{"id":70,"date":"2007-09-17T22:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homegardencompanion.com\/house\/?p=70"},"modified":"2015-03-14T06:33:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T06:33:25","slug":"new-kitchen-cabinets-countertop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homegardencompanion.com\/house\/new-kitchen-cabinets-countertop\/","title":{"rendered":"New Kitchen &#8211; cabinets, countertop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"styleDocument: [object]\">Now that all the major, structural stuff was complete:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"styleDocument: [object]\">\n<li>New floor down to and including the joists<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>New ceiling including new rafters<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>New interior walls and exterior siding including studs, etc.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>All new plumbing &amp; electrical<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"styleDocument: [object]\">We were now ready for the cabinet maker to deliver and install the new cabinets. This is the one part of the job that I did not do. We had <span>Yoder<\/span> Cabinet Company make custom built solid wood (Hickory) cabinets. Our kitchen is roughly 9&#8217;x20&#8242; and we designed it so that we would have a &#8220;J&#8221; shaped kitchen where we had 20&#8242; of cabinets along the long wall, 9&#8242; along the short wall, and the  6&#8242; peninsula. The peninsula separated the dining room from the kitchen and provided barstool seating for 3-4 people. I also installed the new sink and new dishwasher and hooked up the plumbing.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"styleDocument: [object]\">For the countertop we chose laminate, which the cabinet maker also installed. Although it has held up just fine and there are no problems with it, I wish I had spent the extra $1k and gone with Corian. For the backsplash, I installed decorative ceramic tile which looks great. I also installed beautiful tile on the wall behind the stovetop and on the peninsula\/counter. My wife chose all the tiles (floor, wall, countertop, etc, and they look great!). (Remember: I am just the handyman). Thankfully, she did the wall painting which required special effects (which are beyond my ability!). I did the priming, but the painting required an artist (my wife)to deal with the 3 stage finish painting\/glazing, etc. I don&#8217;t know what it is called: but it looks fantastic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that all the major, structural stuff was complete: New floor down to and including the joists New ceiling including new rafters New interior walls and exterior siding including studs, etc. All new plumbing &amp; electrical We were now ready for the cabinet maker to deliver and install the new cabinets. This is the one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kitchen","category-remodeling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":73,"url":"https:\/\/www.homegardencompanion.com\/house\/kitchen-ceramic-floor-tiling\/","url_meta":{"origin":70,"position":0},"title":"Kitchen Ceramic Floor Tiling","author":"Ilona","date":"September 13, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"SubFloor (Structural): In preparation for laying the new 12x12 glazed porcelain floor tiles (1\/4\" thick), I utilized the existing 24\" on center 2x8 joists. 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