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Quick and Easy Kitchen Updates

A kitchen may be the hardest working room in the house -- and runs the risk of looking overworked. Give it fresh appeal with these easy ideas.
Open Up Shelving

Remove upper cabinet doors to give a narrow kitchen a sense of openness. Then set off the revealed shelves with a decorative treatment.

Here's how: Remove cabinet doors and fill in holes with wood filler. Sand until smooth, and paint or stain as desired. If you plan on an applied interior treatment such as wallcovering, prime the interior walls of the cupboard where the covering will be applied.

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chanamperel wrote:

what color and brand is the paint for the cabinets?

7/22/2010 04:12:36 PM Report Abuse
gem_may wrote:

If I see one more white kitchen on this site I am just going to delete your mail. I know I am older than most of you members ,but I remember white kitchens of the fifties with curtins under the sinks and all the other things your designers seem to "think-up", but the reason we went past those ideas was, there better ways to to acheive a more cohesive look to a room. Please don't take us back to the dark ages of design

6/28/2010 11:38:46 PM Report Abuse
gem_may wrote:

Please give me a life without a white kitchen.

6/28/2010 11:29:45 PM Report Abuse
gem_may wrote:

Not White again. Give us a break. we cook in these kitchens, don't have maids to clean and most of us have small kitens. Give us some everyday life kitchens not some fairytale wish of a kitchen

6/28/2010 11:28:22 PM Report Abuse
gem_may wrote:

This is better. More practical. Please tell your designer to design for "real" life. Ideas are great but what we have to live with is more helpful

6/28/2010 11:24:21 PM Report Abuse
gem_may wrote:

White cabinets really? curtains under the sink yuck!where do the "now" designers get their ideas, looking at what we hated in the '50's

6/28/2010 11:22:11 PM Report Abuse
gem_may wrote:

atleast you are getting away from White cabinets.

6/28/2010 11:18:12 PM Report Abuse
irenebride wrote:

To add to amyphalon's request on small size kitchen, I am also in the same situation and would greatly benefit from ideas on how to maximize very small kitchens. thanks!

5/24/2010 10:09:18 AM Report Abuse
amyphalon wrote:

Do you have any design ideas for a small kitchen? It seems all of the "small" kitchen ideas are for open-concept rooms or are still large enough for an island, 6-burner stove top, wall ovens, and/or a dinning table. I don't consider that small. I need a design that fits the basics: fridge, range, sink and storage into an 8'X8' room.

2/8/2010 02:30:06 PM Report Abuse
kim.lang wrote:

I wonder what the upkeep on painted tile is?

1/13/2010 07:17:13 PM Report Abuse
CintheSooner wrote:

Does this only work on the backsplash tiles? Can you paint selected tiles or do you have to do the whole field? I would love to get rid of the white tile/white grout on my countertops without a major renovation or mess.

12/14/2009 05:19:50 PM Report Abuse

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