JLNO Kitchen Tour

We had a blast at the Junior League of New Orleans 2008 Kitchen Tour for Children's Education. GS Hewitt LLC was a Silver Spoon kitchen sponsor. George spent the day at Mrs. Roberts' kitchen, where he had installed the backsplash, meeting lots of nice people on the tour. Photograph of Mr & Mrs. Roberts' kitchen, as seen in New Orleans Homes & Lifestyles magazine, April 2008.

Here we are again in the Summer 2008 issue of Lagniappe (the Junior League of New Orleans) quarterly magazine. George can be seen on the left talking to a visitor, in
Mrs. Roberts' kitchen. It really was a fun day and we know the 2009 tour will be just as fabulous.

We also donated 8 hours of design time to be auctioned at the Patron Party for the Tour. George is in the process of designing the bathroom with the winner.

Fireplace Surrounds

This is the before picture of the fireplace. The owners sent the mantle out to be dipped,
stripped
and repaired.
I restored the firebox,the front surround,the hearth and then re-installed the mantle after some minor assembly of trim pieces.














By drawing this fireplace surround to scale we were able to catch an awkward one inch high row of tiles just below the cap molding on top.The drawing enabled us to adjust the layout to create a
sym-
metrical
layout.






Here is the fireplace completed with several closeups.

























































Here is a small fireplace that was recently re-tiled with perfume bottle tiles.