One more geekly project

[datachicane]

...nearly completed. The coffee bar is about the end of my umpteen year basement remodel. Vintage porcelain bar sink, cooktop, and steel cabinets, Marmoleum top, etc., etc.
I'm a poster child for why folks should just buy off the shelf rather than making everything from unobtainium.


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(http://picasaweb.google.com/wfteoslh/House)

[oddlycalm]

Big style points. :thumbup: Atomic ranch meets coffee deco. :D It'll look great decorated with a string of chile pepper holiday lights...

oc

[SteveH]

very cool :thumbup:

time for a martini

[Gnam]

It's cool your mom lets you redecorate her basement. :soulpatch: :p

Nice project. :thumbup:

[Napoleon]

Very nice - love the style.

[dando]

:thumbup:

-Kevin

[datachicane]

Big style points. :thumbup: Atomic ranch meets coffee deco. :D It'll look great decorated with a string of chile pepper holiday lights...

oc

It's a consolation prize for the 40's vintage birch kitchen I lost when the city decided to unfinish my finished basement a few years back, or the original 1926 CVG fir kitchen a previous owner decided to chainsaw up and drag out to the garage. It's not a huge house, so I'm not certain why it's always had two kitchens... probably for canning.

My wife's been after me to get the equipment out of her kitchen :p for years. I couldn't make her understand why I couldn't just go down to Lowe's and buy a bunch of prefab particle board and be done with it. Ah, well.

[Napoleon]

It's not a huge house, so I'm not certain why it's always had two kitchens... probably for canning.

Or entertaining. Everyone I know who has installed a second kitchen has done it because they needed extra ovens to cook/keep things warm, etc (although admittedly they all had larger then average houses were you could fit a fair amount of people).

[chop456]

I like Marmoleum on wheat toast.

[Michaelhatesfans]

Datachicane, it looks like I may have passed by you in Hippo Hardware a few times...:)

Looks awesome - it could be my grandmother's kitchen (in the best possible way). Except, of course, instead of an espresso machine there would be a jar of Sanka.:yuck:

[datachicane]

Hippo's great. My 9-yr old daughter loves that place- she sez it's like a Powell's for junk. :D

[Wheel-Nut]

Looks nice, what's that thing on your roof?

[datachicane]

Would that be my authentic retro analog TV antenna? :gomer:

[Wheel-Nut]

I've read about those in books. ;)

[Methanolandbrats]

I see something that is not up to code :gomer:

[oddlycalm]

I'm not certain why it's always had two kitchens... probably for canning.

I couldn't make her understand why I couldn't just go down to Lowe's and buy a bunch of prefab particle board and be done with it.

Given the town you live in has always been the commercial fruit and veggie cannery capital of North America a canning kitchen is a shrewd guess. :D Running the peach factory or the tomato factory all day long, or all evening, in the kitchen used for meal prep isn't practical. Same reason people that brew beer quickly graduate from the kitchen when they start making multiple batches same day on a regular basis.

I'm guessing your wife understands now. :thumbup:

oc

[Michaelhatesfans]

Hippo's great. My 9-yr old daughter loves that place- she sez it's like a Powell's for junk. :D

Well, next time you're in there if you see a guy trying to restrain his two kids who are trying to use curtain rods for light sabres, make sure you say "hi"
:o

[datachicane]

I see something that is not up to code :gomer:

Unpossible.
I don't take pictures of that stuff. :tony:

[datachicane]

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_2Yptu8g36aI/Shtcqv_btJI/AAAAAAAAB_4/JfVhRwfDa1Q/s800/image002.jpg

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Nice heavy 40's vintage Incaware cup the wife found me from the 42nd St Automat in NYC. It's supposed to be a teacup, but it's perfect for a dead-on 5oz cap.

[cameraman]

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http://lh5.ggpht.com/_2Yptu8g36aI/ShtcqvHTiYI/AAAAAAAAB_0/-fZythElaWY/s800/image001.jpg

Nice heavy 40's vintage Incaware cup the wife found me from the 42nd St Automat in NYC. It's supposed to be a teacup, but it's perfect for a dead-on 5oz cap.

I used to eat there occasionally and my father ate there all the time when he first got a job in NYC. His "apartment" didn't have a kitchen:eek: and he was all college educated & a mining engineer at the time. Things have changed a wee bit since the late 40's...