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How To Make Your Tiny Kitchen Look Bigger

Where do you spend most of your time in your home? If you are like most families, it’s probably in the kitchen. It seems that no matter how large your kitchen is, it never feels big enough.

Several years ago, I finally remodeled my kitchen, completely redesigning the floor plan. First, we knocked down a wall (which was a lot of fun) and installed a garden window over the sink, even with the countertop.  Then we added both an island with an overhang, with room for three chairs or stools, and a food-prep peninsula at table height, also with an overhang with room for three or four stools.

Here are several ideas for you to consider that will make your kitchen feel and look larger. You don’t have to implement all of them, but even following one of these suggestions will make a big difference in your kitchen.

Create More Storage
Better storage saves space. Try installing a base cabinet where the door is attached to roll-out shelves rather than swinging open on hinges. With a cabinet like this, you have a convenient place to store your most used appliances. The nice thing about pull-out shelves is that items stored way in the back are easily reached.

Redo Your Cabinets
Add glass fronts to your wall cabinets.  Even better, replace those solid cabinet doors with glass fronts along one of your walls. This is a great way to give your kitchen a more open feel.

Add Light
Choose under-the-counter lighting—it will make your kitchen appear larger. It also helps to select light colors for your cabinets and countertops.

Create Height with Taller Wall Cabinets
Try removing those soffits. Install your cabinets to the ceiling. You might also try “stair-stepping” the cabinets. First start with a taller cabinet. Then line the others progressively shorter. Above the shorter cabinets, you now have a great space to display your collectibles, baskets and teapots. The hard-to-reach top shelves of the taller cabinets make a great place to store all those holiday dishes and serving pieces you seldom use.

Bring the Outdoors In
To get more light into your kitchen, try enlarging your windows. Another great idea is to replace one with a garden window installed at countertop height. Want an even brighter kitchen? Add a skylight or sky pipe.

Streamline Your Kitchen
Once or twice a year we all go through our closets, getting rid of those clothes we no longer use. The same should be done in the kitchen. Be sure to regularly reorganize your kitchen, getting rid of all those items you don’t use. This simple chore will make your kitchen feel much more roomy. When your kitchen is cluttered, it will always feel smaller.

Build a Useful Island
If you have an eat-in kitchen but there’s no room for an island, you might want to consider replacing the entire kitchen table with an island. In addition to an eating area, upgrading to an island will also give you added storage space for seldom-used items. You’ll be surprised at how easy of a do-it-yourself project this can be. Start with base cabinets. Choose ones that are either table height or traditional counter height. Then top them with countertop material. Extend the counter 12 to 16 inches beyond the cabinets to make room for chairs or stools.

Install Storage Trays
Specially made narrow trays are available at hardware stores and home centers, and can be easily installed on the back of false drawer fronts ant the sink and cooktop. By doing this, you can significantly reduce your clutter around your sink and stove, thereby creating a larger-looking space.

Free Up Counter Space
Tired of cluttered countertops? Free up your counter by installing an under-the-counter microwave, can opener, spice rack or toaster.

Open Up Those Walls
If a dining area adjoins your kitchen, consider knocking down the wall between them. Be sure the wall is not load-bearing before starting. If it isn’t, then this could be a simple do-it-yourself project.

Create Open Shelving
Add open shelves to your kitchen, especially if you have colorful plates, glasses, teapots or other collectibles to display. Open shelving always makes a small kitchen look larger. One way to do this is to simply take the doors off the cabinets and paint the inside a bright cheery color.  Otherwise, take down the cabinets altogether and add colorful shelves in their place to make the room feel more open.

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what kind of art should i use to decorate my room?

i’m a fifteen year old girl. kind of girly, but there’s a lot more too me than that. i want artsy in my room.

Art is a very personal thing. You’re really going to have to decide for yourself. Here is a great website for heaps of artwork:

http://homedecorators30.artselect.com/

My suggestion is to keep an open mind and scan through the images pretty quickly – only pausing when something catches your eye, whether it’s a color or a figure or a feeling. When you really like something, then make a note of it. After a while, you’ll start to get a sense of what types of art you like or don’t like. For example, I found that I love american country – like paintings of barns and farmhouses – and I also like the vintage posters. But I skip right over any abstract art or pictures of flowers.

Anyway, with the color scheme that you already have in your room, art that’s primarily green will have the most impact. I like the “Jeune Fille En Vert (Girl in Green)” painting on this page:

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http://homedecorators30.artselect.com/search2/openct11074~3D11075~2C5796~26t~3Db-c5796/Lime.html

Of course, if you don’t like green, pick something else!

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Paint knotty pine????

My house is older and made with knotty pine for interior walls. I want to paint because of hardwood floors(and dark walls makes it feel like a cave), but many older people love the walls(because you can’t find the stuff anymore) and want me to let them be.

You could sacrifice a couple of inches of floor space and just put up some lathe and dry wall over it if you are concerned about conserving the integrity of the paneling but as far as I am concerned pine is a very homely wood and doesn’t need to be showcased.We have a wall of it in our basement and I find it depressing. I would think twice about painting over a beautifully grained wood like oak or walnut but pine is a workhorse wood not a decorative wood and people used to paint it whenever it was necessary to construct furniture with it.

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How much of a space do i leave between the wall and my hardwood flooring for expansion?

I found a site that said 3/8-5/8in gap. But is it possible to find baseboards that cover a 5/8in gap?

Make sure that you leave at least 1/2″ space between the floor and the wall when you put them

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decorating and design ideas for new house…any help would be wonderful!?

new house and just looking for ways to add some color to certain rooms and modernize it a little-nothing major but paint colors and decor.

When painting it’s best to stick with muted and neutral tones or at least stay away from anything obnoxious. You can go to behr.com and use the free color smart project center to choose color samples and see how they would look in differant rooms or even upload your own interior photos and you can sample paint your own rooms. Also take into concideration that textured or “popcorn” walls and ceelings should be untextured for much better results.

While you can add extra little touches by adding crown and floor molding, wood caseing for windows and updated doors etc… all of this comes at a price, but if you need further advice let me know.

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I have a smelly bedroom? Please help!?

When we first moved in we did not use the back bedroom. We just had a computer in there and hardly went in there. It always had this sweaty smell but we never thought anything of it because like I said…we were never in there. Well we just moved in to the room and gave our son our old room. I cant handle the smell. I have washed the walls, cleaned the floors- they are hardwood, got new curtains and new windows were put in. But it still has this sweaty smell. My neighbor said that the people who lived here before had 2 large dogs in this room. What can the smell be from? How can I get rid of it? I am at a total loss!!!! No other room in our home smells like this at all. Please help
I dont have carpet- all hardwood floors. I have scrubbed them with pinesol and Murphy’s oil

Well, now we know what Michelle does in her spare time: dismantles bodies in the back bedroom and has crime scene clean-up get rid of the mess.

Note to self: Do not piss off Hearts in the 808.

I’m sorry, Kim. In my spare time, I like to break into your house and have hot, steamy orgies in your back bedroom. The sweat smell is from our lusty escapades, and yes, occasionally dogs are involved. I’m a bit distressed at the fact that you’ll be using that room for yourselves. I guess you and your husband will just have to start joining in.

See ya’ later…we should be climbing in through the window tonight around 11:00. Have Woody and Wiggles ready too.

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