Kitchen Remodel - Range Hood/Cabinets?

5 years ago

Hello!

We recently bought a house and are starting to remodel the kitchen a little bit. So far, all we have done is paint the backsplash and brick (both were previously a pink/beige). Now, we are trying to figure out what to do with the cabinets, countertop, and range hood. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

1: Cabinets. We will either sand and re-stain these, or paint them. Thoughts on this, especially with the white brick?

2. Range hood. This one really needs to go! We don't use the cabinets above them at all (too tall for us), so we were thinking of removing those to give more open space, but we aren't really sure how to go about this. Also considering an over-the-range microwave. We have a microwave elsewhere, but could easily buy a different one to place here if that seemed reasonable.

Thank you for all your help!

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mama goose_gw zn6OH
5 years ago
We had the same cabinets in a bathroom, but with a factory-painted finish. I kept one to use in knee-wall storage in a bedroom. :)

Your whole layout needs work. I'd suggest leaving everything alone until you can replace cabinets and correct the layout. In the meantime, stick around here and do some research:

NKBA guidelines

New to Kitchens? Read me first.
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opaone
5 years ago
If your and your families health are at all important to you then stay away from the OTR MW - Get a proper hood.

Let's start w/ this... How long have you been in this house? How long do you plan to be in it? What do you like/dislike most about your current kitchen - what do you most want to change and what do you want to keep the same?

How do you want to use your kitchen? What kinds of cooking and baking do you do? What do you want to do in the future? How often? For how many people? Do you entertain? How often? For how many people? How important is indoor air quality and your families health? Is functional or pretty/wow more important?

Painting those cabinets will be quite a chore. I agree w/ @mama goose_gw zn6OH that you should think through your options first. Refinishing may be a good option but what you don't want to do is spend the time and money refinishing and then wish you had that money to apply to knew cabinets that work much better for you.
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User
5 years ago
Gut and redo with a better layout.
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Carly
Original Author
5 years ago
Wow -- @mama goose_gw zn6OH thank you so much for those links! I had no idea there was such a science to kitchen layouts. This is actually super useful.

@opaone I will have to look more into the safety of the different hoods. Yeah - I think all three of these comments combined have shown that maybe I was just trying to "bandaid" the looks of it all by refinishing cabinets/getting a new hood as opposed to just waiting until we can do a full remodel.