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."

Design/Installation Management Experience Minimize

There is an art to the design of a kitchen; an art that blends trends, preferences, traditions and expectations to conceive and execute the "perfect" design for each and every space and client. Most well informed clients already have, in their mind's eye, a view of their remodeled kitchen, a concept of how they will use that new space and an style with which they are comfortable. Draw it up an build it!  If only it were so easy....

There is a science to the process of rendering a design into the reality of a remodeled kitchen, a new kitchen. Creative forces aside, the process is paramount.  There are absolutely no shortcuts allowed in the construction of your dream kitchen.

Excellent management is critical to the ultimate success of each project, and excellent management is experience driven, and based on scientific methodology. That’s a term we all learn in high school, but we seldom apply in life. Our company is built on two very important words, "Perfect Planning"  No one, in any field of endeavor can assure "perfect execution" but anyone can create a planning process that results over a period of time, in planning that anticipates problems before they occur, and has the solution for problems as they occur. As problems are worked, and problems will always occur, results are analyzed to determine the cause, and the planning paradigm is modified by each experience. "Perfect Planning" doesn't assure a perfect planning process, but it does assure a perfect result: a space that becomes the kitchen "of your dreams" without the "nightmare" of  most remodeling projects.

Working the problem coupled with subjective, objective analysis and planning is the key to a stress free, successful outcome, a” perfect result."

I bring 40 years of experience in management, problem solving, procurement, production and predictable outcome to Georgia Country Kitchens. I have personally designed and installed over 50 kitchens, and have been responsible for the design and installation of hundreds of other kitchens. While I have been a NKBA member in the past, I am not a CKD, a Certified Kitchen Designer, and I am not a CAD expert. I have held FL Licenses as a Mechanical Contractor, and Solar Contractor.  I have had experience in "Big Box" retail as a Kitchen and Bath Specialist and  Department Head at the Home Depot #104 in Marietta, and as a Plumbing , Kitchen and Bath Zone Manager, and PKB Buyer for Eagle Hardware and Garden Centers in Tukwilla (Seattle), Washington.

As Chief Commercial Procurement Officer at IAT, Inc., in Huntsville Alabama, I instituted purchasing practices and reforms that reduced the cost of building materials by 40% over a period of three months, and assured the lowest cost of highest quality building materials for our panelized housing and pre-fabricated bathroom programs. As Director of Commercial Operations for IAT, Inc., I was responsible for all non-military residential and commercial building programs.

In the course of business, I have restored three historic houses, and am restoring my late father's home, his lodge on Talking Rock Creek, from whence come many of the photographs on this site.

Now,  I am anxious to demonstrate that each and every client should have an HGTV experience, without leaving the house, and without construction delays due to personnel, material shortages, inventory shrink, cost cutting code violations and generally sloppy work performed by under motivated, apathetic workers "puttin time, pickin up a check."

Speaking with me, meeting you in your home for an initial visit, discussing your plans for your kitchen space costs nothing. I don't represent any product, I am not a shill for a "certain" line of cabinets or appliances, I bring no contract that needs to be signed, no special offers. I come bearing no gift but that of careful listening and attention to your needs.

I hope you will consider the benefit that my life time of experience offers and call Georgia Country Kitchens today!

Contact me at 770-272-4338.

 

   

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