Not too shabby at all! You have enough light overhead that it shouldn’t look dark even at night, and I like the flooring. Does it become even brighter during daylight hours?
The counter tops are black stone with flecks of copper metal that show up like stars in the light. It was not a budget item, but we love it. It has an unexpected bennie: set frozen food on it, and it will thaw it amazingly fast. Only thing—I used to whack stuck can lids on the counter top to loosen them, but I am not risking chipping that countertop. I use a heavy knife handle to whack them now.
I misspoke above: the door to the pantry is in the foreground: this is looking the other way toward the living room curtain wall. And actually what we changed next was the color of the walls—it went to a muted salmon orangy pink, which goes with the brown cabinets. But it DIDn’t go so well with the dining room furniture in the other end of the kitchen, which are a different brown. What went with that was a pinker salmon. So….being clever, we changed the paint where the whole room take a dogleg turn, and it’s orangey salmon where I’m standing to shoot the picture, and immediately behind me and around the corner goes to pink-tone, which suits the dining suite really well—only if you stand facing that corner, the human eye just cannot easily see a difference in the paint, even if you know it’s different. Only the wood of the dining room furniture would scream the difference if it weren’t done that way.
And to make life exciting, a can of that paint fell, hit the floor (fortunately the can was nearly empty, but it spattered pinkish paint all over the hutch, which is the best piece of furniture we own. And over us, to boot. So I flew off to the hardware store to get advice on removing the paint from burlwood, which has little pitted bits, and Jane stayed behind to keep it as liquid as possible—we sure didn’t want it to dry. We did use a lot of water, and a lot of paper towels and even some brushes to blot with, but by golly, we recovered it, and you cannot find a speck of pink anywhere about that piece of furniture.
Not too shabby at all! You have enough light overhead that it shouldn’t look dark even at night, and I like the flooring. Does it become even brighter during daylight hours?
I love the cabinet doors and the wood finish on the cabinets! Oooooh, shiney counter tops!
Looks nearly finished to me. How much is still left to do?
The counter tops are black stone with flecks of copper metal that show up like stars in the light. It was not a budget item, but we love it. It has an unexpected bennie: set frozen food on it, and it will thaw it amazingly fast. Only thing—I used to whack stuck can lids on the counter top to loosen them, but I am not risking chipping that countertop. I use a heavy knife handle to whack them now.
Very nice. It looks like it was worth all the hassle. Happy new year and -1 day until Emergence!
I misspoke above: the door to the pantry is in the foreground: this is looking the other way toward the living room curtain wall. And actually what we changed next was the color of the walls—it went to a muted salmon orangy pink, which goes with the brown cabinets. But it DIDn’t go so well with the dining room furniture in the other end of the kitchen, which are a different brown. What went with that was a pinker salmon. So….being clever, we changed the paint where the whole room take a dogleg turn, and it’s orangey salmon where I’m standing to shoot the picture, and immediately behind me and around the corner goes to pink-tone, which suits the dining suite really well—only if you stand facing that corner, the human eye just cannot easily see a difference in the paint, even if you know it’s different. Only the wood of the dining room furniture would scream the difference if it weren’t done that way.
And to make life exciting, a can of that paint fell, hit the floor (fortunately the can was nearly empty, but it spattered pinkish paint all over the hutch, which is the best piece of furniture we own. And over us, to boot. So I flew off to the hardware store to get advice on removing the paint from burlwood, which has little pitted bits, and Jane stayed behind to keep it as liquid as possible—we sure didn’t want it to dry. We did use a lot of water, and a lot of paper towels and even some brushes to blot with, but by golly, we recovered it, and you cannot find a speck of pink anywhere about that piece of furniture.
There is another whole thread of comments hanging off this subject!