RangeCraft Range Hoods
30 July 2009
“Looking Well”
Look up near the ceiling. It’s a vent, it’s a hood, it’s a space eater, it’s a lump, it’s ugly. And if that fairly describes the range hood in your kitchen, then you are very much missing a bet.
Kitchen hoods, as I have said on several occasions, are a space-eating essential in any kitchen, but if you view them as no more than that, then that’s what they will be. The space above any kitchen hood is, by necessity, essentially wasted space. Oh, you can install a small range hood above the stove and run the pipe up through the cabinets above, but if you do that, you will not have solved the problem. A six to eight inch vent pipe running up through the center of 30″ wide wall cabinets does not exactly make for a usable cabinet. I mean, seriously now, what do you have stored in what’s left of that cabinet? So, that being the case, why not just let that particular cabinet go and use the space for a glorious kitchen hood that makes an elegant statement? I firmly believe that a well-designed kitchen has an elegant kitchen hood as a center piece. And with that, I can talk about RangeCraft.
It is truly amazing what people with passion can bring to any endeavor, and RangeCraft Range Hoods is certainly proof of that. Helmut Goetz, the owner, is a Master Coppersmith who has spent the last three decades of his life working exclusively on range hoods. In this master’s hands, the range hood becomes much more than that; it becomes a work of art that graces any kitchen in which it resides.
Their hoods can be dressed with rivets and decorative bands and are made from materials such as copper, brass, or stainless steel. They also have hoods available in a stunning number of combinations of these materials in mirror or antique finishes. And because they are, after all, hoods with a most necessary job to do, they are available with super quiet internal fans with 600 CFM or 1200 CFM interior blowers mounted in the hood. Halogen lights and their patented “MICRO” baffle filters are standard items. Any of their hoods can be produced in any metal they have available. And there’s more! They will do custom work, up to and including, color matching!
At this point I was going to write a paragraph about their design excellence and superior craftsmanship, but it just seems so redundant. I mean, look at them!
Joseph
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