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Always neat to see other peoples kitchens and stove tops, my wife mentioned the other day she wants new cabinets. There are definitely some very artistic folks out there that take pride in their carpentry and cabinetry work.

Somehow I never took a picture after the appliances were installed.



The cabinets are mid-continent, pretty good quality for a factory built cabinet. Ours are cherry
http://www.midcontinentcabinetry.com/

We went with thermador appliances, I really, really like the 36" gas cook top.



We did a dual oven, though the upper oven is a steam oven. The steam oven is nice, but it has a really small interior and I think I would have rather gone with a second full size conventional oven.

Just beware that you can easily drop a small fortune on cabinets, counter tops and appliances. If you go with custom cabinets with exotic woods, granite counter tops and professional appliances you can hit $50k in materials no problem.

Mine is 1978 vintage and I want to remodel but thinking about building instead.

We remodeled our 1923 Dutch Colonial Kitchen a couple years ago. Small "Galley" style but not likely to expand this house as we're only here for another 8 years before we flee the People's Republic of Maryland.

Added a new beer/wine/soda fridge (Winning!)


Gas cooktop. Very happy with it. I timed it. On the big burner boiled 3 gallons of water in 4 minutes.



Having had an (electric convection) oven up at eye level we'll never have anything but again. The cabinet on the end is "one can deep" so nothing can hide.



This is one of the things I like best. The small round items are magnetic spice containers. No more hiding in a cabinet! The GC had never seen anything like it and they have had several customers do this since.

The place south.









The place north.







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Beautiful kitchens. Ed, how do like your Viking stove? What are you cabinets made of in the South?

OK. I'll play. Here's my pedestrian kitchen after remodel a couple years ago. I also went with Mid-Continent cabinets (http://www.midcontinentcabinetry.com/).

Had an old friend who does custom woodworking and kitchens where I'm from hook me up with a Brit friend who does a lot of business with them. He got me a great price and helped me complete the design. These are all maple. Very pleased.

my wife designs kitchens ...for a living..

I'd give my left you know what for that Viking stove!

Mike

when I retired and moved out of Miami in '06, we bought a small, older home. Still have it, and the kitchen is a plain vanilla galley. I have new appliances, but need to re do the cabinets and counter tops.
I cook less and less these days, being by myself a good bit of the time, so the kitchen is not as important to me as it used to be.

That's OK, Sam, a kitchen with coals, grates and CI is a lot more fun...

My kitchen is not photogenic, but I do have a nice view of the backyard!

We like the stove though would prefer a bit more depth. They hold the depth to line up reasonably with the standard cabinet depth. I believe the cabinets are alder.

Sam and sse, I'm sure your views out to the back yard are a lot better than mine here in Urbania.

Don't have any pics of mine, but its a fairly small, almost a galley kitchen design but with a very similar range of wooden units as to those already posted.

When I do it again, I want to address my two pet peeves..

The first concerns the built in hob..At the moment I have a standard 4 ring halogen which is ok I suppose but at times, I find it very "cramped"..

I don't necessarily need more rings, (although another would be nice) but I would love a hub with the rings that are more spaced out to allow for larger pans..

My second peeve is my current cooker hood…

It is a fixed unit and is simply too low with the bottom of the hood being about eyebrow height for me..It is also quite noisy when the built in extractor fan is running..

In my next kitchen I will defiantly have a much higher hood and probably go for an externally mounted extractor fan along the lines of a commercial set up…

Here's a finished pic

458,
That's cool! I like that center stovetop area. I bet you get people sitting on the stools droolin'!

I think we have the same frig.

Hey, that rice cooker looks familiar.

We still haven't gotten stools for the island, then again we still haven't unpacked all of our boxes in the basement. Gotta figure out where my x-large cast iron skillet is???

I've always wanted an island cook top and even though my wife will continue to give me grief about the added price of upgrading the appliances I'd do it again. The builders plan was for a 5' island and a range where the ovens are. I bumped up the island to 6' wide and the work flow in the kitchen is really slick. I usually prep next to the sink and layout items on the side of the island. Facing the cooktop the left side of the cabinets have a slide out trash can so it's really efficient either while prepping or clearing plates after a meal. We're on a septic system so we try and put all scraps in the trash.

I don't recall the brand of rice cooker, got it from Costco and hid my wife's birthday present in it. It was pricesless to see her face, oh, a rice cooker, how nice. Dear, open it up. Oh, dimond earings, HOW NICE!

I have a #14 Griswold you can borrow until you find your big one. It's a beast

Yep. Same rice cooker. Nice work on the hidden gem. Think a vacuum cleaner woulda' worked the same? Naah. Me either. I'm guessing you'd have got clunked in the head with it before the cat's out of the bag.

Can't beat the large Islands. Here's a few photos of our kitchen.

Nice kitchen there Paul. nice play on the rice cooker too!

Your layout is similar to what I put in when I remodeled my KS house. There's a horror story there by golly.

Current kitchen here must have been designed by Anne Frank. I hate it.

It's amazing how having just a bit more counter space and an island makes a huge difference in the kitchen. Here was our old kitchen before and after I remodeled it.









Actually that was the second phase of the remodel, it used to be a C shape with a partial devided between the kitchen and dining room but opening it up made the small area feel larger.

Very nice kitchens gents.

That kitchen in the before pics looks exactly like my existing layout. We have the partial separating the kitchen and dining room also. My wife wants to essentially do everything you did.

I don't know if I dare show her this...

P.S. Do you have any pics from a ways back in the dining room looking into the kitchen? I'm assuming you have a small Island out of sight of these pics?

I don't think I have any before pictures that showed the old counter top the made the divider between the kitchen and dining room.

I don't have access to my photos, but what I did install and isn't shown on the photos is on the right side of that photo there is a wall that divides the kitchen/dining room from the living room with openings by the fridge and dining room. The wall is ~8' long and I installed 6' cabinet bases, counter top and cabinets above that provided lots of storage and more than made up for loosing the previous divider.

The old kitchen was ~10' wide and just too narrow for an island. The new kitchen is ~13' wide and has lots of space around the island. It's a trade off between storage space and floor space but try and keep as much floor space as possible as its nice not feeling cramped in the kitchen. I think our builder recommends about 40" around an island to keep from feeling cramped. I could add some cabinets or wall storage to the right of the island, but since we have a pantry off the kitchen we're not likely to add them even though the pantry is full +p+

Your house layout sounds identical to mine. I would be curious to see more pics of your remodel if you get the chance. Thanks in advance if you can swing it!

Ditto. Mine has an identical configuration to his, save for his is much nicer. Also, where his fridge is, is a doorway in mine, with the fridge across from it.

We finally sold the house today, so unless I can find photos that's all I've got. I'll try and sketch up a floor plan.

Oops, just remember the listing had pics that are much better than I ever took. We ended up replacing the laminate again and putting in new appliances to give it that move in ready look. Don't know how long these pics will be on there since we closed today.











BTW the wide angle lens makes the house look much more spacious than it really is. No real good pic of the cabinets on the divider wall but I think you can make it out and get an idea of what I did. Replacing the old fluorescent fixture with the recessed lights gave it a much cleaner/modern look as well.

there is some room on the fridge for one more pic , I could draw and color something up ! An send down to ya? !! Did u ever get a steam over,or I'm I mixing threads ?

Yes on the steam oven, and unfortunately the new fridge is magnetic stainless.



One would think with two in college and the "baby" a Jr. in HS momma wouldn't need to plaster the fridge with stuff.

Very cool! Thank you

Heres mine. In the middle of a remodel right now. Complete gut job, and took out the wall between the kitchen and dining. Doing it all myself including building the cabinets from scratch.

Ya think?

Here's the view from our kitchen.

Out the back door.

Nice pics, fellas. I can dream.. for now.

Mine ain't too painful.

Hard to get a good photo without people in it, when Venison and taters are on the flat top --- Web

Good to see you posting Web! I won't show my early 80's shack kitchen ..it needs a serious update and couldn't compare to those shown above.

Seubs, that's pretty darn cool know-how. And it's starting to look really nice, to boot!

But eh, that shack's location can't be beat!

Outdoor kitchen in the early stages..



a bit more refined...



would add more but photobucket is fubar

Much nicer than mine...

You fellers are so civilized.

Not really.

nothing like being outdoors

Floating kitchen



To say shrimp straight from the pot to the skillet is outstanding would be an understatement.

That's class cowboy, there!

Now 458Lott has me drooling

Looks cozy, Ed!

eh76 -- The smell of good food cooking woke me up--- Thanks Web

Venison Orsini

That and a good gum bleeding stick of sourdough and I would be more than set.