We are demoing our kitchen to replace our cabinets and I have to say, I feel like I am committing a crime covering up this brick – I am trying to rethink our plan/design to see if we can incorporate part of it somehow.
Members of our facebook group for midcentury home owners were happy to help.
Below are some examples of members thoughts on the topic. These are only a few of the thousands of tips that are shared in our exclusive Facebook Group dedicated to midcentury modern home owners. If you own a midcentury house and are not already a member, join us now!
- “If you want to cover the brick that’s fine. Do what you like, it’s your house. We had a custom buffet built in front of a brick wall in our MCM.”
- “Lots of options. Open-back cabinets (with or without glass-front doors) so you can see the brick. You could also go with cabinets that are a mix of open/closed shelving, pulling in your accent colour and having the brick visible through the open sections.”
- “I really don’t think that brick is anything special…just run of the mill red brick. I’d sooner try to save that wallpaper!“
- “Go for function and easy cleaning in the kitchen. Do you want to be trying to get grease and grime off of brick? Scratching appliances? I can see saving it elsewhere, but it’s not a very sanitary surface for a kitchen.“
- “I’d paint it all and do open shelves on it. That is if you have enough storage already.“
- “Brick is great but a bear to clean. Hard to maintain a clean kitchen with brick. Not impossible though if you really want it.“
- “We covered brick in our MCM by having the contractor only screw the drywall into grout so that if someone wants to remove it later all they have to do is fix the grout. No damage to the bricks.”
- It’s your kitchen and it needs to work well for you and the design features need to work with well with your mind. There are many different points of view on these pages, some want to live in a time warp and others like us change and adapt. When we purchased our house it needed a lot of work to make it safe, warm, water tight and a kitchen we could cook in. Does it look the same as when we purchased it- no but we have kept some features and replaced others in a sympathetic way. We are warm, when it rains I don’t get wet and after seven years I still love my kitchen.“
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