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ideal kitchen On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 07:27:53 -0800, sf wrote: Granite is hard but it's brittle.... natural granite counters can fracture fairly easily... composite granite contains no natural fault lines so is much less apt to fracture. I think granite counters are morbid... I would no more consider a granite counter than I would a formica gravestone. Fragile dishes will break when dropped onto most any solid surface but the harder the surface the more readily they'll break.
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ideal kitchen i guess when it comes to it I am probably too lazy to be that careful in a room that to me is meant to live in, sorta like people who have formal living rooms and never let anyone go in... just not for me, if others like it fine, and nothing wrong with it, just not our lifestyle, Lee " Bigbazza" wrote in message news:[email protected]...
ideal kitchen Storrmmee wrote: I had heard about nasty things in wall-to-wall carpets (especially), which is one reason why I got rid of them. I can see that that could be the case with curtains. although to a lesser extent because they aren't walked on, and things aren't dropped into them. Of course, sheers offer almost no privacy, as I well know. Ah. You won't miss what you didn't have. My situation is different. I have a full basement in the current house, but the lower level of the new house is my daughter's domain. I WAS going to use one small room for storage, but now it looks like it will be half a room. The things that were in half of my garage also need to find other homes--and the only home is the end of the new garage, the shop area, and the garage's attic. -- Jean B.
ideal kitchen Storrmmee wrote: I do have rugs but obviously need something more--like carpeting on at least the first sets of stairs going up and going down. Hmm. probably should have put tile down in the entry area. BUT that whole area is so awful that I hope to get it redone anyway. (It is really small--so small that two people entering have to arrange themselves in order to do so.) -- Jean B.
ideal kitchen thanks, Lee "J. Clarke" wrote in message news:[email protected] in.local...
ideal kitchen "Janet" wrote: I bet leaning over that bottom freezer makes your nipples hard. heheh
ideal kitchen On 1/28/2011 12:27 PM, sf wrote: Sorry, replying to this late. My point about the soffit was that I would like to rip that waste of space out and put in cabinets that go all the way up to the ceiling. From what I understand after watching some home improvement shows is that cabinets that tall are probably custom made and out of my price range, I'd think.
ideal kitchen "Storrmmee" wrote: When we did our kitchen update 8yrs or so ago I threw in a hot water dispenser almost as an afterthought. It was next to the garbage disposals at Lowes & on sale- so I grabbed one. It is my wife's favorite kitchen gadget. I use it on occasion & it is handy-- but she uses it every evening for tea & every morning for hot cereal. Jim
ideal kitchen Ophelia wrote: If the walls and cabnitrey are painted (as opposed ot having some facny finish), and the appliances are not custom-fitted into their spaces (i.e. they are free-standing), then a long time. You repaint, you replace failed appliances, you're mostly up against the surface lifetime of your floor and countertops. It could go for 50 years without needing to be gutted. The tile in my kitchen is 90 years old. Granite lasts that long or longer. Three other considerations to add here: (1) Make your countertops about 1/2" higher than you consider optimal. This is because re-flooring often involves building up on the previous floor, which makes the countertops lower. To rip up the previous floor is extra cost. (2) Don't place the oven high off the floor, otherwise to place anything heavy into it (large Dutch ovens) you will be straining your back. (Which may be strong now, but this will probably not be forever the case.) (3) If you go for a kitchen island, make sure a wheelchair can navigate around it. In a roundabout way this will extend the lifetime of your kitchen. Steve
ideal kitchen On 1/24/2011 1:38 PM, Storrmmee wrote: Gosh, Lee, I forgot about that. Now that you mention it, I remember the tragedy now. I'm so sorry.
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