Please click below to see the "Posting Pictures" topic:

http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/kitchbath/msg0213484417254.html

Note that the topic in the link above describes how to post multiple pictures in a thread and does not use the GW "image" function. The GW "image" function is limited and in most cases is insufficient for our use.

This post was edited by buehl on Sun, Dec 16, 12 at 23:17

The following thread contains the information we need to help you find a layout that works for you and your family as well as how to draw up and label a floor plan.

http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/kitchbath/msg010521247761.html

What are zones and how do you design with them in mind?

http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/kitchbath/msg0508230128712.html

A piece of advice:

When you post a layout for comments, please do not take the comments you receive personally. Everyone here is trying to help, not criticize maliciously. We want you to have a kitchen that, in the end, functions wonderfully well and looks nice overall. This may mean that some of us may tear apart your layout and rebuild it to what we think will work better, but it's done with good intentions. We're not the best at just "validating" someones layout, we're best at critiquing!

I will warn you that most of us here are "function over form" (or "function first")...meaning we strive first for a functional layout and then fit the form or look around it. It is far easier to make a functional kitchen look nice than it is to make a nice looking but dysfunctional kitchen functional. So, if you are a form/looks over function person, be sure to state that when you post.

Some people here think "function over form" means that we want all kitchens to look the same....not true! What we do want is all kitchens to function well...which means that in 99% of the cases, the workflow is the same...so that will mean some similarities due to workflow. However, as each kitchen is unique, each will have its own unique quirks, etc.

In the end, remember this is your kitchen. You don't have to make any of the recommended changes if you don't want to!

[Note: If you're just posting for validation of your layout (i.e., you don't want comments that suggest changes), state that as well. If you don't, people will comment on it!

Warning: People may comment anyway, it's tough to let a kitchen go that you think is dysfunctional and will cause angst later...especially if it's not yet installed and we think we can help. Bear with us, we're just trying to help!]

Please click the link below to find out more about planning your storage, including where items are commonly stored.

http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/kitchbath/msg010523449014.html

Please click below to see the "Posting a Link" topic:

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Note that the topic in the link above describes how to post multiple links in a thread as well as describes how to use the GW "link" function. The GW "link" function is fine if you only have one link to post. However, if you have multiple links to post, the topic above will tell you how to do that as well.

Please click the link below to find out what to do to get follow-up posts emailed to you for a thread - either as the original poster or as someone who is "following" a thread.

http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/kitchbath/msg0105243228880.html

Some information that may be of interest to you:

http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/kitchbath/msg0105344116836.html

Contains: Links from the "Read Me" thread
Pantries
Useful Information (NKBA links, Other Forums)
Helpful Threads (a myriad of past & present threads containing useful/helpful information)
Tile Information.
Stone Information (how to shop/test/install stone counters, how to remove stains)
Cleaning Your Kitchen
Custom Cabinetmaker Sample Agreement

http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/kitchbath/msg0105301232623.html

How to gel-stain cabinets.

http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/kitchbath/msg0105280230861.html

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Sooo, do you gals want to pick a theme for this thread?

Angie, you've been hard at work.

Can we post art work? We don't have to continue but I will add one piece that has intrigued me from my art history class:
Judith Slaying Holofernes (1614-20) Oil on canvas 199 x 162 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. (Wikipedia text)

Emily Carr

Landscape with Tree, c. 1920 - 1921 (another reference list 1917-1919)
oil on canvas
43.2 cm x 54.0 cm
Collection of Glenbow Museum, Purchased 1956
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Enduring! Oh, I love your theme and I LOVE your choices. I did not know either of these artists or their works. I would love to play along. I hope you don't mind, but my choices will be a bit more "conventional," (i.e., more well known) at least to start.

La Grande Odalisque, 1814 by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
The Louvre

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The thing I always really liked about Ingres is the difference between the background details and the treatment of the main subject. To me, I always thought this said (Ingres speaking here) "Yes, I can darn well paint photo realistic if I choose to: look at those curtains. However, I wish to portray my model in a different mode. It is not that I CAN'T paint her true-to-life, I want to emphasize other things."

your pic didn't show so here it is. And that is a great little story to go along with the image. Thanks.

So, lets post a picture of any art work (2-D or 3-D) and tell a little something about why the image is significant to the poster.

Thomas Hart Benton
"An outspoken populist, Missouri native Thomas Hart Benton used his art to extol what he saw as ordinary American virtues. His subjects ranged from colorful, rough-hewn Midwestern characters to broad epics of American life and history tinged with irony and social commentary." (Joslyn Art Museum)

This is a copy of his work from the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha web site

Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975),
The Hailstorm , 1940
tempera on canvas mounted on panel, 33 x 40, 83.82 x 101.6 cm
Gift of the James A. Douglas Memorial Foundation (1971), 1952.11

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Enduring, thanks for fixing my Ingres link. I am not sure what the problem was -- I could see it on the preview.

I continue to love your choices. As I say, I am less well-schooled and diverse, and for now I will stick to the more well-trodden paths.

Here is Claude Monet's Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise). (1872, Musee Marmottan Monet). Obviously, this is not the best or most widely known of his works. The reason I chose it is that it was the painting that launched (and gave the name to) the Impressionist movement.

The Nativity by Federico Barocci (1597, Museo del Prado, Madrid)
Why I chose the subject should be obvious! I chose this particular work for its unusual composition.

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Here is Angie's selection. Very beautiful Angie.

...He says, as he points, "look at the wondrous babe!"

Thanks Buehl and Angie,

How about this winter scene that I found. The image, text, and title are from this web source:
http://www.kunsthaus.ch/wintermaerchen/gallery.html

"Pieter Brueghel the Younger: Winter Landscape with Bird Trap, 1601
Oak, 39 x 57 cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Picture Gallery

This is the first independent winter landscape in European art. Unlike Pieter BrueghelâÂÂs celebrated Hunters in the Snow, this painting was never part of a series of the Seasons. And there is no reference to a religious, mythological or historical story. This is interesting and important because for a long time landscapes served exclusively as backdrops: for biblical stories, for scenes featuring classical gods, or for depictions of important historical events."

Lovely Monet above got me thinking of more, but not yet. First a little contemporary sculpture:
"Nomade," by the Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa, a 27-foot-tall hollow human form made of a latticework of white. This resides at the Pappajohn Sculpture Park in Des Moines, Iowa.

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Bump only, so as to keep the thread from getting bogged down with photos. It has occurred to me that over 100 images would be a little much:)

Maybe every now and then do a picture.

OR, we could do links to great art.

Here is a link that might be useful: Monet's

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Wassily Kandinsky, a Wikipedia entry for this artist.

Here is a link that might be useful: Wassily Kandinsky

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Would you believe we have a Plensa in my town, too!?

Bumping early to say, "yeah, but your's has got a leak" ;)

What a gorgeous picture of the lake, sky, and statue!

Ha ha on the leak comment! Yours is very large compared to ours... maybe ours "leaked" away.

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I don't know why I like Barbara Hepworth so... something to do with the negative space and the organic forms.

Great image of Hepworth, I love sculptures capacity to work with space and movement.

From the Guggenheim Museum website:

"When Constantin Brancusi moved to Paris from his native Romania in 1904, he was introduced to Auguste Rodin, the French master sculptor who was then at the height of his career. He invited Brancusi to join his atelier as an apprentice, but the younger artist-with the confidence, stubbornness, and independence of youth-declined, claiming that "nothing grows in the shade of a tall tree." Brancusi rejected Rodin's 19th-century emphasis on theatricality and accumulation of detail in favor of radical simplification and abbreviation; he suppressed all decoration and explicit narrative referents in an effort to create pure and resonant forms. His goal was to capture the essence of his subjects-which included birds in flight, fish, penguins, and a kissing couple-and render them visible with minimal formal means."

Brancusi's "Muse" (La Muse), 1912. White marble, 17 3/4 x 9 x 6 3/4 inches (45 x 23 x 17 cm). Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Photo: David Heald

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I saw this IRL today!

Thomas Gainsborough. Mary, Countess Howe, (ca. 1764. Oil on canvas. 95 x 61 in. Kenwood House, English Heritage; Iveagh Bequest).

Lovely, looks like she could step off the canvas and be our contemporary.

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This was also at the exhibit I went to the other day (Joshua Reynolds, Lady Mary Leslie as Cleopatra Dissolving the Pearl, 1764, oil on canvas, 56 1/8" x 44 1/2"):

What really struck me was how Reynolds captured that faraway look in her eye, even though we can only really see one of her eyes!

For some reason, the "Edit" feature is not working for me, or I would have fixed the mistake in the last post. The model for that last painting was Kitty Fisher, not Lady Mary Leslie. (There is a huge difference in these!! Lady Mary Leslie would have been scandalized to have been confused with the courtesan Kitty Fisher.)

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BTW, enduring, I really liked the Brancusi. So interesting that he had the opportunity to work with Rodin, and yet took such a different tack. Thanks for sharing that!