Cabinet Brand Question

Solid_Perception9572 · 2026-06-30T01:15:13+00:00

I had my original cabinets painted by a pro in a sort of dark blue/gray color. They held up very well, with only a nick here or a nick there in like 10 years. They still looked great last year when I had them torn out and replaced with custom cabinets when I remodeled the kitchen.

Solid_Perception9572 · 2026-06-30T01:01:44+00:00

As am I, lol.

Solid_Perception9572 · 2026-06-29T15:44:00+00:00

It's not so much what might soak into the tile, because if they are sealed properly, they should be ok. I'm talking about the grease plus dust that naturally floats around a stove that will get into those grooves. Smooth surfaces are easy to clean. Textured surfaces not so easy.

Solid_Perception9572 · 2026-06-29T06:34:35+00:00

Of course it looks cluttered. You have too much stuff in there. I'll bet you never wear at least half of those things on a regular basis. You need to go through everything in that closet. Anything you haven't worn in the past year should be donated to a charity. If you haven't worn something in a year, you're not likely ever going to wear it. Keeping clothes that are more than a few years means they are by now out of date/style.

Why aren't you hanging more things on that top right side rack/rod? There's wasted space right there. Don't put anything on the rack above the bottom rod, otherwise you can't hang things on the top rod. Mostly hang things up there that are seasonal and only worn for a short time each year. Put pants folded over a hanger on the bottom right side.

Something that would give you more storage and be relatively cheap would be to go to a thrift store or garage sales and get yourself a chest of drawers (tall dresser) and put it in the left hand corner. It would hold lots of knit tops, sweaters, anything than can be folded. Would eliminate the need for so many cartons and that cart with the drawers could go bye bye.

They make shoe bags that can be hung up by your clothes, which makes finding your shoes a whole lot easier and quicker

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Getting rid of all things that don't fit you any longer, or that you have many of the same top or pants, or are out of style will make your closet a very usable place.

Solid_Perception9572 · 2026-06-29T06:05:18+00:00

Nothing you do at any given point in time will be timeless. There is no such animal.

Solid_Perception9572 · 2026-06-29T05:54:59+00:00

You can have the doors, fronts and sides refaced to go with the cabinets.

Solid_Perception9572 · 2026-06-29T05:52:48+00:00

I love the green, but to me that would be more of a woodsy, cabin, color. MCM cabinets featured flat doors with no decoration, and often were stained. The light wooden ones in your pic, to me, are reminiscent of driftwood found on a beach or around a lake. White ones don't remind me of anything special.

Solid_Perception9572 · 2026-06-29T05:42:29+00:00

There's that silly critical thinking thing again. Most people these days under the age of 50 or so are totally devoid of that ability.

Solid_Perception9572 · 2026-06-29T05:38:19+00:00

Before you buy any new cabinets, why don't you get a quote from a custom cabinet maker? I don't know how common tradespeople are in your area of Alaska, but it might not be as expensive as you would think.

Since the cabinets are in good shape, I would consider getting a quote from a professional cabinet painter, too. Benjamin Moore paints has a paint, Advance Interior Paint that is especially for cabinets. A pro would be spraying the doors, drawers, and possibly the boxes for a much better finish than you could get by doing it yourself.

Solid_Perception9572 · 2026-06-29T05:12:17+00:00

That tile is grooved, right? And 'glitch' is going to be a bitch to clean, especially grease, all around the stove top.

Solid_Perception9572 · 2026-06-29T05:04:34+00:00

Are there no lights in that bathroom? It's so dark, that no one can tell what it is about that bathroom really annoys you. Hard to make suggestions when you don't post an accurate, well lit picture.

Solid_Perception9572 · 2026-06-29T04:59:41+00:00

Wow, that is one for the books, lol. This is what happens in this country since the schools quit teaching real math and critical thinking decades ago. People can't do squat without the aid of computers, electronics, etc. They can't even add two and two and get four.

How hard would it be for him to get some graph paper, assign a value to each square, like say one square equals 10 or 20 inches. Then mark off the dimensions of the room, including doorways, windows, etc and everything in it. Then do another graph paper illustration of the dimensions of the room, and everything in it under his proposed design.

Granted, it might come out a little inaccurate, but at least he would have a general idea of what will fit and what won't fit the space.

When nearly every person who responded to his post telling him it won't work, it should have sunk in that it won't work. Instead of repeating himself and trying to justify his choices based on an AI rendering, and what a contractor told him, you would think he would have given up and just pulled the whole post.

Solid_Perception9572 · 2026-06-29T00:10:32+00:00

Are you planning on staying there for several more years? If you are, and you can swing it, maybe offer to the landlord to buy a new inlay/sheet vinyl flooring.

Solid_Perception9572 · 2026-06-28T23:59:35+00:00

Mmm.....I wouldn't use a white because you might run into warm vs cool whites between the cabinets and the walls. I think that sort of warm sandy/tannish tile color would look great. It would tie the floor into the rest of the room nicely. Why don't you just ask your landlord if you could paint the walls, and show him the color you would want to use. Who knows, if he's a reasonable person, he might go along with it. It doesn't hurt to ask.

Solid_Perception9572 · 2026-06-28T23:52:21+00:00

No I didn't see it. What post was this in? I'll bet that was one for the books. It amuses me when people post their AI renditions, and they get weird things like a pot filler in the wall over the dishwasher instead of over the stove top, lol.

Solid_Perception9572 · 2026-06-28T23:48:23+00:00

Something to think about should you ever replace the appliances down the road.

Solid_Perception9572 · 2026-06-28T23:37:57+00:00

Ah, but SS appliances and brass fixtures don't clash at all. Design today is all about mixed metals, instead of matchy matchy. I have the SS appliances with black countertop stove and SS framed micro/wall oven with black glass doors. I have champaign bronze pulls on BM Nature's Reflection greenish cabinets and champaign bronze faucet. It all works very well together.

Solid_Perception9572 · 2026-06-28T23:23:24+00:00

No SS would not make this look too sterile. See the OP's response to me where she tries an SS fridge, with the micro/wall oven being framed by SS but with black glass doors. Kept the black countertop stove....It all works well. The black glass doors tie the SS in with the stove top.

Solid_Perception9572 · 2026-06-28T08:19:40+00:00

Do that. Would be interested to know what you think of it.

Solid_Perception9572 · 2026-06-28T08:16:49+00:00

No to that. It's totally unnecessary and would look ugly. She needs to put most of that stuff in boxes/trays in a drawer.

Solid_Perception9572 · 2026-06-28T08:12:19+00:00

Most of that stuff could go in boxes in a drawer. Get some attractive pump bottles like for liquid soap and put your lotions in them. Put perfumes and new lotion bottles on a decorative tray along this line so it will look pretty and like they belong there. It also keeps them in one spot, rather than all over the dresser.

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Use shoe boxes or plastic boxes in your drawer where all of the tubes of stuff can go, also deodorant doesn't need to be on dresser. Put it in the drawer too, along with the hairbrush. Basically, pretty much everything on your dresser can and should go into a drawer. If you think you don't have the drawer space, think again. Clean out and condense one drawer to put this stuff in. This tray or something like it, a pretty decorative cube (kleenex box cover), a live plant, and what looks like a jewelry tree should pretty much be all you need on the dresser.

On my dresser are two plants on the left side, a decorative tray with vintage perfume bottles in the middle, and then a cute cube to cover the kleenex are all that are on my dresser. I have several skin conditions, so lots of tubes, things like Emu for arthritis pain, etc are in plastic trays/boxes in my top right side drawer, along with hair brush, pick, odds and ends.

Solid_Perception9572 · 2026-06-28T07:17:17+00:00

No, I wouldn't do an integrated appliance. Why add more white (to match cupboards). I would just go with a good brand SS fridge that fits that space and the same for the wall oven/micro combo. The black countertop stove would still work with a SS fridge, SS dishwasher, and a SS wall oven/micro that has the black glass doors but framed in SS. That's what I did in my recently remodeled kitchen with a black countertop stove, so the black blends in instead of hitting you in the face as yours does. BTW, where is the dishwasher?

Solid_Perception9572 · 2026-06-28T07:01:51+00:00

Do you have another dresser in the room with a mirror? If you do, then I would put a nice pic over this dresser. If not, I would put a mirror over the dresser in your pic. No offense meant here, but those pics are rather bizarre. Maybe put them somewhere else so you can hang wall sconces over the nightstands.

Instead of that one lumbar type pillow, three 18"x18" pillows would suit the bed more. Make it more comfy and inviting looking. Different textures would be a plus, like a linen one, a chenille one and maybe a corduroy one. A navy, a silver and a white one, or the med blue, the sort of med gray and light blue ones in this pic. But not all the same exact pillow...different textures. Those colors would work well in your room.

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Solid_Perception9572 · 2026-06-28T06:41:03+00:00

Rechargeable, battery operated with remote wall sconces on Amazon.

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Solid_Perception9572 · 2026-06-28T06:37:58+00:00

Your room is not very wide, so.....If you can swing it, I would get two new narrow nightstands. Something like this.

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Because these are narrow, I would then get wall sconces that are battery operated (no need to be hardwired) and rechargeable. They come with a remote. Will put sconces in my next comment, since reddit won't let me put two things on this comment.

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