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Sylvere

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12. It's pretty much all done, really. That's just something that's been
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 01:37 PM
Feb 2019

bugging me when I look at it. We started in 2012 with an addition, doing some of the work ourselves, and paying as we went. My husband did homebuilding as a job in college, and worked

We used reclaimed pool table slate for countertops (Craigslist - we lucked out that a pool table restorer was going out of business, so we got just the slabs that he recovered, and didn't have to take apart any pool tables ourselves) $200 for everything, then $1000 to have it cut and installed, including a 5" backsplash. I looked for a sink on craigslist that was wide, and had straight edges, so we wouldn't need to cut a hole in the slate.

We got oak cabinets from Craigslist from someone gutting their kitchen, then put matte finish on them so they look more handhewn.

We used our old base cabinets, which were ash, and very close in color to the "new cabinets" as a peninsula, and made the cabinet that was under the sink into a pull out trash/recycling unit.

Lighting fixtures off Craigslist.

Corner breakfast nook at a yard sale - $100

Here's part of it on Pinterest:

https://www.pinterest.com/secondhandmaven/the-remodel/


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