How to open hotpoint stove top
I didn’t have room to put them up in my cottage, so they got moved next door to mom’s. I spotted these beauties when I was treating myself to my annual I-survived-the-holiday-season-working-retail splurge. Case in point: this set of Limoges fish plates. Right now, it’s home for an oil painting done by my great aunt.Īs I have decorated the little cottage next door, where my mom lived at the end of her life, I’m finding it a great place to put the extra furniture and accents I cannot fit into my own cottage. Since I don’t have to worry about the stove’s functionality, I can go crazy when decorating around it – nothing will ever be at risk of catching fire. I can’t help it: I am allergic to cooking. You don’t have to look very hard to tell that my stove never gets used. If it had been my husband, he would have given me that “Are you crazy?” look when I asked him to make these accommodations, and the poor antique would have been drug to the garden, leaned against a stone wall, with a plant stuck in front of it. In fact, it was so heavy, her ever-patient husband, Don, purchased a hydraulic lift just to put it in place.
That was before she tried to pick the darn thing up. The space behind her stove seemed like the perfect spot. Put the holding pole beneath the top to hold it up as you work. Lift the top right up until it’s open, but don’t push it beyond its limits. Put your thumbs in the cooker at the groove between the top and the main oven body. She had picked up a piece from a cast-iron stove at an antique store, and was just waiting for a place to use it. Remove the grates on the top of the cooker. When Nancy renovated her little cottage, she wanted to decorate it with her family heirlooms and antiques. It turned this lackluster spot into a stunning focal point. She installed a pot rack above her stove, then filled it with the copper pieces. So when she spotted a box filled with copper kitchenware at a garage sale (for $20!), she snatched it up. Paula is a very cleaver decorator, who has a home filled with beautiful treasures. A complete kitchen remodel was not in the plans, but that didn’t stop Paula from revamping the look of the space. When my friend Paula bought her home, she loved everything about it, except the kitchen. The variation in the sizes and shapes of the boards ramps up the visual impact. The boards pick up the tones in her exposed brick walls, adding to the natural warmth and bringing in a bit of organic pattern. She had the great idea to layer a mix of thin wood cutting boards behind her stove.
My friend Tammy has a light, bright, airy kitchen. She added to the charm with changeable displays on the shelf above the stove, and on either side. When she renovated this room a few years ago, she spiced up the space above her stove with a beautiful tile pattern. The photo above is of my friend Lisa’s kitchen.
But what? Here are some ideas and inspiration from my cottage and the homes of a few of my friends. Many of us have a blank wall there, begging for a creative treatment, something to make us smile while we’re slaving over the hot stove. One of those problematic places is the empty space above your stove. Some spots in your home are easy to decorate.