Design tips for your kitchen island
17.09.11
Beloved DONNA: You make me out to be an old goat that's seen more kitchen islands than a lifeguard's seen swimmers on a summer weekend. The truly be told, I have seen and installed more islands than I care to recall.
I think the major mistake homeowners make when planning and Machiavellian a kitchen island is thinking that bigger is better. That's not the case. Some of the most practical islands are ones that are as small as 42 inches extensive.
The clearance around an island is usually what constrains the size. At the very least, you stand in want 36 inches of space between the edges of the island top and any other sturdy object, such as another countertop, an appliance or a wall. Thirty-nine inches is happier and 42 inches would be ideal.
Most islands are created using a pattern kitchen cabinet that's 2 feet deep. But I've seen tremendous alteration from semi-custom kitchen cabinet manufacturers. With a little achievement, you'll be able to design an island with features that make it look like a mulct piece of furniture instead of a ho-hum base cabinet box with some analogous plywood on the back.
Source: NorthJersey.com
Five firsts for NP designer
19.09.11
Five entries and five top awards. You can't do any cured than that and New Plymouth architectural designer Tony Biesiek is rightly glad with those results.
His success this year came in the 2011 Architectural Designers of New Zealand Resene Regional Design Awards, held at a formal r in the Southward Car Museum facility at Paraparumu.
Tony chose four of his Take it Building Design projects to enter in five of the eight available awards and took first placing in each.
The entries and categories were:
Stewart-Pleasing House - Residential New Home up to 250sqm Design Award.
Scatter House, New Plymouth - Residential Alterations and Additions Design Presentation.
Bennett House, Oakura - Residential New Home over 250sqm Design Present.
Bennett House, Oakura - Residential Interiors Architectural Design Prize.
Oakura Pump Station, Shearer Reserve, Oakura - Commercial/ Industrial Design Trophy.
"Last year, I was too busy to enter," Tony says. "I've made up for it with a sidereal year this year . . . beyond all expectations.
Source: Taranaki Daily News
