journal

kitchen notes.

short, opinionated tips on the parts of a kitchen most people overlook. published when there’s something worth saying.

 
kitchen note · 4262

Four drawers always beat two cabinets.

pots are heavy. drawers slide. cabinets require you to kneel.

kitchen note · 4261

Plaster, not paint.

venetian or limewash. it photographs the way kitchens are supposed to photograph.

kitchen note · 4259

The case against the kitchen island.

not always. but more often than you’d think. a 12 ft galley with a sink at one end and a hood at the other is faster to cook in.

kitchen note · 4258

Why we route a 3mm shadow gap below every cabinet.

it lets the cabinet read like a piece of furniture, sitting on the floor instead of meeting it. the eye reads space, not seam.

kitchen note · 4256

A hood belongs in the ceiling, not on a wall.

recessed, baffled, vented through the roof. the wall is for tile. or for nothing.

kitchen note · 4255

One detail most kitchens get wrong: the trash pull-out.

it should sit behind a panel that matches the cabinet face — not behind a louvered door pretending to be a trash cabinet.