Our Farm House is coming along quite quickly and we officially ordered cabinets for the kitchen a week ago! We've gone with custom cabinets from Lowe's in two different finishes. On the base cabinets the finish is called coffee, it's a medium wood stain with a dark glaze. The upper cabinets will have a paint finished called portobello.
Rounding out the finishes in the kitchen is the ledgestone, and stainless steel (behind the cooktop) backsplash.
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| Coffee |
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| Portobello |
Layout
Essentially the kitchen is an L-Shaped design. One end is anchored by pantry cabinets and the other end is anchored by a large oven/micro combination cabinet and the refrigerator. The perspective view of the kitchen shows an island. The island will be a future project that will provide more storage, a prep sink, maybe another dishwasher (good for those larger gatherings like holidays) as well as bar seating for four.
The elevation depicts the dining room wall that will have a built in for a bar area. The bar will house a wine refrigerator, storage for dinner ware, wine glasses and wine as well as shelves for display.
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| Kitchen/Dining Elevation |
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| Kitchen Perspective with future island |
Finishes
For the countertops we chose a quartz material. Quartz is a man made stone produced to look like granite, but far much easier to maintain. Due to its non-porous qualities, quartz will not stain and can withstand high temperatures.
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| Sienna Ridge Quartz |
Rounding out the finishes in the kitchen is the ledgestone, and stainless steel (behind the cooktop) backsplash.
For the floors, well I have yet to decide between tile and cork. Cork, being a hard surface, is softer than tile. As for the tile, I am probably leaning more this way because I don't want to have too many different flooring materials in the house. It would cause the house to feel broken up and disrupt the flow.
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| Left: Porcelain tile Right: Cork tile |
Tell me what you think, would you choose cork or porcelain tile?
Happy Friday
xoxo,
Alissa
