I love those tiles! I have a lot of orange in my house (my favorite color after red). Your kitchen is turning out to have quite a number of personalized touches that seem to fit your style. I am glad you found something suitable and in budget!
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We are about to leave on a two week camping trip and big thanks to my DW and a very good friend with plumbing skills, we have a working kitchen! We have a wonderful community of skilled women and they have donated so much time to help us cut costs and give us a beautiful kitchen.
This week started with clearing things for countertop install and some emergency plumbing, countertop install, sink install, faucet and plumbing install. Then the last drawer front arrived and I installed that this morning
Still to do is add the toe kick, finish the final plaster work and painting, installing the backsplash, and window trim. Fussy bits but easy stuff.
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It looks so wonderful!!
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Fantastic! Enjoy your vacation knowing that the finish line is so close!
Add can you find the missing handle? We have a replacement door ordered due to a finish issue.
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It looks beautiful!
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WOW! This looks wonderful! It looks like it will be a very easy kitchen to work in and has so much storage, too. It will be so nice to come home to a working kitchen after two weeks of camping. Congratulations to you and your DW (and all your helpful community) for this!
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It looks fabulous!
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I spent a whole lot of time staining the last few days!
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Y’all it looks SO BIG now that it is stained. I mean, it didn’t look not-big before, but the difference is striking.
For Sat, I hope to do a second coat on a few areas and add some moulding to the two end vertical pieces. Hopefully, start waxing on Sunday. If I can fit in starting staining the actual shelves, I will do that, too, over the weekend.
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Ooh, that color is divine! It really makes the woodgrain pop.
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Thank you! I sampled 5 colors and a few combinations and decided on Minwax Espresso.
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Fantastic progress! I love the dark, rich color!
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Beautiful!
Our entire 1981 house has trim in that shade. Jim and I know the more recent trends were to paint it to ‘lighten up all that dark wood’, but we’re convinced it’s going to come back around. Thanks for proving us right. 
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Most definitely keep it! It is classic!
I am going to change out my main bath vanity and linen closet to that darker shade.
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Thanks, y’all! I am definitely not a paint-it-white gal which has made it harder to source moulding for this - a lot of profiles available to me are now only available in finger-jointed pine or pre-primed material. My belief is that if I follow a trend for my house, then my house will be dated in several years. So instead, I’m just going to do what we like/suits us. It’s makes it harder, because things often need to be special ordered which can also be more expensive. Sigh.
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I agree, do what you like and not follow trends. After all, you are the one looking at it every day. And…every so many years you will be on trend since everything seems to come around again.
I am so tired of white everything and gray walls. I hade a.white kitxhen once and had kids. Oofff…the fingerprints and jelly.
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I had a white kitchen once when I lived alone and hardly cooked and still it was a bear to keep clean. I just never lean towards white anything except bathroom fixtures and laundry appliances. It just doesn’t make me feel my most comfortable. That said, I LOVE grey. Maybe growing up in Oregon? But I only have one grey wall and it’s DARK to try to disguise the TV a bit.
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We also decided to go with what we like, rather than trends. It helps that we both have a distinct sense of style that hasn’t changed much over the years. My mother doesn’t have that, she just likes what’s on trend right now - but is still too frugal to change her furniture when trends change, so the walls and the newest items are all grey, mixed with dark colonial and 90s pine furniture. Her house came with a black bathroom and that’s just as bad an idea as a white kitchen. She’s on her own and the type of person to actually dry a bathroom after use, but I’m sure she still spends more time removing limescale than showering. I think the previous owners had young kids, they must have loved cleaning!
I loved my previous 1980s white kitchen, except it was falling apart and the layout was unpractical. It was all laminated particle board, but of decent quality, the laminate was very easy to clean and wasn’t damaged. The metal countertop was ugly but also super convenient, impossible to damage.
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I admire you folks diying your home projects. Amazing work, looking unique but still so pro!
A second fridge is being delivered today to accommodate our children who are now doing their own grocery shopping and cooking, as well as our house guest who will be with us for a year or so. Six people cannot share one fridge 
We’re also having the very old attic window replaced because that’s where said friend is staying and it is blisteringly hot up there, even with an AC on the landing. A box in the window is needed.
So, there goes 2K. Sigh.
Update:
The extra fridge!
Not sure what the delivery charge was for… they left it out on the sidewalk!
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