The kitchen of my nightmares

[spinbaby]

I spotted this ad for a fancy kitchen in an Architectural Digest in a waiting room last week and can't get it out of my head. This kitchen had not one but TWO crystal chandeliers. It had statues in alcoves. To top it all off, there was a flat-panel TV mounted ABOVE THE STOVE. The whole kitchen was one big impractical pretentious nightmare. If you did any actual cooking, it would be impossible to clean.

[Tesha]

1. ahhh, but they don't really USE it!

It's all about pretty. OR maybe they have live in help...

:rofl:

[spinbaby]

2. Surely the help cooks?

Maybe this is the kitchen to show off and the help cooks somewhere else in a kitchen that works.

[Warpy]

4. They're caterers, my dear

they do all the work in a kitchen that works and just give it a final heating and primping in the architectural nightmare before they set it all out on those acres of granite (or even less practical, marble) in preparation for serving.

Pity the poor maids who have to come in and polish all the never used cookware and stainless while making sure that there isn't a speck of dust or cobweb near the statuary or chandeliers.

Stinky (I think) posted one last year that had the stove in some sort of unnecessary alcove with no way to get to it without going around a hunk of decorative bullshit on either side. I had a lot of fun tearing that one to verbal pieces.

I think the last people to design kitchens should be architects. Hire Stinky instead. It's his job.

[daleanime]

3. Dear Lord...

I wouldn't want a crystal chandelier in the living room,but to have two in the kitchen-better not do any frying:evilgrin:

[lukasahero]

5. Bwahahaha

They're kidding, right? I suspect the dingbats who built that kitchen never cooked a day in their lives!

As I like to say, lots of people have more dollars than sense.

[beac]

6. I saw a kitchen online the other day (This Old House website, I think) that

was being praised for it's "funky" use of two Mother of Pearl chandeliers, kind of like this one:





My question is, did they ask the designer for "something funky that will be the most efficient way to trap both grease AND dust?"

:eyes:

[spinbaby]

7. That kinda looks like you could run it through the dishwasher

Take it down and run it through the delicate cycle. Could work. Or you could just buy a new one once a month. Or never cook.

[Warpy]

8. I think that last option would be it

because all the grease trappers would have to separate from the light, itself, or you'd kill it after a few cycles, at most.

Still, if the grease trappers do separate from the fixture, a once a month run through the DW with the pots and pans would certainly do the job.