Cooper City Antique Mall Unveils Designer Kitchen using "Green or Recycled" products

Jan. 27, 2011 - PRLog -- People seem to be obsessed with “new things”, anything that gets a little old must be replaced. Electronics are obsolete before we get home. Homes are decorated with pressed wood furniture that will never increase in value and are held together with glue and sawdust that likely will lead to cancer.  Society seems to have decided to give up natural materials and finely crafted accent pieces for plastic knockoffs.  Quality, longevity, and beauty seem to have been sacrificed for the sake of price, convenience, and laziness. The need for immediate gratification for new things has created a world of overflowing landfills where these new our relatively cheap items have been tossed away to sit in their graves of pollution and degradation like yesterday’s news. Perfectly good equipment that need only be cleaned or repaired  are tossed away because they are no longer new to sit and rot at varying speeds never decomposing completely.  To save our planet we must stop this lifestyle of waste we have been living for the last half century or so.  We must begin to think and purchase for the long term and think about what our tastes have on our environment.
   
Today we live in a “Disposable Society” or “The Ikea Age” which also could be referred to as “Post Modern Minimalism”. The thought of “beauty in furniture goods” has been thrown away.  This new  Disposable Society keep’s prices down, sales up, and  has created a world with furniture that is not worth the sawdust it is made of. Most new “quality” mass produced furniture is dull unadorned with “clean lines”.  Ironically these clean lines are machine made which leads to less labor, less jobs, and increased destruction of our natural resources. Instead of purchasing  new mass produced furniture we would be better buying old quality furniture. The wonderful thing about purchasing antiques and collectibles is that you can have furniture that is unique.  Most modern furniture is merely attempts at imitating styles of yesterday.  If your tastes are “Modern Furniture” you may find you like Art Deco, or 1950’s Post Modern Furniture.  If you prefer a more classic look you probably may discover you like Edwardian, Victorian, or Georgian styles.  If you happen to have more eccentric tastes the Arts and Crafts Movement will definitely move you.  To demonstrate how you could get a designer kitchen design a Kitchen .  Choosing antiques is making a choice to purchase not only pieces of  history  but generally more elegant and unique furniture that is a far better investment for the future.  

For our project we used our own in house talent. Under creative direction of our own Kevin Alden Reed an Interior Decorator and two of our dealers "Joey our Carpenter/Handyman" and Sharon Hershkowitz an amazing Mosaic Artist who ad. We set out to design a kitchen that would be unmatched in design and function. Our answer to global warming is to stop the throw away culture of disposable mass production. If we do this we can cut down on needless waste, and the destruction of generations old skills. Cooper City Antique Mall’s answer to the disposable society began when we realized that we are the Mecca for change.  
   
We set out to show we can remodel a kitchen using quality, sturdy antiques from our own store and get a designer look while keeping a budget. We consider antiques. The only items not from our store was our oven/stove from a deconstruction and flooring and a sink from Habitat Restore. Using the incredible design and merchandising talent Decorator Kevin Alden Reed  and the challenge to prove that we could design a full kitchen that does not require us to purchase more than 10% new materials and everything else had to be part of the R's Rescue-Repair-Reuse-Repurpose-Recycle-Reuse-Reduce-Repair-Re-Invent.

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Cooper City Antique Mall is a multi-dealer antique store that believes in practicing all the R's- Rescue-Repair Reuse-Repurpose Recycle Reuse Reduce Repair Re-Invent.. Additionally we also have Artists in Residence specializing in Repurposed Art.