YesterTec Stealth Kitchen Modules
30 September 2009
“Steal Away”
I wrote about YesterTec last week in conjunction with their Mini-Kitchens, which is one of the slickest kitchen designs I believe I’ve ever seen. And by now, with all this blogging on all things kitchen and bath, I’ve seen a lot of them! But the Mini-Kitchen is an idea I had pursued because my wife and I were toying with the idea of one day doing a major remodeling of our home, which would move the kitchen to the other side of the house and enlarge the bathrooms into most of the room occupied by the current kitchen, thereby leaving a truncated space next to our family room with its large-screen TV, and developing a sudden “need” for a second kitchen adjacent to the football games. OK, OK, it’s probably just a version of a “man cave,” but it’s something we thought we might pursue.
In any case YesterTec has a wonderful concept for this, namely the Mini-Kitchen I discussed last week, but, as it is with all great designers, YesterTec didn’t just leave it at the idea of a Mini-Kitchen artfully concealed in an armoire. They have actually come up with a full kitchen that is only 29″ deep and could be easily accommodated in what would be, believe me, not much more than a widened corridor leading from the living room to the family room. As a matter of fact, it’s a concept that would easily accommodate itself in one end of our family room, were we so minded. They call it their Stealth Kitchen Module, and it is nothing short of amazing.
YesterTec started with Kitchen Workstation Furniture that was designed to completely conceal kitchen appliances in some really wonderful freestanding pieces. With the Stealth Kitchen, they have created modules that that can be combined together and built into a wall, the whole to be concealed behind a pocket door system. And, like the Mini-Kitchen I reviewed last week, the Steal Kitchen has a U.L. Listed pocket door system that allows the appliances to operate ONLY when the doors are opened and stored in their pockets, thereby eliminating any risk of fires starting because of a stove or oven accidently left on behind closed doors.
“The possibilities are endless.” They say that on their website, but really, they are. What it means, for those who are moving into a loft, or who simply do not have the room for a conventional kitchen, is that it is no longer necessary to dedicate such a large amount of space to a full-sized kitchen. Instead, it can simply be put at one end of a family room that, because it is used for dining, living, and food preparation, suddenly really is a family room. You can save on building materials, heating and cooling costs, and most of all, live the way you want to.
One of the suggestions that was made when I first began designing a new kitchen for us was to expand it into the adjacent room, which in our case, is the family room, an idea that never really appealed to us because of the way we live, the way most of us live these days, if only we will admit it. Fifty weeks out of the year, a hot plate and coffee pot is pretty much all we need, so we’re not willing to give up that big family room, which is where we really live. With this concept, though, we wouldn’t have to. The wife could just, um, steal away during commercials to rustle up a little something to eat while we’re watching the football game. Works for me!
Joseph
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