Long before we even started the actual plans for the Unicorn Kitchen, before we’d even closed on Maple Hoo, we started collecting artwork for the kitchen walls. Our seminal inspiration kitchen is our Aunt Cindy’s in Manhattan Beach, where she has two tiny canvases on her wide windowsill. One is of an intricate, [...]
I’m pretty sure we’ve mentioned in this space before that we’re slobs. I’m also pretty sure that it’s become apparent that we’re people who enjoy having lots of stuff. When we moved into Maple Hoo we thought we were going to be starting a remodel right away, and so the convergence of our [...]
One of the driving forces in our lives is the pursuit of what we call the “Newer, Better Life” feeling. Sometimes Newer, Better Life manifests itself as an actual activity (like the time we impulsively decided while in London to attend a free outdoor screening of Charlie Chaplin shorts with live music on a [...]
So we don’t think we’re bragging, per se, when we say our kitchen is quite the looker.
But the beauty of this unicorn kitchen isn’t just skin deep. Of course, when we walked into our designer’s showroom with our wallets open, he got all excited about selling us all the bells and whistles — how [...]
It’s all well and good for a Unicorn Kitchen to look good — in fact, it’s really hard for a new kitchen not to look good — but the real test of a remodel is how it works. Our designer, John, was very excited when we first came to him with our project because [...]
About four years ago we engaged in our first foray into the wonderful world of kitchen redesigns. At the time, we took an early-90’s builder-grade townhouse kitchen, with its indeterminate-origin wood cabinets and laminate floor, and turned it into what we thought was the pinnacle of individualistic design. We wanted white cabinets, dark [...]
So we’ve shown off the classic “Before & After” views of the Unicorn Remodel, and aside from the sort of obvious underlying message of “it cost a lot of money to get that done”, there’s not much pain and suffering present. We fully put forth that no one cares about how miserable a remodel [...]
We moved into Maple Hoo two and a half years ago. We knew before we moved in that we were going to remodel the kitchen. You’ve been hearing us talk about the waiting to start, the being in the remodel process, and the gradual everyday use of the increasingly completed project. You’ve [...]
We’re slobs. And we have a fancy new kitchen. The kitchen isn’t even really 100% done (I’d put us at about 99% at this point), but already we’ve buried it under piles of slovenly mess. The disorganization and clutter that drives me most batty is our wine storage problem in the pantry; [...]
Floor
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During our last kitchen remodel we let the designer talk us out of putting in a cork floor. Not so this time! The cork was the one thing we refused to back down on, and now that it’s finally in, [...]
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