Rob Wong

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• September 26, 2000, on Kitchen Remodeling:

  While on a trip, I actually got lost in Melrose and couldn't figure out how to get back to Revere. Anyway, we went whole hog on the kitchen in a sybaritic excess of materialism. We got the Bosch, the big refrigerator, ripped out all the cabinets and put in all custom ... not a piece of laminate to be found. We did NOT argue about one of those big cooktops, only how big it should be. 48" of Viking rangetop (separate ovens) tipping the scales at a shade over 200 pounds of sparkling stainless and cast iron. Oh, you have to include some serious ventilation with this lineup. The downdraft (900cfm) is a geek's dream (my wife just tolerates it) ... gently rising and falling at the touch of a button. The only thing that would make it better is a remote control! To set this off correctly, you need the splashes of granite and tile along with glistening stainless steel sinks by Franke and faucets by Grohe. This kind of negative cash flow might explain why I'm tooling around in an ol...