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The Hotchkiss Library of Sharon, Connecticut announces that more than 30 nationally known and regional authors and illustrators will take part in the 18th Annual Sharon Summer Book Signing under the tents on Friday, August 1st, from 6 to 8 p.m.
One of Litchfield County's most beloved literary events, every year the book signing brings writers of fiction, nonfiction, and children's literature to book lovers throughout northwestern Connecticut as well as in neighboring Massachusetts and New York State.
This festive fundraiser provides essential financial support for the Hotchkiss Library of Sharon's mission of encouraging reading and learning. Admission is $30, which includes an open wine bar and summer hors d'oeuvres, and is payable in advance or at the door (Visa and MasterCard accepted).
After the end of the book signing, a few elegant fundraising dinner parties will be held in the homes of a few Sharon hosts and hostesses featuring several of the authors.
Among the authors will be Francine Prose with her acclaimed novel, Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932, which Kirkus Reviews called "brilliant and dazzling." Another will be Rachel Urquhart, whose novel, The Visionist, set in a Shaker community, has been called by The New York Times "a transfixing debut novel."
This year an especially fine group of biographers will be offering their books, including Claudia Roth Pierpont, the author of the fascinating Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books. Copies of American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell, called "brilliantly insightful" by The Wall Street Journal, will be signed by Deborah Solomon.
Bestselling author Michael Korda will be at the book signing with his Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee. And Eric Lehman will represent Becoming Tom Thumb: Charles Stratton, P. T. Barnum, and the Dawn of American Celebrity.
Another biographer under the tents will be Diane Jacobs, author of the highly praised Dear Abigail: The Intimate Lives and Revolutionary Ideas of Abigail Adams and her Two Remarkable Sisters. A biography set in the same era will be offered by Connecticut author Susan Campbell, Tempest Tossed: The Spirit of Isabella Beecher Hooker.
Two novelists who have written thrillers will be, Jack Hyland, author of The Moses Virus, set in Rome and about the threat of a deadly virus.
Phyllis Rose will be signing an intriguing literary story: The Shelf From LEQ to LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading, about reading almost all the novels on a library shelf.
Books about history will be discussed by classics scholar James Romm, who wrote Dying Every Day, Seneca at the Court of Nero, Lincoln Paine, author of The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World, and Simon Winchester, who has been called "a literary impresario," The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible.
Eve Schaub will be signing a memoir, The Year of No Sugar, while Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough will be offering another book about food, The Great American Slow Cooker Book: 500 Recipes for Every Day and Every Size Machine.
Sports books will be represented by two authors: Peter Richmond, author of Phil Jackson: The Lord of the Rings about the Basketball Hall of Fame coach, and James Charlton and Sally Cook, co-authors of How to Speak Baseball: An Illustrated Guide to Ballpark Banter.
And representing the arts will be Sharon residents Robert Kipniss and Don Hunstein. Kipniss is the author of Robert Kipniss: Paintings and Poetry 1950-1964. Hunstein's remarkable photographs of musicians, such as Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, and Dave Brubeck, are featured in Keeping Time: The Photographs of Don Hunstein.
Sally Keil will be on hand to discuss her work about Jungian psychology, To Live in The World as Ourselves.
Jane Garmey will be signing copies of her Private Gardens of the Hudson Valley, about twenty-six gardens photographed by John M. Hall. Mary Randolph Carter will be signing Never Stop To Think…..Do I Have a Place For This, as will Joan Osofsky and Abby Adams with their book about decorating, Love Where You Live: At Home in the Country.
Sharon resident Raymond Learsy will be signing copies of his Ruminations on the Distortion of Oil Prices and Crony Capitalism.
Books in the children's tent will include those for the very young, such as Marc Rosenthal's Dig! and Mogie: The Heart of the House, and Valorie Fisher's I Can Do It Myself. Returning to the book signing again will be Wendell Minor, an illustrator of many children's books, who did paintings for his latest, Galapagos George.
For youngsters in middle grades, there will be The Miniature World of Marvin and James and Treasure on Superstition Mountain (Book Two) by Elise Broach, as well as Jeff Cohen's Eva and Sadie and the Worst Haircut Ever!
For older and young adult readers, the book signing will offer Miss Emily by Burleigh Muten, Bugged: How Insects Changed History by Sarah Albee, and Deep Blue (Waterfire Saga, Book One) by Jennifer Donnelly.
Author Bios & Photos
Elise Broach is the author of 17 books for children, ranging from board books to young adult novels. Her middle-grade mystery, Masterpiece, was a New York Times bestseller, and her picture book When Dinosaurs Came with Everything was named Time Magazine's #1 Children's Book of the Year. Her newest books are the award-winning Superstition Mountain mystery trilogy, set in Arizona, and The Miniature World of Marvin and James, which is the first in an early chapter book series based on the Masterpiece characters. |
Susan Campbell is the award-winning author of "Dating Jesus," and just-published biography, "Tempest-Tossed: The Spirit of Isabella Beecher Hooker." For more than a quarter-century, Susan was a columnist at the Hartford Courant, where her work was recognized by the National Women's Political Caucus, the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, and the Sunday Magazine Editors Association. A 1998 column was part of The Courant's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage. She is currently the Robert C. Vance Endowed Chair in Journalism and Mass Communication at Central Connecticut State University She works as the communications/development director at Partnership for Strong Communities, a statewide non-profit that's working to end homelessness and increase the state's stock of affordable housing. |
Jeff Cohen is a proud New Orleans native who now calls New England home. Jeff has been a reporter since 2001. At WNPR, he writes about state politics, health care, criminal justice, and daily breaking news. He is also a regular contributor to NPR's national broadcasts on everything from the Affordable Care Act to Newtown and its aftermath. Before WNPR, Jeff worked at The Hartford Courant, the Meriden Record-Journal, and as a freelancer for the New York Times. He lives in Middletown with his wife, cats, and two great kids. He likes to make bread and wine. |
Sally Cook is the co-author with James Charlton and Ross Mac Donald of how to Speak Baseball: An Illustrated Guide to Ballpark Banter and Hey Batta Batta Swing! The Wild Old Days of Baseball. She is also the co-author with Ray Negron of Yankee Miracles: Life with the Boss and the Bronx Bombers. Her book, Another Season with legendary Alabama football coach, Gene Stallings was a New York Times best seller. Currently she is working on a graphic novel with New Yorker cartoonist, Harry Bliss,to be published by Dial in 2016. Sally lives in New York City and Cornwall, Ct. Jim Charlton the co-author, along with Sally Cook and illustrator Ross MacDonald, of How To Speak Baseball. He is a long-time though part-time resident of Lakeville, and can trace his roots in the town to third grade at Salisbury Central. He proudly spent a half year there while living with his grandmother, and took a horse and buggy to school. Jim is a publishing lifer, having spent his career in books as a editor at several New York houses, and as a publisher, book packager, literary agent and writer. He has published more than three dozen books on a variety of subjects including baseball, writing, croquet, charades, humor and hand gestures. He has also edited nearly a dozen books of quotations, including the Writers Quotation Book, The Book of Military Quotations and Fighting Words. He is the co-author, along with Sally Cook and illustrator Ross MacDonald, of the children's baseball book Hey, Batta Batta. Jim is the former publisher for the Society for American Baseball Research and is a long-time board member of the Pushcart Press. |
Valorie Fisher is the creator of the back-to-school favorite Everything I Need to Know Before I'm Five, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year; How High Can a Dinosaur Count?, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year; and the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award winners My Big Brother and My Big Sister. She is the illustrator of The Fantastic 5&10¢ Store by J. Patrick Lewis, and the photographer for the beloved Moxy Maxwell books by Peggy Gifford. Valorie's photographs can be seen in the collections of major museums around the world, including the Brooklyn Museum, London's Victoria and Albert Museum and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. |
Jane Garmey is the author of Private Gardens of the Hudson Valley, (selected as one of the five most notable garden books of 2013 by the New York Times) and Private Gardens of Connecticut , the editor of The Writer in the Garden, and the author of Great British Cooking: A Well-Kept Secret and Great New British Cooking . She writes about gardens and interior design for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal , Elle Decor, and 1st Dibs. For many years she was the garden correspondent for Town & Country. |
Don Hunstein's iconic photographs have become symbols of an era. In the history of music photography, Don's work during his 30 years at Columbia records is unsurpassed in its scope and breadth. Through his subtle humor and quiet nature, he was able to record many great moments in music history. He photographed the famous and the not so famous. Hundreds of album covers and behind the scenes work. His photographs documented a rare time when musicians spent time on their art, rather than their publicity. Don Hunstein grew up in St. Louis MO and attended Washington University, graduating in 1950 with a degree in English. After college he enlisted in the US Air Force and was stationed in Fairford, England, and assigned a desk job. It was this assignment that allowed him to travel around Europe. He began photographing casually, taking pictures to send home to his family, and then with the help of a Leica M3 purchased in the PX, and inspired by a book of renowned street photographer Henri Cartier Bresson's work, his hobby began to take him on a lifelong path. After a year in Fairford, Don was transferred to a base outside of London. There he joined a local camera club and took evening classes at London's Central School of Art and Design, becoming influenced by the artists and designers whom he met there. He returned to the States in 1954, ending up in New York City, where he eventually landed an apprenticeship in a commercial photography studio. There he honed his photography skills by mastering large format cameras and lighting. At the time, photography was, as Don put it: " not a glamorous profession," but he didn't have a pull in any other vocational direction and it satisfied his creative side. As chance connections were made, he soon met and became mentored by Deborah Ishlon, who worked in the publicity department at Columbia Records. She offered him a job helping her run the photo library there and supplying prints to the press. As he began to take his own photos for the company, they recognized his talent, and he gradually worked his way into the position of Director of Photography for CBS Records Don's most notable role was as chief staff photographer for Columbia Records during its heyday in the realms of rock and roll, jazz and classical music. Fortunately for Don, this was a time when the company was under the direction of Goddard Lieberson, who thought it important to document in photographs the cultural history of the music of their time. So he had the opportunity to do far more than album covers and publicity shots, covering their recording sessions and even visiting them on their home turf. Don had the ability to listen with his camera. Instinctively he understood that to capture artists at their best moments, patience, trust and humility were needed. This ability to set both new comers and experienced stars at ease in his presence is evident in his photographs, which captured the intimate personal moments as well as the quintessential portraits. Don's access to a broad range of musicians, in a wide variety of musical styles, was unparalleled in the photographic world. Over the course of his career at CBS, he shot hundreds of album covers and documented the recording of many of the great albums in music history. |
Jack Hyland is a founding partner of Media Advisory Partners. In addition to his career in investment banking, he has served on the board of not-for-profit institutions, including his role as Chairman Emeritus of the American Academy in Rome. Presently, he is the co-chairman of Teachers College at Columbia University, trustee and treasurer of the College Art Association, and vice-president and trustee of the Clark Art Institute. He is the author of a number of travel articles syndicated by Hearst and the New York Times, as well as a biography, Evangelism's First Modern Media Star: The Life of Reverend Bill Stidger, which Brendan Gill (author of Here at The New Yorker) proclaimed "an excellent piece of work . . . a remarkable accomplishment. |
Diane Jacobs is the author of Her Own Woman: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft, Christmas in July: The Life and Art of Preston Sturges, But We Need the Eggs: The Magic of Woody Allen, and Hollywood Renaissance: The New Generation of Filmmakers and Their Works. She has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA from Columbia University. Jacobs has taught at Dartmouth College, the Columbia University School of the Arts, and the NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies, and has contributed to such publications as The New York Times and The Village Voice. |
As a Jungian counselor and workshop leader, journalist, and partner in an international art business, Sally V. Keil has long observed the many personality types among family, friends, colleagues, and throughout the culture. "These insights are the most valuable tool in my 'psychological toolkit' wherever I am, whomever I meet," she says. "I wanted to make them enjoyably accessible to everyone." Keil is a graduate of Vassar College and has a master's degree in Comparative Literature from New York University. She is also the author of Those Wonderful Women in their Flying Machines: The Unknown Heroines of World War II. She lives with her husband outside Rhinebeck, NY. |
Robert Kipniss had his first NYC one-artist show in 1951 and has exhibited continuously ever since, having had over 200 one-artist shows, 25 of them in museums. His work has been on display in the Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney, the British Museum, the Museo de Arte Moderno La TerTulia in Cali, Colombia and the New Orleans Museum of Art. His work is in the permanent collections of these museums as well as the Albertina in Vienna, both the Tate and the Victoria and Albert Museums in London, and many others. In his early years he wrote poetry as well, which with his early paintings is the subject of his most recent book, "Robert Kipniss: Painting and Poetry 1951-1964," offered here at this Sharon Library Book Signing event. Recently he wrote a memoir published by the University Press of New England. He is the recipient of two Honorary doctorates and has been honored with two lifetime achievement awards, one from the Society of American Graphic Artists and the other from The Artists' Fellowship. He is an elected member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers in London and the National |
Michael Korda was born in London, in 1933, and has lived in the United States since 1958. He was educated at Le Rosey, in Switzerland, did his military service in the Royal Air Force, and then attended Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1956, he drove to Budapest with three friends to deliver medical supplies to the insurgents and took part in the Hungarian Revolution, for which he was made a Commander of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary in 2006. In May of 2011, he was presented with an Honorary D. Litt. by Marist College. On April 15th 2012, the Associates of the Boston Public Library inducted Michael to the list of Literary Lights. After working briefly for CBS-TV in New York City, Mr. Korda joined Simon and Schuster as an assistant editor in 1958, and subsequently became Managing Editor, Executive Editor and Editor in Chief. Over nearly five decades his authors have included presidents Carter, Reagan and Nixon, Charles De Gaulle, Dr. Henry Kissinger, Mayor Ed Koch, the Duchess of York, and such stars as Cher, Kirk Douglas, Shelley Winters, such media figures as Phil Donahue and Larry King, historians such as David McCullough, Richard Rhodes, Michael Beschloss, Cornelius Ryan, Larry McMurtry, Jacqueline Susann, Jackie Collins, Mary Higgins Clark, James Leo Herlihy, Susan Howatch, James Lee Burke and Stephen Hunter, and such theater figures as Tennessee Williams, John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier. Mr. Korda is now Editor in Chief Emeritus of Simon & Schuster. His books include the #1 bestseller Power, the bestselling novels Queenie and The Fortune, a widely acclaimed book about his family, Charmed Lives, and more recently Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia, With Wings Like Eagles: A History of the Battle of Britain, Ike: An American Hero, Country Matters, Another Life, Horse People, Ulysses S. Grant and Journey to a Revolution. He has just finished working on The Clouds of Glory: A Biography of Robert E. Lee, which will be published in May of 2014. Films based on his books include the ABC-TV miniseries of Queenie, and Isn't She Great, based on his friendship with Jacqueline Susann. He makes his home on a farm in Dutchess County, New York, with his wife Margaret, with whom he has, co-authored two books, Horse Housekeeping and Cat People. |
Eric D. Lehman teaches creative writing, literature, and history at the University of Bridgeport and his essays, reviews, and stories have been published in dozens of journals and magazines. He is the author of seven books, including A History of Connecticut Wine: Vineyard in Your Backyard, the Insiders' Guide to Connecticut, A History of Connecticut Food, and Afoot in Connecticut. His latest book is a biography called Becoming Tom Thumb: Charles Stratton, P.T. Barnum, and the Dawn of American Celebrity. He has three more books due out in 2014 and 2015. |
Burleigh Mutén's most recent children's book, MISS EMILY is about the playful relationship Dickinson had with the children in her life. Mutén is a member of the Emily Dickinson International Society and teaches summer writing workshops for young authors at the Emily Dickinson Museum. She is the author of four other children's books, including THE LADY OF TEN THOUSAND NAMES, GODDESS STORIES FROM MANY CULTURES and GODDESSES, A WORLD OF MYTH AND MAGIC. MISS EMILY is her debut verse novel. |
Joan Osofsky of Hammertown Barn, the popular lifestyle stores in New York and Massachusetts, shares in-depth knowledge on modern country living with creative ideas and tips for making your home warm, welcoming and authentic. The book highlights eighteen houses of real-life tastemakers that embody a relaxed lifestyle. These charming and inviting homes have an eclectic mix of classic and contemporary elements that combine personal style with comfort and practicality. With a fresh country-style twist, these rooms are filled with antiques, flea-market finds and offbeat elements like cherry tree wood and salvaged stained-glass windows, providing inspirational ideas for a rural weekend retreat, as well as a primary residence. For nearly thirty years, Joan Osofsky's work as a retailer and style expert has been defined by her mantra, love where you live. It is what animates her work with customers of Hammertown Barn, the three Hudson Valley–and Berkshire-based independent lifestyle stores she owns and operates. Hammertown Barn has been featured in Country Living, Travel & Leisure, and the Daily Beast, among many other print and online publications. Abby Adams is the author of several books, including The Gardener's Gripe Book. Mary Randolph Carter is an author and longtime creative director for Ralph Lauren. Photographer John Gruen specializes in interiors. His work has appeared in many lifestyle books and magazines |
Lincoln Paine is a maritime historian, editor, and author whose books and articles include The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World (October 2013), "Beyond the Dead White Whales: Literature of the Sea and Maritime History," International Journal of Maritime History (2010), Down East: A Maritime History of Maine (2000), and Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia (1997). He is also a contributor to the Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History (2007), Oxford Companion to World Exploration (2006), the Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History (2005), and the ABC-Clio Encyclopedia of World History (2011). He is completing a doctoral dissertation ("Maritime Enterprise and Institutional Change in Medieval Eurasia") at Leiden University. He is also an editor of Itinerario:International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction, and served as curator and archivist of the Norman H. Morse Collection of Ocean Liner Materials at the Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine. A graduate of Columbia University in New York City (1981), before turning to history he spent fourteen years as an editor of trade non-fiction and reference books. He continues this work in the guise of ePromBooks and working primarily with non-native speakers of English. He currently serves on the boards of directors of the Maine Maritime Museum, in Bath, Maine, and of The Telling Room, a nonprofit writing center in Portland, Maine, for young writers ages six to eighteen. He is married and has two grown daughters. |
Francine Prose is the author of seventeen works of fiction. Her novel A CHANGED MAN won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and BLUE ANGEL was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her most recent works of nonfiction include the highly acclaimed ANNE FRANK: THE BOOK, THE LIFE, THE AFTERLIFE, and the New York Times bestseller READING LIKE A WRITER. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright, a Director's Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, Francine Prose is a former president of PEN American Center, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She lives in New York City. |
New York Times bestselling author Peter Richmond, has a B.A in philosophy from Yale '76, was awarded a Nieman Fellowship in Journalism at Harvard for the academic year '88-'89 and is currently a Master of Arts in Teaching fellow at Moravian College. His first Young Adult Novel, Always a Catch, will be published by Penguin in September. His work has been featured in 13 anthologies, including Best Sportswriting of the Twentieth Century, as well as several magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Details and GQ, where he was a staff writer for thirteen years. Previously, he had been on staff at The Washington Post, The Miami Herald, the National Sports Daily, The San Diego Union and the New Haven Register. He is also a contributing writer for the website Sports on Earth. He lives in Millerton, N.Y., with his wife Melissa Davis and their two chickens. |
Phyllis Rose is the author of the classic Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Her most recent book The Shelf: From LEQ to LES, describes an act of literary exploration, the reading of a more or less randomly chosen shelf of fiction in The New York Society Library in order to examine what she calls "the real ground of literature." An essayist and biographer as well as a literary critic, she has written about Virginia Woolf and about Josephine Baker and has reviewed books for magazines from Vogue to The American Scholar. For many years she taught English literature at Wesleyan University in Middletown CT. Now she lives in Key West, where she continues to read, write, do portrait photography, raise koi, garden, and collaborate with her husband, Laurent de Brunhoff, on the Babar books for children. |
Claudia Roth Pierpont is a staff writer for The New Yorker, where she has written for more than twenty years. A collection of her essays on women writers, "Passionate Minds," was published in 2000 and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her second book, "Roth Unbound," published in 2013, has been called a "wise and captivating analysis of the works of Philip Roth" (The Economist) and "a remarkable achievement in literary criticism (The Daily Beast). Pierpont holds a Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance art history, and lives in New York City. |
Eve O. Schaub is the author of Year of No Sugar: A Memoir (Sourcebooks, 2014). She holds a BA and BFA from Cornell University, and a MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology. She has written for such publications as Camera Arts, Photovision Magazine, Vermont Life, Vermont Magazine and Afterimage, and her personal essays have been featured many times on the Albany, New York NPR station WAMC. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Vermont. |
Deborah Solomon is a nationally-acclaimed art critic and journalist. The author of biographies of Jackson Pollock and Joseph Cornell, she recently publishedAmerican Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell. Reviewing the book in the New York Times, John Wilmerding called it "a revelation." Solomon is currently the art critic for WNYC Radio. Her weekly interview column, "Questions For," ran in The New York Times Magazine from 2003 to 2011. She was educated at Cornell University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She lives in New York with her husband, Kent Sepkowitz, a physician. |
Rachel Urquhart. Though she has spent much of her time living on a dairy farm in Massachusetts, Rachel Urquhart was born and raised in Manhattan. She began her magazine career at Spy and, over a ten-year period, wrote and edited numerous articles for Vogue. She has earned her living as a writer for her entire adult life, publishing non-fiction and the occasional snippet of fiction in a variety of publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Tin House, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Food & Wine, Travel & Leisure, Vanity Fair, Women's Times and The Reader. She attended The Brearley School (Manhattan), The Middlesex School (Concord, Massachusetts), Tufts University, and Sarah Lawrence College, where she received her M.F.A. in Fiction. She lives in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, with her husband and two sons. |
Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough are exhausted: twenty-two cookbooks published in fourteen years with three more on the way as well as several others for persnickety celebs. (Shhh, confidentiality agreements.) That's over 12,000 original recipes tested and written. And a million hours on cross-trainers. Their titles include the eleven-volume "ultimate" series; "Cooking Know-How," selected at the 2010 Paris Cookbook Show as the best book in the world for easy recipes; "Ham: An Obsession with the Hindquarter," nominated for a 2011 James Beard Foundation Award; "Goat: Meat, Milk, Cheese," the first-ever all-goat book; and "The Great American Slow Cooker Book" which has proved a runaway smash on QVC. They write a monthly column on weightwatchers.com and contribute to the usual glossy mags. Oh, and they've joshed with anchors on the morning shows. They find their peace in rural New England, sharing their acres with resident moose, beavers, bears, and a collie named Dreydl. |
Simon Winchester is the acclaimed author of many books, including The Professor and the Madman, Atlantic, The Man Who Loved China, A Crack in the Edge of the World, and Krakatoa, all of which were New York Times bestsellers and appeared on numerous best and notable lists. In 2006 Mr. Winchester was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by her Majesty the Queen. He resides in western Massachusetts. |


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UTEP football press conference quotes from Sean Kugler
POSTED: Monday, October 21, 2013 - 12:48pm
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - 8:43am
El Paso, TX — UTEP Football Media Luncheon
October 21, 2013
Coach Sean Kugler Quotes
(Opening Statement)
"We're coming off a bye week. It was a very productive bye week for us. We got a lot of work done after a tough home loss to Tulsa. Again, we're trying to work on the things that we need to correct for the short term and the long term. We had three quality days of work. On Wednesday, we gave the redshirts and the guys on the scout team the opportunity to go out and scrimmage in a live setting. There was a lot of energy in that scrimmage. It was fun to watch the young guys go out and compete."
(On Rice)
"They are extremely productive running the ball. They are #1 in Conference USA and they're ranked nationally. They are averaging close to 230 yards rushing per game. They had almost 400 yards rushing this past weekend against New Mexico State. They have big, physical backs. They have two backs that are both 235 that carry the load for them, and two quarterbacks that are outstanding running the ball. They are multiple in their formations and they attack teams differently week to week. They change what they do, which makes them even more difficult to prepare for. They do a nice job of executing. They are extremley well coached on both sides of the ball and offensively they present some issues for us."
(On Aaron Jones' health)
"We're hoping to have Aaron Jones back this week. We'll see how he progresses throughout the week, but it has been moving in a positive direction. We'll also find out during the week about Adam Ayala, Katrae Ford and LA Dowell. All three of those guys we've missed for quite some time now, and we're hoping to have all three back healthy going into this road stretch."
(On evaluating the team at the midway point of the season)
"Obviously we're extremely disappointed with our record. At this point of the juncture you have to evaluate where you're at and attack the problems you have. You have to focus on the last half of the season and try to get progressively better. That's what I tell the guys, I'm not judging you on wins and losses or this season on wins and losses, but I want to see continued improvement. That's going to be our focus the next six weeks, trying to improve weekly in small areas and big areas and compete."
(On playing five of the last six games on the road)
"Sometimes when you're struggling, going on the road takes away some of the distractions. We have three really good teams coming up and we'll accept the challenge."
(On what he did during the off weekend)
"I sat on my couch and watched the Big Ten Network after watching my daughter play volleyball in the morning. I watched my son Robert [Purdue offensive lineman) play live for the first time this year. They played a very tough Michigan State team. And I watched my son Patrick's team, Michigan, play Indiana in an extremely different game. One game was 14-0 and one game was 63-47. And from there I watched my daughter's club volleyball game that night. It was a fun filled day watching my kids play. It was very gratifying."
(On Rice being a model for building a program)
"Absolutely. I think they are very well coached. I think coach Bailiff has done an unbelievable job there. I knew where that program was. When you're coaching in the NFL, you get to evaluate a lot of teams because you're looking at players. Where they've come from a couple of years ago is unbelievable. They are extremely solid on both sides of the ball. And if we were going to use a team as a model for rebuilding a program the proper way, they would be an example for us. It does take some time. You have to do it the right way and stay the course and fight and work till you get there."
(On the bye week)
"I think we really needed it from a health standpoint more than anything. I don't think any of the players I mentioned would have been able to play this past Saturday, and that would have left us really shorthanded."
(On recruiting during the off week)
"All of the coaches went on the road all over the country, and the focus of this recruiting trip was to look at mid-year junior college players. As I've said in the past, we're not going to sign many junior college players, but when we do, whether it's to fill a need or a position, we want to get guys who can come in at midterm where we can have them for spring ball. We had to get a jump on the road in order to do that. We were looking at some defensive linemen, junior college tight ends and linebackers and we made a lot of headway in that area."
(On Rice's proficiency running the football)
"They're going to try to run the rock against us too. It's an extreme challenge, not only because they're physical and they run the ball and they've got physical backs, but from a scheme challenge they are very multiple. Rice does a great job. They have really smart players that can handle changing their schemes from week to week. A lot of teams just have to run the same things over and over. You'll watch [Rice] one week and they're doing some option type things, and the next week they're doing basic zone type stuff. They mix it up and they do a great job of handling that from week to week. That's why they're so efficient running the football."
(On Aaron Jones)
"I'm Aaron Jones' biggest fan and not only from a football standpoint. If you spent one day with him you'd realize what a great character kid he is. He really exemplifies what we're trying to build with this program - good student athletes who compete on a daily basis and work hard and basically don't say a word. He's special and he's going to get better and better with the strength program. Even just over the progression of the summer he added 15 pounds, because it was probably the first time that he stopped and lifted weights. His brother is in the same category. I can't say enough about him and the future he holds. I'm excited for the young man."
(Without a lot to play for the rest of the year, is Aaron Jones winning the freshman rushing title something that you can strive for?"
"With no disrespect, I think there's a lot to play for from week to week. I don't care what your record is. In the game of football there are new opportunities each week. We're going to go out there and try to challenge and accept those opportunities and get after it each week. For a young man like Aaron, he does have a lot to shoot for. If he was the leading rusher in the conference or the leading freshman rusher, those are great individual accolades that I'm sure we'd all be proud of. It's not just the running back when things like that are attained. It's the offensive line, the tight ends, and the receivers getting in there blocking. There is a lot that goes into somebody being productive in the run game. Certainly we want to see him do the best he can in every category, but there's certainly a lot to play for with us."
(On what can be done to help the slow starts defensively)
"What we're going to try to do is go more up tempo practice periods and do it at the beginning of practice rather than in the middle of practice, just to get the kids used to coming out right from the stretch and getting into a live setting. We have started slow in particular on the defensive side of the ball, and they've settled into the game which tells me they can do it. I don't have the extreme answer for that. Maybe it's youth. We have to do something about it, and we're going to try to attack that in practice by upping our tempo earlier so these guys get a better feel for doing it sooner."
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The Midseason All American Team. I would like to know how the they decide who is on the team?
Mike AMDALL #65 RT has better status then anyone one else on the line. Why is Craighead seem to be the only one focus on the line. There are other players better. It seems to not be fair to the other players. I would appreciate if you could look into this.
Thank you for your time.
Be fair to all players

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New South Wales lies in the temperate zone. The Great Dividing Range, in the east of the state, has a large impact on the climate, creating four distinct zones: the coastal strip, the highlands, the Western Slopes and the flatter country to the west. Sydney's climate is pleasantly temperate all year round with more than 340 sunny days a year. In summer (December to February), average maximum temperatures in Sydney are around 26°C. It can also be humid at this time with an average humidity of 65 per cent. Average maximum temperatures in the winter (June-August) are around 16°C. Sydney's rainfall is highest between March and June.
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South Australia's climate varies from hot and dry in the interior to milder, wetter climates in the south and on the south-east coast. Adelaide generally has mild, wet winters and hot, dry summers. It is the driest of all the Australian capital cities. The average rainfall in January and February (summer) is around 20 millimetres, but months with no rain are common. June is the wettest month of the year, averaging around 80 millimetres. The average maximum temperature is 29°C in summer and 15–16°C in winter.
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Darwin in the Top End of the Northern Territory has two distinct seasons, the 'wet' and the 'dry'. The wet season runs from November until April, and is characterised by high humidity, monsoonal rains and storms. Temperatures typically range from a minimum of 25°C to a maximum of 33°C. The 'dry' season, from May until October, is characterised by warm, dry sunny days and cool nights. Temperatures typically range from 21°C to 32°C, and humidity levels are much lower. Here you will find information on temperature, rainfall and seasonal activities to help you plan your holiday in Darwin.
Queensland's Gold Coast has a comfortable sub-tropical climate ideal for outdoor enjoyment all-year round. The Gold Coast averages 245 days of fine and sunny weather each year and has an average rainfall of about 1400mm annually, the majority of which falls in the summer period (December – February). Daytime temperatures on the coast are generally in the mid 20°C range. The Hinterland is slightly cooler with maximum winter temperatures around 16°C. In winter, clear skies and dry air mean cool nights. Here you will find some information on temperature, rainfall and seasonal activities to help you plan your Gold Coast holiday.
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Infographic: Seattle Mayor's race at a glance
The August 6th primary is creeping up. That's when Seattle voters will winnow the current field of nine candidates down to the two finalists who will face off for mayor in November. Based on the latest polling, fundraising and endorsement totals, pundits have fingered a few frontrunners. But the pundits are often wrong. To help you decide who should lead the city for the next four years, we've compiled this snapshot of where the nine contenders stand in terms of money, popularity and several key campaign issues (schools, cops and transit). It's worth the long scroll. Click on the names of the candidates to see their websites. But if you'd rather see all nine candidates side by side by side, etc. click here. And don't forget to vote!
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Nothing written about this 2013 Seattle mayoral race is more insightful than David Brewster's piquant piece in Crosscut in April:
Notice how the three frontrunners are tripping over themselves promising to pimp new regressive tax hikes for Metro, Sound Transit, and SDOT? They're all playing stupid about 1) the fact that additional tax revenue is not needed (given the levels of taxing employed by all other bus and train services providers in this country), and 2) the types of best management practices employed in other metro regions to serve those communities that are not used here.
What that piece David wrote doesn't go far enough; mayoral candidates in the post-Nickels era all consider it imperative to mimic Greg by blowing this particular dog-whistle ("I'll be a regressive tax pimp for transit!"). It is a signal to the rich special interests to whom Nickels catered. The two PACs that made the big contributions ($35K) to Murray's PAC last week shows he's blowing it the hardest.
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Your endorsement links for McGinn and Steinbrueck actually link to Murray's web site. You might want to fix that.
Posted Tue, Oct 1, 12:57 a.m.
The polling graph itself speaks the truth. http://www.koolchart.com
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Sebastian, a Trabuco Canyon Collie/Collie dog was adopted! Here's how you can benefit by looking at adoption as an option to buying a Collie/Collie for sale in Trabuco Canyon, or seeking a Collie/Collie dog from a breeder in Trabuco Canyon.
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WOW - that looks amazing! And so much storage. Love the walnut..and I'm a "white" person! Can't wait to see final pictures! |
- Posted by marthavila (My Page) on Thu, Oct 25, 12 at 11:50
Wow. That's one really good-looking kitchen. I mean really, really good! Rich and warm and cool and sophisticated all at once. (A true NYC kitchen, I'd say!) :-) I'm especially loving that cab wall with the fridge. Fantastic! What remains to be done? Details, please. And, more pix would also be nice. :-) |
Lovely! The cabinets are beautiful. |
Here are the pics: |
- Posted by cluelessincolorado (My Page) on Thu, Oct 25, 12 at 12:17
love! Love!! LOVE THIS KITCHEN!!! |
I have some serious kitchen envy right now! It is just lovely! |
- Posted by nycbluedevil (My Page) on Thu, Oct 25, 12 at 12:51
Cawaps--thanks so much for embedding my pix. I tried so hard but couldn't do it! What remains to be done is the backsplash (6 x 18 matching calacatta marble in a subway pattern) and hanging my two pendants (they are Chameleon Lighting clear beehive pendants--gorgeous). We also need window treatments and a window seat cushion. Hopefully all this will be done in a couple of weeks so I can make Thanksgiving with a complete kitchen. These are the details Rutt cabinets in a tawny finish--all inset What an improvement. The old kitchen was fine and functional and I had great appliances and granite counters, but the cabinets were awful and the washer/dryer near the window closed the whole kitchen in. I was able to give the whole kitchen away to a recycling store and they sold my kitchen in one day so everyone won--the environment (no landfills), the buyer (cheap way to get SZ, Miele and granite) and me (a bit of a tax deduction). We opened up half of the kitchen/dining room wall and the peninsula straddles both rooms, giving us a 40 X 60 dining surface. The dining room is adjacent. I will try to post more pix when all done but I just couldn't wait!! |
- Posted by nycbluedevil (My Page) on Thu, Oct 25, 12 at 12:51
Cawaps--thanks so much for embedding my pix. I tried so hard but couldn't do it! What remains to be done is the backsplash (6 x 18 matching calacatta marble in a subway pattern) and hanging my two pendants (they are Chameleon Lighting clear beehive pendants--gorgeous). We also need window treatments and a window seat cushion. Hopefully all this will be done in a couple of weeks so I can make Thanksgiving with a complete kitchen. These are the details Rutt cabinets in a tawny finish--all inset What an improvement. The old kitchen was fine and functional and I had great appliances and granite counters, but the cabinets were awful and the washer/dryer near the window closed the whole kitchen in. I was able to give the whole kitchen away to a recycling store and they sold my kitchen in one day so everyone won--the environment (no landfills), the buyer (cheap way to get SZ, Miele and granite) and me (a bit of a tax deduction). We opened up half of the kitchen/dining room wall and the peninsula straddles both rooms, giving us a 40 X 60 dining surface. The dining room is adjacent. I will try to post more pix when all done but I just couldn't wait!! |
Wow beautiful. Your cabinets are gorgeous! I love the look of insert doors, but have a small kitchen and am afraid I'd lose more space than i can afford. Do you feel the lost space (drawers) amounted to much? Can I see a close up of some of your lowers if you have drawers? Can't wait to see your finished kitchen! |
NYC Forgot to ask, what are your floors? And about the recycle store.. Did you dismantle the kitchen yourself and bring it to the recycle store or did they do it? Did you remove the granite countertops from the cabs when you took out the old? I ask because I'm hoping to do the same with my current kitcnen that's in perfect shape, but just started thinking about my remodel and haven't found any recycle stores in my area yet. Thanks. |
Wow! This kitchen has been in my head as my next dream kitchen...I'm so glad you brought it to life!! Just WOW! |
- Posted by nycbluedevil (My Page) on Thu, Oct 25, 12 at 15:07
Island I went into this with eyes wide open about the vertical space I was going to lose with the inset drawers (about 1.5" per drawer) but I really wanted a furniture-like look because the kitchen is open to the dining room and beyond. I will try to remember to post pics of my drawers. That is where I keep all of my pots, bakeware, tupperware and small appliances (primarily cuisinart and blender). I have room for everything except for my tall pasta pot, which I keep in the space under the window (I have a window seat that lifts up with a piano hinge). The layout is as follows. I will try to do a sketch later but see if you can follow. The kitchen is only 85" wide but 20 feet long. There is also a butler's pantry space off to the right of the fridge that leads out to the front of the apartment. The dining room is 13 x 20 and is directly next to the kitchen. Years ago, I divided the dining room in half crosswise to give one of my three kids her own room. Since the dining room opens to a large square foyer, the size of the remaining dining room was fine. However, my daughter is graduating from college this year and I (hopefully) don't need to keep her room quite as large anymore, so I enlarged the length of the dining room by two feet and changed the opening between the dining room and my daughter's room to be a six foot center opening with pocket french doors plus a transom. The idea is that the french doors will be open 95% of the time so I wanted to have a space that looks like one room that can still be used as two rooms. The two rooms will have the same area rug and sconces to tie them together. Then, in order to open up the space I took down the dining room that abuts the kitchen. That is where the big peninsula (that everyone who sees it calls an island) is located. The result is that the kitchen is really open to the whole front of the apartment (living room, foyer and dining room). I wanted this layout because I hated being trapped in the kitchen while entertaining. My guests would congregate in the doorway and it was all really cramped and inconvenient. I know this is confusing and as I said, I will try to come up with a drawing that I can post, as well as take some pics of the drawers. |
- Posted by wi-sailorgirl (My Page) on Thu, Oct 25, 12 at 15:13
Wow ... that is gorgeous. I'd love to see a detail shot of your cabinet door profile if you get around to it too. Just lovely! |
- Posted by nycbluedevil (My Page) on Thu, Oct 25, 12 at 15:21
Forgot about the floors--they are Marmoleum tiles (color is forest ground). We also did a stripe of dark bistre around the whole room. You can't see the floors well because they are still covered. (The pics also don't show the range in yet.) Regarding the recycling, the organization is ecobuildingbargains.org. They are located in Springfield, Massachusetts. I spoke to a guy named John Grossman. He actually found me through GW when I posted ("What to do with the old stuff?") expressing disappointment that Green Demolitions would not take my stuff because my cabinets were laminate with thermofoil doors. They were in very good condition for their age but still not real wood. John called me and asked me to send pictures because he said that if he could sell my kitchen he would be interested in experimenting with venturing as far as NYC. I sent him the pictures and he said he wanted my stuff. So, we set up a date for them to come the day after my GC did demo. My GC did the removal of my cabinets, counters and appliances and stored them in our basement overnight. They were extra careful removing the counters because they knew that they were being recycled. John's guys came the next day, removed the material from the building and hauled it all away to Massachusetts. So I also saved money because my GC did not have to dump the stuff. John said afterwards that he was going to try to do more in NYC. And as a matter of fact, yesterday one of the guys working for my GC told me that they saw him on local public television the other night talking about what they do. |
- Posted by nycbluedevil (My Page) on Thu, Oct 25, 12 at 15:29
Wi-sailorgirl The door style is Rutt's New Yorker (no I didn't pick it because I live in NY LOL). You would probably get a better shot on Rutt's website. It is a modified Shaker design (basically it has one extra "step")> Will take a pic tonight. |
Totally in love with every single thing! |
- Posted by SparklingWater (My Page) on Thu, Oct 25, 12 at 19:08
Beautiful walnut cabinets, which do the Calacatta proud. I can imagine your family's excitement! |
What a wonderful, lovely kitchen so far!!!! Love it! |
- Posted by melissastar (My Page) on Thu, Oct 25, 12 at 19:48
Really lovely. To me, it has something of the feel of a butler's pantry in a very upper-crust Belgravia home. Love it. |
Great job on a galley kitchen! Love it!! Wait - what goes in the hole under the hood! Can't wait to see the final reveal. Congratulations!!! Also - how about some pictures with lights off, so we can see your lights. Thanks! |
Great kitchen, congratulations. The walnut is gorgeous. |
Your cabinets are absolutely gorgeous! You chose the perfect hardware and faucets to set them off too. |
Looking good. I had to deal with a 7'11" x 15' space, but with awkwardly positioned doors (not awkward in reality because they are designed so that you can see the back yard from the front door, but creating an awkward kitchen layout) and passthrough/bow window. But it can be done even in city spaces! I just wish I had been able to do a galley like you, and after spending $26.5K on my only bathroom, I limited myself to less than $9K for my half-assed kitchen remodel. From the looks of it, you're multiples above that, and that's what you can get for it fortunately! |
gasp... :swoon: :thud: That's me fainting. That is a seriously beautiful kitchen. |
- Posted by EATREALFOOD (My Page) on Thu, Oct 25, 12 at 21:43
Walnut + marble = love it Fridge wall: WOW |
Your cabinets are absolutely beautiful! |
- Posted by nycbluedevil (My Page) on Thu, Oct 25, 12 at 22:44
Thanks everyone! Yes, we are thrilled but it is so nice to hear the positive feedback from the mavens on GW. After doing two bathrooms last year with the help of the good folks on the bathrooms forum, we (in truth, DH just goes along for the ride and always loves everything and never contradicts) decided to give ourselves this present as a consolation (reward?) when our last two kids went off to college this fall. Without the great ideas here, I would probably not have known to do all drawers on the bottom. I also would not have known about the Miele Speed oven, Waterstone faucets or Julien sinks (love the deep sink). I listened intently to all the impassioned arguments about FD vs side by side fridges, the pros and cons of marble and last but certainly not least, the raging BS/Capital Culinarian debate. So a great big thank you for all of you folks who take the time to post. A2 (I think we share cycling as a hobby and Ann Arbor)--how is your bathroom coming along?--the Blue Star RNB range goes in the hole. It got installed yesterday. I am going to wait to take more pics when the backsplash goes in and the lights are hung. The lights are really, really cool (clear Murano glass in a beehive shape hung from a polished nickel canopy and three very small chains). They are being made now so it might be a couple of weeks before I can post the whole thing. I wish I could take credit for the whole thing but in truth, one of the rooms at my fancy KD had walnut cabinets and calacatta caldia counters with these exact pulls and I pretty much said "I want that." I did know what I wanted to do in terms of design though. BTW, the cabinets to the left of the fridge are pantry cabinets that are 8" deep--including the doors! It was dead space and I used my old pantry closet to house my washer/dryer and for utility, so the food needed a new home. The pantry cabinets are perfect for a double depth of canned goods and that sort of things. We use some of the other cabinets and the window seat for larger food items. All in all, this has been a great experience and we are really happy. We can't wait until the three girls come home for Thanksgiving so they can see it in person. |
- Posted by motherof3sons (My Page) on Thu, Oct 25, 12 at 23:11
nycbd - First, let me say KUDOS to YOU for recycling! We recycled everything in our previous remodel - appliances, sink, faucet, lights, counters, cabinets, etc. It gave me a great feeling to know sometone else would use the items. My dear daught-in-law followed our recent new build giving us tips on how to be green, and reducing our environmental footprint. On to the kitchen! That is one of the most beautiful kitchens these eyes have seen!!! You have a great eye for detail and I love everything. I have lived in two homes with galley kitchens and they can certainly be a challenge. I look forward to the full reveal! PS - I can appreciate your anticipation for the girls to see the new kitchen. Our boys and their families are coming home this weekend and they will find warm carpet under foot in the entire lower level (it has two bedroom suites and a family room). We told them the carpet was on hold for several months. I can just hear daught-in-law #3 "Sweeettt!" |
You have created a beautiful, functional kit. Enjoy it. |
- Posted by shanghaimom (My Page) on Fri, Oct 26, 12 at 9:15
Wow, stunning kitchen!! I agree with someone's comment that it looks like an extra-special, extra-large classic butler's pantry, which is always the coolest room in an old home. Looking forward to seeing the lights and backsplash installed in final photos. So, so SO perfect. Enjoy your girls!! |
Wow, another galley kitchen person here, but even in my wildest dreams mine will never be that beautiful. It is perfect, and it must look absolutely stunning in a lovely NYC apartment. |
Beautiful kitchen! Wow! Would you be able to take a picture of the inside of your 8" deep pantry? If you have time of course... I am thinking of doing a shallow pantry like that ( very tiny kitchen) and would love to see what it looks like.. thanks |
- Posted by pricklypearcactus (My Page) on Fri, Oct 26, 12 at 10:54
Absolutely stunning!! I love the combination of the wood inset cabinets with the marble. Thanks for sharing! |
- Posted by nycbluedevil (My Page) on Thu, Nov 1, 12 at 13:18
- Posted by nycbluedevil (My Page) on Thu, Nov 1, 12 at 13:25
I just posted a follow up to my earlier one adding some pictures that people asked to see. Sorry, it has taken a few days with the storm and all. This time, we used an iPhone so the picture quality is much better than before. I also included a couple of shots of my old kitchen that I donated at the beginning of renovation. (The mural from the old kitchen was kind of cool so I am glad I saved pictures of the old room.) For those who asked to see, there are pictures of the inside of the drawers, the shallow pantry to the left of the fridge and the cabinet door edge. There is also a picture of my antique toaster (a 1930 Sunbeam in mint condition) that I picked up at a local flea market. |
- Posted by nycbluedevil (My Page) on Thu, Nov 8, 12 at 13:09
Bumping this for Freda who wanted to know whether framed cabinets were going to work for her. |
Thank you for posting the new pics! You can really see the beauty of your marble and your walnut cabs (I keep falling more and more in love with walnut, kinda wish I had fallen for it before we did OUR kitchen.....!). |
nycbluedevil, thanks so much for bumping this thread. I remember looking at it when you first posted the photos and thinking how overwhelmingly gorgeous your new kitchen is. It was helpful to see the drawers open. I can just make out the frame and the limitation in the drawer size. It doesn't seem as bad as I had feared. Anyway, enjoy your stunning kitchen and thanks very much for the advice in the other thread. |
- Posted by dccurlygirl (My Page) on Thu, Nov 8, 12 at 13:47
nycbluedevil, would you post a picture of your floorplan, with your kitchen as it relates to the rest of your rooms? I love to see these transformations in context. Thanks! |
- Posted by nycbluedevil (My Page) on Thu, Nov 8, 12 at 13:52
dccurlygirl I only have a floorplan of the kitchen. Would that help? I worked with a kitchen designer on the kitchen part of it and then just told my contractor what to do on the other part. So the KD did the floor plan of the kitchen only. |
This is such a pretty kitchen, I really love all the glass against the walnut. Just beautiful. |
- Posted by michoumonster (My Page) on Thu, Nov 8, 12 at 21:15
nycbd, you have fabulous taste!! i have loved your baths in the bath forums too! your kitchen is so classicly gorgeous! btw, what is that stainless steel device in one of your pics? is it a grill or toaster? |
- Posted by nycbluedevil (My Page) on Thu, Nov 8, 12 at 22:20
Thanks for the compliments all! Michou--the piece you are talking about is a chrome Sunbeam toaster circa 1930! It is fully manual. You put the toast in and flip the basket halfway through. There is a guy who sells antique toasters at a local flea market. I have stalked his booth for a year. One day, I saw this piece which was in really mint condition and I grabbed it. If you look carefully, you can see the scroll work on the front of it. I put the plug away in a drawer so that it doesn't detract from the conversation piece that this is. I love vintage appliances and am trying to track down an original beehive glass blender too. |
- Posted by michoumonster (My Page) on Fri, Nov 9, 12 at 0:38
oh that is such a neat hobby! what a wonderful device! though i would definitely have burnt toast if i used that! lol! |
NYCBD - That is looking great! Loved the new pictures and of course the Waterstone faucets! I can't wait to see your final reveal with the Beehive lights! They sound really cool! As far as the bathroom - well, we went way over budget on the kitchen, so have to snag some more cash. I plan to retire from my current position at the end of the year and will be hunting contract positions around the country. If I end up in NY, will have to give you a buzz. Wow - this could be fun - I can try to link up with GW when I travel and see all of the wonderful kitchens! Of course, I have to find jobs first. |
- Posted by nycbluedevil (My Page) on Fri, Nov 9, 12 at 11:28
That would be fun a2 because we seem to have a lot in common like Ann Arbor, biking and if course, spending too much money on home renovations! |
- Posted by dccurlygirl (My Page) on Fri, Nov 9, 12 at 19:55
I'd love to see the kitchen floorplan! Thank you!! |
NYC - road or dirt? For GWebbers - bicycle talk - since it is NYC post, only hijacking from NYC. Where did all the $$ go - good thing DH hasn't figured it out completely - I did let him know overbudget - but we added the pull out and the pocket door... Supposed to be warm and windy on Sunday - i'll take the warm and send the wind somewhere else |
- Posted by nycbluedevil (My Page) on Fri, Nov 9, 12 at 22:44
Road for me. I do my 20 miles in Central Park most mornings before work. What a great way to start the day! Electrician came today and hooked up most of the lights. Now we are just waiting for our beehive pendants, the calacatta subway backsplash, refinishing the dining room floor and a finish coat of paint. Then we will be done, just in time for the kids to come home for Thanksgiving. Dc, I don't know how to post the floor plan. I have it in PDF so I can email it to you if you can tell me how to reach you. |
That is a seriously gorgeous kitchen. I love the inset walnut cabinets with matching interiors, shapely hood and yummy marble. I can't wait to see the final reveal. |
NYC - we are mostly roadies also but tend to go a bit further. Do you run also - had friends show up for the canceled marathon.. We need some pictures of your lights. I scanned my floor plan into the my computer and then it was a jpeg and I could upload as a picture. |
- Posted by nycbluedevil (My Page) on Tue, Nov 13, 12 at 21:05
A 2. Do you ever do bike trips? We do one with Backroads every summer. Great trips and miles. We have done some century rides on them. Just did northern Vermont this past summer. We averaged about 50 or so miles a day with some giant climbs. Sounds like you might like them. The trips in Europe are great too. I wish those beehive lights would come already. If you google chameleon lighting beehive clear you can see them. They are really cool.. Now I have to figure out the window seat cushion and window treatment. |
We do some BAC trips including one to Spain. How about a picture of the window seat |
- Posted by nycbluedevil (My Page) on Sat, Nov 17, 12 at 8:42
Bumping this for Roberta. |
NYCBD - not sure if you are visiting GW - but I posted my final kitchen pictures a few weeks ago and was hoping you might take a peak... Next is our bathroom but have to figure out a funding plan... Thanks |
- Posted by nycbluedevil (My Page) on Sat, Dec 29, 12 at 16:36
A2--I did look at your pics when you posted a few weeks back. I had a last minute business trip abroad and then I tried to post but lost the Internet connection and never came back to it. Sorry about that. I love your kitchen. I love everything about it, from the granite to the backsplash that I know you agonized over, to the wood floor, to the window seat area and the cool pop up table. It seems like you are really enjoying your kitchen. How did you ever resolve your drawer that broke? Haven't done much biking lately. I have come down with a case of wussiness with the cold weather and can't bear the thought of putting on the booties! Last winter was so much better. This winter seems like it is going to be cold. Takes me back to those cold, dark mornings trudging up State Street to make an 8 am class in the law school..... |
Been there, done that - I tend to look from my phone but want to post from my computer. We are finally getting some snow and my cross country skis are growling as I haven't taken them out yet! Whatever you do - skip the movie 5 year engagement - it was filmed in Ann Arbor but it is really bad! (except for seeing scenes from A2) Hopefully tomorrow. Thanks for your blessing! I think what you did is phenomenal! |
- Posted by Lorenza5064 (My Page) on Sun, Dec 30, 12 at 21:37
A2, what is this about a "pop-up" table? A table that converts from coffee table height to dining height? Have been thinking of that for my breakfast/sitting room. Please elaborate. Ciao ciao |
- Posted by Lorenza5064 (My Page) on Sun, Dec 30, 12 at 21:47
nycbluedevil, I presume you are a "Dukey". At any rate, I love your kitchen and think is perhaps the most handsome of all the submissions I have seen on the GW. Bravo Bravo! I know that Rutt is a high end cab and Waterstone fixtures are very high end as well. If I may be so bold, would you share the budget number for your project. I am trying to understand if I might be able to emulate some of the design and finishes that you selected. Ciao ciao |
- Posted by skeetie219 (My Page) on Sun, Dec 30, 12 at 22:39
Your kitchen is beautiful....love love love the walnut cabinet and counter combo. I think I remember your bathroom remodel from the bathroom board, that was gorgeous too. If memory serves me, you bought your plumbing stuff from plumbtile w a positive experience. It helped me decide as I was in the throws of a master bath remodel. In any case, we finished our kitchen about 2yrs and just finished the bath project ....actually window treatments are pending, but thank goodness for GW! |
- Posted by nycbluedevil (My Page) on Sun, Dec 30, 12 at 22:44
Hi Lorenza First, thank you so much for the compliments. we are really loving our kitchen. It''s amazing how such a skinny space turned out so great. Yes, I am a Dukie. As is my eldest daughter so we get down to Durham a bit. She graduates this year. Happy to share the budget, at least as much as I can remember. Note that we did quite a bit of construction and that the plumbing was significant because we moved our WD clear across the space and needed to recreate our water and gas lines to tie into our adjacent maids room. That was a big job. We also opened up part of the dining room/kitchen common wall. We also added French pocket doors to the back half of our dining room which is my eldest daughter's bedroom (she is almost out on her own at this point so her room is becoming a sitting room) and put the WD in a newly constructed closet with French doors. We also refinished the floors in the dining room/bedroom. So the whole thing was around $200,000 all in but we did a lot of ancillary work. Cabinets--$62,000 including installation We still have window treatments to do in the kitchen and sitting room so that's not included yet. |
- Posted by nycbluedevil (My Page) on Sun, Dec 30, 12 at 22:52
Hi Skeetie Thanks for the compliments. You have a good memory. We did use plumb tile for the bathroom fixtures. As a matter of fact, I got the Waterstone for the kitchen through them too. Their discount was at least as good as anyone else's price, their customer service was great and free delivery/no sales tax. To make things even better, they had the Forms and Surfaces cabinet pulls that I fell in love with at the KD showroom. These pulls were expensive. The KD shop was going to charge me $35 per pull but I got them from plumb tile for $31, which is still hideously expensive but saved me hundreds |
- Posted by firsthouse_mp (My Page) on Sun, Dec 30, 12 at 22:58
Really gorgeous! I will be following how all your appliances do over the next few months. I am particularly interested in the 36" (?) SZ fridge. I have been looking at that french door refrigerator and am still trying to deice if this will work for us or whether I need to jump to the bigger sizes. You did an amazingly beautiful job. Love the deep sink and the walnut/marble mix. |
- Posted by nycbluedevil (My Page) on Sun, Dec 30, 12 at 23:17
Thanks firsthouse. I love all the appliances. Regarding the SZ 36" French door, I really like the fridge. The freezer is a bit small and I am finding that I can't store as big a Costco haul as I could with my 42" SZ that I had in the old kitchen. But I did not want a side by side again because I was tired of bending down for the fruits and vegetables which were at the bottom of the fridge. So the 36" FD was my only option. Our kids are all out of the house now except like now when they are home from college for vacation, so most of the time we are fine. A word of advice regarding the 36" side by side. Disaster. Everyone I know who has it can't stand it. If you go side y side, get at least the 42". All the other appliances--the Blue Star range, the Miele Diamond dishwasher (did I really get a DW with interior lights?!), the Modernaire hood and the Uline wine cooler--are all great. The wine cooler was great value. I really did not want to spend the money for the Miele (the only other one that had the recessed handle that I needed). So I got the Uline--it is quiet and holds a lot. |
- Posted by nycbluedevil (My Page) on Mon, Dec 31, 12 at 8:23
Lorenza I was just reading mamadadapaige's thread and saw your question about the walnut interiors as the last post. I think you were asking that question of me. If so, the answer is that there was no upcharge per se. Rutt has two lines. One line is the Regency. It is about 20% less than the regular line, which is called the Classic. I had planned on going with the Regency but at the last minute I decided to splurge and buy the Classic. One of the features of the Classic is the walnut (or cherry) interiors. There were a bunch of other improvements as well, but that was the one that stood out for me. |
NYCBD - your Miele has an interior light - I might just have to upgrade mine... LOL - I will stick with mine until I have to replace it - I get a smile when it sticks it little tongue out at me when it pops the door open. Happy New Year! Lorenza5064 - I will bump by final reveal post so I don't hijack NYCBD too much - but yes it does pop up. |
- Posted by Lorenza5064 (My Page) on Mon, Dec 31, 12 at 11:31
NYCBD, Didn't you say that your door style was the "New Yorker" by Rutt? Couldn't find that on their website. Closest I found was "York". Trying to see the detail on the inside of stiles and rails, a bevel, a bead? |
- Posted by nycbluedevil (My Page) on Mon, Dec 31, 12 at 13:28
It is the New Yorker. It is a modified Shaker. That's the best way I can describe it. Sort of like a double step. Rut has a terrible website. Where are you located? I bet there is a dealer who sells Rutt if you are near a reasonably large city. Best to see in person. |
- Posted by Lorenza5064 (My Page) on Mon, Dec 31, 12 at 14:36
Thanks NYCBD, don't think I afford Rutt, but would like to emulate your door style. I have chosen an independent Amish cabinetmaker for my cabs. I have vetted this company and all signs are good re their fit and finish. I noticed that your drawer fronts have chamfered edges, that is a detail employed by my cab co. as well. My kitchen will be in a white painted finish with an island in either cherry or walnut. You can bet that I am going to inquire re the walnut drawer boxes, they are so handsome. |
- Posted by Lorenza5064 (My Page) on Tue, Jan 1, 13 at 0:21
a2, please provide the thread that includes the reveal of your kitchen that has been alluded to in the conversation between you and NYCBD. I am most curious about the details that you mention. Happy New Year, L |
Lorenza - here is the thread for you - http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/kitchbath/msg121427088941.html NYCBD - thanks for loaning your post. Happy New Year |
- Posted by nycbluedevil (My Page) on Thu, Jan 17, 13 at 16:26
Bumping for deedles! |
Thanks for bumping this. I missed the thread but just want to say how beautiful that is turning out! Very classy. Sad the mural had to go, I was going to mention how neat that was. Oh, well, nothing lasts forever. Love the toaster! Vintage stuff always grabs me. I was just oogling a "toast-O-lator" at an antique shop yesterday. You put the bread in on edge in one end and it rolls through and comes out the other side. There is even a viewing window so you can watch your toast go through. How fun is that? Not sure if it's 125.00 worth of fun, though. Anyway. Where do you do most of your prepping in there? On that big deep square counter to the right of the stove, or on the sink counter? |
- Posted by nycbluedevil (My Page) on Thu, Jan 17, 13 at 17:00
Deedles Thanks for the compliments! I did love that mural but it was time for it to go. I do most prep on either the left or right side of the sink--I have about 40" on either side of the sink plus the space in front of the counter cabinets so it is plenty. Prep requires water and I don't have a separate prep sink. The big sink you see is my only one. For baking, I tend to use the space to the left of the range. That is only about 30" of countertop. The big space is our eating area. I also use that space to set out the various dishes as they come out of the ovens. |
- Posted by nycbluedevil (My Page) on Fri, Feb 22, 13 at 14:14
Bumping this for Laura |
Absolutely gorgeous. Serious envy here. |
- Posted by AboutToGetDusty (My Page) on Fri, Feb 22, 13 at 16:54
Missed this earlier. Gorgeous and stately! I do have a question for you, NYC...do you plan to cook in this kitchen? Remembering my days living in the city...I can remember cooking just a handful of times. Just wondering if this is for entertaining guests here and there or you truly cook? Not many New Yorkers do! |
- Posted by nycbluedevil (My Page) on Fri, Feb 22, 13 at 17:24
About You bet. I cook a lot and I have never enjoyed it more. The Blue Star range is wonderful. Pan searing salmon, grilling steaks, baking the perfect cake--I am in love with it. The hood (which I was able to vent out the wall) is powerful albeit noisy but I will take noise over grease on my walnut cabinets! The Miele speed oven is great too. I use it as a microwave about half the time but I do also use it as a second oven. I am still working out the combination functions though. My big 30" sink (maybe it's not big by GW standards but it is way larger than my previous sink) with the grid is great and the Waterstone faucet and instant hot are dreamy. It is fair to say that I am a very happy camper. And when we do entertain I now feel that we are doing it in style! |
- Posted by amandasplit (My Page) on Fri, Feb 22, 13 at 17:34
I missed this, but OMG amazing. If I had seen this before I started mine I would've copied everything! Would love to see the backsplash and lights that you were describing. |
- Posted by nycbluedevil (My Page) on Fri, Feb 22, 13 at 17:42
Thanks Amanda! I posted a picture of the beehive lights a few weeks ago. I bumped the post today so you should be able to see it although it may be a page down by now. The backsplash is the same as the counters in 6 x 18 tiles. My kitchen design company (Bilotta) is doing a photo shoot next week. Hopefully, I will have some good pics to post. |
- Posted by nycbluedevil (My Page) on Tue, May 20, 14 at 16:35
Bumping this for seaswirl. |
nycbluedevil, I'm curious what hood you ended up getting for the 36" Blue Star with the grill and what your experience has been so far. We live in lower manhattan and planning to order the 36" Nova with grill and are trying desperately to figure out the hood solution. Thanks in advance, |
ncbluedevil - Your kitchen is so very beautiful! I am considering a dark cabinet and was wondering how you find the light in the walnutty kitchen as opposed to your white kitchen. |
Nycbledevil I always enjoy seeing your kitchen! Glad to see it re-surface Also- saw your post in appliance and looks like your oven choice was a winner ¤ÉĖ |
- Posted by nycbluedevil (My Page) on Mon, Sep 22, 14 at 20:25
Afineman--we got a Modernaire PS 11 (42 x 24). We were able to vent it outside. The hood is beautiful and effective. It is a bit noisy which I suspect is because we had to use an 8" air duct rather than the recommended 10" duct. We had a column in the way so be had no choice. Hydragea--we find that we have plenty of light. We did two pendants down the middle with undercabinet LED lights. The room is also open to the dining room so that probably helps too. I love my walnut cabinets more than I can express. I could stare at them for hours. They are so warm and homey. Even if the kitchen could be brighter if i had done white cabinets, I would never trade the walnut for white. A2--nice to hear from you. I was in Ann Arbor the weekend before last for my 30 year law school reunion. Thank goodness it wasn't this past weekend!!!!! I've been riding a lot too. We did a bike trip to Provence in July. Got a new bike too which I am really loving. How is your bathroom coming? |
Still one of my favorite kitchens! (L'Shanah Tovah!) |
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