Vancouver, you’re scaring me. I thought my original, ugly kitchen cupboards were bad enough. Then Meg reveals her Vancouver apartment’s kitchen – and it’s the exact same thing. Those cupboard doors, with those hinges & handles: I was skimming through some old photos the other day, when I found this little treasure: It’s the first [...]
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Part 2 of Meg’s ugly house tour (read part 1). Today’s includes what’s probably the most disgusting house story I’ve ever heard. Even worse than Jessica’s kitchen cockroaches. Meet My Ugly… KITCHEN! Functional? Practical? Beautiful? Choose one, or go cry in a corner because you got none of these, ever? Sounds about right! This kitchen [...]
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Biggest benefit of having a blog where you admit, daily, you don’t know what you’re doing? Lovely people spoon-feed you good ideas and stellar research. You guys have seen Jessica‘s helpful tips in comments, but behind the scenes are plenty of emails with even more advice – by an easy estimate she’s saved us $200+ [...]
Lots of countertop options out there in the universe, but for me it was never a choice. I’ve always loved the look of butcher block and, besides a fleeting love affair with Paperstone, we never considered anything else. Still, at the time, I really wondered if we were making a mistake – isn’t butcher block [...]
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Mr. Chin wasn’t impressed. Our kitchen walls needed some interest. “They are dead and boring,” he told us – losing something in the translation. Open shelves had been the original plan when we ripped off the upper cabinets and sent them downstairs, and then that got stalled. Never came to a decision about style or [...]
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I’ve never given numbers before – because what’s the point? Maybe I had to buy 3 new paint brushes and you didn’t. Maybe my stupid Canadian Home Depot charges more than your American one. Maybe you already have brass nipples. Renovation choices are completely subjective – splurging for this or that where it suits our [...]
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Just because it’s shiny doesn’t mean it’s new. Saving money we don’t have is a decent game and winning meant the moved kitchen cabinets were only getting new handles for Christmas. We’d tart them up with some white paint and… the hinges? Ah. The hinges. We’d eagerly bought shiny new hinges before fully studying the [...]
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To keep the universe balanced, if yesterday was very pretty – today must be very ugly. Steel your stomach, it’s Silverfish Tuesday. Update – Ugly Baby Battle: Silverfish vs Sanity. Last year – I came to know and loathe silverfish. It was a hot topic – these guys will survive the Rapture and worse. I [...]
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Last year, we gingerly exhumed the world’s most disgusting drawers and scrubbed them back to life. It was grotty. Easily amongst the top 3 least attractive tasks of this entire project. Ever been frightened by a drawer? Meet My Ugly, filthy, foul & rancid kitchen drawer – does the literature suggest the last time it [...]
How much can I bake and butter in worship of Nigella Lawson? When I got hold of her latest cookbook – Kitchen – I planned to read it cover-to-cover. Pure salve. Long before any recipes, though, is Nigella’s take on kitchen design. What works best for Britain’s most prolific home cook? No huge surprise that [...]
