Tag: kitchen island
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Kitchen Island Ideas
I don’t know about you but I love a kitchen island. Our house didn’t have even a tiny weeny one. It had a peninsula that divided the kitchen and family room. It wasn’t big enough and felt like it disrupted the flow. The peninsula had horrible pendant lights too. They were removed immediately upon moving…
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Kitchen Island Pendants
Our 2008 oak kitchen when we moved in. I painted the ceiling, the cabinets and replaced hardware. I removed the microwave and added a pretty range hood instead. There was still this perplexing box over the island with recessed lighting in it. It must have been considered decorative at some point in time…. but no…
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DIY Painted Kitchen Island
Been in the new Pennsylvania house for 6 days. I can’t stand all the wood on wood tones so I’m tackling the island to break it up. The first step is to clean and degrease the surface. I like TSP on a rag- you can find it at any hardware store. Remove any outlets and…
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DIY Wainscoting Wrapped Island
In our Florida house we had tile floors that I mopped and Sharked regularly. In time I noticed that the wood on the back of our kitchen island began to bubble near the floor. I went to Lowe’s with a photo to price replacing that wood panel. It was well over $100 to replace it…