Kitchenspiration*
Saturday, I spent most of the morning and early afternoon at a household auction in town, bidding on odds and ends and a Whirlpool dishwasher that we got at a really good price. That night, I went to dinner with Mom, Dad, and Devon at Legends. Since I was out that way, I decided to meet them at Nebraska Furniture Mart so I could look at laminate. While we were there, we discovered a totally badass stove on sale for almost half-off the list price. It’s a five-burner Whirlpool gas range with a continuous cast-iron grate. So this means, we have spent 1/3 of our total kitchen appliance budget on 2/3 of our kitchen appliances. Hopefully, this means we can get a nice, Whirlpool refridgerator to complete our kitchen.
Flooring, All-American Chateau Satin Crimson
To complete the rest of our kitchen, we picked out countertops and cabinets yesterday. We are thinking that for the flooring we’re going to go with All-American Chateau in Satin Crimson so that was kind of our starting point when we looked at cabinets. The rest of our starting point is that we have a tiny kitchen and we want to go lighter rather than darker with our cabinets. Ideally, I think we’d go with all-white cabinets, but alas the budget prefers the stained Oak. And so, we chose Oak cabinets with a Cider finish.
Cabinets, Oak with cider stain
Picking countertops is the most stressful part to me. I don’t know how I could ever put granite in a home because seriously I panic about how a design is going to look. Maybe it would be better if we were going with something natural, but I really worry that a laminate countertop is going to look fake or tesselate wrong or something. Lucky, the place we bought our cabinets and countertops from made the decision fairly easy. When we walked in, they had a big island in their showroom that had a granite-looking laminate countertop on it. Something about it just struck me and so after we were walked through the process of choosing countertop, I asked what was on that counter and then we eventually narrowed our choices to two options from the WilsonArt line of “Milano” granites. Kyle and I settled pretty quickly on the Milano Mahagony. It had most everything we were hoping for and when we saw a bit larger sample of it, we were set.
Counters, WilsonArt Milano Mahogany
It’s pretty nice doing this remodelling project with Kyle because we really do have nearly identical home decor tastes and we really trust each other’s opinion. Plus, we make decisions with just a glance.
*I like to think of kitchenspiration as a new alternative movement to thinspiration for people who like healthy eating. Let’s get it started, okay?