Can you share the link to the photos again?
https://www.■■■■■■■■■■/groups/4085848@N24/pool/with/36785198233/
Here’s the link. I’m interested in seeing the grab bar installation. We bought one for the new shower, but haven’t decided whether to use it.
The hotel we stayed in this week in Vermont had some stripey wood flooring in the lobby. Must be a thing now.
You do such lovely work, CB! Congrats on another awesome job!
cb, what’s next on your project list? Do you have an upcoming flip you’ve been silent about?
I think CB is redoing the home of a CC member.
I think you did the absolute best you could with these people. I do some home visits with people in their 80’s and 90’s, and I have yet to see this style of furniture.
@coralbrook Can you post some pictures of the interior of the pantry or describe the pull-outs?
I tried that other link…but didn’t get all the pics.
Maybe this one will be better.
I’m curious whether any of you, who might go out to new construction/development model homes, have seen a trash compactor in a new kitchen? I haven’t seen one forever, although I think my sister has one in her 80s kitchen
We had to man handle the big carousel horses out of the storage bedrooms today in order to even get the bedroom doors installed back. They agreed to new hinges and more ‘elder friendly’ lever style door handles to try and remove some of the 80s bright brass finishes
Next project…drumroll…
family room addition and remodel for one of our CC friends that follows our thread.
I’ll start a new thread. But, we have been struggling for months to get plans drafted, structural engineering and we still have to go into the City to get the permit. It’s really hard to get anyone to work on things in a timely manner. They are all so busy. Did I say I hate getting permits??
Wish us luck in the Building Department. We are bringing snacks to camp out and our Kleenex in case it gets way too frustrating!!
We have been to maybe 50 various new construction houses, from $700k bottom of the chain to $4M+, and I saw only one (!) trash compactor. One. In a $3M home, believe it or not. 
Makers of wine coolers found a niche market - they make 15" coolers that fit into the old trash compactor cabinets.
I’d be happy to take a picture of the inside of the pantry but it’s pretty boring. There’s a craze in new kitchens in So Cal for walk in pantries, but it’s slightly rare in the coastal areas unless it’s a giant square foot house.
There is a craze here in PNW to move from giant walk in pantries to the ones like the pantry in the Grandma house. I miss my giant walk in pantry so much!! :((
I haven’t seen a trash compactor since harvest gold was in style. Everyone here wants pull outs that hold two trash cans…one for trash and one for recycles. It’s something I will have in my next kitchen!!
I have a shelf pantry…I’ve had walk in ones in the past. TBH, I can fit more food items in my shelf one…so efficient. I have shelves in my basement for the less used items (big unused containers, breadmaker, large food processor, etc). I don’t miss having those things IN my kitchen.
When we did our kitchen five years ago, I got lots and lots of lots of trash space.
I have a double pull-out – the front one for garbage (yes, I have a disposal, but I baby it and only use it for small things, not major things like bones, coffee grounds, etc.) and the back one for recyclables. I have a second double pull-out – the front one for soda cans and bottles for which we get our 5-cent deposit back, and the back one for “dry” garbage that isn’t recyclable – paper towel plastic wrappers, toilet paper tubes, padded envelopes that Amazon sends us stuff in. I only have to empty that every three to four weeks.
Then I also have three slide-out drawers where we put current magazines and newspapers and DH’s crossword puzzle books, and old newspapers, magazines, folded cardboard boxes and junk mail that gets dumped in the recycle bin in the garage.
The only thing I really don’t need is the bin for “dry” garbage. That could easily be mixed with regular garbage, although then the regular garbage bin would fill up sooner and I’d have to empty it more.
I am confused by the pantry in the grandma house. I don’t see the wide pantries that often anymore. It’s usually narrow pull-outs. Are there fixed shelves in that pantry?
When we did our kitchen three years ago I decided against the two bin trash pull-out. It only came in one size and our family doesn’t generate that much trash to waste valuable kitchen space. It would probably take a couple of weeks to fill that size bin.
I would LOVE to have a butler’s pantry! 
But I’d take a walk-in pantry. I do have a closet with shelves by the kitchen, but it is filled with my collection of cake pans, tart tins, charlotte molds, bread pans, cupcake/muffin tins, you name it. The top shelf, which I have to use a step stool to reach, has baskets, and the floor has the dog food bin and nested stock pots, corn pots, and canning stuff. Thank doG for that closet!
@Consolation, how often do you use all those cake pans? I would put the ones I don’t use routinely in the basement in order to free up prime real estate in my kitchen. Baskets too.
I’ve started taking less-used kitchen gear to our laundry room, which has Costco metal shelving where we used to put extra food to feed two teenage boys. 
We have enough cr*p in the kitchen.
I recognize the light fixtures in the Grandma House! Just installed some from that same line in our dining room and hallways. Kind of wish I had gotten the size you had for the kitchen eat-in area. I got a larger one and it feels big for the space.
We have a single pullout for garbage on one side of the sink and a double (same sized cans turned the wide way) on the other for recycling. Garbage goes out every night but the recycling fills up pretty fast.
I am the odd one out. I have a trash compactor and we use it. We built this house 20 years ago and compactors were “in” in our level of house. I buy the bags from Sears and we empty it every week the day before garbage pickup. We could empty it less but I think it begins to smell. Meat packaging goes right out to the big bin as it smells after a day or two. Our compactor stays clean and I love not having to take the trash out multiple times a week. Our garbage bins aren’t super close to the house. Recycling goes in a trash can under the island sink. That gets emptied as it gets filled usually multiple times a week. Vegetable and fruit waste goes into compost bin or in garbage disposal. Our disposal works great but we have one with a good motor. I grew up without a disposal and I would hate to not have one.
I have friends who have taken compactors out and replaced them with multiple bin pullouts. For now our system is working.