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[solarbird]

I wish LJ had this kind of photo post

Kitchen restoration project in the 1924 addition to a 1911 building - it's almost all of what I've been doing lately. (Well, that and the rest of the apartment. But the kitchen has taken the most time and is the one I haven't contracted out anything except the new floor, not shown).

The person who added this kitchen in 1958 used a seemingly-random assortment of old used cabinets from different sources. They're all decent cabinets - and all older than 1958 - but they don't go together and so feel like a bunch of isolated islands rather than of a piece. I'm trying to fix that, by adding matching trim to the cabinets which didn't have it (window cabinets did, others didn't).

I'm using vintage wood, retained when other parts of the building got work. Parts of this trim came from a room which formerly had ceiling tile and early-60s panelling; other parts came from a strange, damaged, and badly-placed-to-start-with storage drawer cabinet in the basement.

Also, I fixed that fan, as well as cleaning and repainting the cover. INDUSTRIAL!

Comments

[stickmaker]

I know it's been a pain - especially to do it right - but it's really starting to look good.

I like that brown trim strip. It's unusual without being obtrusive.

[solarbird]

Thanks! It's not staying brown - if the glass-door cabinets had stripped well enough I'd've considered it, but they didn't. It's painted now, to to match the cabinets. The window cabinets original colour was a green, and I'm putting that back. ^_^

The solid doors are going to stay white (off-white, but white) and the floor cabinets will match those doors. And do at this point. But the cabinet bodies on the upper cabinets will have that green.

Actually I'm about to post a photo of first coat so you can see.