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the pool used to be kind of the center of this yard where everyone wanted to congregate and now it’s become this kitchen I think when you put an island in and really beautiful equipment in people just naturally gravitate towards the cooking space when we have dinner parties this is our uh
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a dining space this is our our you know our studio our our Tellier as they would say in France I know
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I think our our objective was to create an outdoor space where we could have friends over the kids could be swimming the dogs can be out playing we had a tiny little Grill attached to the side of the house and that was it so we really wanted to create
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um a special place where we could entertain and have fun with our family and our friends Ali and I have been married for 13 years uh and we’ve remodeled two homes made three moves and
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this backyard project was the toughest project we’ve taken on as as as a married couple we survived it um you know what but it wasn’t the kitchen the hardest part about backyard remodels is finding contractors uh that do what they say say what they do and and can
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do it right the easiest part of the the actual backyard remodel was the the kitchen for sure everything else was really tough the kitchen was like the easiest part of that process we
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started out with a contractor that completely blew the budget and could not deliver on any of Milestones timelines deliverables I finally reached out to RTA coyote and they sent their own contractor who was outstanding because there is a installer that knows the product
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has communicated with RTA and coyote and will make sure the install is seamless at the end it was absolutely worth it I couldn’t be happier and all that trauma now is is is being balanced out by how happy we are yeah PTSD you have yard PTSD so I took charge more on the rest of the yard
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designed but the kitchen is really Jet’s space like that’s his home so I I left it to jet to do the design of the actual kitchen I’ve designed over 20 commercial spaces around the country and
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I thought that this would be a breeze but this is a totally different type of space it’s more important to work with a professional um to give you perspective using the design Tool uh with
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the help of the designer helped me completely visualize how the kitchen was going to be laid out what I did bring to the game was I was very specific about where my zones were I knew where
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I wanted my pieces of equipment but if you don’t know how that’s okay if you’ve not worked in a commercial kitchen for 30 years trust the designers to tell you where things should be so I guess we’ll start with the bar really quickly um the bar is a higher top because we
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wanted bar stools and a friends to sit around the bar our friends are part of the action but not in the way so we needed a sink um a faucet I needed a refrigerator for the bar and because
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you’re entertaining and you’re serving food we needed the double trash receptacle on the bar they had phenomenal countertops but I had a specific countertop that I wanted to kind of play along with the other Stone and they’re like no problem I needed a grill I needed an oven and
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I needed a burner speaking of prep and storage two refrigerators for Cold Storage um and then a warming drawer for hot holding so that’s the reason I went with the equipment package um that I did between a grill oven and a burner a person could cook anything and I could probably cook it
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for up to 100 people and you know looking at other companies the reason I went with RTA and coyote was kind of the the the finishes and how the balance between commercial grade but just really aesthetically still beautiful for the home uh because unlike other families we beat up
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our stuff and most things on the market cannot handle the TAA abuse um but kind of doing my digging on RTA and coyote I needed something that looked gorgeous but could really handle
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some serious cooking and that’s why I reached out to RTA coyote approved I mean when I when Allie’s mad at me I sleep out here I mean this is this is my dog house and it’s a pretty pretty dope one I
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got to say this is a space where we’re going to be creating a lot of memories and experiences for people I think when I look back at some of my favorite memories it’s always the simple ones right like this is a great opportunity to create those types of memories and those are really
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the memories that matter that time spent with people you love and it’s a great place to do it
