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Kitchen Design in a Small Space

Bob discusses the kitchen layout with designer Amy O'Haire, then visits her showroom, Classic Kitchen Designs. Amy explains the factors involved in placing the kitchen's appliances, storage, and counters.
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" Not having got a good gets in the Lungren I think the talent has been all about nine may be may be small that it's a great idea think look on paper. Well basically it's a -- shaped kitchen with you thank range and refrigerator and I hate working I'm angry that you can do it here right it has walking through sure okay."

" Well we'll have I think here obviously where the pipe coming through the floor right and we'll have a dishwasher immediately the right OK. Now where the for the peninsula we'll have a nice fifteen -- overhang here which and the night idea counter will look at and yet back kind of -- so we'll have a plate for choose dual. For someone he opened to the -- it's ugly out of the whole thing right exactly. Coming around this way we'll have some storage here. We'll have a your standard thirty inch range here yeah. -- the laugh so that we have enough room here for bank report card rate which is a really convenient place. You know yeah did you find the dishwasher and also -- the actress for the rain we'll have some basic wall cabinets -- it yet. OK and that's inside the -- expansive kind of states with stored below okay. Good place for food preparation and opera house some basic -- cabinet that's about war all the way to the -- to the feeling like storage group. It'll last weren't so great if which leaves us. Our refrigerator indeed a cat. I would recommend using side by side refrigerator in -- location not because unfortunately. We have the dishwasher immediately opposite and don't know when the doors down when nobody there that's -- little -- exactly and it's -- conflict but the side by side doors smaller overall pick up where it went -- know exactly what about this -- that we've got over here unfortunately. It's not deep enough to use standard base cabinets storage OK so an idea that I had had to maximize storage space is to use -- Walk cabinet similar to what we're using here the twelve inch -- block cabinets. But what what what we're going to do is mouth and down lot of great -- cabinet."

" The tightening our overhang and I -- about bracket it's -- real practical idea and I think we ought to do it but in terms of cabinets these look pretty upscale."

" They are these are really really expensive cabinets and I from the line that. What do we look at well if you want to talk about expensive these printouts from the solid granite countertops it's beautiful and it's forever that is not for us now."

" But about a laminated it."

" While this is a really nice contemporary European style cabinet at the Atlanta adore it has a nice. Ash and on and that's what we call frameless cabinet a ring with cabinet yes. We called that because when the doors are closed."

" You can't -- the payment I saved the door. Look very nice I love the clean contemporary lines but I don't think it would be recognized indicate."

" Now and I think that's what we need to look at right here yet. That's with a little more traditionally get very nice and clean looking in the eyes of a framed cabinet as opposed what it's not want to see that rain right and -- This is out photo after them out face frame and the rest of the cabinet is -- near the news OK. In the bottom you know we've got a bank of drawers like you're just talking about for us yet exactly like what we're putting -- with nice hardware. It -- that the good value. For the night at the very nice -- what about. Pulls the drawer Posner who were both well these cabinets and dates that you really need to hands and into the little thing of that area there so that you can just grab the door pull it open. Yeah but I think apple what we're dealing would be nice antelope there hybrid sort of wraps it up and carry back and he gives -- this country look."

" And would you use countertop like this."

" Well I think we give that up a laminate act out like this -- it with a warrant backsplash as we hear then. And as far as color about -- and -- wait and see what out of the flooring with just gonna run in the kitchen Ali and Alan and try to color and again."

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