On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 07:08:59 -0800 (PST), Robert Macy
wrote:

On Feb 21, 6:49*am, "David L. Martel" wrote:
Angst,

* *I'd not use shelves in a kitchen. Kitchen air has lots of dust and grease
in it. Put things in cabinets and drawers to keep them clean. Expect to
clean the cabinet surfaces fairly often, so stay away from ornate cabinets.
* *No opinion on stone countertops.

Dave M."Existential Angst" wrote in message

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Hear, hear on the closed storage in a kitchen. and simple surfaces.
Glass doors allow both the cleaning AND the contents' views.

Glass doors are harder to keep clean than stainless appliances, which
you seem to hate (below).

Stay away from stainless steel appliances - TOO DIFFICULT TO KEEP
CLEAN LOOKING.

Not all stainless is the same. Our 'fridge is pretty easy to keep
clean. Other appliances (contractor stuff hasn't been replaced yet),
not so much.

Of the countertops we've lived with:
1. painted = NO WAY!

Agreed. No way is paint hard enough for a surface. We saw one house
that had a painted sink!

2. glass over painted - irritating deterioration occurs UNDER the
glass and don't sit anything really heavy or hot on it. Nice to be
able to put ANY paper patterning under the glass. However, the effect
we had looked cheap, amateur do-it-yourself looking.

Have never seen that. Sounds dangerous.

3. formica - NO WAY! chemicals EAT right through the tops of formica
turning to white ANY color pattern and worse turning the surfaces into
mush, bleach will do this to formica.

They're cheap (throw away).

4. tile - NO WAY! all those little cracks [grouting] to keep clean!
plus hairline cracks let liquid right through

Agreed.

5. stone - presently have patterned granite WOW! best surface EVER!
Kitchen always looks great, for example, the crumbs from slicing a
loaf of bread you can't even see them! [yes, one is stuck with the
pattern]

With you 100%. Granite is the end-all kitchen surface. It's great
for baking, too. ;-)

Note on the color of a counter top: presently the countertops are a
little darker than I like. I learned a long time ago that to make work
on a top easier keep the color light. The darker the countertop, the
more difficult it is to see what you're working on.

Yep, I didn't much like the speckled top in our last house but it
doesn't show *any* dirt. The counter in this house is darker (brown,
about the color of toast, really) but still isn't bad. We'll never
have kitchen counter tops other than granite, again. We'll probably
change all the bathrooms to granite over the next couple of years.