Goomba38 > wrote:

>I dream of redoing my kitchen. I just have to be careful of how much I
>put into it because we're already at the higher end of our neighborhood
>as far as improvements go. I sometimes watch or read the home
>improvement shows/magazines and think the "before" pictures are
>sometimes better looking than I have now and those people are changing
>it yet again!??! Then again I see some photographs of folks kitchens
>when they post food pics and I think "oh I sooooo do not have it that
>bad!" so it all is relative, eh?
>
>My cabinets are so well made (built on site, incredibly sturdy solid
>wood construction) but so dated looking and with some wasted space. I
>wish I could keep the boxes, improve on the wasted corners a bit and
>reface them. My counters are a dreadful formica "butcher block" that I
>want to replace but until I decide what to do about the cabinets I
>can't. I feel a bit paralyzed by indecision. <sigh>

There is some wasted space in our kitchen as well -- the water
heater is in one corner, and behind it is some dead space
including the original (smaller) water heater cabinet.
A remodel would move the water heater out, add about six feet of
L-shaped counter/cabinets, replacing a yellow formica table
that now sits near the corner.

I would want to match the existing 20's-era tile counters, if
that is at all possible, but I've never checked into the
feasibility of this. I suspect it's difficult.

Steve