A kitchen is to cook in. We have been waiting to announce this as we worked out plans for the Smallest Coolest Apartment Contest. Smallest Coolest is officially April, so we are go with Kitchens right now.
What does that mean?
Starting today we are taking submissions for our I Cook! Kitchen Contest: The ultimate show-and-tell for cooks who love their home kitchens. The goal is for readers to share tips and inspiration from their kitchens.
To insure goodwill and take the edge off the competition, every entry will recieve a small prize and the winner and runner-up will get a great not-too-expensive kitchen prize that has yet to be worked out.
What:
I Cook! Kitchen Contest
Who:
Open to Anyone in the USA (this should be interesting...)
How to Submit:
- Your name (or how you would like to be referred to)
- Where you live
- 2 Good Photographs
- 1 Convincing statement saying what makes your kitchen great
- 2 Recommended Kitchen Supply Stores (name & address)
- 3 Compelling kitchen cooking/design tips
To ILoveMyKitchen@apartmenttherapy.com
We will be accepting entries through Wednesday, March 16th...... Onward. MGR
Great contest idea. I did want to tell my friend to enter, but her kitchen is HUGE. Still, I think she has one of those kitchens no one could ever replicate without tons of money, but still gave me some amazing ideas. Maybe you should have best biggest dream kitchen next, so we can gnash our teeth with envy!
I don't see why anyone with a huuuuge kitchen shouldn't enter the contest, although this is *apartment* therapy...
How about a NYC catagory and a seprate USA section.
I mean...the rest of the nation really has a hands down advantage for the most part. A lower cost per sq. ft. would equate more funds on hand to opt for the marble floors and imported countertops.
IE I have a freind who paid the same price fo his place (in Rhode Islsnd) that I did for mine here.
Yet they are in totally diffrnet leagues.
Prices in NYC for labor and delivery are crazy high... My mother and I paid the same for our counter tops and installation. Mine covers around 8 feet of cabinets in a kitchenette and is Silestone. Hers is solid thick granite and covers all of a big suburban kitchen with an eat-in island.
After looking through kitchen books for a year, I'm not impressed by fancy anymore. I don't care if the person has the latest applicances and expensive marble. I'm more interested in the little things that people do that make a kitchen a good place to cook.
I agree Mary. I've entered my kitchen in this contest, but I haven't renovated yet except to install a new stove and dishwasher and paint the hideous tile. I have nasty grey laminated cabinets from when the building went co-op in the 80's. But I get overwhelmed by choices, so I am stepping back and living with it for a while. I don't want to make an expensive mistake.
If categories are being proposed, what about rent/own? It seems like the ones seen so far have had major renovation or building done - and they look great! - but what about those of us who rent and don't have that option?
i think a big one is DIY or hire an archect/designer. i'm a designer myself so don't know where i would fall in this, but is it weird to laud someone's design sensibilities when they've just paid someone else for theirs? is that bitchy? mind, i am totally willing to revise my opinion on this. i really just need someone to explain.