Comments on: Renovating: Is there good design with kids in mind?

By: Atlanta Remodeler

Atlanta Remodeler — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 03:16:24 +0000

Looks like a real project. Like your ideas so far, but you’re always limited by the actual physical space? We do Kitchen Remodeling in Atlanta and would love to come look at it in person with you. You can see our other work at http://www.affordablecraftsmen.net If you’ve already done your kitchen remodel, would love to see a follow-up blog post with pictures of the finished product :-)

By: Toronto Kitchen Renovations

Toronto Kitchen Renovations — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:33:26 +0000

Wow! It is amazing. Tremendous kitchen! Thanks for put on view.
http://www.etpainting.com/kitchen_renovations.html

By: FCM

FCM — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:19:12 +0000

fk my really good ones she cannot use. I do have a few that I have been given that are less than the best. Those she uses. Nobody but the other trained folks touch my ‘good’ knives. Your right they are easy to get cut on. My brother had been carving the Turkey and set the knife high on the board. One of the guest nicked themselves on it later.

My Dad carries his with him to parties — at the host requests — to do all the carving.

By: fk

fk — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:43:59 +0000

FCM…my husband is a professionally trained chef and keeps his knives separate from the household knives. I don’t use his, the others are fine for me. We have good knives, his are over-the-top and very expensive. He uses my knives, too, but will pull his out for specialties, etc. 2x we’ve had guests cut themselves when cleaning up. Usually, he cleans the knives and puts them away prior to the meal, just to avoid any mishaps. These two jumped in to “help.”

By: FCM

FCM — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:42:25 +0000

My knives have always sat in their block on the counter in the open. The children have been taught not to touch and I don’t think they ever did. I recently started letting my eldest use the knives. She is taught to respect them and treat them correctly. DB is probably correct, but coming from a family with several professionally trained chefs and restaurant consultants, I have some of the best knives in town.

By: JATL

JATL — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:04:46 +0000

I LOVE LOVE LOVE avocado green and harvest gold -and lots of orange! I blame it on being a child of the 70s and loving the nostalgic feeling it gives me. That and being an “autumn”, so I naturally gravitate toward those colors. Green is my favorite color -in almost any shade except mint, so it’s liberally used in my house.

By: motherjanegoose

motherjanegoose — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:30:45 +0000

@ JATL, you know, what goes around comes around.

My Mom’s early house had green in every room. She had avocado appliances and I swore I would never do it. Well, I do not have avocado appliances but we do have some green in every room here…mostly sage or hunter.

I also remember my parents had orange carpet with black naugahyde ( sp?) furniture in the basement ( late 1960’s) ….think Jetson’s!

My husband and I had yellow shag in our first actual house and we called it the grass. It was awful! The kitchen had turquoise blue counter tops. We rented and were unable to do anything much less afford it. BUT we had the best neighbors, which I would take any day over a fancy house.
We then bought a house that had been completely remodeled and thought we were in heaven!
That was 4 houses ago. I have lived in 9 different houses in my almost 27 years of marriage and so I am not a GOTTA HAVE it person. To each his own.

I never understand those who have to meander through other’s houses when they visit for the first time and see everything. I really could care less. I am there to visit the people, not the house.

By: JATL

JATL — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00:56 +0000

Oh -MJG- I started out life in a paneled home! We had paneling for the duration of the 70s and sometime in the 80s my mother remodeled and we painted and wallpapered over the paneling. Said wallpaper is still in effect and now that my mother has passed away, it always will be!

I love the squirty thing on the kitchen sink nozzle too!

By: fk

fk — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:19:55 +0000

Good luck Theresa. We’ve put our kitchen remodel on hold for a while. We have it planned out, and do keep resale in mind. I just want to get it done and enjoy it before I have sell it for someone else to enjoy. It’s got to be soo exciting to get the project rolling. I did take the wallpaper down in the kitchen, years ago. I had a plate rail installed 2/3 of the way up of the diningroom. It goes around the room, and I have nice plates and special pics on there. I get a lot of compliments…something different from what everyone else has done, and a conversation starter. I have paper on the top 1/3 of the wall, above the rail. It looks great. It’s a big room, so the pattern is fairly large. It’s your home, express yourself…and have fun!

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