Kitchen Island Waterfall Mishap
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Comments (42)I grew up with two stoves in our kitchen. One woodstove for helping heat the mainfloor of the house, but we also cooked all winter on it. We had the electric range for summer. Anyways above the cooking/woodburning surface of the woodstove was a white enameled shelf, for warming bread, or storing the extra oven mitts/drying winter gloves, and apparently not meant for storing the salt and pepper or any other spice that may slide off when the front door slams! Picture the slow slide of a can of ground pepper, as it tumbles off the shelf onto the roaring hot wood stove below. Can you say pepper spray? The crash of the tin was enough to make my mom grab the can, hence flinging it across the hot stove. We were cold that week. It took days to cool down and clean that stove. Every time we thought it was cleaned and relit..more pepper spray. It took nearly a year to repaint the kitchen where if you wiped the wall, the oily pepper smoke gagged you again. Oh,..don't think we learned the hard way..we did the same thing with a box of matches! Not nearly as bad, but look! Fireworks in the kitchen. An Aunt put beets through the pressure release valve of a pressure cooker..I've never touched one since. There was a 4" hole in the ceiling where the rocker blew through the drop ceiling..purple purple purple..everywhere! Another family member had the frying pan with the handle that would spin if you tried to carry the pan anywhere, but being a Le Crueset, they didn't stop using it, just adapted to directing the pan on the burner, but never actually picking it up, until a visiting friend made spaghetti sauce in said pan, forgetting the spinner handle spun the entire hot pan of sauce across the tile floor, bouncing it off cabinets, under the fridge, and into the hallway..in her hurry to clean it up..slid across the sauce/tile floor and plopped in a sobbing heap of wailing.."But the mushrooms..save the mushrooms".. apparently there were some rather expensive mushrooms in the sauce..oh..and perhaps some wine :)...See MoreShould I add a waterfall to my kitchen island?
Comments (5)Trendy, will date the house, and break someone's toe on a midnight snack run. There are other ways to spend that money that will improve this kitchen: Drawers on the lower cabs, cabs to the ceiling, undercab lighting with light layering rather than spotlighting the cabs, induction (or gas) stove, slide-in range, real hood, off setting the range from the sink, single sink, etc. Folks here will be happy to advise. New To Kitchens? Read Me First! https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/2767030/new-to-kitchens-read-me-first#n=0...See MoreKitchen island waterfall/countertops
Comments (31)If you like the Graceful Gray kitchen remodel image then take your cues from that with edge profile and countertop selection. The advantage of doing a solid perimeter is that you could have a bit more flexibility with backsplash options. But, if you will stick with one countertop selection throughout then I like Image #3 that Beth posted for both countertop and backsplash. If you are all about resale time is money and use these inspiration photos as working tools....See MoreWhere to put sockets in kitchen island with waterfall
Comments (5)Your kitchen designer usually designs in the locations during the electrical and lighting design phase, in conjunction with the cabinet plan. Because the bulk of the oulets has to be accounted for in the space planning of the cabinets. I used a 9” tray base, with the top section a blank drawer, to hold an outlet on this waterfall island....See Morekulrn
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