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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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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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