What’s wrong with using kitchen cabinets in the bathroom?
We like things that go straight to the floor or allow us to use the electronic vacuum, so have 4" of clearance or more. For couches, that was a challenge, but seems like many vanities have significant clearance.
Bath cabinets are usually only 21" deep and kitchen cabinets are 24" deep plus countertop lip. Some bathrooms cannot handle the deep cabinets. But I think Hall Bath should be able to handle it because vanity is going where tub used to be and it was 34" wide
VH, any decent custom or semi-custom cabinet place has narrower cabinets for baths. Our vanity is semi-custom assembled from Kitchen Craft cabinets:
Well, back to the living room now. My window/door permit should be reviewed by Wednesday or Thursday next week and I need to get ready to quickly pull the trigger on the order to get those items on their way. I know what I want to do everywhere except the large french doors in the living room.
Standard square sticking (steel/fiberglass) 6 ft outswing doors which will have to be painted white - about $1,000 each
Square sticking wood/fiberglass clad outswing doors which could be brown - about $1,500 each
BUT… what I really want is solid wood, stained and/or painted brown Arched outswing doors. Like these on left (but plain glass)
http://www.houzz.com/photos/living-room/query/spanish-revival/nqrw/p/8
I’m guessing these will cost about $2,000 each and require some custom woodwork in the header area
Or, back to the original photo which is similar with the small windows on each side of fireplace and natural wood ceilings that shows standard wood doors
http://www.houzz.com/photos/1091094/Spanish-Revival-Home-farmhouse-family-room-other-metro
Yes, sorry… I must have linked to the wrong photo. Those are similar, but without the grills, just plain clear glass for the view.
Also, I loaded more photos of the not exciting french drain work.
But, we did at least one exciting thing today! Carpenter finished moving the big hole for the new dining room window and it absolutely captures the views so much better. By moving the window 2 ft to the left, the eye travels out to the ocean view and not out to the Wall of China on the side of the house. I loaded a photo. If you look closely below the window opening you can see where the window cut off prior to the move. It is a huge improvement. Another bunch of $$$ spent that noone is really going to notice, but I love the change!
Oh cb, that will definitely be noticed.
And those arched glass doors are gorgeous!
@BunsenBurner: Thanks. We did our kitchen three years ago and plan to do our two upstairs bathrooms in the coming year. I was planning to use the same cabinets so everything would look cohesive. I know the cabinets come in a narrower depth. Glad to know it’s not unusual.
It is very common here in the PNW in mid- to upper-priced houses to have the same type of cabinetry throughout the entire house (most homes here are Craftsman style).
cb, are you going to add to the fireplace mantel, like in this pix from your link?
[houzz=http://www.houzz.com/photos/5320081/N-Mission-Hills-mediterranean-living-room-san-diego]
if you do then I think going with the arched doors will
“make” the whole room.
Are you planning on blocking the great wall of china with some large potted trees on the deck and tall narrow trees/ plants in the ground below? Like Italian cypress or something evergreen that grows tall and narrow ?
Yes, planning on planting trees along great wall of china. Probably tall oleander. Need to work on trying to source some tall enough.
I need to get some firm pricing to figure out if I can afford the nice arched doors.
+1 for the arched doors!
You are moving the deck, right? So the newly opened up view won’t have the brown posts from the deck interrupting it?
Same here. That’s what I have in my house – same custom-built simple white shaker cabinets with carrera marble countertops throughout my contemporary beach house – in kitchen, 3-1/2 baths, and landing area. It is a beautiful, fresh, contemporary look and having the same cabinetry thoughout really provides a unified, professionally decorated look for the house.
Where are th pics of the arched doors??
^^ arched doors at the link in #1085
Thanks. I thought CB had put them up.
Interesting Tidbit on Flip #1
Remember the horrid little house in La Mesa where the tree trimmer took the beautiful Pecan tree in back yard down to a naked trunk? Sometimes I drive by to see if the tree recovered. The tree has been flushing out over the last couple of years.
I have used the same landscape guy on my projects, when needed. He is doing the French drain project here at Flip #5. He just told me that the buyer of Nebo Flip #1 hired him to completely take out the huge tree and remove all the lawn and irrigation out of the back yard. She covered the back yard with zeroscape decomposed granite and gravel! It’s amazing how I can spend thousands and the buyer then rips it all out. She felt the tree was a hazard against the power lines in the back yard.
Flip #4 Liberace House
And I still drive by the Liberace House and it continues to stand empty. They still haven’t rented that place.
Flip #3 Hoarder House
I drive by this house a lot because it is near my current project. The couple from Chicago seem to be there periodically and are enjoying the view deck. I’m not sure if it was noticeable in the view photos, but there was a huge Torrey Pine tree down the street that blocked a significant portion of the view of Mission Bay. During the last windstorm the owners of that house decided they had to take down the Torrey Pine because it was causing huge root invasion and their neighbors were going to sue them about the danger from the tree falling or whatever. Tree was taken out with huge cranes. Hoarder House owners are now enjoying a full unobstructed view - lucky them!
I drive by the Hoarder House occasionally and like the way the plants started filling in the front slope. That’s funny about the tree! Maybe you could convince the Great Wall owners that their satellite dish is a wind hazard.
That’s a great new view from the dining room. Too bad you can’t take out the corner post and make it a glass corner. Or can you…