Bontempi Italian Kitchen Designs
9 March 2010
“The Power of Ideas”
Having researched and written these blogs for two years now, I am convinced that there is any number of absolutely perfect kitchen designs available, just not in my kitchen! But you know the kitchen design I’m talking about, right? For a long time our goal was that big dream kitchen. My wife and I both enjoy cooking, and the thought of having all that stuff and all that room and all those appliances, maybe even some kind of chimes ringing out “ah, sweet mystery of life at last I’ve found you,” whenever we entered the kitchen-it’s just such a glorious fantasy. And at some level, we would still like to do it. But the reality is that we are not willing to remodel our home to get enough room to do it, nor would we want to intrude into the adjacent family room which is where this childless couple spends the bulk of its time, watching movies on our large screen TV. For us, the smaller kitchen that is open to an active family room is just the ticket.
Actually, when I think about it for a moment we are on the cutting edge of kitchen design, in a sense, because more and more these days, people are looking to make of their kitchens a room where the family lives, the heart of the home, as opposed to a room where Mom cooks, apart from the home and all that concerns it. And when you think about it that way, devoting less space to the actual kitchen appliances carries with it a pureness of vision that has heretofore escaped us in our lust for all that is glorious and approved by the National Kitchen & Bath Association. But in saying that, I do not mean to say that the NKBA does not, in many respects, have the right idea in what they have put forward in their planning guidelines for kitchens. I personally found them most helpful in looking for a better way with my own kitchen remodeling plans, keeping in mind, of course, that it is not going to be possible for me to comply with a large part of what they have set forth as ideal, beginning with the much vaunted kitchen triangle.
A compact space, if it is laid out intelligently, would be just the ticket for us, and I suspect, a lot of other people, which brings us to Bontempi Cucine.
Like all Italian kitchen designers these days, Bontempi has any number of kitchen designs, all of them glorious, but I was particularly struck with their Omnia kitchen design, as it makes such an efficient use of the space. Those with the la-de-da kitchen designs will think this layout much too small, but all I need is a stove and sink and a small area for food preparation, because, truthfully, that’s pretty much all I’ve had anyway. Oh, we do have some counter space, but think it through a little. How much space do you really need for a chopping block; and that’s where you work, right? Throw some stuff in a pot; how much room do you need for that? Hell, my wife and I have made pumpkin pies together every Thanksgiving for as long as we’ve been married, the last seventeen or so in our current kitchen. She sits at one end of the counter to make the filling, and I roll out the pie crusts at the other end of the counter. And that is about as much space as we ever find ourselves needing.
And that brings us back to the Bontempi Omnia kitchen design. I’ve seen it described as “a distinctive, young-at-heart modern kitchen,” but maybe what it really is, is an idea whose time has come. And you know how powerful those are.
Joseph
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April 14th, 2010 at 3:57 PM
awesome post joseph…
thanks