Kitchen Planning-Orlando
Copper also gets the vote of many chefs. It’s highly conductive, distributes the heat evenly and releases food particles quickly for cleaning. Copper for cooking is always lined with stainless steel to prevent heat-induced toxicity. A copper bowl for whisking egg whites is not lined; it gives more volume and a stable foam that’s harder to overbeat. Just don’t use an unlined copper bowl to cook in.
Whisk it away. Restaurant countertops often have disposal holes with bins positioned beneath them so scraps can be swept straight into the trash without having to open a cupboard or lift a lid with dirty hands — highly convenient if you have the counter space. It can even look neat and stylish, like this chunky one made of wood.
“Kitchens with contrast” is what designer Tecola Robinson of Tecola Camille Interiors likes to call the trend she’s seeing lately that pairs black or dark kitchen cabinets with warm brass or gold hardware. The combination delivers a high dose of drama and elegance, and creates contrast with the white tones found in popular backsplash and countertop materials.
This island, with its dramatic waterfall countertop, adds a stunning focal point to this white and wood kitchen. The stone’s multi-hued coloring pulls together the different elements of this kitchen, seamlessly melding the two-toned cabinetry and four different tiles into one cohesive look.
cabinets
Note wood handles stained to disappear
Corner Shelves. Using open shelves for some of the uppers makes for an attractive kitchen feature and lets you perch lunch plates, breakfast bowls, recipe books and other daily essentials within easy reach. Using shelves instead of a corner cabinet allows you to avoid dark corners and frames your items to create an attractive display with architectural appeal.
Corner Gallery Cabinets- If you prefer to store items such as plates and serveware in a corner cabinet, consider using glass inserts on both sides of the cabinet to make the items within visible. This will keep you from losing items in back corners that you can’t see and create a beautiful gallery case-like feature.
Corner drawers like this work well for storing small items that can fit into the odd angles, making them a good place to store cooking utensils, seasoning jars and other small items
For drawers, a pentagon shape won’t work, so the usable cabinet interior is still essentially a rectangle, but it’s angled outward. In this case, there will be some wasted slivers of space around the drawers, but the drawers themselves will be be easy to use with no complicated pullouts required. Again, the trade-off comes down to preference: You get a little less square footage for storage, but also less hassle.
Pentagon shaped cabinet- Cabinets that face forward into the kitchen can come in two different shapes. One is a pentagon shape that uses the entire corner. If the front of a pentagonal cabinet is wide enough, the interior will be fairly easy to reach into, although the interior corners will be a bit hard to see from the outside. This can be a good place to store large but lightweight items such as pots, or seasonal items that don’t have to be taken out often. Can't be used for drawers
The odd, blobby shapes of shelves like this allow them to smoothly swing out of the cabinet without bumping into the sides or corners. This reduces the square footage of shelf space a bit but makes it much easier to dig out medium-size appliances such as mixers and blenders or large pots without struggle.
Spin-out shelves that rotate out of the cabinet (instead of just spinning inside the cabinet) to allow access to more of the shelf at once. Many modern systems, however, allow for a fuller extension of the shelves, such as this example that allows the entire shelf to extend out of the cabinet (with each shelf moving individually so the bottom one isn’t covered by the top).
pair a Lazy Susan with an angled corner cabinet to allow for an entire circle to fit inside instead of the cheese-wheel shape. This particularly clever example uses an octagon shape instead of a circle to maximize usable space while still allowing it to easily line up with the door.
Walnut cabinets?
easy-to-reach upper corner cabinet door: opens like an accordion and doesn’t waste any storage space.
Style note: High ceilings need tall gestures. This ceiling soars to 15 feet, and the mirrors over the sinks extend from the faucets up to the base of the vault.
Use Tile to Define Space
horizontal-grain rift-cut white oak cabinetry, ... and a floating shelf.
Built in walnut cabinets - but look at the mixed grain pattern.
Backsplash - covered the backsplash of this Atlanta wet bar with fish scale tile in three shades of blue. Navy paint behind the open shelves in the center picks up the darkest color in the tile.
The lower cabinets are oak with a cerused finish. The technique uses liming wax or white paint to accentuate the wood grain.
walnut cabinetry- note grain & color
A cleaning caddy with a handle is a worthwhile investment: You won’t have to bend over far to grab the handle and bring your supplies where you want to use them. In the kitchen seen here, a caddy is built into the pullout hardware.
Countertop material: Design used porcelain that mimics the look of Calacatta Gold marble but without the maintenance. Merz says porcelain is comparable to quartz but is slightly more expensive. When it comes to the look of veining, she says, porcelain does a better job. “Veining in quartz tends to look very digitized,” she says. “It’s getting better, but porcelain veining looks more natural.”
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