I wanted this Laurel District backsplash to be as close to perfect as possible, and no detail was overlooked. The tiles were beautiful: handmade, with varying saturation from piece to piece and a mirrored back that gives them a very clean, bright look. They look amazing over the butcher-block countertop, where the warm wood plays
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This San Pablo condo got a lot of mileage out of a pretty small budget. It wasn’t a full remodel. It was a set of well-chosen upgrades, each picked for how much it would change the look and feel of the place per dollar spent. Keep the cabinets, change the counters In most kitchens, the
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This Emeryville kitchen was getting a new backsplash, and the first step was taking out the old one. The existing backsplash was tile, which had to be demolished. Removing old tile from drywall almost always takes some of the wall’s paper face with it, so once the tile was off, the wall was patched and
This Mission District renter wanted a better kitchen counter in her unit, and she was paying for it herself, so the budget mattered. She had already chosen IKEA butcher block, which is a good call. Wood countertops are warm, affordable, and forgiving, and they look far more expensive than they are. Making mismatched cabinets line
New cabinets change a kitchen, but they can also make the walls around them look tired or wrong. This San Francisco kitchen had just been fitted with new IKEA cabinets, and the walls needed a color that belonged with them. Choosing the color on the wall, not the chip Before anything was painted, swatches went
This is one of two kitchens in an Oakland duplex, the same building where we put vinyl plank floors through both units. Both kitchens got the same backsplash, a soft seafoam glass tile with white grout, but the walls behind them were different. The other kitchen’s walls were cinderblock, a solid, stable base that made
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