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I find it pretty funny you are building something for a company that should be going out of business. Hope they don't, my truck is a GMC.
 
We entered the competition, didn't win, but at least we got our pics in the online Washington Spaces magazine under "Classics". Unfortunately, our name wasn't included. Enjoy a few kitchen pics. Since I can't yet post a link, please add the 3dub in front.

washingtonspaces.com/competitions.2008/kitchen-spaces/classic-entrant.php?id=511
 
Well, sorry. It looks like the link has expired. I will try to figure out how to send a few pics here without blowing out the page. I guess this is one way to get to my 15th post.:shifty:
 
Looks Fantastic!!! I like the Columns but they do COMPLETELY destroy the visual flow of any chair occupant.

Consider Jane is sitting at the counter while Tammy, her best friend, is hustling and bustling around the kitchen preparing a Great Meal for a Great Occasion. While all this hustling and bustling is going on, Jane and Tammy are gossiping about Charlene and how she has gotten fat and how she has been seeking companionship in "all the wrong places". What a Slut! Anyhow, as Tammy walks to-and-fro, from Stove to Fridge to Microwave, they are unable to transmit those "as only a Woman can do" eye communications without moving to see around those Beautiful, although misplaced, Columns. Talk about a "Conversation Killer"!

Tammy, on occasion, laments, "Why do I have to walk all the way across the Kitchen to get to the Microwave? Such a pain. Damn that Designer!!". Then she realizes.....Freezer. Frozen Foods. Microwave. One Step Away. Hurray. It is a good place for the Microwave........Most of the time!

All-in-All Beautiful. As for the work. Stupendous!
 
Is MALCO short for MALCOntent? :laughing: Seriously, the client originally wanted no columns. You can see in the pics we blew out the back of the house 16'x21'. Since we have to pay serious attention to wind bracing here, we had to construct a steel portal frame. One of the coulmns hides a 4x6 steel column and the other is a complimentary column to keep from having an orphan column off-center. Floor joists above are nested in an I beam welded to the columns with moment connections.

Lot of work, 3 months to complete all.
 
Is MALCO short for MALCOntent? :laughing: Seriously, the client originally wanted no columns. You can see in the pics we blew out the back of the house 16'x21'. Since we have to pay serious attention to wind bracing here, we had to construct a steel portal frame. One of the coulmns hides a 4x6 steel column and the other is a complimentary column to keep from having an orphan column off-center. Floor joists above are nested in an I beam welded to the columns with moment connections.

Lot of work, 3 months to complete all.
Hey....You put it out there and I gave you My opinion. I did say that I liked the look. A LOT....But it does disrupt. I gathered that there was a structural reason behind this feature.
 
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