Comments on: Gear

By: Caroline Spector

Caroline Spector — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:30:38 +0000

It’s time to redo the kitchen at Casa Spector, too. When we moved in, about fifteen years ago, the kitchen had been updated about 6 years earlier. They did an okay job. (The only okay job they did in the house.) I’ve already replaced every appliance in the kitchen.

The coating on the bottom of the sink has worn off. I am sick to death of cleaning the grout between the countertop tiles. And I hate the floor. The Dude is despondent because he knows the remodel is coming.

Like, Maureen, I dream of granite countertops. (And the composit granite has some bitchin’ colors. I lust after a deep marine blue with mosaic glass tiles as the backsplash.) I have visions of great sweeping vistas of granite — smooth and easily cleaned.

Home porn.

By: Madeleine Robins

Madeleine Robins — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:46:16 +0000

Our kitchen is currently painted butter yellow (it used to have white wallpaper with green vines on it–the sort of thing you’d find in an old hotel coffee shop). I like the color, and would either like to have butcher block counters or a dark brown or green granite. With a tomato red backsplash (I may rethink this…it depends on the lighting). Our cabinets are so old and weary that they don’t always close, which is not a good thing in earthcake country.

By: Maureen McQ

Maureen McQ — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:23:03 +0000

Countertops! I have such dreams of countertops. Although a dishwasher would come first. Of course, I have a suburban kitchen, not a city kitchen, so space is much less of an issue.

The dream is for granite countertops. But there are these composite quartz countertops that are really nifty. I have a huge skylight in my kitchen, and if it ever stopped raining in central Texas I would have blinding amounts of natural light, so the current fantasy is white cabinets and black countertops.

But I’ll see something somewhere that will make me change my mind.

By: Madeleine Robins

Madeleine Robins — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:33:49 +0000

Oh! And a dishwasher! We don’t have a dishwasher, and easily a third of the parent-child explosions around the house come from trying to get all parties to take their turn at the sink.

By: Madeleine Robins

Madeleine Robins — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:33:01 +0000

Maureen, at the moment we have a countertop range (ick) and a wall oven too small to fit a standard-sized cookie sheet. I want a range with an oven large enough to fit a good-sized turkey or a full cookie sheet. If I can get a six burner stove into the kitchen that would be grand. I also really want a microwave that’s built in to the range vent–at this point we have a wheezy old microwave sitting on the counter, with a huge footprint. And yes, gorgeous countertops. What sort of countertops do you want?

By: Maureen McQ

Maureen McQ — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:15:37 +0000

Oh Mad, please keep us updated on your kitchen remodel. I can live vicariously through you. I’ve been thinking about a kitchen remodel in our new house (we have a perfectly fine kitchen except for the stove, which like yours has basic functional issues–I just want a six burner Viking or Wolf and beautiful countertops.)

Are you thinking about a six burner? Do you have space for one?

Nice stockpot. Mine is only four gallons. I have stockpot envy.