I’ll bet you Kitchen Hipsters didn’t know that the Queen of England rides a Harley. Well, here she is. She is on her way to The 
Buckingham Palace. On… you guessed it, her Harley. Heck she even has her own street. No one else gets to drive on this street. I paid a guy 200 pounds an hour to guide me around London. He filled me in on all this stuff.
You know some people get really touchy when you try to borrow things. The British police are a really good example of a small group of big ego-ed people who just can not understand a good excuse for borrowing something. I thought this building ornament would look great around the family pool. Maybe something sweet for the Kitchen Hip World Headquarters? But nooooooo. I would have returned it. THEN purchased one from the artist. Instead they kick me out of the country and force me to pay a huge fine. I didn’t even use my hacksaw on it. Well…I sort of cut it a little bit. They even arrested the guy who was driving my truck and the guys I hired to box the thing up for me. Last time I go to London. They can keep their Olympic Games.
I saw this at the September Haus Faire in Europe. The barn siding look seems old and dated. It is not the type of thing that I would believe a company would show as a new design idea or new door style but….. there it was. It made me feel like the shabby chic crew might have been trying for a comeback? Was this not a look that was popular 
around the late 90’s?
There seems to be a “growing” interest in planting fresh herbs, indoors, for the family meals. <—get it …..Anyway… many kitchen cabinet companies have spent untold millions trying to convince us that grow lights and hydroponic herb farms should be a part of our newest kitchen designs. I may be the odd man out in this battle but our family has trouble keeping up with easy to grow house plants. We have tried basil indoors with mixed results. The major problem is how much basil is enough for a family? Even when we do a lot of cooking the plant grows far faster than our need for the herb. I have been toying with the idea of changing our indoor herb farm into a pot farm. At least then our kitchen would be a profit center rather than a dead sad little brown herb farm dripping leaves on our counter tops. We might even be able to grow enough to pay for our Ralphs bill. Let me know your thoughts on this subject. Press the comment button and write away!!!
Roll out cabinets..I like them but things do move around when they are slammed.
Here we have an example of a group of German guys standing around telling each other that open shelves are cool. They even have live plants something that you almost never see in any real home. These guys even have open shelves that roll out so that you can water the plants away from the kitchen and not stain the cabinets!
Open shelves. ALL WOMEN HATE THEM! Why? They are soooo very cool. The husband says….All your neat pots and pans can be displayed. Dishes and copper things all should be shown according to most men surveyed. End of the day..no open shelves in the USA…Ok maybe a couple just to show the goodies.
This was left on the counter at one of the Haus Faire displays. We spent about an hour trying to figure out what it was. The group finally decided it was a space age radiator. It keeps your cooking and cutting hands warm on those cold days of winter.
I didn’t tell anyone but I think it is a pot trivet.
Those Germans think of everything. Here is your basic radioactive isotope storage system for your kitchen. We all have isotopes around the house and you can never be to careful! Another idea you might want to consider if you have already gotten rid of your radioactive stuff? How about spice storage?
As you can imagine I meet lots of interesting people at kitchen showrooms around the world. The guy with the funny hat is Bob. He was guarding a Leicht showroom in London. You can see that it was drawing a big crowd. See all the people in the background (that is the showroom). 
They are checking out the new Liebherr refrigerators on display. Bob and his horse Roy showed me around the new Leicht displays. Roy seems to know more than most appliance dealers about Liebherr refrigerators. Roy did make a mess of the showroom but Bob and I cleaned it up.
