I’d be happy to loan him out after he finishes my honey do list. Did you happen to notice that I didn’t mention crown moulding anywhere in my post? LOL That’s because it’s been down for over two years now and I’ve quit holding my breath for it to magically jump up there and install itself 
Fortunately, Mr. Adoptamom has many other qualities which redeem his perpetual “roundtoit” explanation.
Well, I’m a bachelor, so, what what is my what in?
Walls are exactly the color of Baskin Robbins’ Daquiri Ice - pale pale pale aqua. Floor is white tile with grey grout (well, it’s vinyl, but it looks like ceramic). Red valances, black appliances (the appliances came with the house, so we worked 'em in), red & chrome table with red vinyl and chrome chairs. Chrome coffee-cup trivets hung on the walls by the sink. Old advertisements framed in black on the walls, assorted bits of milk glass and jadeite, and 1940s printed tablecloths and dishtowels here and there. Lots of people have told me the kitchen reminds them of an old ice-cream parlor, but it’s really more 1940s-1950s kitsch.
Grey-white marble flooring with a hunter green marble tile inlaid in a specific pattern.
Long, dark green corian countertops-not exactly hunter/forest green-hard to describe. Dark but verdant at the same time with that corian countertop look. Apparently you can sand scratches on corian.
White appliances
Honey oakey wood coloured cabinets with brass knobs
Light greenish paint
Lots and lots of plants
wall near the stove area has some original tile with grapes on it.
It’s really pretty. My mom designed most of it but my dad had the idea for putting a pattern in the marble floors. I was a bit skeptical about the paint but these bright colours seem to be in now (they painted the new family room/addition lime and this light green in an “L” combination) and it does go well with the rest of the kitchen. Their colour scheme is neutral enough that they can repaint different colours if they get tired of it later on.
My kitchen is half-done. I bought a 150-year old farmhouse, and the kitchen is the first room I’m working on. It’s a good-sized room, about 15’ X 17’, but with five doors, a window and a fireplace there isn’t much wall space. The walls, ceiling and floor are wood. The ceiling is beadboard and 10’ high. The walls are 8" plank and the floor is 2" pine. The previous owner died at 99 years old, so she wasn’t doing much updating since say…the '60’s or so. I’ve stripped the paper and scrubbed the walls (a real pain as under the 4 layers of wallpaper was a felt paper) and painted the walls a lavender blue, exactly the same shade as the wild chicory growing in my fields. The woodwork, ceiling and fireplace are painted white. I have an antique white hoosier and a number of antique kitchen things (copper kettles, pitchers, cruet sets, etc). I’ve bought white cabinets (the kitchen had absolutely no cabinets when I moved in) but I haven’t installed them yet. I’ve ripped up the disgusting ancient vinyl from the floor, but I need to either it or sand them and seal them.
StG
That particular shade of blue must have been on sale. I hated it from the minute it went on the walls. Oh…and it’s been there for over five years. I’m such a slug.
I guess my house is a “cabin” style. Maybe “craftsman”. It was built in 1934, and has had a couple of additions made to it over the years. I bought it from my best fiend, who lived in it for two years and who did some work on it. The kitchen and dining room are one room, off of the living room.
The burgundy living room carpet extends into the dining room. The kitchen counters are L-shaped. The carpet goes from the end of the short leg of the counters to the left side of the door leading to the utility room and bedrooms. That is, it’s curved on that side. The kitchen floor has black tile.
The cupboards are painted in “lotus yellow”, which is a very, very pale shade of yellow. A short counter section sticks out from the left side of the sink. The kitchen side is lotus yellow, and the dining room side is old-growth yellow cedar. (I don’t like the idea that it’s old growth, but it was installed 70 years ago.) The wall opposite the counters/stove/fridge is also paneled in yellow cedar.
The wall opposite the end of the living room is darkish-purple. The narrow trim around the door to the utility area is white. The trim around the floors and ceiling is black. The white ceiling is hand-textured. That is, my friend made curves in it with a broom. It looks great! But he said it was a pain in the arse to do. There is a 12" dome light in the centre of the ceiling with a chrome bezel.
On the cedar wall I have a nautical chart of The Strait of Georgia. On the purple wall is a colourful, framed Tank Girl poster.
So you tell me: What style is it? “Bachelour Modern”?
Black/Brown Granite counters. Stainless steel appliances. Tan/earthy travertine tile backsplash. Maple flooring. Crown moulding. Nuetral wall color = sparkling amber. White blinds, white cornices…recessed lighting. Accents are wine colored…wine themish.
Lot’s o’ labor from me.
I’ve been looking at houses for sale online and about 50% have lime green kitchens. I like lime green, I don’t like lime green kitchens. Hopefully it’s a trend that’s on it’s way out, and by the time I’m ready to actually buy a new house, I won’t have to redo the kitchen. But I have lots of cool ideas from this thread if I do.
Hi, Jack!
Hillybilly Queen - Where are you looking? What kind of house do you want? Do you want acreage? I bought my farmhouse at auction and there are some great deals you can get that way. I got the house and 14 acres for $60,000. Mind you, it needs a good bit of updating, but for the price you can’t beat it. (Also, I have a 3-bedroom house for sale in Smyrna, just in case you’re interested. The kitchen isn’t green, however.) There’s an auction in Milton this Saturday for a Victorian home built around 1890 and 10 acres. The entire parcel is something like 164 acres, divided into 16 tracts.
Bye, Jack!
StG
Oh the beauty of my beastly kitchen. The theme is Hell. Hell’s Kitchen! Brick red (painted) walls and stove, black steam pipes, gray cabinets with broken glass doors, and construction lamps for lighting. I am still working on it, but look forward to decorating with demons and pitchforks etc. :eek:
I am thinking of doing a Heaven them for the bedroom.
Wow, my kitchen seems really cheesy now… I have a lifelong Pillsbury Doughboy fetish, so mine’s mostly blue and white, with Poppin’ Fresh everywhere – curtains, cookie jars, napkin holders, canisters, potholders, etc. I even have stuffed Poppin’ and Poppie Fresh dolls in various sizes displayed atop my cabinets.
Other than that, it’s a typical rental property kitchen, with white walls and dingy neutral flooring, with those nasty mustard-yellow appliances. At least my Doughboys brighten it up.
Side note: A guy I used to date did his kitchen in a Coca-Cola theme, and it was quite charming, albeit expensive. It looked like a 1950’s soda fountain, basically.
To adequately describe the kitchen in this house would require photos, which I don’t have. My sister tried to convince my mom that, since she needs to repaint, maybe it’s time (after 50 years) for another color, but no, she likes it. Keep in mind that my parents built this house from a kit on a shoestring, and neither of them cared at all about decorating or trends or professional assitance.
The floor is a dark green linoleum tile. The countertops are a dark red laminate with silver trim.The lower half of one wall is a light knotty pine paneling, except it’s not wood, it’s some sort of linoleum sheet…in a couple places with little tears you can see the black, tarry backing…it’s very unique. The walls themselves are painted a pale green that I’ve never been able to define. Sort of a spring green, with lime undertones. The curtains that are up now are a white and green and yellow chili pepper pattern, with a harvest gold sheer curtain.
The cabinets have huge sliding doors made out of sheets of plywood/hardboard…sort of a dark maple. The upper cabinets on one wall have sliding frosted glass doors, sort of like shower doors. The cabinets are all huge…much bigger than standard cabinets, which is good. But these sliding doors go straight up to the ceiling, and they are not attractive. The table is wonderful…a 72" round oak pedestal table my dad made…we’ve never used the extenders because the room is too small. Since it is an oversized table, my mom makes table cloths out of sheets. Not attractive sheets, either. They all try to pick up the green, but many fail (she makes matching aprons, too.
In addition to the giant table and four chairs (we always had to pull the table out from the wall at dinner time to make room…once the table’s out, no one moves because there is no space) there is a microwave cart my dad built (lots more shelves), a TV cart and a smaller TV cart, and a small table that serves as counterspace and a newspaper stand. There is no dishwasher (we used to have a portable one, but when microwaves came in, we had to pick due to space issues) and no disposal, and every shelf is crammed full. The cookbook shelf was starting to sag, so she had to remove half the books.
My sister absolutely hates the red countertops, but there is so much stuff piled on them you really can’t see the color. I hate the green. I would prefer a cobalt or french blue, and the linoleum walls have to go. But it’s not gonna be soon.
Well, I don’t have a kitchen right now, being between living arrangements
But my former kitchen, and all of my stuff, which is currently packed away is predominently a muted wedgewood blue with accents of butter yellow and cobalt.
Think french country. Some of the stuff I’ve recently sold to finance my trip back to AK, but I’ve kept my key peices, which are inexpensive antiques.
We have friends with a Coca-Cola theme also. A sign or two and a bottle collection. She’s not overdone it though and it’s a neat look.
I think the Poppin Fresh kitchen sounds great, cute even if it might verge into cheesedom. He’s a happy little chef dude, I bet it’s cheery and fun.
My former neighbor had a mouse theme in her kitchen, she’d been collecting them for years and had little grey mousies everywhere. Bit of an odd choice for a kitchen, and rather bland as all accessories were greys and pastels to coordinate with the mice hordes.
I was astonished to visit her recently and find she’s rethought the entire mouse thing and now has a kitchen painted half tangerine and half teal, with Maxine accessories everywhere. Who knew there was that much Maxine stuff out there?!
I won’t bore anybody with the various back-and-forth reuses of rooms in my house. It’s a Victorian–1874–so I can’t fathom how people with really old houses make the least livable sense of ‘em. Let it suffice that the room was once used as a kitchen along the way, and made the most sense to use it that way again.
Okay, so I’ll explain…feel free to doze off…
Originally there was a summer kitchen built near but separate from the house. That’s long gone. The “other” kitchen built into the corner of the house, and that’s what I’ve reused. It was very Victorian, with very tall windows on two sides, three doorways, and nary a “free” wall in it for counters, sinks, etc. (When the damaged wood floor was ripped out the imprint of the old cook stove was still imprinted on the subfloor–of bird’s-eye maple. But don’t ask about the scraping, sanding, etc. process.)
I adamantly refused to have “decorator” kitchen. I wanted it to look and feel as homey as my grandma’s kitchen, but function well for cooking. A local carpenter, a genuine artisan, built cabinets to-scale throughout. (The double-sashed windows are 6’ tall.) There are two tiers of glass-fronted cabinets above–8 panes per door–kitchen and pantry, with solid doors on the cabinets below.
The original wallpaper, umpteen layers down, was black and green. Urk. Not that my current color scheme won’t horrify future generations.
Finally getting down to it…
The cabinets (not great wood) are primed and painted a rich pumpkin color. The skirting boards, window and door trim are painted a rich, dark cream color. The walls–actually relatively little space–are papered in a Williamsburg print, predominantly dark cream background with a medium-sized figures of pumpkin and taupe, with small accents of sage and slate blue. It sounds gaudy but if anything it’s understated in the scale of the room.
Every danged bit of it was created from scratch but the finest compliment I ever received was from a preservationist who congratulated me on ‘renovating’ it so sensitively, because it looked just like his grandma’s kitchen.
Which was entirely more information than anyone actually wanted to know…
Veb
Off-white/beigish walls; white tile and grout for countertops; light brown wooden cabinets; very pale tan or dark beige curtains/valance; off white and usually gray (!) tiled floor.
My sister-in-law collects Elvis stuff and horses. She has the oddest kitchen I have ever seen, but somehow it’s so “her” it works. Her former roommate was into cows in the kitchen, so for awhile it was truly bizarre, but now it’s just… odd.
The house we take possession of on July 31, the reason for UglyFest, was built in '75, decorated in '77, and unchanged since - at least in the kitchen.
The bottom part of the walls has been done in Z-brick (it’s a thin brick veneer). The top of the walls is papered with mushrooms on a field of orange and yellow. The same paper is used on the shelves of the chocolate brown cabinets. The countertops are a pale green speckly laminate, well-worn, and the floor is a bright green vinyl. The stove is black, I think, and the fridge is white. No dishwasher. One small window. Fluorescent light in the middle of the ceiling. Stunning.
Our plan is to remove the wall between the kitchen and the family room, move the wall between the kitchen and the living room about 3 feet into the living room, and relocate the doorway between the kitchen and the dining room. We picked out shaker style cabinets in maple. The countertops will be a light neutral laminate. The one window will be replaced by a double window, so I’ll lose some wall cabinets there, but we’re adding cabinets along the relocated wall. My appliances will be bisque (that’s the new almond, I guess) and the floor will be DuraCeramic in a white/grey stone look. Initially, my accent color will be green, but by having a neutral background, we can pick almost any accent we want as we tire of what we have.