There is an electrical outlet in the back on the wall where the stove would go, so that's good. Also, there is the regulator for the cooktop now, and you need that, so I like the idea of convection and the gas combination. I really like it.

http://www.homedepot.com/Appliances-Cooking-Ranges-Gas-Ranges-Double-Oven-Gas-Ranges/GE/h_d1/N-5yc1vZc3nlZloZ1z141mn/R-202970652/h_d2/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10053&langId=-1&storeId=10051&superSkuId=203023701

It just went off sale, and it's a convection oven with the warming drawer, but I would rather have the
convection oven have that switch. It's probably more money, but maybe there is a deal out there.

Feeny - What is manufacturer and model of the stove you have? Maybe I can look it up online.

We love kitchen makeovers! It's important to install high quality cabinets that are going to last but NOBODY wants to spend an arm and a leg on something like kitchen cabinets do they? For anyone considering new cabinets, Cabinets To Go is definitely worth checking out--we do bathroom vanities too :) http://www.cabinetstogo.com/

Here is a great tip... stop over buying at Costco! Start by empty the room completely and only put back in the cabinets the things that you need and actually fit... the rest call the local soup kitchen.. I'm sure they would love all the extra cans of food!

Hi tcalderon! Have you made any updates/changes yet? Would love to see the progress.

Hi there! The kitchen was put on hold for awhile, but I did get rid of some things in the kitchen. I even went through the cabinets once. I don't know what to do with all the tupperware I have. I probably should keep a few items, but haven't listed them for sale. Many are in excellent condition. Anything that doesn't look salable gets donated.

Other things have progressed such as starting to get rid of things, cleaning out the garage (still working on that), posting things for sale, hauling chemicals to the household hazardous waste recycle center, sold a car, bought a new used car, bought a new computer, working temp jobs, redoing taxes for the past prior 3 years, pulling out the old clothes from the closet which relates to vintage clothing if you get my drift, and more. I wanted to build a web site to sell the vintage clothing, but probably need help. My family really didn't give away too much over the years. Know anyone?

To help with everything I have to do I got a lawn service that has cut the grass several times so no one has to do it, and I can concentrate on getting things done in the house. It's a lot of work. What colors should I paint the bedrooms. Currently, one is gold, another purple, and the last one is an orangey color that goes real well with teak wood.

We went looking around at some homes in several communities and I got real motivated after that, and attacked that garage head-on. The idea is to sell this house and the other place and get something new. So, I at the last discussion about some of the work was to get it as low as possible since the house will probably be sold, and there are other things that need to be fixed in the house. I got a chimney guy out here and said the chimney was just fine, but there are other things needed to be redone in the house that will cost some money.

I have been keeping my eyes and ears open for anything that relates to redoing the kitchen. I have realized that you can probably sell anything online even old cabinets instead of just giving them away or donating them. I still have in my mind medium to dark wood cabinets to match the trim wood in the house. The countertop is up for grabs since any color will probably do. I still want the oak floor to match the rest of the floor on that level.

Two opinions from people that came to the house was to not build cabinets in the kitchen dinette area. One person was willing to do it and thought it was probably a good idea. I even saw another home in my development area that did just that but only say 12" deep cabinets. If I can find the photo I will try and post it. The house is selling in my area.

wow... going to sell now.. hmmmm...I would tile in the kitchen, not use the wood. A nice light neutral with dark cabinets will look very updated and of course paint those bedrooms all a fresh neutral too...Swiss Coffee by Behr I think it is... is a color that goes with just about everything. No need to add cabinetry in the kitchen table area if you are selling, someone else may just want to have a larger table there. I do suggest you make the kitchen as pretty as possible , stage it, as well as the rest of the house.

You've accomplished a lot in the last five months. Thank you for the update. I agree with Bygeorgi that Swiss Coffee is a great versatile paint color, excellent as a neutral for selling.

For your vintage clothing sale, it's easy to sell through eBay.

A common price for fairly new goods at yard sales is 10% of the purchase price. $20 Tupperware can be priced at $2.

Any new photos?

Don't take any clutter with you!

If your selling I wouldn't put in any new cabinets. Your not likely to know what the next owner will want.

Just clean everything out of the space. Rent a storage space if you need to but empty the house.. I can imagine this isn't the only area of the house with lack of space for your things. Don't let a potential buyer think there isn't any room or storage by your mess.

A fresh coat of paint would be the most I would do thru out the house ( your not a flipper don't get cutesy with trying to renovate to make an extra few bucks because you won't it will only cost you more than the lower selling price of not having a renovated kitchen)

Remove all window treatments thru out except for some basic blinds and all excess furniture and any accessory that personalizes your home. No wall of pictures of your wedding .. Baby photos etc. make it as neutral of a canvas for a potential buyer to envision their things in the house.

I had already donated my old monitors and TVs to Amvets one Sunday. That took 4 trips to the local drop-off Amvets truck. I still have a real old TV in a heavy wood console. The TV needs to be disassembled for anyone to move the cabinet. It would make a nice table if redone. Then, I got most of the printers together and those are going to go in a separate garage sale. I still have an old xerox machine and a few other items that need to be gotten rid of. I just found another VCR in the basement. I already sold 4 VCRs a combo TV/VCR to a local place that fixes those types of things. They didn't want the older TVs. I just started requesting estimates for selling items online and taking photos of all the items this past week. This takes a long time to do. There are many things one might have that are very re-saleable online even.

I also had already taken photos of all the vintage clothing I want to sell. That took awhile also since the clothes rack broke once when someone touched it, and then the second new one broke while just putting items on it to hang. They don't make the same thing the way they did years ago. So, now have a new rack that seems to be holding pretty good. Time will tell. I have all the photos just need to build a website and get online traffic to that site. This will take awhile.

This seems to be a long process. I took 6 half days to start cleaning out the garage. 3 half days for already organized areas; some of that is just old sports equipment that could be sold and some things kept for me to use. The other 3 half days were in the area that really needed a going through. Most half days were 6 hours or more. I spent hours going through old items such as old auto repair tools, all sorts of nails & screws, electrical things like an old trimmer, that you find in garages, some really unusable camping items like a cracked lantern but still cute, all sorts of car/ household/lawn chemicals even old cement, asphalt mix, and plaster. I sorted everything into metals, donations, garbage, and hazardous waste.

I also went through the laundry cabinets and created two boxes of hazardous chemicals. I had 7 or 8 boxes plus 4 heavy bags of hazardous waste from the garage. Also, gave them 3 containers of old windshield wiper fluid, old oil, old cans of sprays that I never want to use again (spraying will kill you), and made two trips to the recycle center. I made 4 trips to a Second Chance store with donations, and 5 trips to the dumpster. For three weeks I had a load of recycle stuff at the curb; one week with a whole bin of just old cut wood, and another week two bins with carpet, wood, old hose which they didn't take, old wood birdhouse, so many plant containers in the plastic bins with other plastic items, etc. My three recycle bins were overflowing. I still have many boxes of all the metal stuff in the garage, which has to be re-gone though again and sorted into aluminum, steel, copper, etc. Some things have to disassembled to get the metal out and the rest discarded.

In the mean time, I am trying to sell some things on Craigslist: toboggans, knee board that goes behind a boat, brand new freezer still in the box (never used), twin headboards, saxophone, 5 pc. drum set with 3 cymbals, and more. I still haven't had time to start pricing for a garage sale. One of my neighbors has already had a garage sale but I dared not go over there. I just want to get rid of things I don't need or use. All this was in the past 5 months also.

I still am cutting shrubs which I did a bit this morning and continue to do everything I need to do. I will be cutting shrubs very early for the next few days until they are trimmed. Oh, I meant to say Frank hired someone for cutting the lawn; not me.

When I did go through the kitchen cabinets I did put some old pots, dishes, water bottles in boxes to be gotten rid of/donated/sold and they are still there. A few things I did take out and donated some items already from those boxes.

I have to admit that I did stop at a second hand shop and bought a few bowls and plates for my cooking needs to replace some of what I got rid of. I even bought a refrigerator BPA free container for cold water and put aside the old one for now.

So, I have been progressing little by little. The trick is to not buy anything and keep at the goal of getting rid of things in one way or another. During the process it's good to keep an eye on what you like and don't, what you may do in the future so not to get rid of those needed things until you realize you don't need them any longer, and have time to wonder how you would like your life to be life going forward; things you would like different, things you would like to change, things you would like to do, and change of colors you want to surround you. It's a long and interesting process with a lot of work involved.

If you are selling, you must get everything out of that kitchen, clean it til you can't clean it anymore - then strategically stage it. Here's a quote from a real estate site: "Alphabetize your spices. Turn all coffee cup handles facing the same direction. Buyers will notice and think you are meticulous about the rest of the home, too." That's how detailed you must be & how far your first pix are from achieving that. Why have skillets in 4 sizes when one will do? Simplify, simplify, simplify!
https://www.houzz.com/magazine/stage-your-home-and-sell-it-fast-stsetivw-vs~498008

I still like the wood for the kitchen and dinette; oak to match the rest of that level. I am not really wanting the extra cabinets just for the reason of the cost involved. It was my first thought months ago just to some how do the cabinets myself without really looking into what was involved. The kitchen is already a neutral color and may just need to be repainted with some new type of paint or color. I am not real keen on having that section of cabinets jutting out if I get new ones in there. It adds more cabinet space but you get tired of walking around it all the time.

My neighbor gave me a 5 pc dinette set and it's all natural oak that really goes with the floors. It's only 2 years old and used a little. She always has it covered with a table cloth. What I have in there now is metal benches and two chairs since 1979 or 1980. Should I get rid of the metal and put in the wood or not? The wood is quite early American and the bench set is more contemporary and garden like feeling.

I have blinds in most of the house, but they are old. I have bright yellow blinds that go above the wood trim of the kitchen dinette windows at least 6-8 inches on both the windows and the patio doors. These are 1" metal blinds. What type of blinds should I put there, what size, color, and where should they be mounted?

Should all the blinds in the whole house be the same?

Yes ... Try to make the house feel as one flowing space.

They have nice 2" wide faux wood blinds in white at lowes and Home Depot that they will cut to size for you... Not expensive and they look substantial.
Keep it simple!

If you have photos of the oak floors and new dinette set, that would probably get some responses to your question.

1" metal blinds are not in fashion at the moment. Don't spend good money on new ones. Take them down when you start to paint.

A good time to put up simple panel curtains would be when you are finished painting, a couple weeks before the "for sale" sign goes up.

People have too much stuff,work on the premis if something comes in the house something must go out ,people dont need a myriad of pans ,less is more!

Oak floors in living room which I would like in the kitchen and dinette area. Table and 4 chairs from the neighbor.

Can anyone take a look at a discussion I posted? I need some input !

samjallaq...is your question about the new house your building?

Thanks for posting the photos. The new dinette set is attractive. The oak floors look very nice. I think it's time to sell or donate the older yellow dinette furniture.

The base board color is very pretty......it would be nice to see that shade of wood in your kitchen also. And the floors are so nice, great selling point I would for sure play those up.

I agree with apple_ pie ! I also want to congratulate you on all of the work you have been accomplishing during these last five months. You are doing fantastic.

When you're ready to put the house on the market, keep in mind that when you're showing the house (or taking the pictures), you must have everything pretty much packed up already. The house has to be completely free of any and all clutter, nothing on the counters, no photos on walls, only a couple pieces of furniture in a room. And of course, neutral paint on walls, nice and clean everywhere, yard maintained. Luckily, the housing market has really picked up across the country, so this is good timing.

How would I do the kitchen cabinets myself to a darker stain? Any suggestions on what to do like where to get them sanded or not, etc.?

That trim is the color I want for the kitchen cabinets and with the oak flooring. I know it looks nice! Thanks for your thoughts. I appreciate receiving them.

The problem with putting in a new window is that the less expensive ones are white, and my old windows were wood with the same color stain and looks good with the trim naturally.

I think I would put in the darker colored blinds and probably 2" also in most places in the house, but then I waiver and think maybe only in the kitchen dinette area. Is it necessary to have the same blinds everywhere? I only have 3 bedrooms upstairs and a den downstairs. You can see the shades in the living room in the photos.
You can tell I am indecisive many times. I need help and ideas.

Just clean the house, put it on the market, and move already... your way over thinking it.

TC, are you procrastinating? Have a living estate sale where someone comes in & does the work for a percentage. I don't want to be morbid, but my mother passed away and it was extremely stressful for my sisters & I to have to clean out her home. I have made a promise to myself that I will not do that to my sons! Now is the time to simplify your life & your home. Simplify.

That was happened to me. My mother passed and she lived with me, and it is more than stressful. She saved everything.

Tcalderon: how long have you lived in the house?

I have lived in this house since 1979. When I went through the garage I didn't think about anything when I was going through the items. I just sorted things in boxes and tried to go through everything as fast as possible. I found tricycle parts from my children's tricycle that I replaced when they were probably 3 or 4. I found a box of their drawings from that age also. I found crochet and knitting mags from my mother and one of her sisters. I found old phonograph records from the 60s and 70s which are mine. I found old tools that can be replaced by Craftsman. I tried not to think of anything. If it was a box of things that needed me to really look at it, then I set it aside for later, but am not lingering on everything in the box. I will keep some of the drawings of my kids but not all of them. I will let them see them and let them decide if they want to keep any after I choose the ones I want since I will put together a book for each of them. I have been a single parent since my youngest was 2 and was separated 1.5 years prior.

Trust me, you will feel so much lighter and liberated when you let go of all this "stuff." You (and I!) have memories. We were there. We lived it! We don't need the baggage of all this stuff dragging us down. Two of my sisters have lived through house fires where they lost practically every thing from their past. They were glad to survive & move on. Be brave! You can do it! Call someone to do a sale for you! At least you could check on it. Good luck to you!

Thank you for the information on how long you have lived there. It's a long time since 1979. As a single mother, there would not have been a lot of free time for yourself.

I like Pattiegoode's idea of calling someone who does estate sales. Then you will know how they work and what kind of time they'd need to prepare. You've done a huge amount in the last five months.

Are there things your boyfriend can do that would help you prepare the house for sale? Perhaps post things on ebay or drive back and forth to disposal and charity drop-offs? Make phone calls?

Right now Frank is going to be selling the printers and a few other machines I had in his garage sale or online.
He has to wait until his association gives him the word that the garage sale is an ok since they are checking to see if other people want to join in on the sale.

Would you believe it! My mother has new stainless steel carving sets from around 1978, and have never been used. I will be working on those later on to list them or get a price. I have also a cake plate that spins from when I was a baby. I know. I have to be sentimental with some things.

I have to set up a web site with all the vintage clothing and am going to start working on that this afternoon. This takes some thought and effort on my part. I finished cutting the shrubs this morning with only a few little things to do and that can probably wait even till the Fall. That took 9 hours over 3 mornings, and me sweating all the time. It's even warm at 6:30 or 7 am when I would start.

I broke my ankle in 3 places on Jan 31, 2012 and re-cooperated a long time. I haven't started walking that much or running like I used to but am considering to do more of that to give myself more energy. I did take a bike down from the rafters, took it to a bike shop for a tune-up, and now have it back. I want get back into riding for some exercise. This helps me get more motivated. When I saw a few communities that were nice to live in that was the big motivation that got me really moving into action. I was sort of putzin' along before that.

I'm wondering if Frank will hire someone to help me do this type of sale. Right now, I am posting on Craigslist. I'm guessing either the toboggons or the freezer will go first.

I have posted this before so some may have seen it but when we retired I really had to downsize. First is to really admit and sort out everything that you have not used in the past year. As for the kitchen. Bottom shelves are for stuff you use everyday, second shelf is once a week and third shelf, once a month. Everything else need to be determined by yearly or good intentions. You will be surprised by how much space you can create. Example: if you have dishes for entertaining but don't do it daily or weekly, move it up. I had a whole cabinet of baking pans and casserole dishes that seldom get used anymore, but was taking up space that my canned goods needed.
Tubs are for keepsakes that can be stored and looked at on sentimental days. You can use some of these for your displays in your new home. If you have kids (we had a six kid blended family) get them to take as much as possible in the category of "I really don't want to part with this but do not have room for" and go to their house and look at it. Give them their keepsakes while you are still alive:)

I still have all the house and garage clutter on my mind. Recently, I have sold a drawing table from the garage,
a large bunch of books at a half price bookstore, have 10 bids on vintage clothing on ebay, have some people interested to buy a saxophone, vintage bicycle, golf bag (hardshell), and some books. I also sold 6 pieces of vintage clothing to a vintage shop owner who gears her sales to young kids. I made one mistake with some books and ended up giving them away instead of holding on to them for sale on craigslist. Darn! I had just gotten rid of the books the day before. I should have stuck to my original plan and not changed it at the book store.

Other than that I have postings on ebay and craigslist and am trying to talk to some shop owners in the area. Still no garage sale yet and summer is coming to an end soon. I will probably continue to post on these sites and see what else I can sell per season. Next year may be a good time for a garage sale after I sell some more items. People tell me that the sites are better to sell things than a garage sale. I think probably so, if you have the patience to keep renewing the items on a weekly basis someone will find something sooner or later.
Even the bigger items are worth selling on the sites rather than a garage sale so I have been told. So that is the plan for now.

Have you looked into setting up a store on Etsy?

Ur kitchen looks like mine; )

Even the garbage bag on the door!

I will look into Etsy since I don't know what it is.
I still have the brown bags on the floor for recycle items; one for paper and the other for everything else like cans. I also have recycle bins in the front of the house behind some shrubs. I can't put the fresh recycle things out there except for paper since the raccoons tend to go through the bin if they smell something that might be food. I have found tuna cans on the driveway in the mornings, so I decided to dry cans out in the kitchen before putting them outside. Many times those items get put in the bin the night before garbage pick-up to avoid the raccoons getting cut on the cans or me having to retrieve them.

I have plastic bags on the drawers for a few reasons. One is to recycle the plastic bags at the Jewel/Osco. Another bag is to recycle batteries. Another one is for something else, and you get the idea. It's almost like you have a mini recycle thing going on like Best Buy when you walk into their front door.

I also did give away several items to my older daughter. She has more boxes to go through which is her stuff from school. That is for another day. I also saved some items for my younger daughter but will probably end up storing those things until she is ready for them. Those things didn't put much of a dent in all the things that need to be sold, but at least those pieces are gone from my dwelling.

If my kitchen looks like yours then we must be on parallel planes trying to get rid of things or at least thinking about it. It took some time to start to decide on what to get rid of first. Currently, I am working on papers to get more organized. Everyone has to do that every month or so. I seem to even procrastinate that and that is a bad habit. That has to be remedied.

I am reading this book by Deepak Chopra and it's about finding and reinventing one's soul. Well, I need that, so am studying it, and am only half way through it. First, you have to know what the soul is and if you can get in touch with it with practice. I would say these bad habits I have need to be addressed at the soul level. I'm working on it.

Use cupboards with more small doors don't use big doors it occupies space have organized racks for cans and stuffs use hydraulic upward going doors ..customize use 1-2 big giant draws and use the big rail for pulling out the drawslittle more out so u can use the inside space...Organize things and keep clean

Take out the soffit & take cabinets to ceiling. Use butt doors, add pull out shelves to cabinets for can goods, replace some cabinets with large drawers for more and easier to see storage.

@tcalderon: Starting a new thread would probably get helpful comments related to your current plans instead of the old dilemma from 7 months ago. I'm impressed that you have carried out so many of the things you decided to do: listing and selling vintage clothes, giving things to family members, donating to charity.

How funny you should mention raccoons and recycling. I gave up my compost heap in the yard because it attracted raccoons searching for kitchen vegetable scraps. Now we use only covered recycling bins and covered trash cans that the raccoons can't get into. Voila, no more raccoon problem.

If you're staying long term, place a pantry style cabinet floor to ceiling where the peninsula is, since your storage needs are paramount. All cabinetry should go to the ceiling. Extend similar 12,15 or 18" deep stock cabinetry along the wall where your shelving is, the largest size that will fit without disturbing the window. You've proven you can live without that floor space! Leave a section open in the middle for a countertop like Molly's pic above (closed shelving above, though). Have outlets installed so you can run small appliances there.
If you're going to move, the current floor plan is best if there is no other eating area in the home. New cabinets should extend to the ceiling to correct the storage problem. If you have a dining room, narrow hutch style cabinetry along the open wall would be a good improvement, but leave the peninsula for more counter space in the work area.

I noticed in one pic the small wicker dresser with metal shelving next to it. You could consider removing along with the wall shelves and add 2-3 very tall wire chrome heavy duty metal shelves like the one showing in your pic.....add some hanging utility metal baskets that attaches to a shelf and then add some decorative wood or metal baskets to put the canned goods into.

B. Buss, this dilemma is 6 years old.

Hahaha....Yeah, i noticed that AFTER I hit "submit" and thought my suggestion might be a bit to late :-)

Damn, I think you need a lot of new drawers for all of those frypans, pans and pots. How did you resolve that issue of yours?

We've faced a lot of disputes on such issues like what our new kitchen should be made from, I mean type of the wood. What do you usually use for the kitchen shelves and wracks? Talking about kitchens, I love to visit websites which are cookware-related, for example like this resource with plenty of kitchen and cooking sets, that can be helpful for any master of the house.

This is an 8 year old post. I'm sure the kitchen is finished.