2003 Viking and D Home Kitchen of the Year

Viking Kitchen of The YearShanon Steele wins $500, a clandestine accident for 10-15 our bodies on the Viking Culinary Arts Center, and a affable task on the Viking Culinary Arts Center.

Designed to improve the candor of their 1936 domestic inside the Swiss Avenue Historical District, Shanon and Mike Steele’s 2003 Kitchen of the Year is a continuing mixture of avant-garde Viking era and affected layout. Retro-stimulated shelves and chrome accouterments are absolute enhances to Viking’s glassy Artist Series bifold oven and fridge. Shanon does all of her affable on a Viking Professional Series cooktop absolute by means of an adorned hammered-tin backsplash. French country touches in the course of bog down the design. Wedgwood blue-and-white toile curtains abut an abounding row of paned windows, echoed inside the glass-fronted shelves. Appliance potential which includes the camphor copse Chinese wine table and the white antiqued ceramics chiffonier amend the structure whilst highlighting the house’s background. Hardwood flooring and a neutral-colored sea grass rug resource handy smooth-up. Aloft all of it, ablaze from a clear bead chandelier will replicate Viking affection for years to come. All Viking articles reachable at Factory Builder Stores, 512 E. Dallas Rd., Ste. 500, Grapevine. 817-410-8868.

Second PlaceJeff Fairey wins $250; a appointment to D Home, together with cafeteria with the editors; and a affable undertaking on the Viking Culinary Arts Center.

Jeff Fairey of Vintage Contemporaries recommended this Craftsman-inspired kitchen with the aforementioned absorption to detail and glassy administration that cross into anniversary Viking product. Custom shelves of region-sawn white okayand granite countertops anatomy the around-the-clock look of a Viking ambit and dishwasher, each outfitted in chrome steel. Period acrylic colorings, copse info, and home made olive tiles with a burst accomplishment admit an Arts