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18 April 16, 2011 <strong>Columbia</strong> Business Times | <strong>Columbia</strong>BusinessTimes.com<br />
SPECIAL SECTION | hOMe & gArDen<br />
Kitchen with a Cause<br />
Boone County <strong>Council</strong> on Aging’s 2011 Kitchens in Bloom Tour<br />
By Dianna Borsi O’Brien<br />
Sometimes it’s crazy easy to help others. By going on the Kitchens in Bloom Tour <strong>of</strong> four beautifully<br />
renovated kitchens, you can help low-income seniors get their sidewalks shoveled, food delivered,<br />
necessary home repairs or yard work done.<br />
That’s because the Kitchens in Bloom Tour, in its ninth year, is a major fundraiser for the Boone<br />
County <strong>Council</strong> on Aging, a local nonpr<strong>of</strong>it that provides this kind <strong>of</strong> help to more than 1,700 lowincome<br />
people older than 55 in Boone County.<br />
“It’s not just a fundraiser,” says Jessica Macy, executive director <strong>of</strong> the BCCA. “It’s an opportunity<br />
to get our message out in the public more.” So what’s the message? That the BCCA helps seniors to<br />
live quality, independent lives.<br />
Typically, 300 people attend the tour, providing roughly $6,200 to the agency, which is also funded<br />
by the United Way, the city <strong>of</strong> <strong>Columbia</strong> and Boone County.<br />
The agency provides services using more than 1,600 volunteers, including Keith Anderson, owner<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Columbia</strong> Carpet Cleaning, who has been helping one particular senior get her allocation <strong>of</strong> food<br />
from the food pantry for years. “We’re all busy, but you just say yes and you fit it in,” Anderson said.<br />
Honey, I Tore Out the Walls,<br />
Amy and mike monahan, 701 Westwood<br />
When it comes to sandwiches, Amy and<br />
Mike Monahan know fast is good. But when<br />
the owners <strong>of</strong> four Jimmy John’s Gourmet<br />
Sandwich shops in <strong>Columbia</strong> set out to renovate<br />
their kitchen, it took them more than six<br />
years to get going.<br />
Amy and Mike had been talking about<br />
renovating their kitchen for years, but they<br />
were having trouble getting started. Then,<br />
one weekend while Mike was away, Amy<br />
had the men who work on their more than 80<br />
rental properties tear into the walls and s<strong><strong>of</strong>f</strong>its<br />
in the kitchen to see what was behind them and what kind <strong>of</strong> renovations were possible.<br />
Once Mike got home, it was full speed ahead; the project took just four months to complete, from<br />
March until June in 2010.<br />
Amy didn’t hire a contractor and instead organized the work herself. She started by asking her<br />
father, Dave Moreno, an architect who lives in San Francisco, to draw up the plans. Then she and<br />
Chris Heston <strong>of</strong> Traditions in Wood modified the plans. At first, Amy said Heston balked at her requests<br />
— until he spent an evening watching her cook. “I was rolling out pies, making stock, making<br />
sauces,” she said, and finally, he understood her many requests.<br />
The result is a kitchen with a 14-foot island <strong>of</strong> Danby white marble, a durable material used in the<br />
Lincoln Memorial and other state and federal buildings.<br />
“I love to cook, and I love to entertain,” said Amy, who doesn’t flinch at having 75 people at her<br />
home for dinner, which explains the two sinks, two ovens, warming oven, pot filler, Viking range<br />
with griddle, the condiment cooler and touch-control faucets.<br />
Yet, the kitchen retains a homey, classic look that fits the 1920s Craftsman style, featuring missionstyle<br />
cabinets, topped by lighted display space with waterfall glass to minimize the need for compulsively<br />
neat cabinets.<br />
Animal Room to Family Room,<br />
Cavanaugh noce and Cindy neagle,<br />
1836 Cliff drive<br />
Cavanaugh Noce and Cindy Neagle’s kitchen<br />
renovation started with a dishwasher that<br />
wouldn’t fit.<br />
They’d bought the house at 1836 Cliff<br />
Drive in 2004 and had always planned to renovate,<br />
but when the old dishwasher conked<br />
out and the new one didn’t fit, the husband<br />
and wife attorneys knew it was time to update<br />
the 1953 Cape Cod.<br />
And it wasn’t just the kitchen they were<br />
unhappy with, truth be told. The adjoining<br />
sunroom featured orange shag carpet, and until the 2007 renovation it was only used as a place to<br />
keep the family cat and dog while the homeowners were at work.<br />
At their first meeting, Dan Kliethermes <strong>of</strong> Kliethermes Home & Remodeling said the couple told<br />
him they wanted to open the cramped, chopped-up space while maintaining the architectural integrity<br />
<strong>of</strong> the house. Cavanaugh also wanted a firm financial budget.<br />
Today, the dishwasher is in place, along with a dual-fuel range with a gas stovetop and electric<br />
oven, an appliance Cindy loves because it replaced a range with only one working burner and an<br />
oven that was too tiny for even the smallest Thanksgiving turkey. The renovation also included<br />
PhoTos By TAyloR Allen