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:cool::cool: Congratulations!!!!! Soon you'll be moving on to your next chapter.Quote:
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I'm with you. Love fridge with water/ice maker. Never had a problem with either of the 2 we've owned.
We don’t get many fresh starts in life. Hope yours goes well.
Thanks everyone!!
Wow, a new chapter in your life! Enjoy crafting it!
Congratulations!
Exciting new adventure.. congrats!
Vicarious manageable new home thrills going on here...
So happy this all worked out! Had my fingers crossed.
So today was demolition day and it looks so much better with the top kitchen cabinets gone. Much more open and spacious. I don’t need them because of the bottom cabinets, cabinets in the island and the big built in hutch in the dining room. The cabinets left some big holes for my son to patch but he did a great job. When they pulled up the carpet in the bedrooms they found a big gap by the threshold that needs to be filled in. Always unexpected stuff to deal with. I am the errand girl to get everything they need at Home Depot.
I really like the idea of no top cabinets. I agree it would look much more open and spacious.Quote:
Originally Posted by Teacher Terry
IL, the difference is amazing because at 955 sq ft it’s small.
this will cause me to look at keeping cabinets off one wall in Hermann. We have a U-shaped kitchen with three walls of cabinets, but we do not need upper cabinets on the shortest wall I do believe.Quote:
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To have no upper cabinets at all is a clean and contemporary look that I’m not sure is a good look for either one of my vintage properties, but certainly, not cramming a bunch of upper cabinets into small spaces will help.
I’m now rethinking a bathroom vanity in one of our Hermann tiny bathrooms. I think I can get by with no cabinet sink. I think a pedestal sink will be fine because one of the bathrooms has a bathroom closet, tho small.A pedestal sink makes it seem less crowded.
I meant to say 855 sq ft. The guest bathroom in our house is small and a pedestal sink worked perfectly.
Attachment 3740Attachment 3740So this is how it looks. The cabinets totally obstructed the view into the dining room. I lived in a condo that was 1100 sq ft with a decent size kitchen. It had 3 walls of top cabinets and we took off the ones facing the dining room and that made a huge difference.
Ummm, may I suggest that you do a sketch.
In my small 6' square ensuite bathroom, opposite to the doorway wall, I have a pedestal sink with a large sink that I love. I have a medicine cabinet over it. To the right of the doorway wall is the wall with window and towel bar below, to the left is the wall with toilet with extra towels over it and the shower is in the far corner. There is only enough space for a 24" vanity to hold my curling iron, facecloths, extra soap, cleaning items, etc. I figured the 24" vanity would not be much storage and shrink the size of the sink so I bought a little trolley cart that fits under the pedestal sink.
The larger main bathroom has greater storage but now I rarely go into it. Point being, is the little bathroom going to be used much for general living or occasionally and where will most of the storage be accessible to all? Before I got the cart, I was going in and out all the time and it was aggravating and often occupied when I needed something.
This little bathroom will be the most heavily used one of the 3.DH will likely be using it the most. I guess I will let him decide about this (tho I hate that! Haha.) We will have traditional medicine cabinet over the sink plus a 3 shelf cabinet over the toilet, I think. That is if we can fit one towel rack in there some where. I think a towel hook can be put on the back of the door.Quote:
Originally Posted by razz
The closet I mentioned is outside of the bathroom. That is not the most convenient place, to be sure! So I will keep your words in mind.
This gives me an opportunity to show off something DH built in our tiny downstairs bathroom. It is an unexpectedly large builtin cabinet under the stairs, finished with 140 year old shutters:
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That’s very nice!
What a clever and effective use of shutters. That is Pinterest material for sure.
When we redid our bathroom, we took out the vanity and replaced it with a pedestal sink. I hated the vanity--you always have to reach down and icky stuff falls over and there winds up being a pile of hair stuff mixed in with cleaners and make-up.
So I looked all over for a very narrow cabinet that we could put against the wall. An IKEA "Billy" cabinet was perfect and we put a glass door on it. It was only 9" deep and I was able to store towels, make-up baskets, soap, perfumes, TP, etc.
Point being, I really like the cabinet your DH made, IL!
This is our open uppers kitchen at the cabin. My Mom actually designed this space after the tiny kitchen corner of our 1950's 2 room 'house' in Rotterdam. We love it! To the right of the stove is the pantry hubster built. It is 36wide and 20 deep and goes to the ceiling. It holds most of our dishes as well as the only food pantry storage.
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Gardner, that looks great! We rented a truck and took all the construction stuff to the dump. Now they are painting and I love the gray I picked. It’s fairly light. I spent the afternoon buying drapes, curtain rods, bathroom towel bars, decorative switch plates, etc. I went to Tuesday Morning which has great prices. I also had to use Lowe’s.
cute, simple, and very cozy, but the open shelving isn’t overbearing and too dark. That’s a nice blend of materials.Quote:
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Mom did say, when we are there more than a weekend, put the dishes we use daily on those shelves. She had enough to cook and feed a family of 7. Washed after each meal and back on the shelf until the next meal. She always said life was easier in the 40's and 50's than it was in the 90's and early 2000s. (She died in 07).Quote:
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Curious as to why she said that. Was it because life was simpler or with fewer expectations?Quote:
She always said life was easier in the 40's and 50's than it was in the 90's and early 2000s.
I love that cabinet IL!
We have the tiniest bathroom you can imagine. When we remodeled it, I begrudged the space that a pedestal would occupy, and the woman at the plumbing supply store introduced us to the idea of a wall mounted sink with a shroud over the pipes below. This was a great choice for us. Here's an example:
https://www.build.com/product/summar...B&gclsrc=aw.ds
The Totos are a clever solution to a small bathroom. How does one access the plumbing to clear a trap of hair, etc?
She always said, you and your little sister have all these machines to do the work. I spent less time doing the work by hand than you do. We had less stuff. We had enough clothes for 2 changes a week. Each day of the week I did one thing: sewing, knitting, clean house, baking, wash clothes (by hand)/hang dry.Quote:
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Mom always missed her job as an accountant. But in the 40s in Europe, if your new husband said "quit", you did. She was 25 and still living with her parents as were all her siblings, given the current horror state of the Netherlands immediately post WW2.
Her perspective is interesting. My sister and I agree that we don't understand it because we see her way as harder.
I can sorta see your mom’s point of view. She had fewer things to take care of. The machines that do work for us require cleaning and maintenance. These small kitchen gadgets often take as much time to clean as it would to do the job by hand.
Thanks, Gardnr. There was an order or routine that the family followed which would simplify life a lot.
I have mentioned at other times of a grandmother telling me of her experience staying with teen-aged grandchildren while their parents were away for 2 weeks. Each morning, the teens threw their nightclothes into the laundry, wore school clothes then tossed in the laundry when teens changed iolume nto afternoon clothes which might be changed for going out with friends clothes, into the laundry and lastly fresh nightwear. The washing machine and dryer were constantly going. New clothes were coming into the house as the teens went shopping. This grandmother and her friend who watched all this going on were stunned at this behaviour but kept quiet as it was not their role to question it.
Today's clothing is often so poorly manufactured that it simply fails in stitching, fabric or stretching due to poor cutting. Back to the OP about living in small spaces but the volume of stuff of all kinds does impact the small spaces significantly. Yay to simple living!!!
Loving all the pictures and descriptions. Wondering how my kitchen cabinets would look if I removed the doors, but too afraid to try the doors currently hid "clutter". LOL.
I removed the door from one cabinet and used a few short 1"x2"s and dowels to organize the clutter. This is the result a dozen years later.Quote:
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Alan, that’s a cute cabinet. During the depression my mom had 2 dresses. She wore one to school and came home and hand washed it for the next day and put on her home dress. Only one was good enough for school. In the states companies fired women as soon as they got married. When I worked at Inland Steel I remember all the women talking about it and they got rehired when things changed years later.
Alan, how did you stabilize the dowels? Use a router and then glue? I am trying to puzzle how the dowels stayed in place over this period of time. Very clever and looks good.
I can hear a friend asking me, "Why do you have to analyze everything?" as she does fairly often.;)
Alan that looks GREAT! I have been thinking about having plate racks in Herman. They are very popular right now.
But then I think about the endless greasy grime that floats around our kitchen. I do most of my cooking on top of the stove and do very little oven cooking.
I carefully measured for proper spacing and then drilled 1/4" deep holes in the 1x2's using a drill bit the same diameter of the dowels, the dowels were then glued and inserted into the depressions and everything was painted to match the existing cabinet color. A pretty simple project actually!Quote:
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