It was exciting times at Main Line Kitchen Design when Ray Gardner won our companies first design award.
What Makes Me Laugh in Kitchen Design
It surprises me, but often friends ask me to tell stories about life as a kitchen designer. Funny stories usually involve customers not valuing our input as professional designers and the calamitous results. Or our punking other designers.
Thanksgiving 2021 with the Knotthinks
To lighten things up this Thanksgiving, I thought I’d give our blog readers an update on recent construction projects completed by the Knotthink Family. Here is a link to our previous check in with this construction challenged family.
Kitchen Story Contest Winner Announced!
Congratulations to b.e.stack our Kitchen Story Contest Winner.
b.e. won $500 for her very creative letter to the editor from a home built in 1920 complaining about a magazine article minimizing the importance of the kitchen!
How We Thank Our Customers After Their Kitchen Renovation is Complete.
Once the dust clears and the grout dries on Main Line Kitchen Design’s customers’ kitchens we send them a thank you, usually a cookbook or a Di Bruno Brother’s Cheese book.
Thanksgiving Reflections
As we approach what is going to be an unusual Thanksgiving, my wife and I have been reflecting on a number of past Turkey Days. Our most vivid memories often include Main Line Kitchen Design, cooking, home repair, and Thanksgiving destinations.
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Quotes from Three Masters of Cooking, Design, and Art.
Listed below are selected quotes from three masters who influenced, in their own way, the art of kitchen design.
Crazy Construction Mistakes
The Knotthink family has several members who are in design or building. Guy Knotthink, the family patriarch, is now retired but his son Will Knotthink is a general contractor and Will’s sister May Knotthink is an interior designer. Will’s other sister, Ivana Knotthink is an architect.
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Every Day as a Kitchen Designer is a Test of Patience.
All good kitchen designers have one quality in common. Patience.
It takes a very patient person to gently convince homeowners that they need design and selection assistance, because the majority of them believe that they don’t need it.