Got it! Hoping to hang it in kitchen, to remind feral visitors to shut the cupboard doors!

Woohoo!!! Fissfiss shoots, she scores!!!!!!!!!
That's a great sign, hope you'll post a pic here for us to see once you get it and hang it up :)

Heehee fissfiss... cool!!! We definitely need photos when it's in place!

yay! Congrats Fiss!!! Love to see a photo in situ?


Got a dilemma, desp need advice on tiling v panelling around sink/window area.

DH wants to tile with leftover grey tiles, but am not sure, we have kashmir splashback ........

I don't want to go too grey everywhere, but we do have rough plaster above splashback all around the kitchen. Should we tile above splashback, or take splashbacks off and tile all of it, gulp?

Help!

forgot to say, we are painting the new window sill white, and prob have café shutters in window, and white painted panelling inside frame, and up wall above plug socket on left by panelled door/frame,

I wouldn't have a splashback and would repair the plasterwork.

do you mean you wouldn't have tile, or wouldn't have Kashmir splashback?

I'd leave the Kashmir in place and repair the plaster above it. I wouldn't tile.

Agree with Victoria. Leave the Kashmir splashback in place and repair the plasterwork would be my pref. choice too.

I wouldn't tile it if you're going to do the expansion at some point, I agree with victoria, just fix plaster. If you want to tile the area above kashmir on the long wall with cabinets above, that would be okay, you could always redo the edge and continue it into new expansion if you buy a bit of extra tile now.

It's a very clean look at the moment...I would leave it as is.

Thank you star ladies, I see the sense in all of that, phew, tiles are going to come off, clean and repair :))))

Hi,your granite looks much the same as the one I put in my kitchen...I thought of doing tiles but nothing really worked with it,I'm kinda glad now because it looks much better on its own now that my kitchen is finished...good luck with your project,i think you have a lovely home.

Thank you jacksplash, really kind of you to say so, and really helpful about the granite v tile etc. Now we have eliminated the tile its looking much cleaner and smarter, so I really see what you mean. Another weird thing was that the tiles looked a different colour outside the chimney, the Kashmir granite has a real personality of its own eh?
Do you mind me asking what colours worked with yours?

Your welcome jessegee.Yes you are correct about the granite having a real personality of its own. Do you mean what wall colour worked with it,or what colour objects I put on the counter top?

I meant wall colour, but objects are interesting too!

My walls are painted in a colour called serpintine,it's from the little green company.
My kitchen cabinets are a bleached oak though,and yours are white so I'm not sure if this will work for you.As to what I put on the counters,the granite didn't take to a lot of colour IMO.heres a photo of whats on mine, i have also included a photo of a piece I put on the wall above it.

That's lovely, I've noticed it likes green colours, I worried green would bring out an algae type look, as if it had been in a damp garden for years, but it doesn't at all, yours looks very clean, fresh, smart and natural. I notice you have a black hob too, it sits perfectly.
Your lighting looks v good, we've had a job to find decent lighting, its either too big or stringy.
I've been struggling to make my kashmir accept blue, and it does it parts where the natural texture is pale with more white or grey. Its dark in our kitchen, When I bought it, it was flat on a farmyard concrete ground, on a sunny day with a blue sky, perhaps I should've viewed it on grass on a cloudy day!

I notice it also likes burgundy/lilac/maroon, perhaps due to the natural speckles, that was not a colour scheme I was going for either!

At what point do you give up a " colour scheme" you like, in favour of what suits the key elements? Its like having a hairdo opposite to your natural style.
You have managed it beautifully, thank you for the photos etc, its given me renewed faith that I didn't make a mistake buying it. :))

I don't want to stress DH by discussing a change of colour scheme, we have more work to finish first.

Just to keep my spirits up, I couldn't help rescuing this old chair, DH has wanted a pub chair for ages, I've half sanded it, needs repairs, and waxing. ( Trying to butter him up, Moi?)

I lost part of my comment to you jacksplash, I like how the Kashmir glows against wood and wood colours, it likes those very much, I noticed this with my chopping board. ( but I'm not sanding our cupboards back to wood for love nor money, lol!)

I think you both have beautiful kitchens, from what I can see of yours jacksplash. Love the wall colour you have.
The chair looks like it's happy to be in your capable hands Jesse :-)

ah thanks Caro, it weighs a ton, I had quite a job to get it on the car roof.
It seems worth saving. Someone had done a botch job trying to wood glue two big cracks together, and nailed a piece of wood to the underside without trimming it off, then gave up and left it outside ( not for very long luckily)
I can only improve it :))

I think the granite looks great with your kitchen.My island is white and it goes really well with also. I'm eager to see what you do with your chair,you are both so gifted.
Good luck with all.

Jesse, an auto body type filler will work better at joining/filling cracks in wood. Usually a two part epoxy type thing, with fiberglass in it. As opposed to a regular caulk which will just split and show a crack on either side of the caulk. We have something here called Bondo. Think there's different things there like Isopon or P38 or something like that. Maybe google something like that to find out what's available and how to use it in wood crack repair. It does smell atrocious, so do it outside :)

I'm assuming you're going to paint the chair to cover repairs, probably won't work with wood stain unless you use a gel stain.

That's a great idea mefor, dh will know about that kind of stuff, and I'll look it up, thanks x
I had thought of sanding it, and leaving it wood, or part painted.
DH says the back rail is uncomfortable, right over kidneys when sitting, so there is scope change.
Adequate padding might be too bulky , carving a slight scoop or adding a small plate shape rest..........I'll get it sanded first then see what it looks like :)))

Its sanded roughly, and exposed where the problems are, DH thinks we can put a metal plate under the back rail where its broken, it has one already.
For now I have thrown a rug over it, and I'll have another look next weekend:))

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apologies, internet poor, and photos not loading !

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Lovely throw. Does a good job :-)

.we did some more panelling at the weekend, got rid of tiles by kitchen window, made good the wall, and panelled the window frame inside.
Panelled the mantle, but still have to finish the side bits, and side detail you suggested Caro, dh has jig saw now.

Needs a few more coats of paint!

Looking good, the panels are lovely, really finishes things nicely. Are you completely safe from leaks now?

Looking good!!!

Loving my mantel panels :-))

Instead of giving up drinking for January (we don't drink) we gave up the Internet (ouchie-ouchie-ouchie!) so this is the first chance I've had to catch up with your kitchen, Jesse. It looks great, I love the panels, and the tile over the cooker, and the view from your kitchen sink:)

Jess, how is your kitchen tap performing. Have it tagged on ebay. Kitchen looks great.

Finally nagged Beloved and got the sign put up. Supposed to remind people to shut the cupboard doors!

Looks good there, that was a great purchase :)

Ooh, I like the curtains! Very nice, Jesse.

Hooray for the sign having found the perfect place :-)

we bought these beautiful colourful hexagon porcelain tiles for out kitchen walls and floors and everyone is really impressed with them. here is a photo from their site

Here here. They've all been removed now...........idiots.

MATHS they’re were dozens of the posts. I reported numerous as Spam but there were just too many to report so emailed the powers that be. As you rightly say, idiots.

They're at it again, annoyingly.

I’ve reported as spam

I wish Houzz would give administrator privileges to some of us regulars so that we could get rid of them quickly

Good idea, never happen.

We have the ‘power’ to flag these spams. That seems to work pretty well.

Not sure if that’s possible in the Houzz app though. I normally use the web version.

Only works on website, not in app