulls
Hardware Knobs Manufacturer: Designer Glass Mosaics Schaub Mother of PearlHardware Knobs Material/Color: Glass Knobs, Ivory/Tan Knobs
10. Kitchen Flooring
Flooring New/Reused: New Flooring
Flooring Material: Wood Floor
Flooring Color: Light Wood Floor
Flooring Details: Natural American Cherry
Flooring Special Features: Heated Floor
11. Kitchen Pantry
Pantry Type: Walk-in Pantry (Built-in)
Pantry Cabinet Features: Fixed Shelves in Pantry Cabinet, Individual Sliding Drawers in Pantry Cabinet, Individual Sliding Shelves in Pantry Cabinet, Lazy Susan in Pantry Cabinet
Pantry Shelving: Pantry Shelving Cabinets & Countertops, Fixed Open Shelving in Built-in Pantry, Painted Wood Open Shelving in Built-in Pantry
Pantry Door: Glass Door on Built-in Pantry
Pantry Items: Broom/Dustpan in Pantry, Canned Goods in Pantry, Cookbooks in Pantry, Dishes in Pantry, Pots and Pans in Pantry
Pantry Containers: Glass Specialty Jars in Pantry
Special Pantry Features: Appliances Used in Pantry, Electrical Outlet in Pantry, Chandelier in Pantry
Pantry Other Information: Pantry custom designed and built by Dutch Wood Kitchens.
12. Kitchen Special Features
Eco-Friendly: Includes locally sourced materials
Convenience Items: Armoire, Baking Drawer, China Hutch, Cutting Board Storage, Dish Drawer, Integrated Drainboard, Drawer Dividers, Knife Drawer, Plate Rack, Hanging Pot Rack, Wall-mounted Pot Rack, Recycling Pullout, TV, Trash Foot Pedal, Trash Pullout, Tray Dividers, Water Dispenser
13. Kitchen Decor
Decor Wall Color: Gray Wall Color
Decor Wall Color Details: Sherwin Williams Tinsmith
14. Kitchen Additional Comments
Before Photos: Before Photos Not Included
Floorplan Photos: Floorplan Image Not Included
White/Soapstone Kitchen with Talavera Backsplash
Posted by ats-md on Sun, Mar 29, 09
Link to nats-md's Gardenweb finished kitchen post
Link to nat-md's kitchen photos
Details:
- Cabinets: Crown Point frameless
- Counter: Green Mountain Original Soapstone from Philly Soapstone
- Backsplash: Mexican Talavera tile from Tierra y Fuego in San Diego (Spanish colonial style)
- Stove: American Range, 30inch
- Hood: Independent, the Santa Fe
- Cabinet hardware: ordered from Crown Point (don't know the actual manufacturer)
- Wall color: BM Revere Pewter
- Faucet: Grohe
- Sink: Ticor stainless
- Floors: quartersawn oak (to match our original (1928) house floors)
- banquette - cushions tbd
Features:
Banquette Seating
Blumotion
Cabinets: Wall >12"deep
Cabinets: Wall >36"high
Ceiling Height: >8ft
Counter-depth Frig
Drawer Dividers
Floor Plan
Frameless Cabinets
Full Extension Drawers
Glass Doors
Gourmet/Professional
Island with Seating
Lighting: Above Cabinet
Lighting: Pendant
Lighting: Recessed
Lighting: Under Cabinet
Microwave Shelf
Window Seat
1930 Spanish Kitchen
Posted by yesdear on Mon, Mar 30, 09
Link to yesdear's Gardenweb finished kitchen post
Link to yesdear's kitchen photos
Details:
- Cabinets - locally made face-frame of birch with inset panel & bead detail on doors, melamine interiors, Blumotion hinges and all the internal bells & whistles.
- Countertops - unoiled Brazilian Black soapstone with radiused corners and eased edge, 3 cm thickness, from Soapstone West in Escondido CA. Runnels by the sink. Mahogany top on the beadboard hutch.
- Backsplash - custom 2.5 x 5" Chardonnay color handmade glazed subway tile by Ken Mason Tile, Long Beach CA.
- Tile Mural - from Tierra y Fuego in San Diego CA. It is a "cuerda seca" ("dry cord") style of Talavera from Guanajuato, Mexico. The design is a Persian rug. We left off the fringes. We found the black quarter-rounds and 3 x 3s at a local tile store at the last minute
- Range - CornuFe in basic black.
- Frig - Liebherr 60" built-in. (Two 30" wide refrigerators above, two freezers below. Opens up like French doors but it's 4 separate compressors)
- DW - Miele Optima with panel front.
- Sinks - Rohl Shaws Original 30" apron and 15" undermount prep with ISE Evolution disposers.
- Faucets - Kohler Vinnata (K-690, K-691)in brushed nickel.
- Cab hardware - "Duluth" 6" pulls and 1.25" knobs in brushed nickel from Restoration Hardware.
- Appliance pulls - Top Knobs 12" pulls in BN. The DW has one mounted horizontally--also serves as towel rack!
- Floors - Original 1930 tongue-in-groove fir, sanded, repaired and refinished after removing 2 layers of linoleum.
- Windows - Custom arched 3-lite pull casement, based on a ~1930 design I saw in the neighborhood.
- Lighting - Schoolhouse Electric, all fluorescent GU24 except the pendants (too small for GU24 bulbs). Different ceiling mounts in kitchen, pantry and laundry.
Pendents: Northwestern 6" fitter size bases in antique black with custard shades.
- Hood - Best PIK 45 with custom arched drywall enclosure and remote switch.
- Paint - all Benjamin Moore:
~ Wall base color: Ivory White (925) "Aura" water-base
~ Wall green accent color: Mountain Lane (488) "Aura" water-base
~ Cabinets and trim: Lemon Chiffon (932) oil-base
- French door - ordered through B&B Hardware in Long Beach, CA
- Our CKD is Dana Jones, "The Kitchen Consultant," in Long Beach, CA.
- Our GC is Bob Kaplan of Long Beach, CA.
The kitchen is 18.5' x 9.75'. Ceilings are 8'2" high. The pantry is another 7' long and the laundry another 8', with an exterior door. There is a hallway coming off the pantry that leads to a bath and bedroom. The room adjacent to the beadboard hutch is our breakfast room. The formal dining room adjoins the arch in the foreground of the first photo. Total project involved gutting 350 sf to the studs, reframing, rewiring and replumbing.
There is an HD TV with recessed bracket and concealed mini-amplifier feeding a stereo speaker in the ceiling. A stereo speaker with one woofer and two tweeters. Our contractor was able to create a space within the wall where the swing-arm bracket can reside--thus the TV is almost flush with the wall when retracted. We found that professional A/V guys are all over this stuff.
The windows are brand new, based on a period design that I saw on another home a few blocks away. The center lite is fixed and the side lites open in--that is termed a "pull casement" window.
Features:
Soapstone sill
Air Switch
Appliance Garage
Beadboard
Blumotion
Bookshelf
Broom Closet
Cabinets: Wall >12"deep
Colorful!!!
Counter-to-Ceiling Cabinet
Cutting Board Storage
Dish Drawer
Drainboard
Drawer Dividers
Filtered Water Faucet
Full Extension Drawers
Glass Doors
Gourmet/Professional
Custom Hood
Inset Doors
Knife Drawer
Lighting: Pendant
Lighting: Recessed
Lighting: Under Cabinet
Microwave Shelf
NeverMT
Open Shelving
Pass Through
Peninsula with Seating
Plate Rack
Plugmold
Plug inside Cabinet
Prep Area (Multiple)
Prep Sink
Pullout Pantry
Soap Dispenser
Spice Storage (in the niche to the right of the range)
Tapmaster
Toe Kick Heater
Trash Pullout
TV
Unique Window
Water Filter
Wine Storage
Range enclosure
DIY Gourmet Kitchen with Quartzite Counter
Contact: salmon_slayer (My Page)
Posted by salmon_slayer on Tue, Dec 30, 08
Link to salmon_slayer's Gardenweb finished kitchen post
Link to salmon_slayer's finished kitchen photos
Details:
- Cabinets: Natural Cherry with burnt umber highlights www.customcraftcabinets.com
- Counter: White & Gold Quartzite 3cm
- Cabinet Glass: New German
- Oven: Meile
- Mural: Sarah McAnerny from Tre Sorelle: http://www.tresorellehomedesigns.com
- Rangetop: Wolf
- Warming Drawer: Wolf
- Hood Liner: Abbaka
- Hood: www.Metastone.com
- Refrigerator: Thermador
- Sink Faucet: Grohe
- Potfiller: Grohe
- Dishwasher: Bosch
- Under counter Lights: Xenon Counterattack (Expo)
- In cabinet Lights: Halogen pucks (Expo)
- Over Cabinet Lights: still deciding
- Pendants: Expo, regular line voltage
- O/H Lights: Juno cans w/ bronze trim; Ushio CFL lamps
- Sink: Rohl Allia (EBAY- "Plumbing Deals" - very good seller! Supplied the faucet, sink, sink support, stainless grate and airswitch)
- Paint: Sherwin Williams August Moon & Crabby Apple
- Bar Stools: www.Overstock.com
- Floors: Br-111 Amendoim, 3" wide, solid flooring
Island dimensions are 55" x 105".
Dimension to fridge:44" to bumped out rangetop: 40", otherwise 44" to the counters
Features:
Floor Plan included
Air Switch
Bar with Seating
Blumotion
Bookshelf
Cabinets: Base >24"deep
Cabinets: Base >36"high
Cabinets: Wall >12"deep
Cabinets: Wall >36"high
Counter-depth Frig
Cutting Board Storage
Dish Drawer
Drawer Dividers
File Drawer
Full Extension Drawers
Glass Doors
Gourmet/Professional
Custom Hood
Island with Seating
Knife Drawer
Lazy Susan
Lighting: Above Cabinet
Lighting: Pendant
Lighting: Recessed
Lighting: Under Cabinet
Potfiller
Reach-in Pantry
Rollout Trays
Sink >30"wide
Skylight
Stone
Trash Pullout
Tray Divider
Warming Drawer
Cheery Kitchen with Absolute Black Granite and Tile Mural
Posted by sherrilea on Thu, Sep 28, 06
Link to kitchen photos: http://web.mac.com/sherri.p
Details:
- Cabinets: Plato Cabinets- Door style: Kenwood raised panel full-overlay in Cherry, Champagne finish with black glaze. (Glass cabinet doors: Seedy)
- Granite: Vyhara Brazil on peninsula and beverage center, Absolute Black on island and desk. (Pencil edge)
- Range: Viking 36" 6-burner all gas (open burner, self cleaning)
- Hood: Viking 36" wall hood w/ 1200 cfm blower
- Fridge: Kitchen Aid 42" SxS w/custom panels
- Dish Washer (existing): Bosch (only appliance we reused)
- Beverage Fridge: GE Monogram 24" Beverage Center Fridge
- Microwave: GE Profile Spacemaker
- Sink: Main - Kohler Executive Chef in Biscuit, Prep - Kohler Porto Fino in Thunder Grey.
- Faucets: Main - Kohler Vinnata, Prep - Kohler Essex (Finish: Brushed Nickel)
- Hot Water Dispenser: EverHot (LVH480) w/satin nickel faucet
- Pendants: Pottery Barn Rustic Glass Pendant
- Backsplash: Unfilled tumbled travertine Herringbone field tile with Linen grout
- Tile Mural: Orchid mural on 4" tumbled natural Bianco Carrara marble tiles (from "artonstones" Ebay seller) with Summer Wheat grout
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