So I've previously mentioned that I love cabinets with glass doors, but I don't love the idea of displaying everything inside a cabinet. One night when I was looking at fancy houses (or is it houzzes?) on houzz.com, I saw this fancy kitchen that an equally fancy interior designer had done using decorative screens instead of glass. My interest was piqued. The designer was kind enough to share where she had purchased said screens and sure enough, I found the company which makes said decorative grilles in the UK and ordered some.
I feel so cosmopolitan having these screens from England in my house. And, seriously the world has gotten so much smaller because it only took two days!!! to get these puppies via FedEx, once they finally cut them (which took about 4 weeks).
Anyway, I'll show you my grilles:
To be honest, I am not sure I LOVE my grilles. One part of me thinks they are a little too dark, a little too "grandma"-y. Another part of me loves that our kitchen is so different and I kind of like the retro vibe. I like the closer shot here where you can see the detail work under the lights, but from a distance, like the first picture, they seem really dark to me. I am getting black countertops, so I hope it doesn't feel too dark in what I want to be my sunny kitchen. The good news is that the grilles are just screens, so if I get sick of them, I can put glass or something else in there.
Good news! They just called and our countertops are cut (5 days later) and they had a cancellation for tomorrow/Tuesday, so we will be that much closer to being done tomorrow. Sadly, I will have no more excuses for not cooking. After that, they put in our appliances and more importantly, get our blessed running water running again in the kitchen. This weekend, they'll do our backsplash so it really will be about 3 weeks total of work. Not bad! It's all coming together.
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