ideal kitchen

i wanted and got no stairs or basement in the house that burnt, best choices
i ever made, and the stuff we lost just is not important enough to replace
most of it, inventorying all of that has really helped adjust my attitude on
what i really need to live, Lee
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Pete C. wrote:




I think persons who must wear shoes for medical reasons would
find that Buddhists and Pacific Islanders would not be so uptight
as to not let them wear shoes. When you've lived with a custom
for centuries you realize when not to apply it rigidly.

Anyway, my only point here is to caution against installing a type
of flooring that does not hold up to persons wearing shoes. What
happens when you install this fragile floor and two years later
your doctor instructs you to always wear shoes in the house? (Actual
rigid shoes, not slippers.) Seems at that point you've screwed yourself.

Steve
 
no to the matts, but my formica didn't break during me knocking something
over, at my aunt's i killed a couple of glasses, but i am not sure about
corian, sp that is the one surface i have no experience with, Lee
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Janet wrote:

I've got a 60W equiv. CFL in my hood and it's plenty of light for me,
I'm cooking, not shooting a movie :)


Odd angles will certainly make fitting standardized stuff problematic.


A remote fan will certainly be quieter, though a lot of people don't
like the way an outside fan looks in residential use.

600 CFM is really quite a lot if you are actually getting that flow.
Chances are you have ductwork restrictions and/or intake air
restrictions (tight house) that may be causing it to get less flow. A
typical HVAC air handler is 1,000-1,500 CFM, and that feeds quite a few
vents, 600 CFM exhaust should be plenty.


I presume it's a fancy name brand? Those parts for a "regular" brand
wouldn't be more than about $200.


Probably duct restriction if it's a 600 CFM fan.


No way to fix that without replacement.


Wanting to replace a failing cooktop, restricted vent system and too
small wall oven isn't a matter of aesthetics. Wanting to replace them
with $20k worth of fancy name brand items, vs. $5k worth of regular
equivalents is.


It is. My fridge started freezing the vegetable bins, however I fixed
that problem by repairing the broken motorized damper door in duct that
carried cold air over from the freezer section. That repair cost me 30
minutes out in my shop and no $.


I'm not sure how much truth there really is in that real estate sales
argument. Certainly there are numerous examples of people doing
expensive remodeling before selling a house, only to have the buyers
promptly rip everything out and do their own remodeling. I'm not sure
there is objective data that indicates the sale occurred sooner or at a
higher price due to that pre-sale remodeling and even if there is, it
was likely part of the now burst bubble and buyers will be more
cautious. Certainly when I've been the buyer, my prime concern was
location and lot size, two things I can't change. Whether the stove was
a Wolf or a GE was of little concern since that is something I can
readily change.


Yes, a solid unit with a non-elite (pun intended) brand name for half
the price of the fancy names. There are many other solid and reasonably
priced units available if you avoid the fancy showrooms. It is possible
to get a good set of kitchen appliances in the $5k range I noted.
 
no to the matts, but my formica didn't break during me knocking something
over, at my aunt's i killed a couple of glasses, but i am not sure about
corian, sp that is the one surface i have no experience with, Lee
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On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:08:59 -0600, "Storrmmee"
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Not that I can see.

But as Jean commented, we don't get an awful lot of direct sunlight in
our townhouse kitchen.

-- Larry
 
true for the most part, i have just been running through things in my head,
thinking about when i have destryed things in the past, what should have
been destroyed and for some reason wasn't, running through how we live life
has helped a lot in making decisions all throughout the house, sort of my
own personal life reveiw, and it really has helped in making the house
somewhere we will be comfortable, Lee
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On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:08:59 -0600, "Storrmmee"
wrote:


Not that I can see.

But as Jean commented, we don't get an awful lot of direct sunlight in
our townhouse kitchen.

-- Larry
 
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:13:13 -0600, "Pete C." wrote:



New floors, refinished floors, say you damage them with your shoes (grit it the
tread scratching, small pebbles, etc.) are you willing to pay for repair?

If you walked around my home with your shoes on, you wouldn't be invited back.
Yes I have slippers at the door.
 
Pete C. wrote:



Okay. What about the range from 0.11 acre to 0.99 acre? Are those
all urban?


Look it up, blue states have more GDP per capita than red states.
Within the blue state, blue counties have more GDP per capita than
red counties.

An inconvienient truth for you guys, I realize.


S.
 
In article , "Jean B."
wrote:



Of course, I don't know about your kitchen. Some people have switched
outlets, and their undercounter lights are plugged in to them. I find
that inconvenient, but part of that is because I don't live there, and
haven't learned which of the 200 switches control which lights.

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA
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Dan Abel wrote:
Oh, don't even talk about the myriad switches. And the anomalous
arrangements mean I probably can't use the switchplate covers that
my mom enameled.

--
Jean B.
 
Janet wrote:

Also... people can learn things from other cultures. I didn't
think about the shoe issue until I lived in Japan. Now that is
the way my daughter and I live.

--
Jean B.
 
Jean B. wrote:


One thing to keep in mind that some medical conditions require
some people to wear shoes pretty much at all times, even when indoors.
So it's not practical to require all people to always remove
their shoes. (Wearing non-scuffing shoes, maybe that can
be a requirement.)

Steve
 
On 1/24/2011 3:33 PM, Pete C. wrote:

A lot depends on where you're at. It's pretty commonplace over here. I
took my shoes off when entering a friend's house the other day - as I
was taking them off, they told me that I didn't have to take off my
shoes but it was too late, the shoes were off and I went in. That's the
breaks, my assumption is that most people want me to take my shoes off
if I'm in Hawaii and to leave them on if on the mainland.

I think the practice of not taking your shoes off at the door could
catch on. My friend's ex-girlfriend requires that people take off their
outside clothes when entering their house and put on special inside
clothes. Now that would be a house, I'd avoid. :-)
 
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