The second submission we received in response to our call for parlor floor kitchen examples was from a contractor who designed and built his own. Here’s a condensed version of what he had to say about it:

I feel that the kitchen is the most important part of the house for daily living & entertaining. I am a contractor and did most everything myself. Designing the space to look nice and work really well got much more complicated because I like vintage appliances. What can I say? I’m just not the Viking, Sub-Zero kind of guy…I removed the wall between the back two rooms and put in a header, making a room the full 20′ wide. Took out a dumbwaiter too so I would have enough room for the farm sink (I’m making a special base cabinet for it ), Hidden dishwasher, 1935 Chambers stove, and a new Northstar refrigerator. I took out a window and made a door with transom that walks out on an iron deck overlooking the garden. I kept the bathroom off the hall and extended the original tin ceiling, Stripped all the cherry molding & doors and re-installed the old pocket doors. It became the best room in the house and we spend most all of our time there.

What can we say…another beauty. More pics on the jump.
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