This Arlington kitchen made it in the House Beautiful magazine

[Anonymous]

I do not like this kitchen.

[Anonymous]

Alison Giese is amazing.

If I remember correctly, she sold her Nova home a couple of years ago and it was spectacular. It was featured in BHG/southern living or something like that. I had the luck to your it (didn’t make an offer because it wasn’t big enough in the end) but she has excellent taste.

She had these brown/taupe cabinets. But the thing about that kitchen- it wasn’t just design. It was functionally perfect. (I totally peeked into her drawers- perfect!).

I would love for her to do our master ensuite. But money is super tight with the cost of everything skyrocketing.

[Anonymous]

The number of finishes are making my eye twitch. There's layered, and then there's "slap a bunch of different colors and hope for the best."

[Anonymous]

The portfolio on her website has the same palette/vibe as Lauren Liess. Cream + tan with black and green.

[Anonymous]

Evidently 11:42 doesn't know how assess functionality either. But nicely shilled

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Evidently 11:42 doesn't know how assess functionality either. But nicely shilled

+1 Yick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Very nice. Great for Alison Giese!

I only subscribe to Southern Home and Veranda now and I rarely see DMV area homes in them. House Beautiful turned kind of hip? Not my cup of tea anymore.

I miss Traditional Home. Better Homes & Gardens seems to have turned it into a quarterly publication.

I subscribe to Veranda but didn’t know about Southern Home. Thanks for the tip!

[Anonymous]

The cabinets not going to the ceiling in that caliber of build is sad. Looks cheap and thrown together.

[Anonymous]

There are a lot of things I like about this kitchen, but as a few pp's have said, not all in one kitchen at the same time.
The biggest twitch I can't get past are the light fixtures in front of the windows....the last place you need a light fixture. Can't get past that.....just odd to me....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of things I like about this kitchen, but as a few pp's have said, not all in one kitchen at the same time.
The biggest twitch I can't get past are the light fixtures in front of the windows....the last place you need a light fixture. Can't get past that.....just odd to me....

Good point, paying a decorator to make a mistake like that, bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of things I like about this kitchen, but as a few pp's have said, not all in one kitchen at the same time.
The biggest twitch I can't get past are the light fixtures in front of the windows....the last place you need a light fixture. Can't get past that.....just odd to me....

I do a lot of cooking and dishwashing at night, so a light fixture above my sink (which is in front of a window) and the counters I use for prep would actually be helpful.

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Anonymous wrote:I think what I don't like is the three different cabinet colors (four?) and the multiple different surface textures: marble, the white hood, the shiplap, and the multiple metals (gold hardware with dark light fixtures, plus the copper pots). It doesn't blend into a coherent look for me.

Agree. It's just way too much.

+2

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's very right now. I love it and think it's beautiful, but it is going to look very dated very fast.

I think it's going to last as long as anything else, which is probably about 10 years. In any case, whoever put this kitchen in can probably afford to re-do it frequently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who takes a photo with a red purse on the floor by the stairs! There is nothing stylish or editorial about that photo!

What ethnic group doesn't know putting your purse on the floor is just letting money fly out of the purse/door!

This wins for most random comment. Never heard of this one!! [Raising hand]. Did someone’s husband just post on here as a spoof and a laugh?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of things I like about this kitchen, but as a few pp's have said, not all in one kitchen at the same time.
The biggest twitch I can't get past are the light fixtures in front of the windows....the last place you need a light fixture. Can't get past that.....just odd to me....

If you read the article about it, it says she did that with the lights so as not to draw attention to the range and hood being off center on the back wall. I have no idea if that makes style sense or not and can't even tell they are off center, but it was on purpose. She took out a window by the range and shortened the other 2. That diagonal wall also had a window.

More of a comment to others that she also had to work with what she had in terms of the overall design, and this has way more function than the kitchen that was there before, which was tiny.