Kitchens and Thanksgiving

The kitchen , there is no better place while preparing Thanksgiving special turkey  dish and sharing your favorite cocktail or glass of wine with the love ones and friends. The Kitchen is the heart of the home, and today’s kitchens are more styled than ever. The combination of pleasing aesthetic with function creates a better flowing ambiance and with unique features that seamlessly integrate function and style. Innovative storage solutions are allowing homeowners to customize their kitchens in new ways while keeping favorite kitchen tools and ingredients at their fingertips. Modular kitchen units are definitely a must for storage, with so many options now for your cabinetry and appliances.  With fully integrated refrigerator, dishwasher and stove are all part of the new luxury in kitchen storage. Basically all the major appliances are built-in and are flush with the surrounding cabinetry. Some come with under the counter refrigerators for beverages to create more space in the kitchen. These items can be custom paneled to blend right in with your cabinetry and are great for storing produce. More efficient storage also means more entertainment in this friend and family hub of the home. Wine bars are becoming a popular feature that can easily fit among the kitchen pantry and other storage. There are some amazing systems that have such smart, condensed storage. The lighting as well has developed where now you can have some interesting lights under and inside the cabinets and blend in harmony with the ambience light, with remote wireless sensors controls.  

It is all year around the center place for family and friends, but now more then ever the kitchen is the Queen of the house. This magic house epicenter should be appropriately designed so that those fabulous dishes keep coming testing somehow better and better.

posted by Alberto Isoni

Design layouts that work well

For the lucky ones that have a nice size outdoor space with the layout of what I like to call it “the magic three”- nice size working kitchen that opens into a livingroom and into a garden or patio - this configuration is a bless one especially if you are in a climate zone where you can truly enjoy the outdoor environment. It could be layout as one space after the other (Kitchen, Livingroom and Outdoor) or as a triangle were Kitchen and Livingroom are next to each other and the outdoor is accessed from any of the two rooms.

Imagine, you can step out directly into your patio, terrace or garden in the morning just to have breakfast, or to read your favorite magazine or the book that has been capturing recently your attention. Or for an aperitif before lunch, or just to admire the stars at night and let you mind wonder, and maybe inspires you for the next whatever thing you are interested in doing, and after an amused sight you go back inside and realize how pleased you are that you have such a nice living atmosphere well designed and configured, and how glad you are that you hire a professional designer to help you clinched all together. The one that made it possible by understanding you wishes, needs, preferences and lifestyle and managed to capture them and blend them as one with the right balance of style, function and personality.  Now everyday you truly enjoy the multiple living spaces that have been created and smoothly integrated within the magic three. In top of that, how well the details have worked out, including some of the object that you already had and you though you could not employ. Nowadays when you invite friends over to entertain you noticed how well the configuration works, contributing to the right flow and guests enjoyment. Now if you do not have and outdoor area, you can still work with that professional designer to help you create the outdoor feeling even inside your home or condo, with appropriate plants and with the right accessories the unexpected can be created and achieved.

Posted by Alberto Isoni.