Anyways, here is probably the only place I hang out on the internet that have older more mature people who aren't complete and utter slobs who don't care about the condition of their house. Seeing as we have a "Game Rooms" section and other stuff, I assume several people here enjoy setting up their home for their comfort. Now I've got my game area set up, my bedroom all beautified, and all that wonderful stuff... shit I even have an "Antique room". There is one room left for me to figure out what to do with, and that is my Kitchen!
I bought my house off my sister, and despite whatever she says about her "fashion and style sense", she picks awful colours and tacky furniture. The kitchen is the best example of this with this gross pin stripe dark wallpaper, orange trim, wood tone counters and white appliances... I mean, gag and all that! This coupled with the poor design of Florida homes, I'm stuck with a tiny, ugly kitchen that just feels closed in and dark.
I've replaced the windows with big old double pain windows that aren't tinted (in the 80's everyone for some reason tinted their windows... probably because they thought it kept the house cooler). I've brightened up the room, but it still feels small, especially the foyer that is right outside of the kitchen. I don't know what to do with it.
worst is that the foyer area is very dark. The new front door I'm getting has a window on it, but this still keeps that little hallway very dark and cramped.
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Here's the kitchen lay out. the coloured areas are different places of interest. Thed red bar is the front door, the white thingy with circles the stove, the other whitish thing is the sink and the grey box is the fridge. The blue bars are the windows. The kitchen itself (the room on the left) is only about 12x10 with those corner parts cut out. Those zig zags are just doors that go into a bedroom, bathroom and closet/pantry. The other zig zag in the kitchen goes to the garage which I converted into a art studio with carpeting and stuff.
I'm thinking removing that wall there I'm pointing at with a purple arrow, but can't decide how... the house has mexican tile and removing the wall would leave a big open spot of no tile. Laying in new tile would require ripping up a LARGE section of tile which I don't really have the patience for right now (would require tiling the entire foyer and kitchen so the tile would match, and mexican tile is a bitch to set).
Another idea was to cut the wall down to about 4 feet and put in a bar there, negating the need for a kitchen table in the already small kitchen (no dining room in my house, South Florida loves to negate dining rooms from their houses). Downside to this is that the space between the window and the door is under a foot, when butt up against it... leaving me with the option of only a kidney shaped bar... gross. The window is only 3 feet off the ground, so staying below it would just look like a midget table.
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my QUESTIONS:
What would you do?
Are there people to ask about this? And don't say the guy at Home Depot, most of them can't tie there shoes, let alone help me. I walk in there sometimes and they look at me like I'm a punk that doesn't belong in the Contractor's section... then I ask where the Tyvek or tin-Z-stripping is and they can't even help me.
