Georgia Country Kitchens
French Country Kitchens...Southern Style!
Monday, February 06, 2012
  • Custom Built French Country Kitchens

    There has always been something unique about southern country kitchens. Perhaps its that they look like they just "happened," that your grandmother composed her kitchen's design over the course of a lifetime; that the warmth of her hospitality radiated from her kitchen; that you could feel biscuits baking, Sunday dinner cooking, her hand guiding yours across a faded recipe. Even in our "big" cities, Atlanta, Nashville, Birmingham, Columbia, Raleigh or Jackson, Grandmother's kitchen had the scent of spring blooms and the light of open fields, bright, breezy, comfortable.

    And character, they had character. Filled with cook books, cooking art, pots and pans, tools and gadgets, bowls and measuring cups, grandmother kept abreast of popular trends and technological progress.

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  • In kitchens framed with exposed beams, draped with bead board walls, you'd find ice boxes, kelvinators, wood stoves and gas ranges, biscuit boards and kitchen aids, and in time, all electric GE and Westinghouse appliances. Grey or white washed walls turned blossom colorful, windows framed our southern light, and always, always, folks gathered in the kitchen to help prepare the food we know as distinctly southern. The food of our forefathers, the staple of our culture.

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  • Southern Style Country...

    Southern country kitchens reflect the wedding between the traditional and modernity; the melding of function and design into a unique style that combines the agrarian heritage of our culture with our embrace of all things new. Space and sunlight merge, our palette is soft and fresh like the jonquil's late winter blooms; clay and slate are our earth tones, bright whites like lofty morning clouds and ivory shades like boiling afternoon thunder peaks dominate; and no matter how compact the space, we stretch it toward the light, toward the sun, toward the yard or field.

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  • ...French Country Kitchens

    Southern Country Kitchens have one more distinct trait, a certain Gallic "Joie de vivre" that pulls into our kitchens elements of our everyday life as well as remembrances of things past. We fill shelves with books and vases and framed pictures of long forgotten relatives and post cards, and our children's faces; we hang favorite images and beaten copper mixing bowls, and delft platters and church calendars on our walls. We feel the light streaming through windows and see our backyard gardens as Monet saw Giverny, and we beamingly invite all comers to watch us cook the evening's meal.

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  • And We Cook...

    That's really why we care at all about our kitchens. We cook, we feed, we clean. Each element has its place and its needs. A French Country Kitchen Southern Style embodies modern technologies that allow us to more efficiently accomplish all three tasks, while we enjoy doing them. It's really that simple. We work together to create a sanctuary where success is not merely measured by gastronomical achievement but by comfort and fulfillment and simply the feeling of being surrounded by all that pleases you and the knowledge that this is the center of your universe, this is "home."

 

Special Announcement!

 
If you are considering remodeling your kitchen, we would like to offer you a special value. We'd like to have several "North Georgia Show Kitchens" to demonstrate our craftsmanship and competency to you and your neighbors. For the privilege of spotlighting your new kitchen, we are offering substantial discounts, including at cost materials and appliances, and no fee design consultation. Your kitchen will cost you little more than what it costs us.  If you're interested, call us today at 770-272-4338. There is no obligation, whatsoever, to call us and no fee for our in-home design consultation. For other readers of this announcement, please call us for special marketing offers for select areas of  Southeast Tennessee, and Western North Carolina. Thank you for your consideration.   
 
 
French Country Kitchens, Southern Style is a Website dedicated to the art of designing and building beautiful, functional and comfortable kitchens. Kitchens that reflect a down-home ambience while filled with the most technologically advanced and energy conscious conveniences. Kitchens that are built to satisfy your requirements while meeting or exceeding current US Green Building Council requirements for LEED certification. Kitchens that creatively blend nostalgia with modernity in a manner that reflects your personal commitment to a cleaner, greener future. 
 
LEED...(Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)...is a green building rating system, developed by the U.S. Green Building Council, which provides a suite of standards for environmentally sustainable construction. In kitchen design, it is a method of selection of products and materials that provide the greatest economic return with the least environmental impact; that is, offering choices to our clients that reflect sound design, minimal environmental impact, and cost effective application. 
 
Today, it’s possible to have a kitchen in which your mother or grandmother would feel right at home, and in which your children or grandchildren would feel just as comfortable as you do today. Blending green building practices and materials with old fashioned "southern comfort" creates such a kitchen, and the key is, as always, understanding the design process, applying ecologically sound purchasing and building principles, and managing the construction process to minimize environmental impact.

It would be wonderful and so much easier if we started with a clean drawing board, on a new home construction project.  In that case, working with your architect or planner, we could make certain that the space designed for your kitchen met all current LEED building requirements, and completely satisfied your design requirements. In remodeling, that is a more difficult task.

 
It is possible, however, to see your old kitchen space and buffering areas as an “empty” area, and modify existing structural elements, combining these with your design requirements to create a kitchen that best fits the house, and creates a sense of being  “at home.”
 
Our goal at Georgia Country Kitchens is to help you have the kitchen of your dreams without the nightmares of remodeling. Watching HGTV, you can see it is possible to design and build just about anything in a week with a limited budget. In the real world, that’s not always possible.
 
What is possible is a collaborative process that designs your kitchen within your budget, procures all building materials and appliances and accessories at the lowest possible cost, manages the most skilled specialty contractors, and completes the process on time and on budget.
 
If you are planning a complete remodel, or just have a few things in mind to do, we'd appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. Call 706-509-8533 to schedule a consultation.
 
GeorgiaCountryKitchens.Com PO Box 549 Jasper, Georgia 30143