When we moved into our house, we were fortunate in that the owners had recently upgraded the granite in the kitchen but it still had the original oak whitewashed cabinets.  About 3 years later, we had a major slab leak that pretty much destroyed the lower half of our kitchen.  On the bright side, we got updated cabinets but on the negative side, we had to cover the costs to have the higher cabinets match, something we weren’t planning on. [Read more]