Kitchen Related Posts
How we created DIY stained glass windows on our skylight by framing out the space and adding plexiglass and vinyl stained glass window film! The Inspiration Behind the Idea When we renovated our kitchen, I originally thought about trying to install a couple of beautiful pendants over the island. However, we have a huge skylight…
We renovated our kitchen a few years ago, and in order to save money we used Ikea cabinets and DIY’ed the whole thing. I did not want the end product to scream IKEA, though, so we did quite a few things to customize our kitchen. Over the years we have used Ikea kitchen cabinets for…
How to make kitchen drawers soft close, without changing the hinges! This works on any type of cabinets and is such an easy and quick upgrade!
If you are thinking about designing your own kitchen, the place to start is always the layout. If you want to save a little money on your renovation, than keeping in mind standard sizes and working with those as much as possible will really keep things on the affordable side. There are also some standard…
My mom has a kitchen that was built in the early 2000s and it is very nice, but it’s about 20 years old now and it’s starting to look a little dated. I had a little tile left over from my bathroom renovation, and I asked her if she would like me to redo her…
Our kitchen was made from Ikea cabinets, including the huge island! Did you know that you could make a custom island with stock cabinets like Ikea? Most islands, even a custom kitchen island, are really just made up of a bunch of cabinets attached together. Making an island from base cabinets is not hard to…
I often get asked how to pick kitchen hardware and how to decide! There are so many options out there, it is difficult to know what to do as the options can be overwhelming. I really have a lot of thoughts on kitchen cabinet hardware and hardware in general, I went down quite a rabbit…
When we renovated our kitchen, I thought long and hard about where my electrical outlets would be. Kitchen outlets are essential to making a kitchen convenient, but looking at unsightly outlets isn’t always the best design choice. I considered a lot of different clever ways to hide outlets in the kitchen and I did a…
I often get questions about the pluses and minuses of soapstone countertops and I wanted to write a post on my experiences so far with them. We had our soapstone counters installed a full year ago and so I feel like I’ve given it enough time to give it a proper review! I decided early…
Full breakdown of how much it cost us to DIY a kitchen, as well as some useful tips for planning your own kitchen budget!
