In the most recent issue (Oct, 2011) of the Better Homes and Garden Special Interest Publication of Kitchen and Bath Ideas my kitchen is featured as one of several beautiful kitchens with creative storage solutions! To say I’m excited is a huge understatement… let me begin at the beginning…
In November of 2007 we decided to embark on a kitchen remodel. We had moved into our newly built home when we moved to Maryland in 1988, and the kitchen had served us well, but I was beginning to fantasize about creating a kitchen tailored to my needs and desires.
If you’ve been reading my blog at all you know by now that I’m passionate about cooking and baking, and that the kitchen is usually where you will find me. We did not take the decision to gut the kitchen and create my dream kitchen lightly, but my husband and I agreed the time had come.
Without adding any square footage to what was not a large kitchen we were able, with the help of our kitchen designer, to create a space that became visually and functionally so much more.
We enjoyed the entire process, even though as with most big projects there were a few mishaps along the way. But all in all it was an invigorating experience for us both.
I even enjoyed cooking on my 2 burner hotplate in the lower level of our home where I set up a makeshift kitchen for 4 months. What can I say? For many this would be the perfect excuse to eat most of your meals out, or at least get take-out 3 times a week.
I could not have been happier with my new kitchen! It is not only beautiful, but functions seamlessly. By removing a wall we added a new dimension to our living space creating an open floor plan around the new kitchen island.
But how, you are probably asking, did my kitchen land in the magazine?
A few months after the remodel my best friend had been telling a friend of hers about my beautiful new kitchen. (Thank you, Donna). Her friend is a field reporter for Better Homes and Garden, and had asked me if she could come and see the kitchen. (Thank you, Jeanne).
She did not have to twist my arm. The only thing I probably loved more than cooking in that kitchen those first few months was showing it to anyone and everyone I could.
When Jeanne saw it she told me she would love to send some photos in to BH&G to see if they might be interested in sending someone out for a photo shoot for one of their special interest publications.
They were interested, and almost a year later the photo shoot took place. It took an entire day, and was a lot of fun. I had been told that it could take a couple years until it might appear in the magazine, and there was always the possibility that it might not appear at all.
Three years had actually passed, and I had pretty much resigned myself to the fact that I wasn’t going to see my kitchen in print.
Then one afternoon last May as I was sitting at my computer working on a blog entry my phone rang and on the other end was a writer for Better Homes and Gardens telling me she had been assigned to do the feature on my kitchen, and would like to set up an interview! It was actually going to happen!
And this week I found it on the stands! Opening this attractive magazine filled with all sorts of stunning kitchens, I flipped through the pages holding my breath until there in all its glossy glory was my very own kitchen staring back at me!
If you want to check it out…Cook’s Delight, pages 110-115
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