Forno means oven
The oven goes in first. The rest of the room follows.
Most kitchens are drawn around the cabinets. Ours are drawn around the cooking. Where the range sits, how the hood pulls, where the hot pan lands and how far it is to the sink. Get those right and the room works every night, not just in photos.
Dallas houses make this harder than it should be. The 1940s and 50s cottages near Love Field often have a small closed kitchen, a window over the sink and a vent that just recirculates. Bluffview Tudors have good bones and a pantry nobody can walk into. Condos and townhomes have a galley and almost no counter.
We have rebuilt kitchens like these in Dallas since 2015. We open the walls that need to open, run proper ducting outside, add the circuits a serious range wants and finish with clean, modern lines. Then the same crew takes on the bathrooms and the rest of the house.
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Built around the cooking
Range wall, hood, prep counter and landing zones come first. A kitchen that looks good but makes you cross the room with a hot pot has missed the point.
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Air that actually leaves
Many older Dallas kitchens have a hood that blows grease back into the room. We route ducts to the outside and size the fan to the range, so the house stops smelling like last night.
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Made for Dallas houses
Love Field cottages, Bluffview Tudors, Oak Lawn condos and Las Colinas townhomes all hide different surprises. We plan for what sits behind the drywall before we open it.