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Kitchen is comfortable living space

Kitchen is the place where advantages and important most one of a house. In addition to good ventilation has and enough sunlight, it will should have to design and decorate meet the house owner’s criteria such as be small-sized or large-sized with countertop island or more function that have the space for having a meal.

In this website, we have collected interested categories that you should consider before designing and decoration process. We believe this room is alive space and you may can live and cook a meal happily just you plan from beginning so you will get comfortable living.

Frugal Kitchen Spruce Ups

By Kathleen Wilson


Frugal Kitchen Spruce Ups
By Kathleen Wilson

Most of us spend a good deal of time in our kitchens these days, and it’s not just for cooking. More homes are being built with the kitchen as the hub of the home, and even if you’re on a tight budget, that shouldn’t stop you from making it a pleasant and personal place to be!

If your cabinets are in need of a total overhaul, consider painting them. Nothing changes the look of a kitchen faster! Visit the library for info on faux finishing, or go to www.paintedhouse.com or www.fauxlikeapro.com, and turn a simple paint job into a one of a kind kitchen.

If you don’t want the hard work that goes into total repainting, consider removing a cupboard door to make a display cabinet. Paint the entire interior of the cabinet a light or bright accent color, and put your prettiest on display. Or have someone good with power tools cut out the center panels of the doors, then shirr fabric over the inside to hide the contents of the cupboard…secure with a staple gun or Velcro tape.

Pick up inexpensive plate hangers from the hardware store and hang the saucers from your good china around the backsplash, or as a border. Don’t have any china? Visit garage sales and thrift stores this weekend to pick up a bunch of sweet little plates for a song. (No, they don’t have to match, or be fancy!)

Hang tea towels on the diagonal over your curtain rod for a fresh summer valance, and save some extra to stitch up into potholders and placemats.

Make a floor cloth to perk up your tired floors from a piece of remnant vinyl flooring you get at a home improvement center for just a few dollars. Turn the piece over to the backside, and give it a coat or two of good primer, then a coat of any basecoat color. Then use masking tape, stencils, stamps, sponges or freehand painting to impart a design that fits your room. Be sure to seal it with a couple of coats of water based polyurethane, and it will wipe clean for years! This is a great way to customize your kitchen for little money…lets face it, rugs are expensive, impossible to keep clean in a kitchen, and are usually the same old boring thing. This is also a great way to cover an aging or damaged floor, as you can make the floorcloth to whatever size you need.

Save empty bottles and fill with colored water to set on the windowsills, or line up the bottles and fill with one flower each from your garden.

Grow plants from seed on your windowsills! Even grass seed has become very vogue. (Don’t tell anyone, because I usually shy away from “vogue”, but I really like the grass thing!J)

Above all, invoke your family into the place where you spend the most time. I’ve heard some designers say you should keep your refrigerator clear to prevent clutter, NO MAGNETS! But honestly, what would my kitchen be without my kids drawings stuck all over the door? It wouldn’t be the place I want to spend most of my time. I even have a couple of framed photos of my kids, right on the kitchen counter! So make your kitchen YOUR home, and have fun doing it!

Copyright 2002 K. Wilson

Kathleen Wilson is the editor of a free ezine and website called The Budget Decorator. When she’s not decorating or gardening she’s caring for her 5 kids, 3 stepkids, and wonderful husband. You can get more info and free projects at her website http://www.thebudgetdecorator.com

Gustobene Partners with Tonia’s Kitchen

By Anonymous


Gustobene Partners with Tonia’s Kitchen

     MALVERN, Pennsylvania, September 9, 2002 -- Gustobene, an Internet based company offering Italian Gourmet Foods online, today announced a partnership with Tonia’s Kitchen. Tonia’s Kitchen is a radio show for food lovers that airs Monday thorugh Friday at 3:30 pm on KBLX 102.9 in San Francisco and WBTN - AM 1370 - Bennington, VT - program airs Saturday between 1-2 PM. Tonia's Kitchen has many unique features that appeal to cooks of all types and experiences.

Gustobene and Tonia’s Kitchen program will be working together during the month of September offering a history on Italian foods, simple to prepare recipes, and how to best prepare them. The program, which will begin the week of September 9, 2002, will discuss the different types of figs, where you can find them, how to pick them, clean them and prepare them. Listeners will learn that most fig trees produce two crops a year. The first crop is ripened in early June and July and is the result of the previous year’s twigs’ growth. This crop tends to produce larger figs that are very juicy but not as sweet as the second crop which ripens from late summer into the fall season. These figs are generally smaller, sweeter and more concentrated in flavor. Over the next several weeks, Tonia’s Radio Kitchen program will also focus on balsamic vinegar, extra virgin olive oil and saffron.


Tonia's Kitchen listeners will receive a 10% discount when shopping for Authentic Italian Gourmet Foods at www.Gustobene.com. For details visit Tonia’s Radio Kitchen website at www.toniaskitchen.com. Additionally, a 60-second audio commercial has been launched and will air on KBLX-San Francisco and across the Jazz Vari network for the month of September.

About Tonia’s Kitchen – Tonia King has always sought ways to incorporate her love of cooking and food into her broadcast career, as well as in helping others. In 1999, she created a weekly radio food/cooking show running the gamut from choosing the right olive oil, to properly extracting the sweetness from that boniest of all East Coast fishes, the American Shad. Her lifelong passion for food and love of broadcasting make for a perfect recipe, uniting perfectly in America’s newest food-and-cooking format radio program, "Tonia's Kitchen".

Tonia King began honing her culinary techniques as a little girl in Pennsylvania, helping her mother prepare dishes for a traditional (and hungry!) Italian family. Mama Nestico instilled a deep appreciation for proper ingredients and techniques in her young assistant. After graduation from Boston’s Berklee College of Music, Tonia took advantage of the Hub’s rich blend of ethnic cuisines and fresh food markets, experimenting with new dishes, and discovering an eclectic mix of international cooking. As time passed, it became a new tradition for Tonia to host dinners for an ever-growing (and ever-hungrier) circle of musicians, friends, family and colleagues. For more information visit http://www.toniaskitchen.com/


About Gustobene - provides Italian specialty gourmet foods and other unique items to our customers around the world. Our mission at Gustobene is to share our passion for authentic Italian food. Our products, which include pastas, oils, vinegars, truffles, and sauces, are selected to insure the quality and diversity of Italian foods. The company was established to help people get access to this rich and delicious food from the Tuscany area and make it available for everyone to enjoy. For further information and news on Gustobene, please visit http://www.gustobene.com

Kitchen Magic Continues Climb, Named #34 in QR TOP 500 National Ranking

By Anonymous


Phillipsburg, NJ August 25, 2004 -- Kitchen Magic, Inc., a family owned and operated kitchen cabinet refacing and new cabinetry company, continues a steady climb, and was recently ranked thirty-fourth nationwide in the Qualified Remodeler TOP 500. The rank of thirty-four is eight notches above last year’s standing at forty-two.

The annual QR TOP 500 is published to recognize remodeling firms nationwide and based on outstanding success in terms of annual sales volume for the previous year, number of years in business and quality of service provided. Data for firms listed in the QR Top 500 is provided by companies and verified by accounting firms, certified public accountants, banks and suppliers.

In 2003 Kitchen Magic, was also ranked Number One in the more specialized ‘Kitchen Category’. According to company president, Brett Bacho, Kitchen Magic continues on its exciting path of fast growth and expansion in 2004. “We have grown steadily at a rate of 20% a year for the past five years. Our sales for 2004 so far are actually higher than our original goals—we are about 28% ahead of last year.”

The Kitchen Magic business model is simple. Since inception in 1979, Jost Fleck company founder and senior advisor to management has been adamant about one consistent message to every member of the Kitchen Magic team: The Customer is Always Right, the Customer is Always Right, the Customer is Always Right. “We must never forget, the customer is our real boss,” said Fleck.

What’s the secret? According Bacho, “The secret to Kitchen Magic’s success is in our people. We take care of the people who work for us, and they take outstanding care of our customers.’ What is the goal for the future? “Our goal is to keep making every one of our customers raving fans of Kitchen Magic. Oh, and also to keep growing.”

Kitchen Magic currently works in four states-- New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania.

** For more information, Kitchen Magic can be visited on the Web at http://www.KitchenMagic.com or call 1-800-237-0799.

Contact:
Renate Fleck
Kitchen Magic, Inc.
Phone: (732) 821-2852
Fax: (732) 940-3189
Email: Renate@KitchenMagic.com