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So How’s That Kitchen Planning Coming Along, Eh?

Posted on18. Feb, 2010 by Mrs. Mecomber.

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Kitchen planning? What kitchen planning?
I thought so!
Ugh. I haven’t even mapped out the room onto graph paper or made an electrical schematic yet. I’m working full-time right now, and also trying to keep up my blogging ventures. Wow.
I do see the entire room, all in my mind’s eye! I have one small problem [...]

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Kitchen Shelving To Replace Cabinets

Posted on21. Jan, 2010 by Mrs. Mecomber.

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I’m not 100% sold on installing kitchen cabinets when we renovate this spring. They are so darned-tootin’ expensive. Even the least expensive I can find will cost me about $2000. That’s a good chunk of change, and I loathe to part with it. I like cabinets, but why are they so costly??
I’ve pretty much set [...]

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Offbeat Design is Right!

Posted on19. Jan, 2010 by Mrs. Mecomber.

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When I was young– back in the late 70s and early 80s– there was a craze for families to get “back to nature.” Not to be swinging from the trees, mind you, but to leave the dirty urban centers with their high taxes, crime, and chaos, and live free in the wilderness. We moved away [...]

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Paint Colors for the Kitchen

Posted on18. Jan, 2010 by Mrs. Mecomber.

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I’m STILL working on a schematic for the electrical and plumbing for our Kitchen Renovation, well, actually, I haven’t started it yet.. :-S … but I can’t help flipping through the home magazines and color swatches, trying to envision what color my kitchen will be.
I hate white. It WON’T be white!
When we moved here, everything [...]

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A Countertop Coating System?

Posted on16. Jan, 2010 by Mrs. Mecomber.

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I was flipping through my latest free magazine from Lowe’s, Creative Ideas, and spotted an advertisement for “Countertop Transformations.” This stuff is amazing! It’s an epoxy/colored chip/epoxy resin-type coating for your existing laminate countertop. It’s called Countertop Transformations; Lowe’s sells it for $250 a kit. I recently helped prep and paint a garage floor, and [...]