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One Good Thing: My Favorite Solid Wooden Bowls (What are yours?)
Good, solid, simple wooden bowls are a staple of any great kitchen. They can be used for serving salads and side dishes at table, to holding fruit on the counter and putting out halloween candy. They don't have to be expensive and they last forever. I like to always have an assortment in different sizes in my kitchen. My…
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Before & After: This Kitchen’s Under-$500 Makeover Ditches Dark Brown and Adds a Little Cheer
Do you have a question about the DIY projects in this apartment? Ask it here and join the discussion! Head back to this Before & After Submit your own Before & After project to us
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Before & After: I Transformed My 1970s Kitchen from Total Eyesore into an English-Inspired Dream
Do you have a question about the DIY projects in this apartment? Ask it here and join the discussion! Head back to Chelsea's Before & After
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Pink bathroom and boring kitchen!
Hi! I’m moving to a house that has a retro bathroom and a very boring kitchen and I’m keen to make them nicer. The photos are not the most recent ones. The walls are white now! The bathroom has beautiful original floor mosaics and pink tiles. It also has a light blue bath. The kitchen has very cheap cabinetry and not very…
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Before & After: This Kitchen Makeover Is So Cozy, It Almost Feels Like a Living Room
From the title, I expected to see a couch! (I love to see couches in kitchens, very English.) I miss the checkered floor though. Now the room resembles neither a kitchen nor a living room, but a really posh potting shed. In other news, using this community for comments now is too clunky to use now, especially to start a…
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One Good Thing: My Favorite Kitchen Towels (What are yours?)
When I'm in a restaurant anywhere I scrutinize the kitchen towels, napkins, tablecloths - all the soft pieces of a stylish table top and efficient kitchen - to find the best ideas. These Liliane Kitchen Towels I discovered about seven years ago and have stocked them at home ever since. I don't use paper towels much, and…
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Open concept Living Room and Kitchen
I don’t even know where to begin! It’s an amazing space, but I’ve never lived in an open concept space. Ideas? Inspiration? **Note: I can’t paint the walls! 😭
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Kitchen remodel and add island?
We have purchased a house and want to do remodeling. The kitchen is almost square 12'9" by 12'5". We would like to put an island or at least someplace to sit and work. We can't figure out where to place it and how big it should be and in what orientation. we want sink under the three windows on the right side. We want to…
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the magical powers of peel-and-stick in my rental kitchen
first time using peel-and-stick on cabinetry and it went surprisingly better than expected! I want to try tackling the beveled-edges next, but happy with the progress so far. Does anyone have any favorite peel-and-stick brands they'd recommend?
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What do I put on my round coffee table?
I have to ceramic pretty light blu that matches my living room. I now need some black for the 3rd piece. Help?🙂
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Show us your kitchen!
I've shown you mine, now, I'd love to see yours!
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Kitchen wall
I was wondering if you could help me out with some ideas on how to design this wall in my kitchen. The opposite wall has the sink, oven and other storage but this wall has been baffling me. I was thinking of painting the wall with black chalkboard paint and add some led lights and storage bins on the fridges but I am not…
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Farmhouse Kitchen Extension - before, during, after
Before & After ~ South-Facing Kitchen Extension ☀️ The old kitchen sat in the darkest corner of the house in spite of being on the southern gable. The reason? No windows so it always felt closed in. We built a new south-facing extension off the gable wall to bring in the light it had always needed. Now it’s a bright,…
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Help create a breakfast nook with possible storage (not a deal breaker)
I am looking to create a breakfast nook for this area. it is a 82in * 90 in space which is side of the kitchen. My idea was to create a corner bench kind of sitting with possible storage but not able to find furniture matching that dimension and I am not in a budget to create a custom build. House is a mid century modern…
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Small apartment
I recently moved into a 680 apartment from a 820 square-foot apartment. The current apartment I into has very little cabinet space very little counter space. There is no pantry and no microwave. I am trying to figure out how to fit all my kitchen appliances into this apartment plus everything else I have.
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-best floor color when lettuce has been dropped and stepped on a few days
HomeDepot Lifeproof luxury planks/tile - What are some of the best grey luxury vinyl tiles and planks that a (small!!) piece of lettuce on the floor, stepped on for a few days, will be less obvious? (Laughing to overcome my uncomfortableness.
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terrazzo slabs for counter tops in kitchen and bathroom
I am in the process of remodeling and want to use terrazzo slabs on all the counters- kitchen and bathrooms. Looking for your thoughts…
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Small kitchen
Hi. I have a small kitchen located at the back of my condo. It has no window and I've removed the upper cabinets to create the illusion of more space. I want to create a jewel box effect with a gorgeous dramatic wall color and possibly color drench the entire room. I'm looking for suggestions as to what color or colors to…
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Dining table advice
Hi! I need help figuring out the color of my dining table for the kitchen. In the example in some of the pictures, you can see a black dining table was used for the model apartment but trying to see what's possible. Also, in some of the pictures the kitchen colors look different and that's because the lighting was not…
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A Better Fit Open Floor Plan Kitchen
I was really not happy with the science lab-like cold vibes of my original kitchen so the first step I have taken is to swap out the 4000k ceiling light with a cheap temporary fixture that supports bulbs of warmer temperatures. I feel like the floor tile compliments the adjacent cherry oak floors but then everything else…