If you have ever renovated a kitchen, you know a big part of the appearance of the final product is the wood, the finish and the style of cabinets. We considered shiny, plastic-looking cabinets with big multi-profile edge shapes, but realized that is not a valid style in the Republic of Vermont. So we are more going with a wood cabinet finish.
Since our country's official tree is the sugar maple (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_maple), we believed the selection of this species is not only aesthetically smart, it is patriotic. After choosing the wood, one next selects a door/drawer style. There are lots to choose from. Here is a link to our preferred manufacturer's website; visit the site and pick a door style and wood finish you like and post a comment why. For those of you who are so inclined, open a socket.
http://www.kraftmaid.com/doorsfinishes/index.cfm?navigationid=31200
Next week we will reveal our selection.
01-20-09
13 comments:
Is this renovation going to be "green". Don't you care about the environment and your children's future world???
--order to show cause
I believe since you are living in VT, you should visit Bouchard Pierce, who carry the Neil Kelly line of cabinets. "Environmentally responsible materials including low-VOC finishes and sustainable harvested FSC-certified woods and veneers are used in the construction of these eye-catching cabinets."
Bouchard Pierce is located right in Barre. Along with the cabinets, you should be using Dakota Burl flooring, which is made of sunflower-seed hulls for the look of pricey burled wood for your flooring. And, be sure to use Ultra-Touch Insulation by Bonded Logic, which is made of recycled blue jeans!
This house is already green, the previous owner painted it with a nice shade of dark green (the paint probably contains lead).
The problem with the fancy earth-friendly materials is they are green two ways, one is the alleged environmental friendlieness and the other is the cost.
If my attorney friend who has a degree from a top ten law school would put his education to work, I could buy the cabinets and flooring described above. Until then, it is high-VOC finish, clear cut wood cabinets for us.
trish, what are you trying to turn me into?.......we already eat 6 grain flour and rice porridge, how green can I be? I am intrigued by the recycled blue jeans insulation
OK, I can understand that the cabinets might be pricy, how about using Shetkastone Counter Tops? They are made from recycled dollar bills and are about $65-$76/square foot. The flooring is only about $3-$5/square foot and the insulation, cheapest by far, is about $0.55/square foot.
And how much greener can you get? Oh, the world of "green" (where they are just looking for new ways to suck the cash directly from your pocket to their bank accounts) is huge! I'll admit to be intrigued by the concept, and I will continue to live vicariously through your branch of the family.
Keep cooking that rice porridge!
I think I can 'decoupage' dollar bills on plywood cheaper than $65/sq ft.......and I too wish I had an endless cash flow. How cool would some of these recycled products be?
Rice Porridge rocks!
Solid Recessed No question. The perfect marriage of utility and class.
I'm not asausaged by fancy sounding words like veneer. I know you will never rest easy knowing that under a thin flaky wood surface lies some unmentionable substrate (lower than strate) material.
cabbagePANTS
Way to go Tricia, encourage your brother to use the environmentally friendly products. Perhaps you will never recover the added costs of the Neil Kelly line cabinets, but the flooring you might be able to pull off. There will be some hippy-dippy person that will see environmentally products as a positive.
If you attorney friend was to put his degree to work for you to afford those cabinets I'm sure that the work he was doing would be accelerating our progress towards the end of the world as we know it.
BTW, Trader Joe's mulitgrain pancake mix is very yummy.
--Res Ipsa Loquitor (the case speaks for itself)
I believe that the Grand Federal Government gives a rebate of sorts for using these so-called "green" products. Maybe you can recoup a very small percentage of the costs you put out. But in the end, is it really about the money or the long healthy lives of our children and grandchildren in a splendid environment? Unfortunately, while some parents build “green” homes trying to make their children’s lives better, they still allow them sit and play video games, on their flooring made of sunflower hulls, eat fattening foods, making their life expectancy shorter than all previous generations.
Somebody here has seen our old kitchen cabinets. To him we give thanks. We do not agree with his position on strates, all strates are equal in Vermont. Unfortunately it is racists like you that categorize strates and make an issue of it. Like Colbert, here in Vermont we don't see strate-status.
To those who believe their fancy law degrees can only accelerate the country's race to the bottom, I ask "really?" I suspect a person smart enough to obtain a law degree from a top ten and pass the bar exam can determine a method of earning while providing a positive future.
We agree with the thoughts on children, sunflower husk-flooring and video games. We will keep our not-to-green building material choices and offset them by carpooling, eating locally grown food and limiting time with the television. All we have to cancel out remains our friendship with a lawyer. That is like a monkey on our roof that we cannot shake.
well, bill n, you can always try to claim that your left coast friends, including the tall one are offsetting your pseudo-environmental footprint?!
(tricia-n is cool and wise!)
Ahh. There was a warm familiarity to the solid recessed.warm as a fresh brownie, I might add. They genuinely struck my aesthetic fancy beyond my hyper-rational, environmentally-nurtured, unbending, and seething strate bias.
Fondly,
CabbagePANTS
am i too late?! i'm gonna go with 3 ... solid maple, solid recessed, and solid raised.
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