Kitchen design is the elephant in residential design.  The kitchen is
where everything comes into conflict.  It is the most rapidly changing
of required residential spaces, where technologies are introduced and
dismissed, where passing fancies and hobbies demand alterations and
then fall out of fashion leaving the placed dated, or an object of
nostalgia.
And its an expensive space.  It has cabinetry needs that exceed those
of library's, living rooms or parlors.  It has mechanical electrical
needs that rival a good shop.  It has the greatest traffic.  It health
and sanitation demands.

I think you should reconsider.  Perhaps not an architect, but some
design guidance is in order.

-jc


On Jan 7, 2005, at 7:02 AM, Gabriel Orgrease wrote:

> As to kitchens. I myself would not hire an architect to design a
> kitchen... but I have a friend who did not really want to sit around
> trying to figure out if the cabinets would fit, or not, or the flow of
> pedestrian traffic, or the appropriate and standard layout of stoves &
> sinks etc. and so he hired an architect for his kitchen revision (one
> more kitchen in one more house in a long series over decades). The
> architect took a bit of time, which is not always the case, and the
> first go round came up with a design that  my friend did not like, but
> eventually they worked it out. My friend also had custom cabinets
> built,
> which is not exactly how most middle-class people go about doing a new
> kitchen. I must admit that having seen the completed kitchen I was
> impressed with the feel of it, and the line of sight and sense of
> elegant utility that it presented... something that is NOT felt in a
> Home Depot designed kitchen.

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