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painted formica countertops

Painting a Formica CountertopThis is a page about painting a Formica countertop. Painting your old, outdated Formica countertops is a great way to update your kitchen.

 

Flooring, Countertop, and Paint Colors to Down Play Pinkish Cabinets?We have pickled oak cabinets we are trying to decorate around. Our hardwood floor is a light maple color and we would like to refinish it, but are not sure what color/stain to go with. We are also wanting to replace the white Corian with a granite that would complement the cabinets.

 

Above the Stove Sunflower Collection - view of one side of cabinet and fabric draped door and coffee pot

Decorating With SunflowersThe bright, cheerful colors of sunflowers work well for a kitchen theme. This is a page about decorating with sunflowers.

 

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What Color Refrigerator Will Coordinate With Bisque Appliances?I have bisque appliances and my side by side is on the brink. I would like to know what color I can match with the bisque color. I'm looking at the French door model for more space. My other appliances are only three years old so there's no need to replace all.

 

A kitchen with matching appliances.

Kitchen Appliance Color AdviceWhen purchasing new appliances for your kitchen you may have difficulty deciding on the best color to coordinate with the existing cabinets, countertops, sink, flooring, and wall color. This page explores advice for choosing kitchen appliance colors.

 

Dark wooden kitchen cabinets.

Lightening the Look of Dark Wooden CabinetsDark cabinets can make the whole room seem too dark. Depending on whether you own the home or rent there are some fun ideas in this page for lightening the look of dark wooden cabinets.

 

Refrigerator

Decorating a RefrigeratorYour refrigerator is a very large, rather plain surface that dominates the kitchen. Why not add some decorations other than the ubiquitous lists and magnets. Try some locker or window clings. This is a page about decorating a refrigerator.

 

New Kitchen with cabinets and no counters

Color Suggestions for Counter TopsThis is a page about color suggestions for counter tops. Choosing the best color for your counter top is integral to creating the color scheme you want for your kitchen.

 

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Covering Ugly Rental Countertops?I am moving into a new rental apartment this summer, and the kitchen is covered in hideous green laminate tile. I'm looking for a way to cover up the tile on the countertops (that's right, they used floor tiles on the countertop!) without damaging or removing them.

 

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Basic 1970s era kitchen with old appliances and plats on a shelve along the wall

Decorating an Outdated Kitchen?This is a page about decorating an outdated kitchen. Without doing a costly remodel you can update your older kitchen and have fun in the process.

 

Updating My Kitchen Cabinets

Updating Your Kitchen CabinetsThis is a page about updating your kitchen cabinets. Updating your kitchen cabinets is one way to freshen up the room without the cost of replacing the cabinets.

 

A woman sweeping a nice wood kitchen floor.

Kitchen Floor Color Advice?This is a page about kitchen floor color advice. Your kitchen floor covers a large area, so choosing the right color is important to the overall look of the room.

 

A green themed kitchen.

Kitchen Decorating IdeasThis is a page about kitchen decorating ideas. Using the right theme and colors can make your kitchen a reflection of your personality.

 

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Blacksplash Color for Kitchen?I have blond oak cabinetry and black marblish counter top. I am looking at the facade metal that you can get in stainless or a copper colour. My walls or an earthtone brown. What would you suggest?

 

Kitchen with tile.

Kitchen Floor Tile Color Advice?This is a page about kitchen floor tile color advice. When decorating a kitchen, choosing a complementary color for your floor tiles will help with the overall appearance of the room.

 

Refrigerator

Making a Refrigerator Cover?This page is about making a refrigerator cover. This appliance can often use a makeover that can be attractive and helpful.

 

A nice new kitchen.

Updating a Kitchen?This is a page about updating a kitchen. There are many reasons you may wish to update your kitchen.

 

Kitchen Countertop

Kitchen Countertop Color AdviceThis is a page about kitchen countertop color advice. When remodeling your kitchen, choosing the best color countertop to coordinate with your cabinets and flooring can sometimes be challenging; there are so many options.

 

Granite Countertop

Choosing Granite CountertopsThis is a page about choosing granite countertops. Choosing a color for your granite countertops is an important part of setting the overall color scheme for your kitchen.

 

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Kitchen Wall Color Advice With Black Granite and Beech Cupboards?I have black granite worktops, beech kitchen cupboards, and yellow and blue tiles on the wall were the hob and oven sit. What colour can I either paint or paper the rest of the walls?

 

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Improving the Look of Kitchen Floor Tile?We are doing a kitchen remodel and are stuck because our kitchen has ugly 8 inch tiles that belong in a bathroom at best. Ripping them out is out of our budget. What else can we do to disguise them?

 

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Trying to Achieve a Pewter Effect on Cabinet Handles?I would like to know what will happen to stainless steel cabinet hardware if heated very hot and dipped in oil? I am especially interested in the resulting color.

 

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Paint Color Advice for Kitchen With White Units, Black Worktops, and Red Accessories? I have white units with chrome handles, black worktops, with red accessories. What colour to paint my kitchen?

 

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Paint Color Advice for a Kitchen Light Green Tile and Oak Cabinets?I have a very small kitchen, 10X12. The existing tile, which cannot be replaced due to lack of funds, is light green, almost a celery color green. The counter tops are white (from the 70s) with light green, yellow, and tan patterns. The cabinets (from 60s) are a medium oak.

 

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Paint Colour Advice for Kitchen with Black Worktops and Beech Units?My kitchen has black work tops, beech units, and the floor is light cream. I am just wondering what colors would look good on the wall? Also, what colour accessories would go with the colour as well and not clash, but no red. lol

 

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Choosing a Throw Rug for a Earth Tone Kitchen?I just painted my kitchen a yellowy beige color. My floors are Tuscany looking tiles with sorta copper, beige, grey, and a pinky color in them. I was wondering what color rug to go with for under my kitchen table.

 

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Decoration Ideas for a Kitchen?I think I figured out what to do with my kitchen. I will have red appliances, black counter tops, marshmallow white cabinets, and warm gold walls. Then I'm going to draw poppies above my sink and on my cabinets and paint them a red rose bouquet. What do you think?

 

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Paint Color Advice for a Beige and Stainless Kitchen?I have a kitchen with high gloss cabinets, nougat bench top, beige tiled floor, latte splashback, and stainless steel appliances. What colour should I paint the kitchen walls?

 

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Paint Color Advice for Kitchen With Hickory Cabinets and Brown Countertops?We are remodeling our kitchen with new natural hickory cabinets and the counter tops are a blackish brown with tan flecks, I have no idea for a wall color. I want it to feel warm and inviting, but also sunny and happy. What colors set off the natural hickory?

 

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Making Copper Countertops?Has anyone ever made their own copper countertops using 20 gauge copper sheets?

 

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Paint Color Advice for a Hunter Green and Oak Kitchen?We are wanting to paint our kitchen walls. The problem, we have hunter green countertops, oak cabinets, and a built in shelf that is painted a green color called "ground cover". What color would be recommended to paint the walls?

 

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Problems Using the Gianni Paint Kit for Countertops?I just finished my cupboards and sad to say they look bad. I used the Gianni kit for countertops in chocolate brown. On the last

 

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How Do I Paint Formica Cabinets?How do I paint Formica kitchen cabinets?

 

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Paint Color Ideas for Kitchen with Black Cabinets and Stainless Appliances?What wall paint color goes well with black kitchen cabinets and stainless steel appliances?

 

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Paint Color Advice for Kitchen With Brown and White Cabinets?Well I'm having a hard time with picking a color for my kitchen. I have brown and white cabinets already and I do not want to paint my kitchen white I'm tired of that color.

 

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Wall and Refrigerator Colors for a 50s Vintage Look Kitchen?I am looking for color advice for a kitchen. I have ivory cabinets and black soapstone countertops. Also, I have lots of 50's red and some yellow kitchen accessories.

 

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Is it OK to Have Two Different Cabinet Finishes in a Kitchen?I have white painted cupboards and would like to add to these cupboards. Would it be okay to add maple cupboards and leave them woodtone along with the current white cabinets in my kitchen?

 

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Cabinets and Flooring to Complement a Burgundy Range?We are redoing our kitchen and love the Cornufe 90 range in burgundy, but have a hard time envisioning cabinets and flooring to complement. Any suggestions? We are looking at Kraftmaid cabinets.

 

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Decorating Advice for a Kitchen Update?I am in the process of upgrading my kitchen. I have decided to repaint my mustard colored walls, cream with a white trim. I am also replacing my outdated white and black appliances with stainless.

 

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Reviews of Imagistone Kitchen Countertop Resurfacing?I am trying to sell my home and want to do an inexpensive update in my kitchen. I have white cabinets and a black floor. What color counter tops should I do? I've been looking at a product called Imagistone (granite is way too expensive house is $275k). Anybody familiar with this?

 

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Kitchen Paint Color Advice to Coordinate With Green and Black Quartz Countertops?I am in need of some advice on what color to paint my kitchen. The countertops I have are the Viatera Sherwood quartz (greens and black). I am unsure what color would go good with the countertops.

 

Trouble With Granite Look Counters?I put the clear coat on already and I didn't put enough color on the counter top and now it doesn't match my bar. I need more color, what should I do? Can I put color right on my Envirotex and then clear coat it again? What a mess.

 

Stain Color Suggestions for Kitchen Cabinets?I have a small kitchen with pecan colored cabinets and pecan wood flooring, multi-taupe countertops with cream color wall. What color can I stain the cabinets to make them pop? Also does anyone have any suggestions about lighting?

 

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Painting Cupboards to Coordinate With Mint Walls?I have painted my kitchen walls mint green. My cupboards are white, but I am thinking of painting the cupboards a different colour, black and white. How do you suggest I paint it or would you recommend another colour?

 

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Will Painted Countertops and Tile Withstand Heavy Use?We are trying to give some new life to our old kitchen in our church. We have dusty rose cupboards, oak cabinets, light pink ceramic tiles on the bottom half of the walls and some steel on the walls.

 

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Painting a Kitchen With Pink Hued Cabinets, Copper Tiles, and Cherry Flooring?What color paint would complement my pink hued kitchen cabinets? I also have copper tinted tiles behind the stove and cherry floors.

 

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Theme and Paint Color Advice for Kitchen With Orange Counter Tops?What kitchen theme and wall colors would go good with orange counter tops?

 

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Paint Color Advice for Kitchen With Red Tiles and Dark Faux Granite Countertops?I am slowly trying to transform my (very old) kitchen on a very tight budget. The back splash tiles are so ugly. The wall by the sink has a black and white checkerboard pattern of ceramic tiles and the wall by the stove has bright red ceramic tiles.

 

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Backsplash Ideas for Faux Granite Countertops?I have faux granite counter tops and I was wondering if you had any ideas for backsplashes? I really need some help. I have all black and silver appliances in my kitchen. Thanks so much.

 

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Choosing Flooring and Countertops to Coordinate with Light Cabinets?We have light cabinets and am wondering if a dark floor would look OK? If so, what color counter top would look good?

 

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Paint Color Ideas for Kitchen with Mauve Countertops and Pinkish Trim?I'm moving into a house that needed paint everywhere! My biggest problem is the kitchen. I love color, but I'm also afraid of color. OK to the point.

 

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Suggestions for Hanging Kitchen Trivets?How do I hang a kitchen trivet that has no existing nail ring? I don't want to use plate hangars, as I don't like seeing the little hook-ends at top/bottom of trivet?

 

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Popular Kitchen Paint Color?What is a good or common color for a kitchen?

 

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Hardware Choice for a Kitchen With Stainless Appliances?I am considering stainless steel kitchen appliances. I have honey oak cabinets. Must the stainless changes be made to all hardware, such as pulls, hinges, overhead lighting, etc.?

 

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Kitchen With White Tile?I am in a dilemma and need advice on color for a counterop and flooring. I have white cabinets and white subway tiles for backsplash. The adjoining rooms are painted in beige walls with beige, sage, and cranberry furnishings.

 

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Decorating Cabinets Without Painting?I am doing my kitchen in pears, all colors. I am doing my walls a spiced gingerbread. The trim and ceiling will be a brite white.

 

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Brightening Up a Kitchen Without Painting?My kitchen is too dark. I have red decorations, light wood color dining table and have some black chairs. The cabinets are a dark brown. I can't paint or change the cabinets or the walls, either. It is not my own place, it's an apartment. The walls are like a beige color.

 

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Retro Decor Ideas?I want to decorate my kitchen and living room in the style popular in the 40s. I noticed that the curtains are normally of a floral print and have already done that.

 

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Countertop Refinishing Product That Replicates Granite?I read somewhere that there is a product that looks like granite and is durable.

 

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Cabinet Colors for Kitchen With a Yellow Range?We have ordered a bright yellow Bertazzoni range. What color cabinets would you recommend? We want to go with wood. The only style we do not like is painted.

 

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Dark Cabinets With White Countertops?I have white Corian countertops that I cannot change. I also have white cabinets that I desperately want to change. Any kitchen or kitchen magazine I look through always shows white cabinets with darker countertops, but never the opposite.

 

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Cabinet Color for Terra Cotta Tiled Floors?My daughter has Terra Cotta colored tile floors. What color do you suggest for the cabinetry and countertop in laminate?

 

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Decorating a Busy Kitchen?I need help with my kitchen. It is in a colonial style house and has 7 doors off it to various rooms. These doors all have white raised panel doors with white molding around them. Floors are a red oak hardwood, cabinets are the same red oak and appliances are black. The counter top is a robin's egg blue which is going to be replaced with either hardwood or a solid surface.

 

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Coordinating Counter Tops With Sea Grass Flooring?What color/pattern of counter tops would go with dark brown cabinets and Japanese sea grass flooring?

 

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Cabinets With Too Much Paint?What can I do to heavily painted kitchen cabinets? They are very large doors. The cabinets have so much paint it's hard to even see the hinges. I will do just about anything to them to save money.

 

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Decorating Ideas For Blue And Brown Kitchen?I am looking for any decorating ideas for a blue and brown kitchen.

 

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Black and White Kitchen?I have a black and white kitchen. Would a red border with white daisies go with that? The walls are white sheetrock also. It has mostly white, just one row of black tile on the one back wall and the floor. Would the red go with the black and white? And if so, what other ideas could I do besides the border.

 

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Choosing a Cupboard Color?I have medium color laminated flooring with dark marble green/black counter top. What color should I paint the cupboard. The wall is light beige.

 

Breakfast Prices As Conversation PiecePrint out a simple set of breakfast (or other meal) menu and prices or use vinyl precut letters and numbers and put it in a frame for a cute display or conversation piece near where you eat, all in fun!

 

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Colors for Kitchen with Light Gray Tiles?I need help in deciding colors for my kitchen. My floor is light gray tiles. I can't afford to re-do the floor, but would like ideas on colors that would match light gray.

 

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Use A Teapot Instead Of A Soap DispenserSomething to do with the dishwashing liquid bottle. Instead of having the ugly bottle on your sinktop, you just purchase a cute teapot and pour your dishwashing liquid from the pot and you also have a cute decoration.

 

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Apple and Lemons Theme Kitchen?I just moved and I would like to decorate my kitchen with the apples theme, but I like lemons too, do you think that they go good together?

 

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Displaying a Large Magnet Collection?We have recently moved to a new house and I need some advice about displaying my large magnet collection in the Kitchen. I have a large wall that I'm going to use but need ideas on how to display them and what I can use.

 

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Simple Decorations for My Kitchen?I am looking for simple decorations for my kitchen. My appliances are black and my countertops are black with beige small polka dots. I would like to put something on top of the cabinets like greenery or maybe a few baskets.

 

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Brown Color Suggestions?I have maple cabinets with a coffee glaze on them. I am trying to find a good brown color or colors to go on the kitchen walls and livingroom area that go well with the cabinets.

 

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Inca Theme Lampshade?My kitchen is decorated with and Inca and Mexican theme. I needed extra light so I brought in a nice lamp. Instead of going out and buying a new shade I want to make over the one I have in complimentary design.

 

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Color to go With Dark Green Tile?I don't know what color to paint my kitchen/dining room combination. The floor is dark hunter green tile, the counter tops are also dark green. The cabinets are medium oak stained. Right now the walls (or the whole interior) is painted antique white.

 

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Paint Color for Knotty Pine Cabinets?I need a paint color that will compliment knotty pine cabinets in my kitchen.

 

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Paint Color To Go With Black Cabinets?I have formica kitchen cabinets from the 1970's which are a dark brown woodgrain. I am thinking of painting them black and adding pewter or nickel knobs. Have you seen this done? What color would you suggest for the walls? I am leaning toward a creamy gold, moss green, or khaki.

 

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Matching Cabinets With Knotty Pine Walls?I am currently putting knotty pine on my walls. My kitchen and dining room are one room. I have (med color) oak kitchen cabinets and I would like to know what can I do to the cabinets to make them match the knotty pine (amber shellac color).

 

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Painting Techniques for Covering Flaws With Paint Or Texture?My kitchen could use painting but the walls aren't in the best shape. Is their an easy and of course inexpensive way to paint or texturize it so the flaws are less noticable? Thanks so much for any ideas!

 

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Paint Color Advice for Kitchen With Oak Cabinets?I'd like to re-do my kitchen and am really having a hard time figuring out what's going to look right. My kitchen cabinets are a honey oak in color. I was looking at granite countertops that have a black, grey, and white marble kinda look. My house is pretty country. So I was wondering if that countertop would look right and what color would you paint the walls?

 

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Choosing a Kitchen Sink?I am remodeling and have chosen soft grey cabinets, white with a splash of grey quartzite marble backsplash and polished gold cabinet handles, with a polished gold faucet. Do you think a copper farm sink will work?

 

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Kitchen Sink Color Advice?My kitchen will have juparana crema bordeaux granite, cinnamon cupboards, and a Venetian bronze faucet. What color sink would work? I am thinking of cafe brown or would a contrasting light color be better?

 

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Countertop Color Ideas?I have grey oak kitchen flooring and want to match with the countertop.

 

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Kitchen Sink Color Advice?I have a white counter top with black appliances. I'm replacing my sink and wondering if a black cast iron would be too bold or should I stick to white? I have cherry cabinets with a grey floor. Also, what kind of faucet would you recommend?

 

Painting Laminate Countertops? - before and after photo

Painting Laminate Countertops?I used matte acrylic paint on my laminate countertops. I love the look, but when I put poly acrylic (water based) over after drying 6 hours it smears the paint. What am I doing wrong?

 

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