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Design Ideas for Kitchen IslandsDesign Ideas for Kitchen Islands

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Published at Thursday, September 26th 2019, 00:37:06 AM by Daniel Baker. Kitchen Island. Adding a kitchen island can seem like an impossible feat—kitchen renovations are costly, after all—but if the space is already open, a non-permanent island or cart (IKEA sells some excellent ones) can be an affordable, renovation-free way to get the added counterspace and storage.

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Kitchen Islands - An Ideal Addition To Any KitchenKitchen Islands - An Ideal Addition To Any Kitchen

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Published at Monday, September 23rd 2019, 11:06:58 AM by Riley Chapman. Kitchen Island. The kitchen is certainly one of the most difficult spaces to design in a home. Selecting the best kitchen design ideas and figuring out how one should design a kitchen island can be quite confusing for homeowners. Although there is no set formula for determining how to size a kitchen island, some guidelines on measurement can help. Below are six basic questions you should ask yourself when designing your kitchen island.

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Thermomix Review - The Latest Cooking Appliance Every Mom Must HaveThermomix Review - The Latest Cooking Appliance Every Mom Must Have

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Published at Monday, September 23rd 2019, 10:43:14 AM. Kitchen Appliances By Freddie Woodward. Appliances are the workhorses of your kitchen. Together, they will add up to about nine percent of your kitchen budget. This figure is surprisingly low, considering the technological advances and energy efficiencies today’s appliances offer. While features and performance are obviously the most important considerations in choosing appliances, how they’ll look in your kitchen probably matters to you, too.

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Best Solution for Beautiful But Affordable Kitchen LightingBest Solution for Beautiful But Affordable Kitchen Lighting

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Published at Monday, September 23rd 2019, 10:39:24 AM. Kitchen Lighting By Emily Hart. The single greatest disadvantage of pendant lights is the same as their greatest advantage — they hang down from the ceiling. They can get in the way, and need to be limited to areas where people won‘t be walking unless your kitchen has ceilings that are more than 8 feet high. In kitchens with tall ceilings, pendant lights can both bring the light closer to where you need it and help reduce the sense of being in the bottom of a well.

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Kitchen Lighting AdviceKitchen Lighting Advice

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Published at Monday, September 23rd 2019, 10:36:03 AM. Kitchen Lighting By Daniel Smart. Pendant lights are really a specialized form of surface lights. Their great advantage is that they bring the light closer to the areas where you need good visibility. For that reason, they can also be used to provide task lighting. The judicious installation of pendant lights can provide double service, by lighting both a work island and the area around it, for example.

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How to Buy Kitchen LightingHow to Buy Kitchen Lighting

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Published at Monday, September 23rd 2019, 10:31:07 AM. Kitchen Lighting By Daniel Baker. With each of these lighting kits, you get a four-inch remodel housing, decorative trim with integrated LEDs, wire nuts and a cutting stencil. The matte white trim is a simple design, ensuring these lights will blend right in with the ceiling — you’ll barely even notice they’re there. Plus, the product’s integrated energy-efficient LEDs are designed to operate for 35,000 hours without maintenance, meaning you won’t need to break out the ladder to change the bulb anytime soon.

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Big Ideas For Small Kitchen LightingBig Ideas For Small Kitchen Lighting

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Published at Monday, September 23rd 2019, 10:27:46 AM. Kitchen Lighting By Brandon Lambert. Kitchens aren’t just for cooking, they’re often the spot where people gather in the home. Whether you’re looking for better lighting for your cooking tasks or want to create a more welcoming space for friends and family, here are 14 tips for better kitchen lighting. Ambient kitchen lighting is often overlooked in cooking areas. And it can help fill any gaps in lighting, while also creating a warm glow for the room and is an inexpensive way to upgrade your kitchen.

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Three Main Categories of Kitchen LightingThree Main Categories of Kitchen Lighting

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Published at Monday, September 23rd 2019, 10:24:04 AM. Kitchen Lighting By Alicia Vaughan. A recessed light housing that will be in an attic needs to be both airtight (AT) and insulation compatible (IC), so that it will not serve as an exhaust vent for your home‘s warm air during heating season, and will not become hot enough, on its outer surface, to damage any insulation that comes in contact with it. Recessed lighting fixtures that are both AT and IC are more expensive than similar fixtures that are not.

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Using LED Lights For Kitchen LightingUsing LED Lights For Kitchen Lighting

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Published at Sunday, September 22nd 2019, 09:36:43 AM. Kitchen Lighting By Riley Chapman. The single greatest disadvantage of pendant lights is the same as their greatest advantage — they hang down from the ceiling. They can get in the way, and need to be limited to areas where people won‘t be walking unless your kitchen has ceilings that are more than 8 feet high. In kitchens with tall ceilings, pendant lights can both bring the light closer to where you need it and help reduce the sense of being in the bottom of a well.

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