offthehookart: Galley Kitchen Remodel

In 1938, Life magazine commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design an "American dream house" perfectly schemed up a plan to connect the structures via a second-floor galley kitchen. The resulting modernist townhouse is just blocks from Michigan Avenue. The kitchen was definitely on the radar for other reasons besides being outdated. Before the remodel, the tiny galley kitchen was rarely used. “Our kitchen was so terrible we weren’t even cooking anymore,” Black said. “Now, I cook again.” Marcia is an interior, portrait, and travel photographer and has photographed over 50 homes of creatives. Her photographic style is capturing her subject in the most natural state and creating an emotional response. But 12 years ago, keen to complete the Victorian home’s transformation from “scruffy to rather nice”, they commissioned the London-based architect Andrew Yeoh to design a striking floor flows into a long galley kitchen, with well-stocked The Rhode Island School of Design alumni later won an award for his design in Massive windows sit atop a set of sliding doors at the foot of a wrap-around deck. The galley kitchen has windows pushing out at about a 45 degree angle, giving view to Description: "The homeowners have lived in the house for some time prior to the remodel. They wanted to open up and expand their small galley kitchen to connect it to the rest of the house. With limited counter space and a dining nook too small to be .

The narrow galley kitchen, with its two parallel counters, is the ideal design for maximum efficiency in this reduced space. The Casa Feliz kitchen, which is open for free tours from 10 a.m.-noon Tuesday and Thursday, and noon to 3 p.m. Sunday, offers a They got to work remodeling the great room the other side of the galley was walled off from the great room. The space was so tight that two people trying to work in the kitchen would bump into each other. "It was kind of a nightmare," Suzanne says. Love it or list it? These homeowners chose their Arts & Crafts-influenced older home over a newer house, remodeling their galley kitchen to suit today’s lifestyle. The kitchen was gutted and reoriented for better function and more efficient workspace A few more square feet was enough to turn a cramped galley into a highly functional kitchen, with enough space for two cooks Creating space: During the design process, Kell Cornell came up with several different schemes: working within the existing .