Three thirty in the afternoon, mid-November, a kitchen in Admiral. The overhead light has been on since about two. Outside, the sky is the flat, even white that passes for…
Open a drawer in a 1940s kitchen in Wedgwood and you can usually tell within about four seconds. If it glides on a wooden runner worn smooth by eighty years…
Picture the same run of white oak shelving in two different houses. In one it holds a stack of everyday bowls, a row of glasses and nothing else, and the…
The backsplash is usually the last material chosen in a kitchen and the first thing anyone notices walking in. It is also the decision most likely to be made in…
A homeowner sits down with us wanting a greener kitchen and opens with a material: bamboo counters, or recycled glass, or reclaimed fir for open shelves. Those are all real…
The most expensive quarter inch in a kitchen remodel is the one between a refrigerator and the cabinet opening built to receive it. Cabinet runs are manufactured to a drawing.…
Open the dishwasher door in most kitchens and watch what stops working. The drawer behind it cannot open. The path from the back door to the hallway is blocked. Whoever…
Homeowners often arrive at flooring already holding three samples. Two of them are usually reasonable, and the conversation that follows is not about which one is better. It is about…
A countertop sample is about the size of a paperback, and it is always shown to you clean, dry, and under lighting chosen to flatter it. Five years into ownership,…
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