Bed Stuy Reno: Completed Kitchen
The summer has been incredibly busy. The house is about 90 percent complete. Due to budget constraints the garden will have to wait until next year. But the good news is that the kitchen is finished! Last we left off, I had picked out a marble countertop. I’ve been living with the marble for almost a…
The summer has been incredibly busy. The house is about 90 percent complete. Due to budget constraints the garden will have to wait until next year. But the good news is that the kitchen is finished! Last we left off, I had picked out a marble countertop. I’ve been living with the marble for almost a month now and so far so good. Two dinner parties with lots of red wine and accidental lemon spills and the marble is still going strong.
The marble countertop was installed by the fabricator and the entire process took about an hour. At the end of the installation the team applied a professional grade sealant on the marble. Sealant is key to keeping marble mostly stain free. It has also helped that I picked a slab of marble with lots of imperfections. My slab was already flawed, what’s a few stains here and there? Plus it was much cheaper!
The cabinets are Ikea, which I’m less than thrilled with at the moment. I already need to replace one of the drawers due to poor alignment. The dishwasher and refrigerator are both Fisher Paykel and are floor models purchased on eBay at about 60 percent off retail. The stove is NXR and was purchased at Costco. The wood floating shelves were custom made.
Editor’s note: We’re impressed with how the kitchen turned out, especially considering this is a budget renovation financed with a 203K loan. Click through for lots more photos.
Hey! Great work! Any chance you’d be willing to share your source for wood flooring? We are also in the market for some nice wide plank R&Q white oak
I built the kitchen and the decided on the appliances based on the space. A 30inch stove would work in the space and not a 36inch stove. Having a larger stove would mean less cabinets and I didn’t want upper cabinets, so bottom cabinets space was premium. But feel free to email if you have other questions:
7andfive@gmail.com
The appliances are floor models (except the stove). I found an amazing deal on a used viking stove on craigslist but was too late to Westchester to pick it up. Someone beat me to it. Floor models are great because most still have the warranty in place but are about 30-50% cheaper. Best deals are on higher end models.
The blog Brownstone Cyclone found some great appliances on CL- here are their tips
http://brownstonecyclone.com/2013/09/02/craigslist-rss-65-off-high-end-kitchen-appliances/
That’s cool. Those are good tips.
Did you look at used sinks?
Did you decide on which appliances you wanted, or which sizes (like 30″ fridge) or did you design the kitchen around what you were able to buy?
Are there a lot of things that Ikea has on back order, or just that sink?
It seems to me that “pro” model stoves are built to stand up well to years of abuse so buying one shouldn’t be that big of a risk, right? If people have vintage working stoves from the 1940s, how are Viking stoves from the mid 1990s?
If you haven’t guessed, I’m about to get into this myself and trying to learn as much as possible…
Mmm. I think your bricks will fail with that sort of shelf load, particularly with anything heavier than Froot Loops sitting on them. If you were lagging into two wythes of brick, then maybe, but still prolly not. I’d call your iron guy, have a quick frame fabricated to sit within the furring of the wall with a welded support cantilevered out. Brick is no good in tension, and will eventually spall away with the torque of the shelf. Spilled Froot Loops everywhere
Here’s the link the sink
http://www.vintagetub.com/asp/product_detail.asp?item_no=F3KITWHSP&utm_id=IDAXX&gclid=CJW2xfWq-sACFUMF7AodYxAAGA
Did you consider used appliances or fixtures or were you concerned about lack of warranties?
The sink is not from Ikea. I had the same problem with the backorder on the Ikea sink. I found another 30inch sink online- can’t remember from where but it was about $100 more than Ikea sink. Not too bad considering I didn’t have to wait months to get it.
I think that photos was mistake and from another post.