Money Saving Kitchen Design Tips
so we have compiled this money saving kitchen design tips feature to help you update your kitchen on a budget. And keep an eye out over the next few weeks as we add more to the list.
1.Do not automatically head to your kitchen retailer for new cabinets. Instead, sand them down and using thinned white house paint brush it over the surface. Wait a few moments and then wipe the surface. This will give you a fantastic mottled paint look that brings out the grain in your wood. Seal it with a wax for that quality finish
2. Pick up packs of Christmas Lights during the January sales and remove the coloured covers. The remaining white bulbs can then be tacked under cabinets and in hidden alcoves to add some cool new kitchen lighting.
3. Purchase some clear glass jars and store dry food in them such as pulses, nuts and seeds. This can add colour, texture and a 'foodie' feel to your kitchen design.
4. Create a kitchen wall border or some texture to your kitchen cabinets with a small piece of sponge and some paint. You can even add it to the hem of your curtains!
5. Create your own wooden cutting board by heading to the local builders' merchants and asking for an off cut of pine or oak. Take it home a carefully sand it down using various grades of sandpaper. You can then varnish or stain it and smooth off any edges to create an 'expensive' cutting board.
6. Repaint the kitchen walls. It is amazing what difference a lick of paint can make. Think carefully about adding a new colour to the theme too as this can really bring your tired kitchen alive.
7. Add some fabric to the mix by looking for a new tablecloth or curtain design as this can be a very cost effective way of reinvigorating your kitchen space.
8. Create a fake stone look for your kitchen worktops by learning how to create a fauz stone finish using paints (Google: Faux Stone Finish). To do it you need to prime your worktops with a special primer and this needs to dry for several hours before you can then start painting over the top. The results can be very impressive.
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Where to buy high gloss kitchen cabinet doors in Canada?
I'm looking for slab-style European-look high gloss kitchen cabinet doors (for frameless cabinets) in a lime green colour, made of thermofoil, MDF or high pressure laminate, ideally produced/available in Canada.
Home Depot's latest KraftMaid line only comes in a limited selection of colours.
Similarly with IKEA's AKURUM Abstrakt.
I've already emailed a number of manufacturers in the US. Most haven't responded. The rest don't ship to Canada.
What's left seems to be Italian (Aster Cucine) and German (Alno) Kitchen manufacturers, whose products I can only obtain locally through "Kitchen design houses" - going through so many levels of distribution that the costs for these cabinets/doors are incredibly high.
I'm not interested in a painted surface. I'm already experienced with the commercial coatings available. I don't need that headache, and I think it looks terrible.
As for resale value: if subsequent owners of my home don't care for the portion of my kitchen cabinetry with lime green doors - all they need to do is replace them.
That's the beauty of framess cabinetry.
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Kitchen Design Question?
Where can I find websites of kitchen designs? I have a sort-of L-shaped kitchen, I want pictures of modern kitchens that are L-shaped or at least L shaped.
Note: I need answers quick!
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Where can I find pictures of De Stijl movements interior design and architectural works?
Specifically I am looking for pictures of interior design based on De Stijl movements. I once saw a photo of a kitchen designed by one of the artists which had cubes of color on the walls and on the corners.
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Yah, am looking for a pretty specific type of interior design by De Stijl movement. The fact that I know what De Stijl is should suggest that I also know how to use Google, so please don't simply suggest to JFGI, as if it was as simple as that I wouldn't be asking...
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17th May 2012 - 5:29am
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