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Kitchen and Hallway

October 14, 2005 on 12:00 am | In Uncategorized | Comments Off on Kitchen and Hallway

For some reason, I’ve been on a home improvement kick recently. I’m about 2/3 finished painting the hallway and I’ll probably finish up the last 1/3 tonight after work. Then all that hallway needs is a new floor in the foyer (replace the cool pale blue laminate with a warmer tile). Next task is the kitchen/dining room. While at Target on Monday, I picked up a twig drawer pull to see if it was the right size for our cabinets. And not only are they the right size, but DH likes them too! So, we are going to try and replace all 50 of the pulls (both on the drawers and the doors) with the little twig ones. I think it will definitely improve the kitchen. We have good cabinets but they are the original ones from the 70’s. The hardware on them aren’t the orginial ones, but they aren’t much better. Take a look:

On the right is the old pull and on the left is the new twiggy one. I think it will look great since we want to have a bamboo theme in the ajoinging dining room. Right now we have a pennisula with cabinets above and below the countertop. As people walk by in the dining room, all you can see is from their neck down to their waist. So, I’ve convinced DH to let me remove two of the cabinets (it isn’t like we don’t have enough!) to open it up more to the dining room. That will be another project for us this winter. And if the tiling goes well in the foyer, I want to remove the carpet in the kitchen (who puts carpet in the kitchen!) and redo with tile too. Maybe even continue the tile from the kitchen into the laundry/fridge room that currently has linoleum.