This Old [or New] House

[Hamartia Antidote]

Sure, many kitchens but for some reason having a tough time finding them!? Here's one for now but I'll post some others that are probably more along the lines of what you're looking for when I find the darn things.View attachment 455008 View attachment 455007



The one in post #69 is probably closer to what you're looking for, I think. It has the same color combinations of grays and whites and black like the pic you posted. Just the cabinet colors would be something you would have to decide. Some type of "off-white" color will give you many more options for the other colors such as the countertop surfaces and wall paint colors, even tile. If you go with a darker colored cabinet style, it will limit your color options a little bit for the other items.

You can also mix and match your cabinets. For instance you can do the main set of cabinet run in an off-white, then a separate section of cabinets in a dark grey or even black and then introduce a 3rd option in a wood grain. That makes for a really terrific look.

I highly recommend you tell your clients to skip wooden floors in kitchens and bathrooms. Water and wood floors just don’t mix. If you are lucky it’s only the finish that will end up looking like crap. If unlucky the boards will start shrinking or cuppIng. It can happen from dishwashers over flowing, refrigerator evaporator pans overflowing, or just day to day sprinkles of water. In the bathroom it’s kids playing in the bathtub, sinks, and toilets overflowing.

My kitchen floor looks like crap infront of my dishwasher and sink. Yes, I have a mat.

 

[TexasJohn]

I highly recommend you tell your clients to skip wooden floors in kitchens and bathrooms. Water and wood floors just don’t mix. If you are lucky it’s only the finish that will end up looking like crap. If unlucky the boards will start shrinking or cuppIng. It can happen from dishwashers over flowing, refrigerator evaporator pans overflowing, or just day to day sprinkles of water. In the bathroom it’s kids playing in the bathtub, sinks, and toilets overflowing.

My kitchen floor looks like crap infront of my dishwasher and sink. Yes, I have a mat.

Yup. Kitchens and bathrooms need to have tile floors...that's for sure

 

[Gomig-21]

Here's a few more kitchens @Divergent , probably not what you're looking for but maybe you'll notice some neat ideas here and there. Most of these are for large, new & renovated homes with good size budgets.

This is a blueish/greenish lacquer sprayed cabinetry (raised panel style) that was really well made and the counters are a pure white Quartz (synthetic granite) and the tile on the backsplash is a white subway tile. These were taken prior to finishing and I posted them because the other finished pics I have are too large to upload on this forum. But just to give you an idea about cabinet color and contrast with counters. Also placement of lights in relation to counter space and centering to cabinets etc.
Also in this case, the cooker is a stainless steel cooktop (on the right) only, not a range where the oven is combined below in single unit. The oven is a that double-door wall unit mounted in the cabinet straight ahead with the microwave oven directly above it, a 2-piece unit.

Notice the refrigerator to the right is fully covered with the same panels as the kitchen cabinets. That's a common look that many like, to blend the appliances with the cabinetry with these custom-made panels and appliance kits to receive them.

This is a bit of a high-end kitchen, probably not what you're looking for but it's a combination of very tall walnut cabinets (also raised panel style) with a light blue glass tile backsplash and the main run is a lacquer sprayed off-white set of cabinets, veined, natural granite counter with very nice appliances. Sub-Zero refrigerator, 6-burner Viking stove/range and an automatic microwave and warmer drawer, center suspended stainless steel hood, 2 sinks and 1 working island plus the main elevated center island for 5 people and the floor is a reclaimed dark cherry wood floor. Some very interesting and neat lighting fixtures this lady chose to match the style of the rest of the house which is in the Victorian style. Notice those two pendant fixtures to the left and the chandelier over the main island.

This pic is a bit out of focus the others I can't upload because they're too large.

This is a pretty simple kitchen: Native cherry cabinets (this is called a "shaker style") with an emerald green (Esmeralda) granite top and glass tile backsplash and relatively simple appliances like that microwave/vent combination. The open space below the MW is for a range (cooker + oven) combination and the floor is white oak hardwood.

I highly recommend you tell your clients to skip wooden floors in kitchens and bathrooms. Water and wood floors just don’t mix. If you are lucky it’s only the finish that will end up looking like crap. If unlucky the boards will start shrinking or cuppIng. It can happen from dishwashers over flowing, refrigerator evaporator pans overflowing, or just day to day sprinkles of water. In the bathroom it’s kids playing in the bathtub, sinks, and toilets overflowing.

My kitchen floor looks like crap in front of my dishwasher and sink. Yes, I have a mat.

Yeah, honestly bro it hardly matters these days. I'd say 90% of these projects have HW flooring of some type. I wish I could upload this other one to show you that not only was it hardwood flooring, but specifically quarter-sawn white oak in a herringbone patter for the kitchen. These are the things that these people want and are either designed together with myself or the decorator or are specced out on the plans. The mahogany floor in that one bathroom is a bit unique because they had that in their previous home and liked it and also it's mahogany which is almost the best, water resistant hardwood out there maybe 2nd to Epi. That floor also has 7 coats of oil-based polyurethane finish. Here's the thing also, the dishwasher isn't supposed to break down or overflow and neither is the fridge and these people will never design things based on that slight probability. And if you spill things, the trick is to get it quickly because the damage is usually a result of letting the water permeate and settle over time. For a lot of these people, it's always form over function when it comes to kitchen floors and certain other items TBH. Usually in 1st floor guest baths which are half-baths, the hardwood flooring of the entire first floor runs straight into them, so almost 100% of 1st flr guest 1/2 baths have HW flooring.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Here's a few more kitchens @Divergent , probably not what you're looking for but maybe you'll notice some neat ideas here and there. Most of these are for large, new & renovated homes with good size budgets.

This is a blueish/greenish lacquer sprayed cabinetry (raised panel style) that was really well made and the counters are a pure white Quartz (synthetic granite) and the tile on the backsplash is a white subway tile. These were taken prior to finishing and I posted them because the other finished pics I have are too large to upload on this forum. But just to give you an idea about cabinet color and contrast with counters. Also placement of lights in relation to counter space and centering to cabinets etc.
Also in this case, the cooker is a stainless steel cooktop (on the right) only, not a range where the oven is combined below in single unit. The oven is a that double-door wall unit mounted in the cabinet straight ahead with the microwave oven directly above it, a 2-piece unit.

Notice the refrigerator to the right is fully covered with the same panels as the kitchen cabinets. That's a common look that many like, to blend the appliances with the cabinetry with these custom-made panels and appliance kits to receive them.

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This is a bit of a high-end kitchen, probably not what you're looking for but it's a combination of very tall walnut cabinets (also raised panel style) with a light blue glass tile backsplash and the main run is a lacquer sprayed off-white set of cabinets, veined, natural granite counter with very nice appliances. Sub-Zero refrigerator, 6-burner Viking stove/range and an automatic microwave and warmer drawer, center suspended stainless steel hood, 2 sinks and 1 working island plus the main elevated center island for 5 people and the floor is a reclaimed dark cherry wood floor. Some very interesting and neat lighting fixtures this lady chose to match the style of the rest of the house which is in the Victorian style. Notice those two pendant fixtures to the left and the chandelier over the main island.

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This pic is a bit out of focus the others I can't upload because they're too large.

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This is a pretty simple kitchen: Native cherry cabinets (this is called a "shaker style") with an emerald green (Esmeralda) granite top and glass tile backsplash and relatively simple appliances like that microwave/vent combination. The open space below the MW is for a range (cooker + oven) combination and the floor is white oak hardwood.

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Yeah, honestly bro it hardly matters these days. I'd say 90% of these projects have HW flooring of some type. I wish I could upload this other one to show you that not only was it hardwood flooring, but specifically quarter-sawn white oak in a herringbone patter for the kitchen. These are the things that these people want and are either designed together with myself or the decorator or are specced out on the plans. The mahogany floor in that one bathroom is a bit unique because they had that in their previous home and liked it and also it's mahogany which is almost the best, water resistant hardwood out there maybe 2nd to Epi. That floor also has 7 coats of oil-based polyurethane finish. Here's the thing also, the dishwasher isn't supposed to break down or overflow and neither is the fridge and these people will never design things based on that slight probability. And if you spill things, the trick is to get it quickly because the damage is usually a result of letting the water permeate and settle over time. For a lot of these people, it's always form over function when it comes to kitchen floors and certain other items TBH. Usually in 1st floor guest baths which are half-baths, the hardwood flooring of the entire first floor runs straight into them, so almost 100% of 1st flr guest 1/2 baths have HW flooring.

All it takes is Grandpa putting the green Palmolive gel in the dishwasher instead of the green Cascade gel. Suds start spewing out the sides of the door and onto the floor. If you are lucky you are at home at the time.

Wrong detergent!!

I have hardwood throughout my house except for the bathrooms which are tile (the half one on the first floor has the washer/dryer in it). Wish the kitchen was tile too.

 

[Gomig-21]

Grandpa needs to be kept away from the appliances lol. It does happen every once in a while for sure. Oak is the worst because not only does it cup from the moisture, it turns black within the grain which makes it very difficult to repair. Then it needs to be replaced.

Got a new project coming up where we're going to be using reclaimed Heart Pine flooring throughout the new house. Back in the day, heart pine was so available they couldn't get rid of it fast enough. They used it to make large, structural wooden beams that you can see every once in a while in old Boston building that have the floors exposed. When they tear those buildings down, they pull those beams out very carefully and recycle them since heart pine is now considered almost an exotic wood. The new growth heart pine is not like the old stuff that came from 300+ year-old trees and already had a deep, aged color to it. The new stuff is clearly new-growth and doesn't have that richness of the original heart pine. People mistake it for Douglass fir. I'm sure you've seen it around in many older homes, it's very common. A reddish/amber with yellow streaks every once in a while. Absolutely gorgeous.

This is reclaimed heart pine recently done. It's out of this world beautiful.

Even on the new stair treads.

You'll like this; this paint color for the raised panel fireplace mantle and surround is "Fenway Park Monster Wall" green. Homeowner is a huge Red Sox fan and this was the only section his wife allowed him to pick the color lol.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]