Smitten Kitchen is the name of one of my favorite food blogs. Deb Perelman has a beautiful site with delicious, inspiring recipes and stories about her adventures in her tiny NYC galley kitchen. I love to cook, and I love to read about food, and I especially love to eat. I'm an architect, however, and you didn't come here to read about food! Here's the point of this post:
I went to a friend's birthday party last weekend and met someone who told me that they are renovating their kitchen. They asked me about contractors I have worked with and spoke of their design ideas. Then they asked if I had ever worked with Ikea kitchens. (I have once). I learned that Ikea has a kitchen event every three years or so. They auction off the display kitchens including appliances, hardware, inserts, countertops, plumbing fixtures and lighting to the highest bidder. Well...these folks bid $3200 for an entire kitchen more cabinets than they could ever fit in their kitchen and they won. What a deal! Most kitchens cost at least $20,000 with appliances and countertops.
The above photo is a custom kitchen that I designed for a sweet little cottage in Sag Harbor. The photo below are squash blossoms that we stuffed with ricotta cheese filling. After the photo was taken, we dipped the blossoms in a light batter and fried them to crunchy perfection.
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