Getting Started: Kitchen Design Questionnaire
These questions are designed to help you start thinking creatively about how you use your kitchen now and how you’d like your new kitchen to work. As a creative tool it will help you set some guidelines for many of the decisions you’ll be making as you go through the design process. While answering the […]
Read More..>>The Perfect World Kitchen
Most of us, when imagining our ideal kitchen, should start with a perfect world viewpoint. The perfect world viewpoint simply involves imagining the kitchen we would want in a perfect world. Its a good way to start off the design process. Develop a picture in your head of all the things your ideal kitchen would […]
Read More..>>The Showplace Kitchen
A new kitchen is often the focal point of the house and it can be tempting, if you have the resources, to go all out and create a showplace featuring all the latest design trends, expensive cabinetry and a high level of craftsmanship. In fact, its not unusual for such a kitchen to be built […]
Read More..>>The Utility Kitchen
It’s a fact of life today that many people rarely cook in their kitchens. Take-out, fast food, deliveries from restaurants and pre-prepared food from the grocery store have all become a regular part of our diets, especially with everyone working and keeping ever busier schedules. Many people who have no interest or time for elaborate […]
Read More..>>The Entertaining Kitchen
Kitchens and entertaining go hand in hand. Whether it’s an informal conversation over a cup of coffee or a formal dinner party, we’ve all found that guests gravitate towards the kitchen, perhaps drawn by the desire to be closer to the action.
Social Space and Working Space
The entertaining cook needs space. Counter space, storage space, cooking […]
The Serious Cook’s Kitchen
Gourmet cooking as a hobby and an avocation has become a popular part of modern life. Dozens of magazines, thousands of cookbooks, television channels and web sites devoted to food, mail order catalogs full of restaurant quality tools and ready availability of exotic ingredients have powered our interest in the fine art of cooking. Any […]
Read More..>>The Family Center Kitchen
The family with kids faces a different set of requirements. While parents share that need for rest and relaxation after a frantic day they may find it in another part of the house, be it a study, master bedroom or a sunporch where they can get away from the kids. The kitchen is family central; […]
Read More..>>The Working Couple’s Kitchen
The Working Couple’s Kitchen
The working couple without children is a uniquely late 20th century phenomenon. With both adults holding responsible jobs or running their own businesses, time and organization become vital to their well-being. Simply getting up and out the door each morning, working all day and finding time to spend together require a degree […]
Lifestyle Design
“The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it’s a place where they make food, it’s fine with me. Ideally it should be well broken in. Lots of tea towels, dry and immaculate. White tile catching the light (ting! ting!).”
Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen
Kitchens […]
