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