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Recap of Pappajohn Custom Cabinet Meeting

September 10, 2008

Custom Green Kitchen Cabinets Last week I met with Matt Pappajohn of Pappajohn Woodworking who will be making our custom, urban, green kitchen cabinets for the 120K House. Matt use our renderings and floorplans to come up with a concept and design that was also based on some of our previous discussions. The material of [...]

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Budget Reduction – Goodbye Custom Casework. Hello IKEA.

July 31, 2008

I guess it should come as no surprise that we are turning to IKEA for budget reductions in the kitchen and possibly bath as well. Maybe I was crazy thinking we could fit a custom, “Urban Kitchen” into the 100K budget or maybe I just wanted another project since I’m not busy enough already. The [...]

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Budget Reduction – Revised Kitchen and Appliances

July 29, 2008

This first reduction is not a big one and is mainly influenced by feedback from our last post on appliances for the 100K House. After reviewing the choices made in that post, I realized that I really didn’t want a bunch of mis-matched appliances from a variety of vendors. Instead I went back and quoted [...]

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Preliminary Kitchen Ventilation Investigation

July 14, 2008

The task of figuring out exactly what we are going to do for kitchen ventilation has been on the back burner for some time. As ground breaking is getting closer, this needs to be nailed down. Here are our criteria for the kitchen or cooktop ventilation: Exhaust flow rate that accomplishes 5 kitchen air changes [...]

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Appliances for the 100K House

June 19, 2008

The appliance list has been a work in progress for some time now. It’s no easy task trying to balance affordability, modern design and energy efficiency when searching for appliances. In keeping with our direction to spend more of the budget on the pieces that are harder to replace and will have the most impact [...]

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Urban Kitchen Meeting at Pappajohn Woodworking

April 29, 2008

This weekend I met with Mr. Matt Pappajohn of Pappajohn Woodworking to further discuss our “Urban Kitchen” design and possible materials. Matt has seen our renderings and has agreed that we can create a similar kitchen out of sustainable materials and green finishes that will fit in our budget for both homes. This makes me [...]

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First Interior Renderings of the 100K House

April 24, 2008

You’ve all been patient with our decreased posting the past few weeks so ISA decided to reward you all with the first interior renderings of the home. I’ll save my thoughts for later an let you guys comment first. If you’ve always wanted to comment but never have, now’s your chance. Also, before someone mentions [...]

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Urban Kitchen Design Update

April 10, 2008

After our last kitchen design meeting, we narrowed down our inspirational kitchen pieces to a few choices. Here are the inspirational images we liked the most to create a kitchen with the main strip along a wall with open shelving above and an island with seating. Wall section – OR – Island with seating like [...]

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The “Urban Kitchen” Design Project – minimalist, green, modern, utilitarian, efficient, gritty

March 25, 2008

This post started in response to a friend of mine, Matt Pappajohn, who happens to be a custom cabinet maker and wanted to have a go at building a modern and green kitchen for our project. He wanted me to give him a general idea of what we would be trying to design prior to [...]

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Kitchen Peninsula Cabinet Design Idea – Front View

February 13, 2008

I went ahead and sketched up what I have in mind for the cabinets in the peninsula this AM since there was mild interest and a bit of confusion as to what I meant. What we have here is a 10′ wide section of cabinets and countertop with the 6″-12″ deep chase for electrical and [...]

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