Comments on: Kitchen Q & As

By: CentsationalGirl

CentsationalGirl — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:54:50 +0000

Hey Shanda, great question! The two closest color matches for my cabinetry are “Floral White” by Benjamin Moore and “Ivory Dust” by Valspar – hope this helps!

Kate

By: Shanda

Shanda — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:19:56 +0000

Hi Kate! Thank you so much for the inspiration. I have learned so much from your blog. I’ve decided to paint my kitchen cabinets and I’d like to use your kitchen island makeover tutorial with your Toasted Almond color of cabinets. I headed over to the Kemper dealer in my area to get a sample of the Toasted Almond color to have matched. They won’t give me a sample unless I buy their cabinets, which I understand. Between the unnatural light and being THAT crazy lady with 20 paint samples in the store, I’d rather not try to match it myself. Could you please tell me what color matches your cabinets the closest?

By: Handy Man, Crafty Woman

Handy Man, Crafty Woman — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 03:21:03 +0000

I cannot WAIT to get wood counters; we had them in our last house and I want them again. Too bad there are other things that need to be paid for first!

When people mention the drawbacks of wood counters and say that you can’t put hot pots on them, I’m kind of baffled…I never need to put hot pots on the counter…so it’s not an issue for me. Maybe I’m just weird, LOL?!

By: Jude Smith

Jude Smith — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:19:32 +0000

I live in a log cabin. My kitchen cabinets are soft pine, a lovely aged honey color. I am thinking of painting them …white? I have little to no taste as far as decorating goes. Can I paint the cabinets and still keep the wondow trim pine, or do I have to paint all the woodwork in the kitchen?

By: Jody

Jody — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:32:12 +0000

Love your kitchen! What color of paint did you use on your island? Thanks a bunch!

By: Mary

Mary — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 23:19:13 +0000

Hi Kate,
I’m getting up the nerve to paint my kitchen cabinets. I understand you bought your cabinets already painted – in a Toasted Almond color. Does that color match a Benjamin Moore color? Does your island in Camoflauge match it? Thank you so much, love the blog – very inspiring!

By: Kay Lee

Kay Lee — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:38:19 +0000

Hi Kate! Love your website – I hope you can answer my quick question: what brand of sealer did you use for your marble countertop? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

By: Sofia Censoprano

Sofia Censoprano — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:12:21 +0000

I have absolutely fallen in love with your site and am doing my best to remember every tip you’ve mentioned!

I’m a graphic designer and can share some helpful tips for uploading your video tutorials (can you tell I’m really hoping that you do so!) I work off a Mac so these instructions will be specifically for that:

Most current video cameras have a usb plug that can synch directly to your computer. There may be a setting for you to choose from on your computer and video camera to allow your computer to read the video from the camera.

If you’ve got the latest Macbook pro or desktop, you should have software already installed on it such as iMovie, iDVD and iPhoto. These programs are super easy to use.

There are plenty of tutorials online in how to save and upload videos to a website/blog. You can either choose to save the video you created on your desktop or, upload it to youtube (grab a youtube converter – you can google for one) and in your blog code, add it there.

It may take some practice but it’s super easy…that’s if you’ve got a Mac.
If you don’t, then this comment is simply useless. But I do hope you figure out how to add video tutorials. And don’t worry if you don’t like your voice, you can always remove the audio from the original video and then re-record your voice going over the steps to match the pace of your footage.

Cheers!
Sofia

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 26 May 2010 17:35:27 +0000

I love your kitchen cabinets. Can I ask, what made you paint/repaint the island? Was it origionally the same color as the rest of your cabinets?

Also, as Talysa the another commenter asked, can you tell us the color that you painted the island? Does it match your existing cabinets? And finally is this a “white white” or a cream off white?

Thank you so much, love the blog.

By: Talysa

Talysa — Mon, 24 May 2010 15:27:31 +0000

Could you please tell me what color you painted cabinets? I believe you said Toasted Almond…which brand is that in? Also did you match your trim to your cabinets? And lastly what is the wall color? Redoing kitchen right now and in color purgatory! ;-)

Thanks so much. LOVE IT! :-)