Hi all–
Fellow breaktimer David Espostio have been working on a new kitchen for my c. 1913 Baltimore house. We finished the carpentry yesterday. There’s still some painting and touch-up to do. But I thought the kitchen was far enough along to post a few pictures. Many, many thanks to all the Breaktimers who provided such valuable advice along the way.
FYI, the floors are reclaimed maple. As David will attest, the boards arrived in much worse shape than we were led to believe. So we spent a good thirty hours between us, scraping the tongues of every piece and then sorting usable boards from unusable.
I built the base of the central butcher block from some salvaged dining room table legs. I’m not sure of the vintage of the table legs, but the carved faces are definitely not for the faint of heart.
The kitchen design evolved from the desire to grill inside. That determined the purchase of the Wolf rangetop, which in turn dictated the vent hood, which in turn set the location of the appliance, since there was only one ventable wall.
I’m proudest of the schedule we kept to. I promised my wife that our kitchen would be disconnected for a maximum of three weeks and four days (a timeframe that included a week for drywall and and taping, and a week for the installation and finishing of the floors). Thanks to the brute hard work of David Esposito, and the flexibility of our subs, we met our schedule to the day.
I’ll post four pictures. Hope you like them.
–Olsh
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Olsh,
The pics are too big for dialup.
And I would suggest that you make a reply to this thread, and put your other three pics in that reply. Your other three threads are liable to be deleted as repeats. You could have put all 4 pics in this one post.
If you need any help doing any of that, just say the word. There are several here who can help you.
: )
For the rest of the time that you're given
Why walk when you can fly
quittintime
Thanks Luka. The files are pretty big, but the numbers are deceptive. I'm on a dialup connection myself, and I downloaded the first jpeg, anyway, in just a few seconds.
I'm using AOL, which further compresses the files. I've had the experience in the past of minimizing a jpeg, only to find that the double compression blurred the picture beyond recognizability.
In any case, please try downloading just one and let me know if it takes forever. I'll do what I can to fix that problem if it crops up.
Thanks again for the input,
--Olsh
What make hood did you use?
I used a Broan "Best" hood (model K42) which moves air at about 1200 CFM. I thought it was overkill, but now, having grilled several times, including sausages, which flared up nicely and generated a ton of smoke, I'm a believer. The hood sucked it all right out. Expensive, though. Like $1700. And a bit of a pain to modify to tie into horizontal ducting.
Ah cooking! Well I do those sausage cooking outside with the camp burners. I like the butcher block, the feets are just right! I notice the "light" above it, what is it?
Bluegillman
The light is a hammered tin piece from Mexico. We found it in a shop in Georgetown (D.C.) which specialized in Mexican imports. I wired it up with some lamp parts from the Despot. It doesn't give off much light, but it's atmospheric and the the recessed halogen task lighting we installed takes care of the practical needs.
--Olsh
Olsh
You can post the pics on the same thread! You don't have to start a new one each time.
I was reading your thread, as I came to the part of the carved legs I couldn't wait any longer, had to click on it right away!
Man those are some legs!!!
Nice looking kitchen, and I do like what you did with the butcher block.
We eagerly await more pics.
Doug
way cool!..love it
BTW...AOL @ 26400..slow today..took 10 secs. to download..dialup..prospero is FIXED..
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at 38667kbs it took mine nearly two minutes to download this one. The photo size is actualy not bad as he uploaded it but some kind of excess info must be included in the file. Here is my resave after only minor edit, much smalller file but still took 57 seconds to uploAD
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no difference for me..same time MOL...maybe yer data rate is bogus..or mine is...10 secs to actually SEE the pic..I dunno I just went back to dialup last month and I still hate it..I want my BB back...never happen out here tho'..price ya pay for livin in the sticks
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It took me 15sec. on netzero and I don't know what the speed was,is
Thanks for the repost. I'm sorry that the jpeg took so long to download. Two minutes is a punitive amount of time to wait, I think. I hope you look at the other jpegs. Let me know if you'd like me to post skimpier versions.
--Olsh
I'd be glad to look at others if I had a clue where they are. I harvest quite a few photos from here for discussion purposes and sometimes inspiration, especially kitchens. For instance, right now, I am doing a kitchen with an open question about the style of range hood to use. The one that comes with the rang, one like yours, or a self made with maple enclosure to match the wall cabinets.
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Looks like Prospero might have eaten the other three pics I posted. But try again. I just posted smaller versions of the pics, and all within a single post.
Thanks in advance for taking a look...
--Olsh
Here's your #3 resized. I still don't see the others elsewhere resized, but oh well.
Most forums make a request that photos and other attachments to posts be kept down to 75KBS or less in size. Some have their software set to require it or reject the attachment. It is not only a matter of politeness to other downloadeers but it takes more space on servers and more bandwidth to handle the traffic.
This is a minor inconvenience for me and one I can choose to do or not do - downloading various photos. But I sometimes get emails from people who don't know any better and it ties up my line for twenty minutes and occasionally jams up my whole system requiring a restart just 'cause some jerk wanted to share a GIANT photo of his son picking his nose or something and there goes a half hour of my life. I will reply politely to someone like that once requesting that they not do it anymore and if I get another like that, I put their email on my black list to be filtered out by my spam filters.
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Gee it's too bad that couldn't have been included in this thread without starting yet another whole thread anew. I'm linking it here to bump this thread - the primary one, to the top and try keeping all your replies and conversation in one place to avoid all the confusion.
http://forums.taunton.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=tp-breaktime&msg=42909.1
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Sorry to have made such a mess of this posting. But thanks for sticking with it, and for all the logistical help.
As for your question about the sinks, yes, there are two. I didn't dare post any more pictures, for fear of being permanently blacklisted. This kitchen is actually quite small, and I questioned the utility of two sinks not more than six feet apart, but my wife was adamant that we keep both of them, so I did. I think she envisions using one for wash-up, and the other for prep.
I didn't mention this, since it's kind of tacky, but one of the other aspects of this job that I'm proud of is that we did it for around 35K. Given that appliances, flooring, Silestone countertops, cabinet doors and drawerfronts (from Scherr's in North Dakota, by the way), custom cabinetry, and trim (soft maple, which I had milled to match the existing trim in the rest of the house) constituted about 18K, I'm pretty happy with the bang we got for our buck. The rest was spent on plumbing, electrical, drywall, flooring, and carpentry (i.e., David Esposito, whose craftsmanship and patience were key). We considered doing more of the job ourselves, but the tight timeframe was the driver here, so we farmed out more of the work than we otherwise would have.
Some neighbors have already expressed an interest in my doing their kitchen. I warned them that if I were to be compensated for my time, that we'd be talking about a 60 or 65K job. They didn't seem too bothered.
So I'm beginning my research into becoming a G.C. for real, as a complement to writing novels. I'll keep you posted...
--Olsh
no sweat dude! That figure is a good one for all yiou fitted into the space.
Time does become a part of the equation, more so for kitchens unless you like cold cereal and sandwhiches on paper plates. When I do a kitchen and they ae living there, the eating plan becomes part of the schedule or I figure a few dinners out in the price. It helps ease the tensions.
go ahead and post more photos, you know now that you can do it as part of a reply within this thread now, right? you hit the reply button below and then use the attchment button under the reply window to add photyos to any post.
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skimpier would be good.
I'm still awaiting in minute three for all of your #2 to download. Found that you haad several new kitchens here in the gallery. I think someone already mentioned that you can group them all in the same thread to avoid confusion. You can post the smaller versions all in a reply here in this thread.
OK I have #2 now. The lift out doors nigh the fridge are interseting, What items do you store there and why were you inclined to do it that way? Is that sink the only one or is there another - I know, I'll see when I get the other photos.
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You asked about those horizontal cabs. We had seen some at Ikea and liked them. It was a bit of a pain to find a lid support that would lock them upright and ease them down, but I found one made by a company called Delta which did the trick. We'll use the lower one as a regular cabinet. The upper one has a secret inside--a cable hookup and an outlet. That way, if we want to see something on TV, we can raise the door out of the way. When we're done, we lower the door, and the TV is hidden.
The only downside to this approach is that you have to have a very shallow TV. We haven't sprung for one of those flat screen LCD numbers yet--the 13" ones are $400 or so. We figure the price will keep coming down.
But we like the idea of keeping the TV out of the way and hidden most of the time.
--Olsh
nice kitchen however one thing i noticed was the raised panel on the right side of the stove does not go down to the cabinet which i feel it should have . was that an after thought ? that want on after the templating ??
The raised panel wasn't an afterthought. I guess where it ends is simply a matter of taste. I decided to scribe it to the countertop, rather than have the countertop scribed to it. I think that results in a cleaner joint at their intersection, since the panel covers the slight gap that the countertop guys left so they could fit that small piece.
--Olsh