Lighting

Posted on Thu, 2 Oct 2008 by KiM

This blog chronicles my entire kitchen renovation from start to finish. Greentea Design has provided me with their kitchen cabinets, and I’m taking care of the rest.

If you’d like to be brought up to date, check out my kitchen remodel blog for an archive of previous posts. I’ve described my cabinets in detail, so now I thought I’d start in on all the fun purchases that goes along with a kitchen renovation. These next few posts I will cover things like the appliances, sink, faucet, countertop, backsplash and lighting.

I thought I’d start with lighting, one of my favourite items to dress up a space. I have always been drawn to lamps and pendant lights, so when I was planning the lighting for the kitchen, I wanted to make it a focal point. But once I decided on making lighting a feature, I started to panic a bit. There aren’t many decent lighting stores in this city, but I did check out a few. I started looking online as well but got a bit concerned about some of the shipping prices. One online store was quoting 20% of the purchase for shipping and other related costs. This renovation is going to have me in debt as it is, and my house needs a TON of other work, so I have a really hard time spending my hard earned money on high shipping costs. So I really wanted to try and find items locally.

Since my kitchen will be long and narrow, I will need a long and narrow dining table to be placed down the center of it (I have no dining room). I made a pretty simple decision to hang pendants over it. My first thought was a Nelson bubble lamp. I’ve always wanted one. But I really like the look of the saucer lamp, and I think that one would work better over a round table. I started looking locally and found something at a large lighting store called Multi Luminaire:


I liked the industrial look of it and it was similar to ones I had considered ordering online. They had 2 sizes, one for $80 and one for $120, and I figured I would get maybe 3 to hang in a row over the table. But then….

More of this post HERE

Woolsey Studio

Posted on Wed, 1 Oct 2008 by KiM

Architect Kristine Woolsey launched Arizona-based Woolsey Studio in 1994, and has since designed hundreds of homes, restaurants, museums, community centers and other building types. They also have interior and landscape designers on staff. Talk about one-stop shopping! Love their spacious modern designs. Check out the second photo – it’s a custom front door that swings 180 degrees! And those kitchens! (But what’s up with the harness above the bed?? Interesting…)








Honky

Posted on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 by KiM

Quite possibly the best name ever for an interior design firm. HONKY. Sounds like Christopher Dezille, who started this firm, enjoys what he does and has fun with it. He’s based in London, and his portfolio is so chock-full of design goodness that I had a REALLY tough time deciding what photos to use. There’s modern, mid-century, contemporary, glam…a little bit of everything. He has designed some of the most incredible kitchens I’ve ever seen. Check out his site for much more than what I’ve posted below.














Cabinet detail

Posted on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 by KiM

This blog chronicles my entire kitchen renovation from start to finish. Greentea Design has provided me with their solid wood kitchen cabinets, and I’m taking care of the rest.

If you’d like to be brought up to date, check out my kitchen remodel blog for an archive of previous posts. In this post I will show you sketches of the cabinets I chose, what my cabinets cost, and the process involved with ordering kitchen cabinets from Greentea.

In my last post I showed some of the sketches Greentea created to demonstrate how my kitchen will look. Here is one for a recap.


I thought I would show the sketches that were designed by Greentea that include the dimensions of each cabinet ordered for my new kitchen. This first one is the base cabinet that will be next to the fridge. I love it because Mike suggested instead of having 3 drawers the same size, that the drawer on the left be 3 smaller drawers for take out menus, chopsticks etc. The cost of this cabinet is $1200.


More of this post HERE

It’s official!!!!!!!!

Posted on Sun, 28 Sep 2008 by KiM

I FINALLY got around to purchasing a domain name for the blog. We are now officially https://www.desiretoinspire.net. If you’ve got us in your blogroll and don’t mind changing the link, please do. The blogspot address will still work anyway. Now if I can just make a day have at least 30 hours, I’ll be all set.