For You Singles: Cook With Family And Friends

Photo Credit: Sotheby's International Realty

Photo Credit: Sotheby's International Realty

Singledom leaves room for cooking in this luxury kitchen and having some Friendsgivings that are the most memorable. Break some bread with friends while creating unbreakable friendship bonds.

 For You Couples: Cook Together To Satisfy Your Cravings

Photo Credit: Sotheby's International Realty

Photo Credit: Sotheby's International Realty

His and her counters make for the perfect kitchen to experience shared-cooking cuisines.

For You Marrieds: Create Togetherness With The Ultimate Feast

Photo Credit: Sotheby's International Realty

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In the world of quick flips and maximizing purchase and construction dollars, renovating and restoring a brownstone for profit is the equivalent of climbing Mount Everest for some exercise. Stripping and sanding and staining intricate wainscoting and moldings is a painstaking and costly affair that doesn’t result in a bump in resale value. Rather than restore the houses are denuded of their original charm, replaced by paint, expensive stone, light wood floors, sputnik lighting and gleaming commercial grade appliances. A scan of the NY Times real estate section shows a number of these type of townhouses asking top dollar.

59 Lincoln Place (photo courtesy of the New York Times)

Park Slope’s 59 Lincoln Place ($4,490,00), 151 President St in Carroll Gardens ($3,500,000) and 453 DeGraw Street in Gowanus ($4,200,000) are visually stunning and have a classic brownstone facade but inside are hardly recognizable from the conventional detail dripping Victorian houses we expect

292 16th St, Park Slope Brooklyn (photo courtesy of Zillow)

“There’s a difference between a restoration and renovation,” says Abdel Tarchid, a designer with Scavolini Kitchens in Brooklyn, who has been involved in many such renovations including  292 16th St in Park Slope. “Developers are not in the business of restoring. Certainly many of our clients, come to us for something very modern but tasteful, with clean lines where the electric and plumbing along with heating and cooling systems can be installed in an efficient manner. It would be painstaking to do if you had to navigate around old pipes and woodwork,” he says.

Doug Bowen a broker with Douglas Elliman has sold around 100 Brooklyn townhouses. He sees the kitchen as a driver for large-scale renovations in historic townhouses.

“The most successful townhouse renovations manage to craft open-plan kitchens seamlessly into these antique properties,” he told the Appliances Connection blog. “Townhouse configurations in the prime parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan trend to either a single family or a two family. Most commonly an upper triplex with a garden rental. Both are most successful with kitchens at the rear that bring the outdoors inside and visa versa.”

For those attached to these historic townhomes, who believe stripping them of their Victorian majesty is almost sacrilegious, a replacing battered vintage molding with newly made ones is often a faster, if still expensive, undertaking, resulting in something truly spectacular.

1 Verona Plce courtesy of Zillow.com

In 2017, 1 Verona Place shattered the sales record for a townhouse in Bed-Stuy when it sold for $3.3 million. The entire interior was gut renovated and with all new moldings custom built apart from part of the staircase and painted in black lacquer as was fashionable a century ago. The developers were Christiaan Bunce, a principal at the design firm KGBL, and Adam Dahill, a mortgage broker. 

What their renovation budget was, they didn’t disclose. The lofty sale though, succeeded in raising the comps for the neighborhood of other houses without their meticulous renovation.

“Old houses have layers of visual interest created by the elaborate details, but you don’t have to keep them all,” said Kimberly Neuhaus, founder of the full-service architecture firm Neuhaus Design who recently renovated 167 6th Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn. 

“When you renovate an old home many of the materials are pre-existing. Your new interventions should be constructed of materials that you love.”

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The luxury design kitchens in these gorgeous homes are the best of the best; even celebrities have to eat! Check out these amazing designs in the homes of Will Ferrell, Gerard Butler, Chef Giada de Laurentiis, Will Smith, and Dian Keaton. For the full story, check out Huffington Post’s feature.

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Channeling the Stone Age? Italian designer Michele Daneluzzo designed this petal-shaped stainless steel knife with the past in mind. The rugged-yet-glossy tool is reminiscent of flint-cutting utensils from the past and boasts a futuristic finish. What chef wouldn’t want this massive (and massively gorgeous) blade for the kitchen?

Daneluzzo tells Dezeen:

"The project analyses the different aspects of the intrinsic relationship between mankind and design, proposing to the modern culture a forgotten tool.”

This magnificent piece of cutlery was launched at the Ambiente trade fair in Frankfurt, and Daneluzzo created the product while attending the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. The knife is now being developed through Del Ben.

Photos courtesy of Dezeen

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First comes the highly innovative Porsche Design kitchen P’7340. Poggenpohl is actually the first kitchen manufacturer to employ carbon fiber in cabinetry, making this kitchen as functional and high-quality as it is elegant. On that note, three years ago, Porsche Design and Poggenpohl designed the P’7340 kitchen to cater to modern tastes, and ended up infiltrating the male market. We think it has something to do with materials like glass and aluminum, lack of handles and, now, carbon fiber.

Poggenpohl proudly presents +ARTESIO, a dual effort with renowned architect/designer Hadi Teherani that makes for the ultimate comprehensive fitted kitchen. Everything but the kitchen sink (literally) goes into this design, including elements of flooring, ceiling, ventilation, sound and lighting. This complex combination leaves no room for simple seating; instead, sit pretty on highly architectural furniture, available in a corner bench in dark pine, amongst other options.

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