Original kitchen below from open house, in picture below. The curved "cathedral" style cabinet door pattern as seen in the upper doors, and the wood-grain, were not working with the overall theme. The recent woodwork and paint scheme as seen in previous blog posts is somewhere between Victorian and rustic colonial.
The following pictures are before hosting a party last weekend, when the house is always cleanest.
Painted cabinets in picture below. Same exact view as above, 2 1/2 years later. Compare the square upper cabinet door tops to the previous curved.
The upper right door above stove still needs to be replaced, see the curved top? Because HD messed up the order and had to send a replacement.
On wall opposite cabinets, antique photographs & prints from around or before 1900 help define the association to the era:
The replacement cabinet doors were easy to order from Home Depot because the previous doors were also from there. They were super easy to re-install because the hardware cutouts matched the existing hinges.
The house is starting to feel entirely Connecticut. I went with white on the cabinets - same antique cream as the surrounding trim - because it blended with the surrounding color scheme. Before the white, I tried colonial gray-blue, then rose cream, for the cabinets. Neither of those looked great to me because there became too many colors in the room.
The glass door cabinets are from Home Depot but the plate-glass is from a local supplier. The glass itself is "glue-chip" glass which is a custom textured glass style. It cost like half as much to get the glass from a local supplier.
Close up of glue-chip (click to enlarge):
you can order cabinet doors "cut for glass" which means the doors are essentially a frame into which plate-glass can be inserted. The cost is somewhat higher than solid wood panel, because the cutout involves more millwork.
