Rutland Architectural Blog

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Interior designers and especially a kitchen designer often times request a custom range hood or kitchen island hood design to accentuate their kitchen decor. Due to their large size, a kitchen range hood or vent hood, can become a focal point of the kitchen and provide an elegant enhancement or dramatic statement to all manner of beautiful kitchens. Rutland custom metal working and copper work craftsmen have created many custom kitchen vent hoods over the years, most of them premium pure copper hoods, many with hammered designs and integral 3D murals. Occasionally however Rutland also receives requests for custom kitchen hoods made from other metals including stainless steel and aluminum. Shown below is a custom range hood created from mill finish aluminum in a durable thick gauge with swooping sides and a hammered pebble design band wrapping around the bottom. All custom range hoods are created exactly to the client's specifications, dimensional requirements with their design of choice.

custom range hood - kitchen vent hood - aluminum island hood pictured

Custom Range Hood - Aluminum Mill Finish

custom vent hood - kitchen range hood hood - island hood made from aluminum shown

Custom Kitchen Hood - Range Hood or Island Hood

vent hood - range hood - custom kitchen island hood pictured here

Custom Vent Hood - Aluminum Thick Gauge

Below is an example of a recently completed order for a custom copper hood used as a center of the kitchen island hood. This copper hood design features an array of copper Fleur de Lis castings evenly spaced around it's base between two rounded decorative bands. This copper kitchen hood utilizes heavyweight 48 oz pure copper material in it's construction. Notice the smooth, seamless welded and polished edges for a truly elegant finish and flawless appearance.

copper range hood - kitchen vent hood - island hood shown

Custom Copper Hood - Fleur de Lis Design

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Copper Kitchen Hood - Custom Hood Design

Rutland creates custom built kitchen range hood designs for residential and commercial applications. Rutland works closely with architects, builders, interior designers, chefs, homeowners, remodelers and contractors to craft and deliver the perfect kitchen hood. Rutland kitchen hoods are all custom and built to meet client's specifications and incorporate customer designs. Rutland has many stock design ornamental castings which can be incorporated or Rutland's extremely talented and skilled artisans can meticulously hammer custom designs from a customer supplied illustration, drawing or pictures including kitchen artwork or murals. The large surface area of a vent hood allows many design possibilities including coordination with the kitchen decor or scheme. Rutland also crafts custom vents hoods for an outdoor kitchen, barbecue, fireplace hoods and light canopy hoods. Integral exhaust fans with integral lighting and grease filters may be ordered for any custom kitchen hood. Rutland has a CAD drawings both of a generic range hood and one of a generic island hood, which may used to specify dimensions and materials for custom vent hood orders. Those CAD drawings and twenty-six examples of kitchen range hood and island hood designs along with a brief video which may be viewed at Custom Range Hoods - Copper Kitchen Hoods

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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Copper Kitchen Art Work - Range Hoods

Copper Kitchen describes kitchen design utilizing copper work either extensively or strategically to achieve a very elegant, warm, hospitable and decorative kitchen. Kitchen copper usage may include copper hoods, range hoods or island hoods. Also kitchen copper sinks, copper countertops, copper backsplash, copper light hood canopy, copper pot racks, copper sculpture, copper accents, copper pots and pans. Even copper clad appliances, wall copper vents, copper fixtures (lights and fans) and other hardware such as cabinet and door handles, wall switchplates, etc. Given the sheer elegance, warmth and beauty of copper, it is near impossible to overuse copper in kitchen design, especially with the endless hues of copper available, from it's gleaming raw state to countless variations of patinated copper. Decorative kitchen design to personalize a kitchen, establish a design theme or create a designer kitchen may incorporate the use of kitchen art, such as kitchen wall art, kitchen murals and other themed kitchen artwork, including standalone accent pieces. Almost every copper kitchen has a copper range hood or island hood which has a large surface area ideal to incorporate copper art work into your kitchen design. You may view your copper hood, copper backsplash and copper kitchen sink as a blank canvas to which you can add your own unique design, personal expression or promote a kitchen design theme.

copper range hood CAD drawing ready for design copper art work to be rendered

Copper Kitchen Hood "A Blank Canvas"

Copper compared to other metals not only offers more warmth, luster and elegance but copper is especially amenable to being worked into many different shapes or designs. Copper may also easily be sculpted or hammered into custom art work including personalized or themed murals. Copper design work may involve simple accents placed subtly around a larger smooth copper surface, or a uniformly patterned surface such as a hammered copper pebbled look or using variegated copper hues created through patination or firing. A raised, textured three dimensional design or copper kitchen mural provides endless possibilities of personalization as well as the timeless elegance and enjoyment of your kitchen's copper work of art.

copper art work with ski lodge copper design shown here

copper wall art work ranch theme for copper kitchen hoods or kitchen wall art shown here

Copper Wall Art Work - Two Different 3-D Scenes
copper range hood Tuscan kitchen design pictured here

Copper Hood with Tuscan Design (Grapes)

Hammered Copper Hoods - Pebbled & Rock Pattern
copper hoods - kitchen island hoods with copper designs island tropical and southwest cactus themes shown here

copper hoods - kitchen island hoods with copper designs island tropical and southwest cactus themes shown here

Copper Range Hoods with Copper Art Murals

Copper art work or murals may be recreated from almost any design, drawing, illustration, painting or picture you provide, by true copper working artisans. The intricate detail these coppersmiths can sculpt into your copper hoods, copper sinks or copper backsplash is truly astounding, while your appreciation of their timeless beauty will last for generations of lifetimes.

copper hood range or custom island hood with ski lodge resort theme pictured

Copper Island Hood with Ski Lodge Artwork
copper kitchen sink with copper art work mural pictured

Copper Kitchen Sink with Artwork

Copper Farmhouse Sink with Mural

* Pictures shown above are courtesy of Rutland Architectural Copper Work, whose copper work artisans individually create by hand each of the copper hoods, copper sinks and copper art work shown above. The copper kitchen hoods are all fashioned from heavyweight 48 oz pure copper that are available in gleaming new copper appearance or also in various shades of copper patina. Rutland specializes almost exclusively in custom design copper work, each handcrafted one at a time with many being "one of" unique designs from customer's specifications. Rutland also creates custom copper sculpture and copper kitchen decor accent pieces to coordinate your overall decorative kitchen design. See additional copper range hoods created by Rutland.

Copper Sink, Copper Hood, Copper Counter Tops

(Photos courtesy http://design-ties.blogspot.com/2009/03/hooked-on-copper.html)

In addition to copper hoods and copper sinks, a copper backsplash is another copper surface that can be given a copper art work treatment along with other independent or themed hanging copper wall art. Copper counters or countertops usually preferrably have a smooth surface or are lightly patterned such as a pebbled look, quilted or tile design. Blending different hues of patinated copper together may create a very appealing used look that also wears very well. Part of the great allure and beauty of copper, somewhat similar to distressed or antique wood, is the ever changing character, warm hues and gracefully aging beauty that natural pure copper provides.