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I just watched this show, which is about Too Hot Tamale chef Mary Sue Milliken and her architect husband, who builds their new home with her dream kitchen. It's a very good, heartwarming show, and isn't so much about the process of designing the kitchen as it is about the evolution of their ideas and how they became reality. A great show for those of us who have remodeled or built new kitchens, it really shows the emotional and technical challenges in a human and endearing fashion.
But the big news, of course, is that these two, who could have used anything they wanted, went with IKEA cabinets! Custom walnut countertops and what looks like custom doors, but the guts are IKEA and were built by the homeowner, after several failed attempts at working with custom cabinetmakers and contractors. They used a few of the deep drawer base cabinets, which she comments are wonderful, and the uppers are all horizontals.
I was particularly pleased that the resulting kitchen is very similar in layout to mine...I feel validated that not only is it pleasing to a chef but also to an architect. Just a little brag on myself LOL
That show was fun to watch. It reminded us a lot of the process we've gone through for our house. But wait - here's another neat way to lay this out! And his constantly forgetting that she wanted the office in the pantry because that didn't make sense to him.
I thought the cupboards were IKEA, but DH said they were face frame. At any rate, they were RTA. I couldn't tell if they're unfinished or birch. It was a gorgeous kitchen, and should be even nicer when he finally decides just which shade of green to paint the cabinets!
DH definition
DH usually means Dear Husband (or, pick your own adjective starting with D).
I don't think they were framed cabinets, when she opened the horizontal ones they were definitely not framed. And the doors were full overlay, also. The clue for me was the flat-pack with the IKEA logo on them
That article is terrific! I think I've found my mantra:
He looks again to a Japanese philosophy of architecture, which involves never quite finishing a room. “The rooms are simple and austere because if they got any more done there would be this finality of it. In the whole process, there’s a life of the thing, the idea that it can change and evolve. Nothing is fixed. Furniture comes in and out, but when [a home] is done... it would be dead.”
These were definitely IKEA cabinets - there's a scene where they show Josh assembling the frames. My favorite part was where he puts a dowel in the wrong hole, and pulls it out using his teeth! He even says his dentist wouldn't be very happy with him.
I was thrown off by the non-IKEA doors, drawers and drawer fronts, but figured they must have had custom work done along the way.
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