Who knows the minimum drain location from the floor of a Steam Oven?

WE DO!!!!  William & I just returned from an grueling training session at the fabulous corporate US Gaggenau showroom in Scottsdale, AZ.  Let me be the first to tell you - this was not all happy happy joy joy - it was brutal!  Not only did they force us to stay at the Camelback Resort - they even forced us to go directly to the on site spa THE VERY FIRST DAY!!!  After a draining day of bouncing from hot tub to sauna to steam room to the facial & hot stone massage rooms & then the private spa pool, they forced us to indulge in an outside family style dinner overlooking the beautiful desert landscape.  Finally - once that was all over we were allowed to return to our rooms to recover from the brutality of the day.

Well if you think the first day was bad - try being herded in stretch limos to the Gaggenau facility where were promptly put to work familiarizing ourselves with the most beautiful and functional cooking equipment available.  And then, once we had learned pretty much everything there is to know about this fabulous equipment that quite simply makes everyone that touches it seem like an experienced Chef - THEY MADE US COOK ON ALL OF THEM!!!!  Can you believe the nerve!  

Ok - so once that experience was over, can you believe that they had the nerve to shuttle us, once again via stretch limo, to Frank Lloyd Wright's desert studio and school of architecture, Taliesin West, for a private tour of one of the world's most influential architects' passionate expression of what true integration of function and design is.  

Bottom line - it was one of the greatest experiences of my life & I feel truly fortunate and thankful for the opportunity.  I learned more than I ever imagined I could about a selection of appliances that is truly in a league of their own.  I had the opportunity to ask as many questions as I could muster up for the most knowledgeable appliance experts I have encountered (I think I was pushing my limits on question quotas).  

Thank you to the entire Gaggenau team for your faith in us and for your commitment to our collaboration here at the Charleston KSKC showroom.  

We have THE BEST clients!!!

We have been amazingly fortunate over the past year.  Yes - there have been difficult times, hard decisions, PERSONAL GROWTH, but we would do it 10 times over to recreate what we have now.  You know, it's one thing to claim that you are "client focused", but even when you really mean it when you say it, there are SOOO many things that can get in the way of achieving that goal.  That has been our number one priority and it has paid off in a big way.  I think I really began to realize that we were truly going in the right direction when one of our dear client's stopped by recently- totally out of the blue - with this beautiful arrangement from her own garden.  Beth - thank you so much & I have already enjoyed part of the rest of the gift.  

Earlier this week we had a wonderful design consultation meeting that resulted in a kitchen that I simply can't wait to see in real life.  It's going to be one of those spaces that you just naturally want to be in.  Of course I cannot take total credit for that - much of the credit is due to the brilliant planning by Architect Marshall Driver (click here for his web page).  I have been fortunate enough to be involved in several of Marshall's past projects and have been inspired over and over by the passion that goes into each design.  He is truly a master at "client focused" design and it shows in each home (not house).  As one of my previous Seabrook clients who had visited one of Marshall's projects on a Kiawah home tour put it, "....all of the houses were beautiful, but Marshall's house was the only one that I could really see myself living in."  

This is only one example of the numerous expressions of appreciation that we have received from our clients.  Although things like this always take us by surprise - we have as much fun as they do - we truly appreciate the relationships that we build with our clients.  

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