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The New Open Plan Kitchen

Bob meets Jeanne Sanviti-Masher and David Masher in their completed kitchen and dining space. The Mashers talk about highlights of the new space, including the semi-custom cabinets from Merillat that allowed them to create a kitchen layout that works for storage, display, and smooth functioning. Jeanne says that her favorite feature is the openness of the layout, which lets her look from one end of the house to the other. The appliances and counters work with the layout to allow the Mashers and their guests to cook and visit at the same time. Silestone counters from ecounters.com provide lots of work surface for the perimeter counters and the island with its inset gas cooktop. An appliance wall holds DCS ovens and a warming drawer. The entire space reads onto the expansive deck addition that brings the outdoors in and carries the indoors out for easy living and entertaining.
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The New Open Plan Kitchen

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" This is your birthday my birthday and Christmas. Fifty -- master had their lives turned upside down the last four months. What's the hardest part of living in the house while the remodel was going on. He."

" Well. Being confined to just a couple small rooms was tough. Traffic dirt in and how it to."

" Three year old running around in one or two rooms you know sure if contained was a big issue but it's worth it now right I mean -- remember when we started here. If you just had this very very -- Tight kitchen space whereas what was the biggest problem with the old kitchen very little minimal cost it's hardly any work space and storage. Storage we had a few nice cabinets but we have these new Merillat cabinets that are fabulous it was a lot of fun figuring out which ones went where what their function was but. We can put the whole house of these cabinets of the well they'd -- cabinet installation what's great is that it's a kind of semi custom. You get to pick and choose what you want so that you've blended designs here some of them have glass doors and a paneled doors and that you collect pottery and looking at some of it behind -- you have the option of storing some of what's your favorite feature about the house."

" Besides the functionality of the space which is terrific open floor plan -- yes terrific and I -- I understood looking at the plan but. Being living with Bennett is just it's it's fantastic I can actually be at the sink and actually see into our living room is on the complete opposite side of the house."

" that's the biggest the biggest change from the old floor plan of the Victorian. Where you had a confined little square room that was the kitchen. And a similar dining room that was that dining room now you've opened up the space between the two of them as well as connecting it to the outside which will look at more closely in a minute. And everything works really really well how about these appliances -- They're great yeah I mean there we were looking to get sort of a gas range this is a fabulous that a DCS range. It works well with the counter so now when we're entertaining folks can sit here while we're cooking yet we've got to set up so we're easily accessible to the other appliances in congress they can yes fidelity. Big difference in the whole project and you've gotten everything that you wanted in here including this whole kind of terrific DC yes. Appliance wall with both the oven and the microwave and even -- warming drawer down on the bottom."

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