All, thank you for the feedback on the kitchen! After hemming and hawing and dragging my feet, we went to another city to look at homes today...and while we did see some real freak shows, we also saw some good stuff and ended up putting in an offer. I'm excited! And, the kitchen in this place is much bigger (and I must admit I am sacrificing the sex appeal for the space) and is a little bit of a project, purely cosmetically, of course. And, it's on a street with a really adorable name.
So, wish us luck. This house is a short sale, so the bank might take about six years to get back to us.
But get this!
We went to go prepare our offer, and immediately started quoting different offer amounts to each other, then looking at each other like we were crazy ("well hello, high roller," "and hi you, cheapskate") only to find out that the price of the house dropped by $10k today. Today! I printed off the sheet for it last night, and this morning they lowered the price.
I'm thinking this might be the one.
And so my next kitchen question for you is:
See all that honey oak? Is it sacrilegious to paint it? I mean, it is real wood...but if I think it's ugly, can I paint it? It's not exactly upgraded materials at use here, people.
P.S. how could the agent not get into this place to take pictures from the inside? The world may never know.
11 comments:
Paint, lots of paint!
All right! We bought a short-sale too. I just pretended we wanted to stay in our apartment forever so I wouldn't have a meltdown waiting. Good luck!
Please paint those!!! :)
Paint it. Luckily, our cabinets (which I strongly suspect look like this underneath) had already been painted a nice dark brown. But we have almost the exact same bannister and I hate it. I'll paint it eventually, but for now I'm afraid of the detail in the rails - would you sand or chemically strip first?
That's a lot of painting...
Cute, though. I like what I can see of the layout! Good luck!!
Thanks, all. I thought you'd say that!
Luckily, in person the banister doesn't look as bad as the cabinets. I think the banister might actually be maple or something.
My sister has the same cabinets and I keep begging her to paint them! Talk about making a kitchen look dated!
Paint away and make the kitchen (and house) your own!
Go ahead and paint, girl! PS... I already love the openess of this place.
We just painted our downstairs cabinets that were oak black. The grain really pulls through but it is definately an improvement. The more light that is in, the more you'll see the grain, but it can be kinda cool/funky, especially if you get some fun hardware.
I think you are lucky because of the simple almost shaker style of the cupboards. That makes it easier to update it.
Ahh, this would be a sweet place!
PS...hate that I'm so late to the convo.
okay, not sure if my sentence made sense.
we painted the oak with black paint....
Got it, Becky. :)
Did you use like a putty primer or anything? I've seen them but not sure they work or are worth the effort for covering the grain.
Lets paint them, I will come up and help.
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