Honed Jet Mist and Beveled Subway Tile Kitchen Refresh

• Cabinets: existing (original color similar to Benjamin Moore White Dove)
• Counters: Jet Mist (aka Virginia Mist) honed and enhanced, dupont edge on island and eased edge on perimeter
• Cooktop: Wolf 36 inch five burner gas (we switched from electric to lp gas)
• Downdraft: Thermador
• Backsplash: 3x6 white lanka beveled subway tile, 3x6 breil chair rail tile
• Faucet: Blanco "Grace", chrome with sidespray
• Sink: Elkay undermount single bowl, 18 gauge stainless
• Hardware: Richelieu 3 inch chrome pulls, HD chrome knobs, glass knobs on lower doors but can't remember source

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Cream Shaker Cabs/Soapstone Counter Top/Wood Floor Kitchen

• Cabinets: Kraftmaid Maple Hunnington in Biscotti
• Countertops: Julia soapstone
• Floors: red oak, matching dining room and living room
• Hardware: Restoration Hardware Marston cup and strap pulls
• Lighting: Hinkley Lighting small pendant ORB, from lighting universe with no problems
• Appliances: all existing except for refrigerator and disposal:
• DW: Kenmore
• OTR MW: Maytag
• Stove: GE
• Refrigerator: NEW Electrolux IQ Touch FD CD with ice and water in the door Black. Bought from AJ Madison with no issues - excellent customer service when I pushed out the delivery date 4 times.
• Disposal: Insinkerator Compact Evolution
• Sink: Blanco 511-710 Blancodiamond Single Bowl Kitchen Sink, Biscuit
• Faucet: final faucet will be Elements of Design Tempa 2 handled in ORB, but currently have cheap temporary is Kingston Brass Victorian twin handled faucet.
• Paint color: SW Milk Pail (a Martha Stewart color, which is discontinued, but they will still make it for you )
• Bar stools: Boraam Industries Ming bar stool
• Glass in cabinet: wissmach hammered

KitchenDetails:

1928 Brick Bungalow

• Cabinetss: Showplace QS oak in autumn with ebony glaze
• Outer Counters: Honed celestial green granite 
• Island top: Maple butcher block 
• Fridge: Samsung 
• Appliances: GE Cafe 
• Hardware/Lighting: Rejuvenation ORB fixtures and bin pulls/knobs; classic schoolhouse shade (Rose City and Laurel) 
• Sink/faucet: Whitehaus farmhouse; Whitehaus faucet 
• Floors: Refinished hard rock maple covered in hideous tile, underlayment and then more ugly tile 
• Paint color: SW Opalescence

Cream & Cherry Kitchen for under $20K

• Cabinets - perimeter: Aristokraft Durham Toasted Almond Glaze, island: Wentworth Maple Java Glaze
• Countertops – Brown Tan Granite, ½ bevel edge
• Backsplash – 3x6 Edimax ceramic tile - Brunata 
• Floor – Kaindl "Acacia" laminate 
• Stools – Target (Pottery Barn knockoffs - $65/each vs. $260/each)
• Hardware - Lowe’s Gateway "Aged Bronze"
• Faucet – Danze Opulence Single Handle – Stainless Steel finish
• Pendants – Progress "Madison" Antique Bronze
• Fridge – Kenmore (purchased 3 yrs ago)
• Dishwasher – Frigidaire (purchased 6 yrs ago)
• Range & Micro – Frigidaire Professional Series
• Jelly Cabinet - Ebay
• Walls – "Rejuvinate" Behr (Home Depot)

Simple Farm Kitchen

• Cabinets: Menard's in hickory
• Countertop: laminate is Wilsonart Frosty White 1573-60
• Sink: Fireclay sink from bluebath.com
• Faucet: ebay
• Lighting: ebay
• Flooring: existing vinyl
• Appliances: No new appliances unless you count the induction hot plate which I haven't used yet. Broan fan on line.

Rubbed Black Cabinets and Carrara Marble DIY Kitchen

• Cabinets: original cabinets with new doors and trim.
• Cabinet Paint: DIY Benjamin Moore Custom Black Satin Impervo, with an undercoat of Benjamin Moore Heritage Red (also Impervo) and Killz oil based primer. All cabinet paint was oil based.
• Inside Cabinet Paint: We painted the bead board inside the glass cabinets Benjamin Moore Feather Gray.
• Cabinet Glass: Seeded Glass, from Miller Glass
• Countertops: 3 cm Honed Carrara Marble Slabs (2) from Bedrosians. Fabrication by Benchmark (Ogee edge, Christopher Peacock style corners).
• Backsplash Tile: Daltile Rittenhouse Square subway matte arctic white with light gray grout.
• Appliances:
• Rangetop: 36″ Burner Bertazzoni Commercial Gas Range top (from A M Royal)
• Range Hood: Zephyr 36″ Stainless Steel Savona Wall Hood (from ABT Electronics)
• Dishwasher: Bosch 24″ Built-in, Black. The model that is one up from the most basic.
• Microwave: original
• Oven: original
• Refrigerator: original
• Pendant Lights: Rustic Glass Pendant (2) from Pottery Barn
• Wall Paint: Benjamin Moore Stonington Gray
• Flooring: Vanier Unfinished Hand Scraped Hardwood Flooring Walnut / 9/16″x5″x Random Lengths.
• Hardware:
  Clear Glass Knob with Black Base (on glass doors) from Cool Knobs and Pulls
  Bin Pulls Gilmore 4 inch Polished Nickel from Restoration Hardware
  Deco Rings Knob, Polished Nickel (on regular doors) from Rejuvenation
  Breadboard knob & backplate (mini-size) from Horton Brasses
• Faucet: Price Pfister Ashfield Chrome Two-Handle Pull Down Bridge Faucet, Polished Nickel
• Soap Dispenser: original
• Sink: Belle Foret Farmhouse Sink – Fireclay, Apron Front, Undermount, 30″ from Vintage Tub and Bath
• Disposal: Badger 9 Insinkerator from Home Depot.

Old Farmhouse Kitchen with Quartersawn Oak Cabinets and Blue Milk Paint Island

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• Cabinets: Crown Point frameless, old cupboard door, quartersawn oak perimeter w/ candlelight stain; island inset w/ slate blue milk paint
• Counters: Green Mountain Original soapstone perimeter; Carrara marble island
• Floor: Pine rescued from under two layers of vinyl & glue
• Appliances: BlueStar range, Jenn-Air refrigerator, Bosch DW, Electrolux Icon wall oven; Prestige hood.
• Sink: Ticor
• Faucet: Kindred
• Lights: Schoolhouse electric
• Wall Color: BM Philadephia Cream at 75% intensity
• Cabinet hardware: Crown Point

1930 Spanish Kitchen

• 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.

DIY Original Stained Oak Creatively Retrofitted into Distressed Off-White Kitchen

• Cabinets:
  Perimeter - original stained oak cabinets, creatively reused, painted off-white, distressed and glazed (see below for paint, glaze and finish),
  Island - Bertch Legacy in Cherry
• Countertops:
  Perimeter - Green Mountain PA Soapstone,
  Island - Crema Bordeaux granite
• Backsplash: Limestone subway tiles and a couple of 12x12s that DH cut into the size of squares we needed to make the design fit. The black squares are leftover soapstone that he cut.
• Hardware:
  Perimeter - iron finish knobs/pulls from Target
  Island - Montana Aged Iron Appliance Pulls from Bellacor http://www.bellacor.com/productdetail/97432.htm
• Range: KitchenAid
• Refrigerator: KA counterdepth
• Faucet: Grohe K-4
• Sink: Blanco Silgranit
• Coffeemaker: DeLonghi
• Windows: Pella
• Flooring: Oak
• Spice Bottles: Specialty Bottle Company http://www.specialtybottle.com/

• Cabinet paint is antique white milk paint by American Finishes with a watered-down solution of their VanDykeBrown glaze effects. We then put a spray finish of Minwax waterbased polycrylic clear satin finish over it.
• Cabinets to the right of the microwave: We took a couple of cabinets, cut them shorter, added the plate shelf, and converted the doors to glass.
• Countertop cabinet to the right of the sink: This was constructed from a cabinet that we changed to glass; the upper part of our old oven cabinet turned into a "garage"; and one he just made because I wanted a pullout to put soaps etc in.
• Sink base: We bumped out the sink base, first because we were forced to so the sink/faucet would fit; and second because we liked the look. He built the legs from a pic I found. We painted the base behind black so the legs stood out more. Added pullouts for recycling.
• Peninsula: On the peninsula, we actually have two cabinets we didn’t mess with and then we took some fronts of pasta bins that we had on an old end cabinet and made 2 deep drawers. We had a narrow door that we turned at an angle and made a cabinet for cookie sheets, etc.
• Cabinet to the left of the oven: We made this into a pullout that DH custom made to fit the lids; and the pots do all manage to fit in even tho the cabinet is only 15".
• Cabinet to the left of the refrigerator: The cabinet to the left of the frig is a combination of 2 base cabinets (one with 3 drawers and one with 1 drawer and 1 door—turned upside down to make the opening with the 2 vertical doors (which were actually previous drawer fronts). Then we left a cabinet open that we cut apart and put shelves in to make the cookbook shelves. DH built the shelf above the frig to tie the cabinets on either side together. We turned the opening of the cabinet into a "poor man’s coffee bar". Works great to keep it off the countertop but easily accessible. The coffee pot is actually filled by pulling out the handle (not from the top) so that makes life easier.
• Display cabinet: We had this display cabinet with the glass doors before so we retro fitted it into this angled wall and added the beadboard inside to match the other cabinets.

White/Alder Kitchen with Coffered Ceiling and Arches

• Cabinets: Perimeter Cabinets custom-built with BM Simply White paint. Island cabinets are custom-built Alder, stained Sherwin-Williams "Walnut Wainscot" SW 3120-B.
• Countertops: Perimeter countertop is Black Minas Soapstone from Dorado Soapstone.
• Island countertop is Honed Statuario Marble
• Backsplash: tbd
• Appliances:
  DW, Fridge, microwave/convection oven (Kitchen Aid)
  6 burner dual-fuel 36" range (Thermador)
  Thermador Traditional Silent 42" Hood w/remote blower
• Floor Owens PlankFloor 6" Walnut with Satin Water Based Polyurethane
• Delta Allura Faucet and soap dispenser
• Danze Pot Filler
• Cabinet hardware: Restoration Hardware's Duluth knobs and pulls in brushed nickel. The knobs are 1.25" and the pulls vary in size depending on the width of the drawers.
• Paint: The kitchen/DR walls are BM Titanium. The Great Room walls are BM Manchester Tan
• Lighting: mini cargo pendants by Wilmette Lighting (for Monorail).
• Fireplace: gas Quadra Fire QFP44

Contemporary Cherry Kitchen

• Cabinets: custom cherry cabinets with mahogany stain and inset doors
• Countertops: Giallo Vincenza granite
• Backsplash: Jerusalem Gold tumbled marble tiles with dark amber irridescent sea glass inserts throughout and under the hood
• Hardware: satin nickel hardware by Amerock
• Sinks: Elkay
• Faucets: Allura faucets by Delta
• Food disposal: Insinkerator
• Instant Hot water: Insinkerator
• Appliances: GE Monogram stainless
• Floor: 17x17 porcelain tile floor
• Pendants: cobalt blue from Tech Lighting
• Chairs: custom from Canadel