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Kitchens: Design Process
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Kitchens of Atlanta is a unique organization of talented designers and skilled craftsmen who have provided premium cabinetry to the discriminating homeowner throughout the Southeast since 1974. For 30 years this Atlanta family owned operation has installed kitchens, baths and other areas with the finest cabinetry available in the market today.
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Whether your style is modern or traditional, folk art or French country, high tech or Tuscan, Kitchens for Cooks can help you design the perfect kitchen for the way you really live. Starting with "kitchen geography" to locate the best place for appliances and storage, and moving into specialized cabinet inserts and planning, then to storage maps, lighting, flooring, materials choices, and counter top options, Kitchens for Cooks will aid you every step of the way. Whether you want copper pans, basket drawers, a wood fired bread and pizza oven, an indoor grill, or an island that looks like a farmhouse table, Kitchens for Cooks can help you locate sources, evaluate options, and integrate your ideas into a kitchen that will really work.
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Dinner by Design currently has nearly 60 locations opened, and agreements for another 40 kitchens in the U.S. and Canada. Industry observers predict the concept of meal prep outside the home is becoming very popular and is at the same stage that trendy coffee chains were at 15 years ago. The Business Times Daily called Dinner by Design "one of the hottest new retail franchise sensations sweeping the nation" and Entrepreneur Magazine named Dinner by Design and this market segment one of the "Hot 29 Businesses to Start." In a recent comparison study of all meal assembly companies, Dinner by Design was awarded, "Best Food."
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The kitchens in railway dining cars present special challenges: space is constrained, and ... the personnel must be able to serve a great number of meals quickly. Especially in the early history of the railway this required flawless organization of processes; in modern times, the microwave oven and prepared meals have made this task a lot easier. Galleys are kitchens aboard ships (although the term galley is also often used to refer to a railroad dining car's kitchen). On yachts, galleys are often cramped, with one or two gas burners fuelled by a gas bottle, but kitchens on cruise ships or large warships are comparable in every respect with restaurants or canteen kitchens. On passenger airplanes, the kitchen is reduced to a mere pantry, the only function reminiscent of a kitchen is the heating of in-flight meals (where they haven't been "optimized" away altogether) delivered by a catering company. An extreme form of the kitchen occurs in space, e.g. aboard a Space Shuttle (where it is also called the "galley") or the International Space Station.
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"Kitchen 4mula is the third phase of an on-going study by Merillat aimed at gathering valuable insights into how builders and kitchen and bath professionals can better design kitchens," said Karen Strauss , president of Merillat. "This phase examined how recent new home purchasers live in their kitchens, the role the kitchen plays in their lives and ultimately revealed the secrets of four segments of homeowners."
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Besides, many families ... appreciated the trend towards open kitchens, as it made it easier for the parents to supervise the children while cooking. The enhanced status of cooking also made the kitchen a prestige object for showing off one's wealth or cooking professionalism. Some architects have capitalized on this "object" aspect of the kitchen by designing freestanding "kitchen objects". However, like their precursor, Colani's "kitchen satellite", such futuristic designs are exceptions.
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