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Display Name: HolleyD
Member Since: 1/3/13

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Love the homey, French style of this kitchen. Beautiful floors as well! I would love to hear some tips on how to recreate this look on a very tight budget. Any ideas, anyone?


Kathy Delgado's Authentic French Kitchen Kitchen Tour
1/8/13 1:34 PM

Oh, and I forgot:

- Toilet. I have to hold down the flusher thing for ever!
- Shower. Again, no light, so I can't see in this dark, stone cave. Nowhere to prop my legs to shave, no where to store my products, etc.
- Lack of storage. What storage? Storage anywhere?
- Ceiling. Some sort of square, soft acoustical tile. Not even sure what is behind it. Not a dropped ceiling, but just the tile stuck to something.
- Shower again. No way to hang a shower curtain. Nothing to stick the standard tension rod between. Can't hang it from the ceiling, because of those tiles, and even if I could, it would have to be oddly L-shaped. Right now I have a rod resting on two nails protruding from the wall, with the other end laying on the top surface of the marble. If I ever get in a hurry, I'll be strangled to death by my own shower curtain!


Your Biggest & Smallest Bathroom Problems??
2013 Reader Forum
1/3/13 5:15 PM

Oh my, where to start! Firstly, my little stone house was built in 1939 and originally started as 2 rooms. Next came the two bedrooms, then a kitchen, then a back porch, then the enclosing of the back porch to ADD ON the bathroom and this is where my problems begin......I need an immense amount of help on a dime store budget.

- It is freezing cold, built on a concrete slab, with the nearest heat source in the original living room.
- Lighting. I have one overhead light that you turn on with a pull string.
- Medicine cabinet/mirror. Obviously, my grandfather installed it, because he was a tall man and I am 5'4". I can barely see the top of my head!
- Sink and vanity. Circa 1950, year of the addition. Old outdated faucet and vanity cabinet with plastic doors. They are white with gold rope trim, yay!
- Flooring. Circa 1950 linoleum.

And the biggest doozie of them all, the shower! My grandfather was a stone mason, so the shower is about 3' x 4' in size and built entirely of un-honed, un-polished, fresh out of the ground slab marble. Of course the slab marble had to be joined together at certain points, which is done with now rusted steel brackets and bolts. I have tried everything to clean the marble and make it "beautiful", but it just isn't going to happen!

I need a total gut job, but want to respect the history of the house as I am now honored to be the family home's sole caretaker.


Your Biggest & Smallest Bathroom Problems??
2013 Reader Forum
1/3/13 4:53 PM

I am new to Apartment Therapy and happy to have found it (no I haven't been hiding under a rock, lol). I gladly jumped on the January Cure bandwagon, because I am desperate! Thanks for this great idea!

I have just moved and despite getting rid of what I thought at the time, was half my belongings before moving, I find myself currently encased in STUFF! My biggest problem by far are clothes and shoes. I am an admitted, card-carrying shoe addict. I have already given away 6 large boxes of shoes and have about 6 more storage boxes full of them.

My new abode is a little stone cottage built by my grandfather in 1939, (which I have sworn will be my home for many years to come), around 1000 square foot in size and it has a sum total of 2 tiny closets, one in each bedroom. I am seriously considering turning the second bedroom into a walk-in closet/dressing room (once I get everything semi-organized).

If anyone can point me to a great read on this site about that very thing, it would be greatly appreciated!


Day 2: Set Up Your Outbox Apartment Therapy January Cure
1/3/13 4:30 PM