Entries tagged with 'kitchens'
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[Photograph: Rupert Blanchard] London-based designer and builder Rupert Blanchard made these nifty kitchen cabinet doors by veneering them with vintage tea packing chests from the 1930s to 1960s. The kitchen belongs to Time Based Arts, a post-production studio based out of an old Victorian townhouse attached to Shoreditch Town Hall. [via Re-Nest]...
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[hu2.com] Hu2 Design creates stickers that can be applied to walls, windows, furniture, or any other flat surface around the house. In the kitchen department, they've got some neato images of a corkscrew, plants, a fly swatter, and fridge contents. As a wee lass, I spent way too much money on stickers. Maybe it's time to readopt this financial approach. Related 'Print' Magazine's Food Issue Swissarmius, a Swiss Army Knife-esque Cutlery Holder Spilt Milk Cereal Bowl...
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Check out the ultimate "Man's Kitchen," according to Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor and Al Borland from Home Improvement. It's got everything today's man needs: vegetable pantry of beans and potatoes, super powered "macrowave," butcher, drink dispensers (beer, root beer, and Pepto-Bismol at your fingertips), and more. It's even self cleaning! Watch the video after the jump....
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Our cabinetry is set to arrive today, and installation is scheduled for tomorrow. If all goes according to plan, in a few days, we'll be moving forward with countertop fabrication. In the course of designing our kitchen, our choice for countertop materials was complicated. Since we use our kitchen so often, picking a durable, practical material was important, but so was aesthetics. Besides, this is the center of our home. Inspired by apothecary shops and old-school laboratories, we initially wanted materials like white marble and soap stone. Both can withstand the heat of a hot pot (though suppliers recommend trivets and cutting boards to further protect the countertop materials), and properly finished, they also provide a cool, smooth surface for...
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The hall floor, before and after renovation. Physical work on our new kitchen began about two and a half weeks ago and has been moving along. Our new tile floor is down and looking lovely, demolition is done, our stove hood ductwork is in place, most of the plumbing is completed, and electrical work is in progress. Leveling the Ceiling and Floor There have, however, been a few minor snags. These have mainly resulted from the fact that none of the surfaces in our kitchen or its adjoining hallway are level, square or even smooth. When measured from a level line struck around the perimeter of the room, the height of our ceiling varied by about two inches—a significant...
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Permits nearly in hand, contractors lined up, cabinets on schedule, appliances ordered—we are finally about a week or two away from beginning the actual construction on our new kitchen. With that in mind, this past weekend was a whirlwind of last-minute decision making and ordering and the realization of a potential snafu: tile. The Tile Design Though we had selected cabinetry and appliances with decidedly clean, modern designs, much of our initial design inspiration had come from the aesthetics of old apothecary shops and the pre-war details of our building. Thus, we had decided early on that we wanted to use small hexagonal tiles Though the majority of the floor was to be tiled in one color, we were...
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It's from the weekend, but there was a lot of great info in the New York Times's special kitchen issue. Here's a rundown of what you may have missed. Using Craigslist, second-hand items and even discarded Dumpster finds, a woman finds a cheap and green way to renovate her kitchen. The new trend in kitchen counters eschews granite in favor of other materials like wood, copper, soapstone and recycled materials. Designer Christopher Peacock's name is synonymous with luxurious kitchens with a six-figure price tag that have transformed him into a full-fledged brand. No need to revamp your kitchen to make it new and improved, however: check out this slideshow of sleek, subtle enhancements like a new sink or faucet: instant...
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The kitchens of 1999 didn't turn out as advanced as 1967 would've hoped. All a busy mother had to do was punch a dinner choice into the computer and a few seconds later a pre-portioned frozen meal would pop out of a conveyor belted microwave oven fully cooked. (Asshole husband and ODC son hopefully not included.) Watch the video, after the jump. [via Bitten and TreeHugger]...
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What goes on inside the vegan kitchen of musician Moby's New York City apartment? Watch Epicurious' video tour to peek into his refrigerator, look at his favorite kitchen tools ("If you're hungover, [the microwave] becomes your best friend"), and learn how to make vegan blueberry pancakes with spelt flour, oat bran, and wheat bran....
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An example of kitchen cabinetry from Veneta Cucine. It has been more than a month since my last post about our kitchen renovation, and unless one counts an evening of hasty plaster removal, the physical work has yet to begin. Nonetheless, we’ve made progress. As we had more or less expected, the lynch pin of the project, effecting overall scheduling, design and budget, has been the kitchen cabinetry....
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