5 Favorite Inspiration Pins - kitchen edition

In the combox of yesterday's post filled with before pics of my poor, distressed in a bad way not in a hip way, kitchen, Charlotte suggested I talk about all the wonderful and fantastic ideas I have for the new and much improved kitchen to get my mind off the blah.

An excellent idea, Sahib. (This is a phrase that Tommy started saying to the kids when they suggested something absolutely ludicrous (e.g. "I know! We can have snicker pie for dinner!") but has become something we all just say about any idea. I have no clue what it means.)

Why don't I go ahead and troll my own Pinterest boards so you can daydream alongside me?

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This we pinned because we love the dark hardware against the white cabinets but also the way the white looks with the distressed brick. Won't it be awesome if we can make those built-ins that cheesy brick look more like this? Also: hardwood floors.

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Speaking of improving that cheesy brick, we're leaning toward a white-wash, especially on the dark grout. If that doesn't work, we may need to actually put new lighter grout over the darker. Tricky tricky halloweeny (that's another thing Tommy says all the time, btw.)


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Shaker style cabinets. I likes dem. But not the varied lines on the upper cabinets. I prefer them to go straight across to mimic the straight lines of cabinet fronts. Also, yes to the stainless steel sink instead of ceramic as the current sink is ceramic and we have broken more dishes on that unforgiving surface in the last three months than we have in the last 14.62 years combined.

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And look! We can make the existing built-ins match the new cabinets by cleverly turning them into shaker style and then painting them to match. Berry berry schneaky.

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Ah. Isn't it lovely? So lovely. I'm all about that colorful backsplash and doesn't the turquoise door there reminds you of the door in the laundry/mudroom? I'd love to do tile like that, but we're going to try and match the original hardwood floors in the living room instead so that we don't have such a mish-mash of different flooring materials happening up in this piece.

Mas y mas y mas y mas y mas? Aqui.

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p.s. We are torn on the appliance question. That question being: white or stainless? I think that white is more timeless and pays more of an homage to the 1930s kitchen that was here so many years ago, but there are way more options in stainless right now and since we need a counter depth fridge and would like it to be french door style, minimizing our selection is probably a dumb idea. I don't dislike the way stainless looks by any means I just don't know if it's the better choice in here or not. Feel free to pour forth your wisdom below, functional-kitchen owning humans.