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Natural will always be in style. If you are a seller, there will be some buyers who will not like your choices, but so what? You cannot please everyone.
Buy what you like, keep your choices to true, high quality natural, finishes that make you feel good. ***k everyone else, especially HGTV.
After years of the dreary dark cherry cabinets, dark granite, cold steel, I predict a return to "lightness", and that includes golden oak and light pine, and white appliances, maybe even off-white (somewhat like Bisque - Gasp!), and even colored appliances, only with modern touches and styling.
My 11 year old kitchen has light maple cabs. All of the kitchens that I have seen in my subdivision have the same. I don't think light cabs are particularly trendy right now.
My 11 year old kitchen has light maple cabs. All of the kitchens that I have seen in my subdivision have the same. I don't think light cabs are particularly trendy right now.
It doesn't really matter.
Only HGTV tell us what is in style now, (not that we care)
but whats in style now will not be in style 5 years from now.
It's SO annoying to see how contrived these trends are. Formica in... again? Well, at least they aren't white like back in the '80s... instead they are dark... like the '70's. This merry-go-round kitchen trend thing has to stop...
We just bought a house that has golden oak cabinets and light Corian countertops. Considering the turnaround for trends, our kitchen should be high style again in the late 2020s.
LOL you got that right - don't change a thing!
We just bought an immaculately maintained house that was built in the mid 1990s. As you can imagine, it is filled to the brim with polished brass fixtures - all top quality and in excellent shape - and all bright, shiny gold brass.
At first, my preconditioned mind was rebelling against these fixtures, even though they are perfectly suited to the "Low Country" Southern Living style home which is very traditional and a bit formal, with arched doorways and ten foot ceilings and tons of crown molding. Still...POLISHED BRASS? SOOOOO out of fashion! Wow, it was a pity to have to change all that out...
Till it occurred to me - we don't HAVE to change it out! They are beautiful fixtures, they are in excellent shape, and they match the style of the home. So we decided to save a TON of money by not throwing away and replacing perfectly good, well made and well proportioned fixtures.
Polished brass it is! And now that I've lived with it all for a few weeks, I am very pleased. And I have more money than I would have...money I can use to build a firepit and enhance the patio..yes!
Interesting that you should ask this. For some reason that was the very first thing I saw in that photo. I had the same question immediately.
The vent has been painted brown.
Almost invisible now.
White was what the builder did. He actually painted the grills black in the next 3 houses he built because we told all his customers about ours.
The vent has been painted brown.
Almost invisible now.
White was what the builder did. He actually painted the grills black in the next 3 houses he built because we told all his customers about ours.
So many builders just don't think about these kinds of things. For instance, when they install AC controls - often they will put them in a very conspicuous place, right in the middle of a wide wall or in the living room (when an inconspicuous hallway or nook somewhere else would be perfectly fine).
I'm looking to do something very similar with my kitchen except either white uppers or no uppers.
I think it'd look great in the particular style of home I have (mid-century modern).
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Not white anymore
