Kitchen Design Quotes

I felt I'd earned the Good Housekeeping Seal when I designed an oval-shaped spaghetti pot, because spaghetti is long.

When designing a kitchen, always keep in mind the social aspect.

Over the years, quite a few TV producers proposed that I do a program, but I refused. I didn't want to work on a set that looked like a theater; I wanted a kitchen of the sort every chef dreams about.

When I came to the Food Network, I didn't want to do a cooking show. I told Kathleen Finch for nine months I didn't want to do a cooking show, I wanted to do a home-and-garden show.

I have a piano in my kitchen. I read a great biography about Tom Waits that said that he had a piano in his kitchen; he had a grand piano in his kitchen. And I thought, 'Well, if Tom Waits has one, then I must.'

There has been a major shift in how we live in our homes. Everyone knows the kitchen is the soul of the house. It's more of an open-concept approach.

I am in love with my La Cornue custom-made stove - it's a dream to use and my favourite part of the kitchen.

My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.

Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.

My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.

When I'm doing kitchen planning as well as bathroom design, I try to walk through the day with the homeowner. If we're talking about a kitchen, it will be: So, we are walking in with the groceries. When we are taking them out of the car, where will they go? What is the distance to fridge, to pantry?

My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!

Why do guests always end up in the kitchen at parties? Is it a social phenomenon? Some strange gravitational pull? I don't know, but one thing is for sure: If your friends are going to congregate in your kitchen, you'd better make it as nice as possible.

It doesn't take money to have style, it just takes a really good eye. Sometimes you can find amazing culinary antiques that will make it feel like an old French kitchen.

The thing I like most in my kitchen is my marble counters. Everybody said not to use marble because it's fragile, it stains, it cracks, and it doesn't remain beautiful. But I love marble.

Kitchens should be designed around what's truly important-fun, food, and life.

The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.

For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out.

Fifty thousand dollars' worth of cabinets isn't going to make you a better cook; cooking is going to make you a better cook. At the end of the day, you can slice a mushroom in about three inches of space, and you can carve a chicken in a foot and a half. So it doesn't matter how big the kitchen is.

You don't usually find an island in a New York kitchen.

My kitchen's pink, like skin-tone pink, and I lowered my spice rack so it's eye level - it's true! - and my phone, so I can reach it when I fall, it's right there.

I'm not a cook at all, but I wanted to have a house with a really nice kitchen.

Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects and birds in bright primary colours.

I am a huge fan of porcelain in kitchens. It's an easy, interesting material.

I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the living room and then they just order pizza.