The Movie
Koontz - The movie I obliquely referred to is called, Somethings Got To Give. I should double check that, and somewhere on the pile on my desk is my copy of the magazine that featured another replica of the kitchen. It's the kitchen in Diane Keatons' vacation home. Lord, I should probably also look up the spelling of her name!!!
But I'm not finding my magazine right away-so I'll double check the information when I clean-up.
It's a lovely kitchen; honed black granite for the counters, (and though I typically would fight a client installing granite in an older home; the honed variety fits right in), white cabinetry that rises to an eleven foot ceiling, (one of the few variations on the movie/ magazine kitchen, where it appears the ceilings are standard height---poor slobs)! Large windows with approrpiately wide trimwork. Client chose brushed stainless refrigerator, dishwasher, faucets and sink and the floor, which is a straight grain douglas fir, is being sanded by the client to achieve a dristressed finish. My flooring guy didn't want the job of sanding off the client's paint job on the floor because he didn't trust that she would be happy with the end result. He thought it needed to look new, and no amount of talking could convince him that was not the look the client wanted. Though she wants the kitchen to function like new, she wants it to fit in with the rest of her house. It will look perfect I think. Along with all the above, we also redid the lighting; installing both recessed, old-fashioned pendant lights and cabinetry and task lighting. We also re-worked the staircase that enters this kitchen from upstairs so that it replicated a simpler version of the fancy hand rail/ballistrats and newel posts from the front side of the house.
It's really a lovely room both for the house and for the family and I am happy to say that whether you enter the room a month after we're gone, or ten years, you won't ever be aware the room went through a remodel, it just fits that well.
Oh, and one of the dogs had puppies while I was away this weekend-so now we have NINE dogs! Yea Gods!
But I'm not finding my magazine right away-so I'll double check the information when I clean-up.
It's a lovely kitchen; honed black granite for the counters, (and though I typically would fight a client installing granite in an older home; the honed variety fits right in), white cabinetry that rises to an eleven foot ceiling, (one of the few variations on the movie/ magazine kitchen, where it appears the ceilings are standard height---poor slobs)! Large windows with approrpiately wide trimwork. Client chose brushed stainless refrigerator, dishwasher, faucets and sink and the floor, which is a straight grain douglas fir, is being sanded by the client to achieve a dristressed finish. My flooring guy didn't want the job of sanding off the client's paint job on the floor because he didn't trust that she would be happy with the end result. He thought it needed to look new, and no amount of talking could convince him that was not the look the client wanted. Though she wants the kitchen to function like new, she wants it to fit in with the rest of her house. It will look perfect I think. Along with all the above, we also redid the lighting; installing both recessed, old-fashioned pendant lights and cabinetry and task lighting. We also re-worked the staircase that enters this kitchen from upstairs so that it replicated a simpler version of the fancy hand rail/ballistrats and newel posts from the front side of the house.
It's really a lovely room both for the house and for the family and I am happy to say that whether you enter the room a month after we're gone, or ten years, you won't ever be aware the room went through a remodel, it just fits that well.
Oh, and one of the dogs had puppies while I was away this weekend-so now we have NINE dogs! Yea Gods!
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