Parlor Kitchen #5: Where the Party's At
This may be our favorite one yet: This kitchen was designed to be at once functionally and aesthetically pleasing. The house is 22 feet wide hence allowing us to have a rather decent sized room of approximately 16×15. It’s so true that everyone congregates in the kitchen while the living room remains empty during large…
This may be our favorite one yet:
This kitchen was designed to be at once functionally and aesthetically pleasing. The house is 22 feet wide hence allowing us to have a rather decent sized room of approximately 16×15. It’s so true that everyone congregates in the kitchen while the living room remains empty during large gatherings. We had to sacrifice the dining room by about 1 foot to give it to the kitchen and I think the move really paid off. We’ve also tried to maximize storage space by framing an sitting nook with cabinets overhead.
If size was no object, I would have a kitchen island as long and large as possible. There’s something so cozy and functional about being able to carry out tasks on a surface in the middle of the room, be it cooking, eating, working, or simply hanging out. Outside the French doors is a slim balcony that leads to a staircase that goes down to the garden. We attach flower baskets to the balcony rails and put some fruit/herb planters on the deck. I’d highly recommend your friends to add some exterior focal point outside their kitchen as it’s the best way to take advantage of a parlor level kitchen layout.
It’s been about 3 years now and I can’t think of anything else I’d change about the kitchen. And oh yeah, the AGA rocks.
Bootyful.
Update: Check out more pics and description of the project on the jump.
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….a couple more photos to help put the kitchen in perspective. The parlor layout (22×50) is living room in front, dining room middle, and kitchen in back, plus hallway, staircase, powder room, the usual suspects.
As for materials – kitchen is rather straightforward and I think can be done to fit a range of budgets. Cabinets are paint grade wood with BM Dove White, floors are black slate from Home Depot, countertop & backsplashes are Carera grey marble, farmhouse sink, etc. The only statement piece is the AGA, but otherwise, the other components are run of the mill and don’t need to be expensive.
Having said that however, it really pays to have good carpentry, good painting, good lighting, and lastly, a good eye.
perhaps extraordinarily
I meant rhetorically. I agree with you entirely. Now, but perhaps not ordinarily.
Absolutely nothing. Just responding to the comment about how they spent more than “ordinary” people spend to buy a car.
And what could be so wrong about any of those combinations?
Maybe they’re not ordinary. Maybe they are extraordinary. Or maybe they are ordinary with an expensive stove. Or maybe they are extraordinary with an expensive stove.
What do you do with four doors on the AGA?
bake four things at the same time?
bake two things and dry your underwear in the other two?
Just asking.
It’s pretty, but a little ridiculous really. These things are made of solid cast iron and are meant to warm the room as well as your supper. It is a waste of energy in summer when the a.c. is trying to cool the place while the AGA is trying to warm it.
Modern ovens are insulated.
Its just a silly status symbol like gold teeth or something. i don’t get it.
3:54- I think they explained that it was a trade-off. They spent less on other things. Even if they had not, Don’t you know that people with lots of money not only live well but give money to all kinds of things that you care about? Why would you want to be so ugly and judgemental? You don’t even know these people.
12:28- ask yo’ mama
When I noted the conspicuous consumption being advertised by the Aga stove, I was not talking about the consumption of energy. I was talking about spending more on a STOVE than ordinary people spend to buy a car.