• Home
  • Projects
    • Room Makeovers
    • DIY Home Improvements
    • Decorating Ideas
    • Organization
    • Furniture Makeovers
    • Crafts
  • Holidays
    • Winter
    • Spring
    • Summer
    • Fall
  • Printables
  • Recipes

How to Nest for Less™

Our New Home: The Color Sheet

in Our New Home on

Sharing is caring!

1 shares
  • Share
  • Tweet

So since we listed our house and sold it in 24 hours, we’ve been on the fast track to getting everything picked out for the new home. For the most part I knew what I wanted in colors: dark walnut stain on the staircase spindles,

But the one thing that kept me up at night was the kitchen. Mostly the cabinet color. While I simply love the white in our current house, I was wondering if I should switch it up. Our kitchen in the new house is smaller, cozier. So should I go with wood cabinets?

Or since I only had the white cabinets for basically a year and I love the look, is it ok to basically copy my exact kitchen color scheme?

kitchen backsplash subway tileWell, the decision was made earlier this week. We are sticking with the white cabinets! I decided to switch it up a tad and do painted cabinets rather than the thermofoil like we currently have. At first I was worried about chipping, but with the thermofoil you can’t really paint the cabinets without peeling off the plastic coating first if I ever did change my mind about the color.

One other small change we made to the cabinets was to keep the kitchen island in a dark wood stain (kinda like the photo below). I’m loving the contrasting look these days… even if it is a fad. I figure if I hate it down the road, I can always paint it to match the cabinets, or a different color completely.

kitchen two tone cabinetsWe going with the exact same laminate countertops we have in the old house.  I hope to upgrade to a hard surface down the road, but I need to do some research first. Taking suggestions too!

This time around we chose to do hardwood flooring on the entire main floor. I really loved my vinyl in the last home; it was easy to keep clean and affordable. But for this house I wanted to start off with the hardwood floors that I always dreamed of, oak in a dark stain. I love seeing the natural wood grain in floors so of course I feel in love as soon as I saw it!

new house color sheetWe finally decided on the exterior colors as well. We’re going a little similar to our current home, but a little more neutral. More natural colors in the brick, plus brown shutters and door this time around.

shutter colors

siding colorsThe last decisions we had to tackle were the appliances. I went with stainless steel again, but this time I went with an electric smooth top instead of gas. I’ve had gas in the past 2 homes and thought it was a pain to keep clean. I’m not the biggest chef in the world so I don’t care about having a “luxury kitchen”. But if you guys have any input, please advise!

OK, next week I go back to focusing on the last house. I’ll be sharing my laundry room makeover next week, then the dining room and living room. Yep, I was busy before the sold the place! Can’t wait to show you the last minute improvements we made!

 

popular-projects
« Our New Home: The Floorplan
Laundry Room Makeover »

Comments

  1. Emily says

    at

    I love your color choices for the new house! We are currently remodeling our 1940’s home (slowly) and I have dark hickory hardwood flooring throughout. I love the contrast of the dark flooring with white cabinets in the kitchen. Can’t wait to see everything come together in your new home.

  2. Lynn says

    at

    Be sure to check out induction cooking. Better to clean than electric as it doesn’t get real hot (heat is from magnets not electric coils) I opted for propane in my new kitchen and am having a hard time getting a low simmer. I do not like electric as it’s hard to regulate and remains hot for a while. Reviews of induction cook tops indicates LOVE. So I suggest you investigate before you go with electric.

    • howtonestforless says

      at

      Thanks for the tip, Lynn! Will do!

  3. Anne says

    at

    Love your kitchen! We’re currently building and our kitchen is going to look very similar to yours. We won’t have the real hardwood, though. Maybe one day… 🙂

  4. Jenny says

    at

    Great choices!

  5. Lauren says

    at

    Ive had gas and electric stoves in all colors and finishes. I never liked the electric glass top, never looked very clean even if it was clean, showed every smear and smudge, both my mom and best friend have them, my house cleaner I think was begging for one Hahahah, but we just bought a gas kitchenaid range with the streak free stainless steel under the burners and a gas convection oven. Looks like it will be much easier to clean than what I’ve had before. Plus as a home buyer (obviously you don’t have a problem selling houses there!) but gas appliances were really high on my must have list, because gas is so much faster and easier to cook with!

    On the countertops, we went with granite, quartz was a little pricier and granite you just need to seal every year. I think it was $3300 for 50-60 sq ft. We visited a granite yard, seeing full slabs really helped. I was originally going for Lyra Quartz and I just didn’t love it in a full slab. Good luck!

    • howtonestforless says

      at

      We actually just switched back to gas today, hah! Too many friends and family steering us away from the smooth top!

      • Bree T says

        at

        Strongly support the decision to go back to gas! I had gas for a year while in one of my places in college. We went back to electric when my husband and I moved in together. I hate it.There are hot spots on the burners and it makes for both uneven cooking and uneven wear on my pans.

      • howtonestforless says

        at

        After living with my brother and having electric for the past month, I couldn’t do it in the new home. Gas only for me!

  6. Melanie Franceschi says

    at

    Beautiful! What are the names of the color choices for interior?

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

We love to conquer DIY, home improvement projects, and room makeovers. We're not experts; we just try to design on a dime.

Follow us as we try to update our latest house one project at a time. Check out our archives for over 1,000 DIY and home-related projects. Enjoy! Read More…

ARCHIVES

Copyright Policy

All text and images on this site are copyright of How to Nest for Less, LLC. Unless otherwise noted, you may not use this content without written permission.

This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation. The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics or posts made in this blog. That content, advertising space or post may not always be identified as paid or sponsored content.

The owner(s) of this blog is compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. Even though the owner(s) of this blog receives compensation for our posts or advertisements, we always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the bloggers’ own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.

How to Nest for Less is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.

Privacy

Copyright © 2023 · glam theme by Restored 316

Copyright © 2023 · Glam Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in

1 shares