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[quote=Anonymous]Ah, this hits home. We bought our forever house and it had an old lady kitchen. Well actually, the kitchen was designed by a Hilsdale College newsletter receiving alarmist who literally sold the house because he thought the 2008 market crash and election of Obama meant society was collapsing. Then he regretted it and tried to get out of the contract. But I digress.

So the kitchen was these ugly square floral tiles, dark cabinets, a dark blue granite with light blue flecks, black appliances. I would never have chosen any of these things but I wasn't going to rip out perfectly good cabinets or counters, so I had the cabinets painted white, did a new subway tile backsplash to try to work with the counters, accepted the appliances, and laid a nice blue stone on the floor.

AND THEN . . . we went out of town and the previous owner had done a shoddy job creating the master bath out of an old sleeping porch. He didn't insulate the pipes and the temperature dropped and one of them burst, sending 20,000 gallons of water streaming through our kitchen. A hunk of drywall even fell off onto the stove and somehow started a fire! So in the end we got a new kitchen anyway. Oh well. We tried. I was actually sad because we'd made the kitchen work; it was very homey. All that water and then materials wasted, sigh.[/quote]

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