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Tuesday: cutting out pieces of paper
Jul. 14th, 2020 11:00 pmOver 20 years ago, I hired someone to do a slightly more than to-the-walls renovation of a condo kitchen. That was fun! I loved planning it, identifying people to get bids from, selecting the person to do the work. I did not love the fridge in my living room and the electric frying pan in my hall bathroom, but, you know. It was great. I called it my sports kitchen. Normal programmers who hit it big on a startup buy a sports car — I bought a sports kitchen.
A few years ago, I had to replace the fridge. At that point, it had been over 15 years since the renovation, and I did not want to buy another SubZero — the one I was getting rid of had required enough expensive service and parts that I wanted to go commodity, and commodity counter depth was an easy thing to do at that point. But the appliance shop I ordered the fridge from really was reluctant to deliver it and plug it in. They wanted a contractor on site. I was like, don’t think we need one. Hazy memories of an hour discussing with the (may he rest in peace) gentleman who did the work originally, and how to place the outlet and design the slot between the cabinets and counters to fit a future drop in replacement had surfaced and I Firmly Believed it would Just Work. The shop sent a guy out to measure. He was less certain we needed a contractor, but still nervous. I finally just said, you know, do it. Just do it. And it did, indeed, just work.
What a lovely feeling!
Anyway.
I put a lot of time into that renovation before a single cabinet was demo’d and carted away. It was a kitchen AND laundry (side by side, I was replacing it with a stacker in a smaller enclosure, so I could add double wall ovens and replace the range with a wide Dacor cooktop with swappable components), and I wanted a lot more out of the space than was currently there. So I did a lot of drawings, researched a lot of appliances, and measured many, many things. I cut out pieces of graphing paper, and I created a diagram and then I masking taped the new locations on the floor of the old kitchen and pretended to do stuff in the space until I was sure it was right. I looked up every clearance of every thing that opened or closed or whatever. It was great. It was quirky (the shape was not rectangular) but it was great. I still sort of miss it, but Priestess still cooks in it, so it is all good.
I started cutting out pieces of paper for the vacation house today. It is so much fun! I will not be able to masking tape the rooms (ha ha ha), but once we settle on volumes, massing and relationships, we can assemble it in Sweet Home 3D (or decide that sucks and get something else) and see what it looks like.
I walked with M.
I walked with A.
I had a delightful phone convo with K. and her husband T.
A few years ago, I had to replace the fridge. At that point, it had been over 15 years since the renovation, and I did not want to buy another SubZero — the one I was getting rid of had required enough expensive service and parts that I wanted to go commodity, and commodity counter depth was an easy thing to do at that point. But the appliance shop I ordered the fridge from really was reluctant to deliver it and plug it in. They wanted a contractor on site. I was like, don’t think we need one. Hazy memories of an hour discussing with the (may he rest in peace) gentleman who did the work originally, and how to place the outlet and design the slot between the cabinets and counters to fit a future drop in replacement had surfaced and I Firmly Believed it would Just Work. The shop sent a guy out to measure. He was less certain we needed a contractor, but still nervous. I finally just said, you know, do it. Just do it. And it did, indeed, just work.
What a lovely feeling!
Anyway.
I put a lot of time into that renovation before a single cabinet was demo’d and carted away. It was a kitchen AND laundry (side by side, I was replacing it with a stacker in a smaller enclosure, so I could add double wall ovens and replace the range with a wide Dacor cooktop with swappable components), and I wanted a lot more out of the space than was currently there. So I did a lot of drawings, researched a lot of appliances, and measured many, many things. I cut out pieces of graphing paper, and I created a diagram and then I masking taped the new locations on the floor of the old kitchen and pretended to do stuff in the space until I was sure it was right. I looked up every clearance of every thing that opened or closed or whatever. It was great. It was quirky (the shape was not rectangular) but it was great. I still sort of miss it, but Priestess still cooks in it, so it is all good.
I started cutting out pieces of paper for the vacation house today. It is so much fun! I will not be able to masking tape the rooms (ha ha ha), but once we settle on volumes, massing and relationships, we can assemble it in Sweet Home 3D (or decide that sucks and get something else) and see what it looks like.
I walked with M.
I walked with A.
I had a delightful phone convo with K. and her husband T.