Oh dear

[ksmith]

It started with $9 worth of wallpaper trim. Which has already been mentally replaced with a narrow chair rail, which should ideally match the baseboard, which still needs to be replaced...

I think washing the walls will suffice. Shouldn't need to repaint, she said, with a catch in her voice.

Some of the wallpaper in the kitchen needs a switch-out, though.

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[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Tell me--what are the Now colors for kitchen cabinets? And which woods/shades never go out of style.

I ask because my kitchen cabinets are green, kind of a deep piney/mossy. The heretics took all wood cabinets and stained them this way, and I decided that I would rather try to strip/restain then get new because all-wood costs the earth. My cabinets are Shaker-plain--no adornment whatsoever on the door, no trim--but the shelves are 3/4" real wood. No sagging with these babies.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Understand that I have been talking about restaining these cabinets for years now. I think timeless may serve better than trendy.

My two cents...

[retrobabble.livejournal.com]

Funnily enough, your cabinets *are* trendy right now. *g* It really is anything goes. If I had to say a trend, I would say an Arts and Crafts Shaker style, typically cherry (now I'm out in Northern California - it's oak in various other parts of the States.)

Medium to dark stains are trendy right now, but I would stay away from dark - obviously the young 20-something designers who are spec'ing this stuff never saw interiors from the 30's and 40's. *g*

Natural woods are always timeless, plus the finishes have come a long way from shellac.