I like granite, but it’s too traditional for me. Also, I know that a lot of people don’t consider it an upgrade anymore because it has become so popular. I want to put equity into my home and I’m not sure that in 5 yrs when I want to sell it, that granite will be as profitable then as it is now. I did here that silestone was becoming a new alternative, but I was also thinking about stained concrete countertops or butcher block. My cabinets are white and a few have glass in the doors. This will be a DIY project so any tips would be appreciated. Also, what color do you think would work best with the cabinets (paint and countertops)?
I plan on doing a neutral back splash like this or something like this, preferably the long tiles that look like stone bricks: http://www.burkesfloorcovering.com/backs…
The floor will be a dark handscraped hardwood like this: http://img.diytrade.com/cdimg/698642/644…
or brick pavers for flooring like this:http://www.theportstonestore.com/images/…
I have also thought about doing a butcher block countertop like this, and I think it will look great with the hardwood floor:http://www.spekva.dk/graphics/interface/…
here is a pic of the kitchen we are remodeling, none of this is my personal style, this is from when the previous owners had it:http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2457/3876…
As you can see, it is small. We plan on putting in stainless steel appliances, and getting rid of the saloon doors. My personal style is more like Anthropologie or french country or shabby chic, i love vintage stuff.
I know this is a lot of information, but I would love any input!! Especially pictures
So I’m a 20 year old college guy. I used to live with 2 other roommates, until I forced them to move out because of how messy they were. Our kitchen and living room are connected and covered with some (crappy) thin carpet. I mean it’s about an inch thick, maybe. Anyways, there are stains all over the carpet. Some are from before we moved in, some are there by our own means. It was clean when we moved in, but it turned out that it was just “barely” clean. After a week, the carpet looked absolutely awful in the areas that had the most traffic. Anyways, I’m about to move out of town and so the landlord decides to lay some new carpet and tile in the kitchen. He asked me to pull up this old crummy carpet for him and he’d cut my rent the last month I was here, so of course I did. In doing so, I’ve discovered two different spots that I believe is essentially a colony of black mold. Both spots lay underneath one of the stains that was in the carpet.
My main inquiry here is this: does it make sense for black mold to grow under carpet, even in a location that has had plenty of foot traffic? The stain was, admittedly, never properly cleaned…ever. It may have been kind of wiped up, but when people are drunk (idiots) they tend to not do a thorough job at cleaning up their messes. The stain (on the carpet) is probably about…4 months old (both.) Maybe more.
Should I be concerned? I’ve sprayed both 409 and Glass cleaner w/ ammonia on it, because I freaked out. I don’t really feel like dying because my landlord and idiot roommates. What should I look for in black mold, even the symptoms black mold may cause?
Well, I grew up in this house. I ended up living here with my dad until he passed 2 years ago. It feels depressing here, but my husband and dog and so forth keep me feeling better. The inside is nice, but the bathroom and kitchen and porch needs some work. It has 14 rooms, including only one bathroom. It needs to be rewired for safety reasons and the outside needs a lot of work to look really nice. I live on a farm, back a lane and no one really sees it except for the farmers we lease the land to and a few friends and family. I just want something more, since I have a good job now and land to work with. I could rent it out and build a home. We have one rental house on our farm already–getting 300 a month for that one. This is a small, rural town and I could not rent this one for more than 450 most likely–although it is in much better condition. Should I save more money by not fixing it up so that I can later build a new one or should I fix this up? What do you suggest? 
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She says that the granite counter tops are stained now (the granite is a cream color). Is there a good product that will help remover the stain? Is it possible for that even stain granite?
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So my front kitchen line is where we used to have the dsl filter, but when we moved it to the bedroom to remodel, every time we pick up the phone it screetches at us. All we did was move the filter thing from the kitchen to the bedroom. I think the bedroom jack was a self install job by the previous owner. How do I fix this? It makes me crazy. Might as well just get dial up again.