Swank!! Great work.

Wow. It’s amazing how scary things are underneath all the prettiness. Beautiful, beautiful job. Love the Kohler faucet. Nice choice. Excellent start-to-finish peak into what looks like a complicated job but you made it look so easy. Thanks!

I aspire to have a kitchen as cook as this. Maybe then I’d actually cook ha!
I also saw your reco on the folding dish rack on twitter. Totally gonna pick one up for myself as well.

Awesome project NOTCOT!

Heads-up: The hidraulic instalation has a flaw. All copper tubing transporting potable water should have an hidraulic shock absorber. That’s a fancy name for extending the vertical tube 1” above the connection with the horizontal connection, so that the air contained will muffle the water pressure. Otherwise, your installation will vibrate and make funny noises.

It would be a pity to have such foolish problems with such beautiful hardware.

Greetings!

Nicely done! The black/white contrast is gorgeous :)

it looks so awesome! congrats!!

notcot is a amazing site, which i visit almost every day. and a realize that you have to make money somehow, but in my opinion you should at least mark advertising/product placement like this, becouse its just too obvious and people dont like to be fooled.

Oh Phillip ~ if you read NOTCOT almost daily, you should know me better by now! Kohler is an advertiser, and i take ads from brands i like! and they realized how awesome i thought their faucet was long before they began to support the site as well. This post isn’t advertising. so don’t be fooled that my excitement isn’t genuine. Breaks my heart to think you find something obvious that isn’t even true. I really do love the faucet and sink, especially compared to the old one! Did you SEE the pics?? =)

please don’t forget, this is my personal blog, which is 90% product since i’m design obsessed - and i write about what i love! … and my life
=)

well thanks for your comment, its nice to see that you deal with negative criticism. i honestly didnt realize that you perceive this as a personal blog, because it goes so much beyond a personal point of view. i guess keeping this site up-to-date is a somewhat day-filling activity, and imo people see it more as a professional webpage than a personal blog.
oh and if you really didnt get any money for this post, kohler should be ar least very grateful to you and your blog..:)
and i didnt say that i dislike your remodeling, its obviously a day-and-night difference.
as for the faucet, im a industrial designer myself, and i guess im very much formed by the german “bauhaus” education, thats why i think this silver carbon fiber look didnt make it look any better, but i havent seen it in reality yet.
cheers

Phillip ~

SO glad you wrote back again ~ that made my day
=)

I’m flattered you see it as more than a personal blog ~ it’s mixed for me as well, but i really am that much of a design junkie… and even as i became able to run these sites *like* a job, knowing i’d do it even if know one was reading is probably what keeps me going. I suppose its most personal in that i write about what i love, and skip the stuff i dont ~ so NOTCOT.com is my little space on the web sharing what excites me in my day to day!

And no pay for play here ~ editorial is editorial ~ even sponsored post series are clearly denoted, and i’m strict with making the content ONLY things i was already going to write about. Paid ads stay in the ad spots!!!

Thanks!
~ jean

Philip seems a tad pretentious,

I dont think jean cares much about making money from this site, if she does then great because she deserves it, if not then she at the least knows it gives alot of people joy. I visit this blog religiously at least 3 times a day, to see if anything has been added to notcot.org. I see this blog as a mixture of personal/webpage, more like a magazine website, where the editor has give alot of their opinion on what they like. Yet there is still something for everyone and it doesnt feel too personal, just very design oriented.

I like the black. Good choice.

The Karbon faucet is very cool too.