Kitchen Workstation Furniture to the Rescue! Builders! Homeowners! You may need to sell your homes in a saturated or over-built market in the future. You’ll need some fresh ideas that can help you rise above the competition, ones that can create a media buzz to drive buyers to you. When you are planning to sell  … Read More

This Victorian Cottage needed a Hi-tech Period Style Kitchen The historic cotton mill village of Glencoe, NC was founded in 1880 on the Haw River. The mill was so remote at the time that the mill owner built housing for his workers, as well as a store, a barber shop and churches. Through the years  … Read More

Concealed Ovens. Why do it? Many kitchen designs today are defined or characterized by the position and visual qualities of the range. High end kitchens will often feature an exposed commercial style stainless steel range, many times surrounded by a hearth style mantle piece incorporating the exhaust hood. More modest kitchen designs will simply place  … Read More

Over the holidays, I decided to renew the painted finish on our modest showroom’s concrete floor. After almost 13 years of wear, it was overdue. So I moved the workstations (most of our independent pieces of Kitchen Workstation Furniture are on wheels) from one side of the 20’ x 26’ room to the other side  … Read More

The Heart and Soul Kitchen The Interview Michael Walsh, a contributing writer for Better Homes and Gardens S.I.P’s interviewed David Beer, president of the YesterTec Design Company while he was compiling research for an article that he wrote for the Kitchen Planning Guide 2001 entitled The Heart & Soul Kitchen. The following is the list  … Read More

Craftsman Style Kitchen Editor’s note: This home is a gem! Every room is perfectly crafted and appointed and is a true testament to the Arts and Crafts or Craftsman Style without becoming museum-like. Both inside and out, this family home lives bigger and more comfortably than its small lot would seem to allow. Perfectly sized  … Read More

A Farmhouse Kitchen The owners of this beautifully restored Connecticut farmhouse knew that they wanted their new kitchen to be furnished in a style that would complement the period style of their home. Their existing ‘farmhouse kitchen’ located in the original 1770 wing of the house (the connector shown below) was composed of custom cabinetry  … Read More

A Movable Kitchen This modestly sized, Cape Cod style home has been transformed into a very personal home. The owners who are now empty nesters are still planning to increase the size of the house so that it will suit their needs well into the future. But initially they had tackled many of the early  … Read More

The YesterTec Diet. For those of us who don’t always abide by the ‘Eat to Live, Don’t Live to Eat’ mentality, reducing the temptation to eat can be a struggle. With our ‘Live-in’ kitchens becoming more open than ever to family rooms and great rooms, it is harder than ever to fight this ever-present desire  … Read More

YESTERTEC … THE NEW CABINETRY ALTERNATIVE Thinking of adding a Workstation Armoire to your kitchen Environment? Great, but imagine what can happen if you design your entire kitchen with YesterTec stand alone furniture!The kitchen is one of the most vital and essential rooms in the home and YesterTec has developed a way to make the  … Read More