Multiple Entryway Complications

View of desk arrangement w/ window cabs/valance above.

View with pass-thru wall opening

A Trip to the Islands…

Island w/ prep sink, radius top and corbels

Island w/ knee wall and slight overhang

Island with functioning end cabinets. 

(note: soffits not shown)   

Kitchen Hygiene Pointers

My advice: do. not. put your bare feet on the island countertop surface. Even if it's quartz for goodness sake!

GoopYou is a hilarious Tumblr send up of Gwyneth Paltrow's (of "oh no she didn't really write her cookbook" fame) GOOP digital media site. The author often pokes great fun at Gwynnie's collection of personal chefs and backyard woodburning pizza oven.

I can't recommend it highly enough if you can stomach the high-snark content!

www.goopyou.tumblr.com

#FurnitureFilms Tweet #humor

Followed this hashtag on Twitter today. Pretty funny contributions.
Mine is kitchen-relevant of course!

Pawpaw fruit & Bartram's Garden

Despite having lived in & around Philly all my life, today I finally visited the Historic Bartram's Garden with Frank in tow. On the west bank of the Schuylkill river, the original 18th c. house and barn sit on a bluff that includes the restored herb, fruit, flower and tree specimen gardens of John Bartram (1699-1777) who settled the property and maintained a lifelong interest in horticulture. 

I was intrigued to learn about the indigenous Pawpaw tree on the property (widely cultivated by Native Americans). It bears a strange, banana/mango-type fruit that is edible, but currently not widely propagated or marketed. Maybe it will make a comeback with the Foodie culture's help…

http://www.bartramsgarden.org/

Galley Kitchen with two facing walls

Elevations with simple, Shaker-style cabinetry

and a little Spring color.

Some "mini-bar" configurations

Snippets of floorplans, detailing unique configurations.

There's "always a Frank"! My Personal Chef!

Whipping up Beef Wellington "minis"

and, in more, much needed "other news"

I linked Blog to Pinterest, with the help of Miss Mimi!

In mercifully *other* news…

This image displays the tweeted out link to a charming Brunelleschi Brothers' project utilizing appliances in retro aqua colorations:

NJ Beach Kitchen

Three small color perspectives.

No, it's NOT the Radon!

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/opinion/sunday/is-your-kitchen-a-health-hazard.html?smid=tw-share

…it's the proximity to excessive consumption!

B&W simple line perspective

Fun with angled base and wall cabs.

Kitchen Design and All Roads leading up to & including…

In (color) Perspectives

TOP RIGHT: Bi-level island with corbels, fillers and
decorative end panels.
BOTTOM LEFT: Large kitchen/wet bar for
Jersey shore post-Sandy reno.

Peace, Joy & Good Cookin'

This was my holiday postcard, December 2012, a tribute to the retro kitchen look I'm nostalgic for. Notwithstanding the requisite kitsch factor, the fridge definitely looks like the one I grew up with in the Philly burbs with my 50's era Mom. Betty never failed to cook the meat "to extinction" and boil vegetables into mushy submission.

Well-planned "Food for Thought"

A place for me to post and "showcase" 3-D views as well as floorplans and elevations which comply with NKBA industry standards. Created during an intense learning curve on the commensurate software (20-20), which I admittedly tackled with the help of online tutorials to maximize a "use it or lose it" skillset. 

I'll be posting some concept views within the next week. A side-goal is to put up links to kitchen designs of interest/Pinterest and related ephemera–vintage-to-contemporary being the planned focus.

The kitchen, it is said by 54% of Americans in a recent poll (*citation to come), has become the most important room in their home. In mine, my foodie (cringe at the term, but it's the term "of the moment" to be sure) husband is the chief cook. I'm the bottlewasher. He bought our house, before we met, primarily on the basis of the kitchen which had been renovated to exceed the standards of a modest, sub-development ranch house in the late 1980's. 

Despite heavy use–dinner parties, kids' birthday parties, special occasions and all–we still are using the now 23!!+year-old appliances– SubZ, Viking, Franke-branded stuff with only the occasional call to our local repairman for a worn out motor or gas-jet issue. 

The cabinets are a matte-laminate with nice, hefty Italian-made, "Euro-style", spring-loaded doors and soft-close drawers. Nothing peeling or bubbling, a testament to the excellent manufacturing standards of the product. If it wasn't all white and entirely nondescript, I'd be a happy camper in our kitchen, but as it is, I live with the sterility against every grain of my own taste and desire for something with more of a "humanist"feel. C'est la vie…

More to come as I upload images etc., soon.