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We have wood floors in our kitchen. Keeping them clean is not an issue at all, and they are much easier on the back than a stone/concrete material.

Water is a real concern, though. Plumbing mishaps can be disastrous, and there are a lot of ways those can happen. (Refrigerators with water dispensers, I'm looking at you.)


Apartment Therapy The Kitchen | Hot or Not: Wood Floors in The Kitchen
5/1/08 10:09 AM

Given your stated requirements, I agree with the recs for Caesarstone. Looks very modern and will require very little upkeep.

Stainless would do a fine job as well, but you have to be ready for the "patina" of scratches that stainless develops over time. Some love it; many don't.


Apartment Therapy The Kitchen | Good Question: What Is the Best Material for a Kitchen Work Surface?
4/8/08 7:56 AM

Generally speaking, an electric stove will bring water to boil faster than a gas one.

That's all I've got.


Apartment Therapy The Kitchen | Good Question: Help Me Feel Better About My Electric Stove
3/27/08 1:26 PM

I'd love to say something complicated, but what sounds delicious right now is omusoba.


Apartment Therapy The Kitchen | Thursday Giveaway: Win a Copy of Morimoto: The New Art of Japanese Cooking
3/27/08 9:34 AM

We recently went from closed to open and love it. Yes, smells do tend to travel a bit easier, and yes, you have less chance to be "lazy" about cleanup. But it is great when guests are over, and since our kitchen has a lot of windows, it brought a lot of light into the rest of the house.

If anything, having a bar (on an island that houses our stove and oven) actually keeps people out of the actual kitchen. Whereas previously, guests would lean against the counter and invariably be in my way, now they can have a seat at the bar, enjoy their drinks, and chat while I finish the meal. (open or closed, I always prep ahead of time).


Apartment Therapy The Kitchen | Open vs. Closed Kitchens: Which Do You Prefer?
3/18/08 8:24 AM

Nadiarl,

Here's the back-of-the-envelope math I did, which for simplicity's sake ignores offsets, gaps etc:

A 12" drawer that's 24" deep gives you two square feet of storage. Two 12" drawers will give you four square feet of storage.

If you replace the two 12" drawers with a corner drawer, you now have a drawer that's sqrt(1^2 1^2) feet wide. From what I can tell, the back is triangular-shaped, so the notch in is compensated for by a notch out. In other words, you end up with an effective depth of sqrt(2^2 2^2). That gives you a drawer with area sqrt(2) * sqrt(8), or four square feet.

This ignores the various offsets associated with cabinet-making, but for all intents and purposes, you haven't gained anything; you just get to cram everything into one long and awkwardly-shaped drawer instead of two standard drawers.


Apartment Therapy The Kitchen | Small Kitchen Space Makers: Corner Kitchen Drawers
3/5/08 3:09 PM

These are certainly fun, but I don't see how they actually improve anything.

You don't solve the drawer-bumping problem, but instead just pass it along to the next set of drawers. If anything you make it worse, since when the corner drawer is open, there are two other drawers that you can't open, rather than just one.

And you don't actually gain any space. Rather than wasting a square-shaped corner space, you waste two triangular-shaped spaces on either side of the drawers. Back-of-the-envelope math says that the area is the same: you just trade in two rectangular drawers for one awkward chevron-shaped one.

But at least they're expensive :)


Apartment Therapy The Kitchen | Small Kitchen Space Makers: Corner Kitchen Drawers
3/5/08 12:00 PM

Hot!

Why would you want cold fondue?


Apartment Therapy The Kitchen | Hot or Not: Chocolate Fondue
1/22/08 8:12 AM

Nice CG.


Apartment Therapy - Fall Colors Finalist #3: Nathaniel Keith's Blue Period
10/31/07 7:45 PM

As Theresa alludes to, the Modernica version has a fiberglass shell, just as the originals did. The HM version instead uses polypropylene.

I think "authenticity" is a matter of opinion. Modernica is using an authentic process. HM has the rights to the name. I say go with the one you like better.

Personally, I prefer the texture and look of the fiberglass in the Modernica version. It also comes in a lot more colors:

http://www.velocityartanddesign.com/mdsscdb.html


Good Questions: Modernica or Herman Miller Eames Chair?
4/9/07 7:04 AM

If you like the mugshots, check out Chris Crites, who has a series of mugshots painted on paper bags:

http://www.bagpainter.com/


Slinksn. (slingks) Surreptitious web links to other good sites
3/26/07 7:39 AM