Hi I'm Bob Vila Welcome Home Again.
It's getting close to the end of this project.
Today we're building a fence along the property line then I'm taking you inside the kitchen to tour of the finished installation.
All the appliances are working right next to all of these beautiful cabinets.
Then we'll be in my workshop, we're going to create an insert for an old amoire so that we can have a TV entertainment center in the master bedroom, and then on the third floor, we've got the real entertainment center with Bose surround sound.
Stick around.
It's good to have you home again.
Bob Vila's Home Again
One thing about living in an urban situation is that you have property lines, houses in close proximity and you want to deal with privacy and beauty, and our landscape architects have taken care of a lot of the requisites in terms of beauty.
They've put in a combination of lilacs and red stemmed dogwood along the property line here so that when they're bare you can see the neighborhood.
In the summer they'll be beautiful but I especially like them in contrast against our fence, or just picture it in the snow.
Here we have the beginning of a solid fence which will give us privacy in this parking area, and hide cars from the neighbor's view.
It's 6 feet high.
It's made out of western red cedar and Jay from Architectural Fence, you and the fellas are doing a marvelous job.
Thank you.
But here is where you have the real challenge, right?
Cause, we have these hemlock trees that someone planted long ago on the property line.
Yes, what we did, Bob, was we shot you a straight line on your property and without.
And without removing the trees.
Without removing the trees we were able to scribe, we have to scribe these sections in place.
This is exactly what you are doing.
So, that when you put this section in through here and join the two
It's going to, you're going to see the trunk of the tree
We're gonna see some of the trunk of the tree
The rest will be solid fence.
I think it is a neat way of doing it.
It is.
Obviously, you don't want to disturb the trees.
Yeah.
How do you go about scribing?
What we do is we hold the panel up This part being flush with this post here.
Yeah.
We have an extended pencil.
A very simple device.
Yep.
You just put a pencil on the end of a little piece of wood here.
And then we traced the trunk of the tree, right down along the section line here.
And of course, that will probably require making several cuts cause
Several cuts hard.
your first cut's going to be rough, and than you'll fit it up against it and cut it again.
That's correct.
All right, well I'll get out of your hair.
We want go tour the kitchen but first let's take a look at this gate that they made.
This, if you have followed some of the detailing inside the house, this echoes the archotrod that we have in the front hall and of course they have laminated to get this arch.
Let's go take a look at the kitchen.
We've just gotten the kitchen door installed.
And let me tell you, there's nothing like having a kitchen that incorporates a little bit of mud room, so that when you come in, you got a place to hang up the outer wear.
The idea here that the whole kitchen space has three main areas.
This area is as I said a mud room a place for clothing, as well as a larder Nor pantry for food stuffs a secondary sink in this area here for flower arranging or for doing salads and the like.
Our side by side refrigerator which, of course, is the cold larder.
And what I love about these big sub-zeroes is that you can fit in and flush-mount the siding.
This is the bead board siding, the same exact stuff that we've got everywhere in the kitchen.
Over here, we've got one of two Jenn Air extra large convection or regular ovens with all the digital controls.
And what I really like about this is that it gives you the option to have the baking operation, or the turkey or whatever, going on in here.
And you have got a secondary oven in the main area of the kitchen, where you can be doing other stuff.
Now the second third element is the galley kitchen itself so that here you've got a huge combination of things happening but what we wanted to do in terms of the design was really kind of to look towards a commercial installation, a restaurant installation and we've got a fabricated stainless steel hood which was made right here in Weymouth, Mass but most major cities have these type of companies that will manufacture.
They loath to do it for a residential job unless the architect really knows his stuff and has done a great job.
See this?
This is a souvenir from the old Julia Child set on PBS years ago.
Was given to me and we've kind of incorporated it here, so that you have the option of using all these pots and pans and having them right where you can see them.
The stainless steel continues down as a back splash in a shelf and has these beautiful counters that flank our stove.
You've got to see this because when a fabricator really does quality work they can do a beautiful rounded edge like that.
And so we've flanked our cook-top with stainless steel.
The cook-top itself is from the Brown Stoveworks, a five-star model, and this is well, it's an incredibly heavy duty, and hig h quality affair, and one of the things that it has that is really wonderful, is it has the high out put burner which you can turn back to a micro simmer where you actually only hav e the center part burning so that you can really simmer a sauce very very lightly.
And in the middle you get a barbecue, which you can pull out and replace with a skillet depending on what you want to cook.
So this is the heart of the kitchen, this is really where we're going to have some fun.
And of course on the opposite side at forty two inches, the ideal dimension.
We've got the complete preparation area and you'll noticed this unusual counter top material is soap stone a product that originally was used extensively in the nineteenth century out of Vermont.
The quarries up there have been exhausted for large stones and these stones in fact come from Brazil.
The beauty of the soapstone is that it comes raw as it were.
You fabricate it on site.
You can take a regular router, and you can do these edges and these bonos quite easily.
When you complete it, you get an natural surface that you can do food preparation on.
Although it tends to dull your knife, which is another reason for using good butcher blocks.
These are hard rock maple from Eastern Butcher Block, which I've always loved to have because you can just carry them around from place to place.
T he main sink in the kitchen, the Kenetico purified water source, and, of course , our good old Moen valve, not European, made in America, which gives you those same terrific features.
The dishwasher, this one's a Jenn Air as well, and the big thing with European dishwashers is that they are so quiet.
Listen to this when you put it on one of the cycles.
It's an extremely quiet machine, very, very high quality.
Then you go from this middle third to the third part of the kitchen, which is where we have got the family eating arrangement.
You've got this element here where you can take the dishes and bring them right over here, and you can get a kid to Put them away after they're done in the dishwasher, and then of course the butler's pantry area over here, where our installers, Todd Allen and Jimmy Shields have done a spectacular job of blending all these cabinets, and putting in all these wonderful moldings and in fact we got a couple of nifty features here such as this.
These are also sub zero of new product where you can have a secondary refrigeration area, breakfast area and it matches the cabinets.
Anyway, I am in love with the kitchen.
We gotta break for messages, I'm gonna go up our brand new staircase, when we come back, we'll be in the master bedroom, looking at an Armour that I'm going to turn into a kind of an entertainment center.
Stick around.
