A few pictures, finally.

[solarbird]

tinlail came over and helped with yet more cleaning today - this is all post-restoration work cleanup, tho' there's a lot of other gah underneath it all. Thanks again to him and lyricae for all the finishing help - I'm not very good at working on this kind of thing alone. I get weird about it. The kitchen is essentially done; the upper counter needs more cleaning (the one that's shared by the kitchen and the living room) and a little caulking needs to go in. Oh, and the sink got clogged, so that'll have to be fixed. And the refrigerator needs cleaning. But other than that, it's done.

Anyway, here are some pictures. I don't have any online "before" shots handy, though. I might scan what I've got later. Oh, a couple of these are pretty-tile shots for poodlgrl if she wants any of them.

http://solarbird.net/5038/DinKitchen/

Comments

[tinlail.livejournal.com]

Woot kitchen done. That sink is looking damn nice now. So mainly it is getting the main floor cleared of crap and carpeting cleaned. Let me know if you need me.

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

wow! gorgeous :) i don't need "before" pictures.... ;)

[solarbird]

I wish you had some of the kitchen in its original state - I don't!

[rmd.livejournal.com]

sweet!

[jessicac.livejournal.com]

The colors are great, and the wall sconces. Very nice. I'd be hard pressed not to add a bit of decorative arts and crafts-styled stenciling on the cupboard doors, but that's just me.

[solarbird]

I was actually intending to unify their look further through the addition of trim, but decided that I just don't have the time. We need it rented now.

[petit-chou.livejournal.com]

It looks WONDERFUL! I love the colours.

PS - I didn't feel right giving an opinion without seeing the place, but I think a chopping-blocky table on rollers would be MUCH better than a dishwasher there. Eff the dishwasher. :)

[solarbird]

Don't hesitate to vote! ^_^

[starfallz.livejournal.com]

Wow, lookes awesome! I love the colors used. Mrr. :)

[solarbird]

That's one of the few things I changed from my original idea. I was thinking of working in white cabinet backs, grey walls in the main kitchen, and greens in the breakfast nook, and stripping the breakfast nook trim, but between the stripping just proving to be a bad idea from a time standpoint and David (who was there and into the cool industrial look) moving out as well, I simplified it a bit - two colours, in three gloss levels. (The trim is semigloss, which you can't really see in the photos; the walls are satin.)

Other changes are that I was going to have the overhead cabinet Mr. Fixit built have doors matching the other overhead cabints - that got so far as to have the doors built! - and hanging where the wire shelves are now. But that cabinet was too shabby to be saved, and also stuck out a bit too much in the end for that spot. And the window over the sink didn't get enlarged after all, in part because I can always do that later, and in part because, I haven't done enough with the north porch yet to make it have something worth looking at.

Oh yeah, and the cabinet-door unification that I didn't have time to do. That was the other thing.

Other than that, it's not really different than I'd intended back when I had the tile put in by Eric Clark. (Free plug: Anyone in Seattle needing a tile or stone mason should contact Empire Tile and Stone. That's Eric and Kelli's company. He does great work.)

[brombear.livejournal.com]

Very nice. Touch of modern with a touch of retro.