OT: Kitchen update

WHOO HOO - sounds like a challenging kitchen remodel!

I have this problem with FABRIC.

I've had Cuban tile and terrazzo

Yes, my parents have tile in their kitchen and doing dishes after a party is HELLA on the back. They have some amazing looking vinyl these days.

It sure will encourage you to practice!

Joanne, I'm a big fan a laminates. One of ny DD had in in the kitchen of her last house,

it looked nice and was easy on the legs.

Are there any pics coming of this work in progress. Please post so we can all Ohhh and Ahhhh. Juno

After nearly 30 years in this nearly 80-year old house, it seemed to be time. It's been fun!

I would like to strip down to the old hardwood, get it cleaned up and sealed, but none of the other wood floors (the entire house is oak floors) have been done and I'm not about to tackle that! I'm going to take my time and think it through. After all, it's not like there's any rush. LOL. Unless you ask my DH who wants everything done yesterday and in a way that he doesn't even notice the work.

With the oak floor in the adjacent rooms, I think laminate would stand out like a sore thumb - or look more like vinyl. There are no new pictures. I think I showed you the old ones at

I agree with that. Several years ago I put oak hardwood in my kitchen, dining room and entry hall (all are adjacent rooms) and I love it. I had them sanded and refinished with a Swedish oil finish after all the work was completed in my remodel, and they have stood up very well.

Beverly

Thank you! I do love it. The counter is glass and goldstone set in resin, and while it appears a couple of inches thick, it's really from Granite Transformations, and is fitted over the old tile counter. It made it a snap for installation - minimal demolition, and only two days to do. I hunted and hunted for the faucet since I need one that will couple with the portable dishwasher, and found this, which is a new one from Price Pfister. The spray is separate so I have two holes in the countertop, one for the faucet, one for the spray, but no plate and it all looks quite sleek. It was only later that I discovered Price Pfister uses a strange thread and I couldn't use the standare coupler. However, when I called them, they sent me an adaptor. I was back to handwashing dishes until it arrived. I was not all that pleased about not being able to pop into my local home improvement center and pick an adaptor off the rack, but I do like the faucet.

This is the design of my pendant lights -

And the matching mini-pendant which we put over the sink:

Not all laminates look like wood, I've seen them in designs that look like stone and tiles, no strain on the legs and feet. I don't know why but the last time I looked at those pictures I thought you could see mountains out the kitchen window. Must have been have hallucinations. Do love the makeover. It's beautiful. Juno

Laminate, ime , is not a good flooring for a messy cook, especially if you have a tendency to drip liquids on the floor, which then becomes like an ice skating rink for the unwary. And causes the "engineered" wood to break down. Bamboo is also not recommended for wet areas.

Personally, I'd consider stripping what you can, down to the original flooring, then covering that with 1/8" plywood and vinyl flooring for "temporary". Then when you decide to refinish the other floors, this one can be done, too. Ceramic tiles of various descriptions are nice, but often the floor needs to be stiffened in an old house to accomodate it, and anything dropped goes smash...

No mountains from the kitchen windows, not unless you get close and look at an angle. I do have a lovely view from the living room windows, though, and since there's a city park across the street, nothing will ever block that view. We're on a sort of bluff over downtown. This has mixed effects - we get slightly colder and more snow than the downtown, but we also have views. The trees in the park block some in summer, but when the leaves drop in the winter, there's quite a vista. I can also watch the fireworks downtown.

I will look at the new laminates - you're the second person now that's mentioned the stone patterns.

Messy? Moi? Well......yes, I splash and drip, plus there's the three resident felines.... not to mention the DH.

That's the truth! Choices, choices! I don't want to fall, nor does DH, who took a tumble a week ago and is still hurting from it, never mind the skin he left behind. Tile is just so hard!

I am reminded of the woman, who surely deserves an award of some kind, who jumped from the burning balloon and said she thought to herself, "This is going to really hurt!"

I shouldn't reply in the wee hours. What I meant to say was that the glass tiles in the blacksplash are not individual tiles, but the entire wall sections came cut and fitted and went up in a piece. No grout except in the corners. They look exactly like individual tiles, but nothing can get in and there's minimal grout to deal with. Easy care! My favorite!

Mine too. I loath and despise ceramic tile or anything else which require lots of grout. I chose slab granite for my countertops and they were installed with only one seam along the longest wall. And 12" granite tiles for the backsplash. Very little grout, and it is tinted and sealed, so will not (I hope) ever show grunge.

Beverly

We have much more important things to do than scrub grout!

Now yer talkin' !

Beverly

When I was a girl, many of the older kitchens had pieces of linoleum laid down like area rugs. Nowadays they are making flooring that can be laid like that, either with floor showing around the edges or tucked under the baseboards to look like vinyl tile -- but now the pattern goes all the way through and doesn't wear off in front of the sink! (Not to mention that it doesn't crack when laid over an un-even floor.)

This would be very good for a floor that you plan to re-finish in a few years, since all you have to do is pick it up and drag it out to expose the original floor.

Joy Beeson