Frank Lloyd Wright for sale St. Charles kitchen
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Comments (8)I don't know how the new St. Charles hold up but the kitchen I just took out was the old SC from 1964. We repurposed them in the laundry room and anywhere else they would fit in the basement. They look great - no scratches, chips or dents and all rollouts and hinges still work perfectly. They are super easy to keep clean too. Mine have some the extras like the built in lighting. There are still a lot of these kitchens in my area because they hold up so well! If the new ones aren't up to snuff I wouldn't hesitate to consider buying an older set and retrofitting it. I wish I could see the new line but the closest dealer is 5 hours away....See MoreKitchen island design
Comments (16)First off - congratulations on your new home! We will hope to see many progress pictures along the way. Some comments: Your kitchen as laid out looks very small for a 3000 square foot house. Framing is simply nailing boards in place (I'm sure I'm oversimplifying). When we framed and I needed to make adjustments, the boards were ripped out and then nailed again. I do not see a lot of storage at this point. Where will your plates, silverware, dishes go? I see you mention larger windows.... if you're relying on upper cabinet storage, that will reduce your wall space even more. (Solution - drawers in island). Consider 30" deep countertops along both runs with any upper cabinets 18" deep. Lower drawers will be deeper and allow for much more storage and you will be able to store larger items in the upper cabinets. Ex: You're planning a 24" stove? Can you put the stove in the upper right corner to free up a longer cabinet run on the left? No double ovens? (I love mine). Last - we have a 36" cabinet for our squarish island, which holds a prep sink and 1 trash, 2 recycling bins, and a composter. Love having the recycling close at hand. Good luck!...See MoreOriginal Frank Lloyd Wright house for sale
Comments (8)Wright houses have always been very specific in how Mr. Wright thought about them and designed them. In most cases, the houses were very site specific, i.e., they were conceived and designed based on the specific sites where they were located. No generic plans or designs! Mr. Wright also felt very strongly about where the major spaces and expense should be: in the spaces which were to be commonly shared and used by the entire family. Accordingly, kitchens, bedrooms and other individual spaces tended to be small and spare. He also felt strongly about sight lines and interior spatial sequences, often resulting in visitors to the house entering, and then turning at least 90-degrees and seeing the interiors across a diagonal view, resulting in the interior spaces creating a variety of experiences and seeming to be much larger than they actually were. He has often been criticized for some of his technical details, especially rain leakage, but no one has ever criticized him for lack of creativity or imagination, as far as I know....See MoreFrank Lloyd Wright updated bathroom
Comments (35)I don't think it's a matter of affecting historical significance so much as creating a bathroom that looks compatible with the house long-term. The original bathroom will always look "correct" in a house, no matter how old it is, because it's what the house came with. Replacements can be problematic. I doubt the people who put the remodeled baths in the FLW houses I've shown above thought they looked as out of place in the 1980s or 1990s or early 2000s as they look out of place now. Everything about the bath the OP has pictured says "original". Often the toilets got replaced, but that tile-in sink, faucet, the vertical tube lighting, and the Hall-Mack recessed soap dish, cup/toothbrush holder (which you can sell on eBay--a new-old-stock one is listed for $175), speak to the era of the house. I don't think the OP has to recreate the original bath, but the closer in spirit the bath is to the original house, the less likely it will look dated and out of place in seven years. It might still look dated (like the original looks dated) but not out of place, so much. I really would not use any tile that is trendy enough to say 2010s for example....See Moresushipup1
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