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December 24, 2016 at 8:47 PM #22232December 25, 2016 at 4:00 PM #804605
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GuestWhite and grey Carrara sounds nice. But I’m with you, better to go with the cheaper commodity material.
I’m getting ready to do a 1 bedroom and I didn’t see any fake wood vinyl at Home Depot for 50c. I see $2.50 It’s a second flood condo, so I’ll do vinyl flooring everywhere including kitchen and bath. I will do the bath walls with dark tiles for a sexy look. Floating wall hung Ikea vanity with under cabinets lighting. Simple black granite in the Ikea kitchen. Regular 6 inch backsplash. I don’t like fancy backsplash in kitchen. Detracts from modern mid century look. Pure white walls.
December 31, 2016 at 12:32 AM #804640CA renter
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]White and grey Carrara sounds nice. But I’m with you, better to go with the cheaper commodity material.
I’m getting ready to do a 1 bedroom and I didn’t see any fake wood vinyl at Home Depot for 50c. I see $2.50 It’s a second flood condo, so I’ll do vinyl flooring everywhere including kitchen and bath. I will do the bath walls with dark tiles for a sexy look. Floating wall hung Ikea vanity with under cabinets lighting. Simple black granite in the Ikea kitchen. Regular 6 inch backsplash. I don’t like fancy backsplash in kitchen. Detracts from modern mid century look. Pure white walls.
Just my 2 cents, but I don’t like black countertops. It’s not easy to see dirt, which leads to a feeling that the surface might be dirty, and a kitchen counter needs to be spotless. Why not a light/white color, instead? It looks cleaner, IMO.
December 31, 2016 at 12:57 PM #804716GuestCAr, your husband is lucky to have such a good homemaker. I agree regarding white countertops….. but this is a 1 bedroom where residents shouldn’t cook much. The kitchen should be integrated into the living room which is supposed to be dark with a “clubby” feel. It’s on purpose because the space has only one window. I will furnish it like a nice hotel suite.
Anyway, it’s just me experimenting with design. We’ll see.
December 31, 2016 at 7:34 PM #804721gzz
ParticipantWhite quartz looks like a laboratory or commercial kitchen. Light tan stone colors seem outdated, like a mid 2000s renovation or new construction. I think brown, grey, gold, and dark green are nice colors that look modern. And black stone always looks good.
Avocado stone could look good with brand new non stainless appliances, like un update on the 70s.
January 1, 2017 at 11:36 AM #804724Guest[quote=gzz]White quartz looks like a laboratory or commercial kitchen.[/quote]
Haha.. you hurt my feelings. I have a white glossy modern kitchen and I love it. It does show all the dirt so you have to keep it spotless. Now when i visit houses, i notice all the dirty and greasy stuff. A lot of people don’t clean their wood cabinets and just let the dirt accumulate. CAr made an excellent point about cleanliness.
January 2, 2017 at 12:51 AM #804727ParticipantBrian, I’m sure it will look beautiful. It sounds like you’re into design and aesthetics; your tenants will be lucky with whatever you put in.
I like the pic in gzz’s photo, too.
FWIW, it can be as much of a curse as it is a blessing to have a spouse who’s too clean. In fact, I had to change my ways a bit after getting married and having kids…then dogs. As my DH (who is also clean, but far less neurotic about it) says, “houses are for living in, not looking at.”
January 2, 2017 at 1:02 AM #804728ParticipantSomething like this?
There are worse things than having a kitchen look like a lab or Apple Store.
I actually have purchased two solid wood lab tables with the heavy black coating on top. It is probably the only indoor table I could jump up and down on without worry.
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January 2, 2017 at 9:31 AM #804731Guest[quote=CA renter] As my DH (who is also clean, but far less neurotic about it) says, “houses are for living in, not looking at.”[/quote]
CAr, i bet you husband knows that it’s a lot more pleasant to live in a beautiful house that’s clean and airy. Unfortunately for them, a lot of people don’t know how to create a nice environment.
Since investing in real estate and visiting so many houses, i think people move when the houses becomes too old and messy. So they just buy new and move. That’s part of what led to the American suburbs. But there is now a return to the city which is providing opportunities for people like me to provide fresh housing near the urban core.
January 2, 2017 at 9:46 AM #804732Guest[quote=gzz]Something like this?
There are worse things than having a kitchen look like a lab or Apple Store.
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Yes. I believe that Apple is successful because their stores are inviting and their products are beautifully designed. Apple is able to charge a premium for design. Function is basic, but design makes a product premium.
People are conservative in their houses. But they appreciate design when given affordable choices (Ikea is an example).
January 2, 2017 at 7:58 PM #804743ParticipantI’m with you on Apple, but I swore off buying particle board a few years ago. Plastic, metal, and wood are all great. Some ikea items last a long time, like the ones with thick glossy coating. But the melamine ones fall right apart.
I just ended a three-month experiment with Android, and now I am back to iphone.
January 2, 2017 at 8:52 PM #804744GuestI agree with regard to melamine. I wish they would switch to thick plastic or melamine covered in plastic. Even high end kitchen cabinet boxes are melamine, same as Ikea.
Melamine just can’t come into contract with any water. I buy fitted under sink plastic trays from amazon for my rentals. Tenants are so careless with their cleaning product bottles. I’ve seen people throw wet sponges under the sink. WTF?!
January 3, 2017 at 12:54 PM #804746ParticipantYes water contact can quickly destroy the cheaper Ikea items.
For under the kitchen sink, I put in cheap ceramic tiles. It looks classy to have tiles where normally there is mildewy painted wood.
January 4, 2017 at 7:41 PM #804753GuestI just demoed a 1977 kitchen. The boxes were made of particle board that just fell apart. Unlike what some people want to believe, things were not of better quality back in the 70s. It’s mostly nostalgia that is untrue. Cars and everything else were a lot worse back then.
FYI, Ikea kitchen drawers are made of metal which Lowes or Home Depot charge a premium for. I love that Ikea has unlimited parts and accessories.
January 4, 2017 at 9:31 PM #804754ParticipantThe cabinets in the 1967 kitchen in the condo were filthy, but cleaning them, a whole bunch of Howard’s Orange Oil Feed-N-Wax, and some clear coat left them looking as good as new. Now I just need to clean the hinges and clean or replace the pulls.
The one thing better about 1977 cars were the fuzzy sofa style seats. Maybe not ergonomic for very long drives, but great for three up front or just lounging in the passenger seat.
I seriously considered trying to save the working and relatively clean/rust-free 50 year old fridge and dishwasher, but the fridge guzzled power and the dishwasher had minor issues that would be easier to replace with a new, modern $350 stainless model.
I loved the thick heavy metal buttons on it and the sound they make when you push them, as well as the fact it just had three of them: on, off, extra rinse.
My grandmother had a 50 year old dishwasher that came with her new suburban house just like it that worked perfectly the whole time…. until it caught on fire. That also scared me away from trying to repair it.
Anyway the work is now 95% done and the tenant is paid and moved in. I told him I charged him too little when I saw it furnished with new paint, flooring, outlets, ceiling, lights, etc together with the near-180 degree ocean view, close enough to see the beach itself and waves crashing, not just a blue blur in the distance (my current house).
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