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<\/a><\/p>\nThe last thing I saw when leaving my house after water started coming in was my lower cabinets going underwater.\u00a0 Once we came back, the demo started.\u00a0 That included tearing out all the lower cabinets, ripping out the sheetrock and removing all the appliances.<\/p>\n Our makeshift kitchen was in the garage.\u00a0 We had a hot plate and an electric skillet. We did what we had to do and we all survived.<\/p>\n If you are going to get a new kitchen, you might as well get what you want.\u00a0 I had no idea what I wanted as far as style or design.\u00a0 I did know that I wanted all the furdowns torn out.\u00a0 Furdowns are the sheetrocked spaces above your cabinets.\u00a0 Sometimes they are used to allow pipes or ductwork to make there way around the house.\u00a0 I was very lucky in that I had nothing inside mine so I could use that space for higher cabinets.<\/p>\n My cabinets are custom cabinets and are made of birch.\u00a0 My contractor wanted to use maple but I wanted painted cabinets and I could have never brought myself to paint maple.\u00a0 I had a request of crown moulding and that all lower cabinets have drawers.\u00a0 There is nothing worse than squatting down and having to dig things out in the back of a cabinet.\u00a0 No more!\u00a0 I open the cabinet doors and pull out the drawers.<\/p>\n The other issue I had was dead space in my lower corner cabinets.\u00a0 Before, I was on the floor trying to push or pull things out.\u00a0 That had to be remedied in the new kitchen.<\/p>\n I took full advantage of my new kitchen.\u00a0 I moved the refrigerator.\u00a0 The small easy bake oven on the wall was moved and changed into a full range. A pot rack was also added to the kitchen in a lower cabinet.\u00a0 Convenience was a major concern for the kitchen.<\/p>\n After I knew what conveniences I wanted for my kitchen, then the style of the kitchen was the next step.\u00a0 What kind of tile, what color cabinets, what type of flooring?\u00a0 A lot of decisions had to be made and I was more than happy to figure all of this out.<\/p>\n After a lot of thinking and researching,\u00a0 I knew I wanted my upper cabinets to be a different color than my lower cabinets.\u00a0 I decided on white cabinets for my upper cabinets but had no idea what I wanted for my lower cabinets.<\/p>\n\n The next item for the kitchen was to pick out tile.\u00a0 I had actually decided on getting white subway tile.\u00a0 Off to Floor & Decor, I go.\u00a0 Once I got to the store, I changed my mind.\u00a0 Talk about choices.\u00a0 I loved them all and I wanted them all.\u00a0 My husband and I kept looking and then we turned down an aisle and there it was.\u00a0 The tile of my dreams.\u00a0 My husband said this is the one and I agreed.\u00a0 We went with our gut.\u00a0 It was the only tile that we both had a big reaction to how much we liked it.<\/p>\n
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