Kitchens: The kitchen is one of the most-used rooms in any household. That's why if you are going to renovate your kitchen, you need a plan designed for all its uses. There's no better way to get inspiration for a kitchen renovation than to visit recently renovated kitchens and get some ideas for your own.
Five state-of-the-art kitchens will be on display Sunday in the Pasadena Kitchens & Interiors tour.
Sponsored by the Pasadena chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers, the tour will take you inside five homes, all within a 9-mile radius, where kitchens are at the heart of the home.
Other parts of the houses - living rooms, entryways, family rooms and home offices - will be open for viewing as well, but the kitchens are definitely the stars of this tour.See Also Kitchen Design:To increase storage for kitchen design supplies and implements, the designer "stole" space from the rooms behind the kitchen design. In keeping with the home's Spanish heritage, all pullout storage cabinets look like doors. Now the kitchen design area is functional and beautiful while in harmony with the original Spanish design of the home.
The design challenge for Janie Fain of JF Interiors when she remodeled the kitchen design area of a 1932 San Marino Spanish Revival home was to create a functional area from the small, dark kitchen design that desperately needed updating. The owners love to cook, and Fain needed to find new storage space as well as make the entire kitchen design area more inviting.
On The Other Hand See Kitchen Designs:backyard, can offer a versatile summer extension to the kitchen designs. They may be purchased in a wide range of designs, or constructed for use in a permanent position in the garden.
An Irish couturiere of international fame is Sybil Connolly, asso¬ciated with the Richard Alan store, at 58 Grafton Street, Dublin. In the 1953 style show in New York's Waldorf-Astoria, Miss Connolly invaded big-league circles and startled the style world by capturing first attention and applause from some 1200 representatives of the garment industry. She accomplished this feat with such non-imitative designs, all of Irish theme and Irish fabrics, as her white ball gown of thinnest linen, which she called "First Love," and her full-skirted evening dress called "kitchen designs Fugue," whose material was—guess what—Irish-linen kitchen designs toweling!
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