As you might have noticed from some of my interior design posts on this site, I tend to enjoy an eclectic mixture of high-end and low-end décor. On the one hand, I really love vintage pieces that can be found at affordable prices through thrift stores and yard sales. On the other hand, I also like well-designed, high-priced items that serve as conversation pieces in my home.

My kitchen is a room in the home where you can see this eclectic style at work. It’s designed in a retro 1950’s style. There’s a vintage apron hanging on the walls. There are posters and calendars from Anne Taintor. Most of the design of the room required very little investment money. However, I have a few accessories that didn’t come cheap including a fancy espresso machine and an awesome coffee maker. (Gee, can we tell what my biggest vice is?)

One of the things that I’d really love to get for the kitchen would be an amazing stove. Unfortunately, my apartment building isn’t going to allow me to get something like this. My best alternative option would be to get a really awesome high-end grill. I’ve been looking at Lynx Grills online and daydreaming about what it would like to get one.

The Lynx Grill is a highly sophisticated, stylish grill. It’s got a great modern design which is one reason that I love it. However, I also like Lynx Grills because they are so amazingly functional. They take your normal barbecue experience and ramp it up a few notches to allow you to do high-quality grilling at home. Durability, safety and easy clean-up are some of the words used to describe these grills.

If I did get a grill like this then I would need to store it in my kitchen when it wasn’t in use. That’s because my apartment complex has a shared yard area and I wouldn’t want to leave it out for others to use. I’d need to get a grill that was portable and one that matched the mostly-vintage look of my kitchen. I’ve seen a few that I like which meet this criteria.

People who know me will know that I tend to live within a fairly strict budget. So how is it that I could justify the expense of something like a Lynx Grill? It’s because I know that being frugal means getting the bets buy for your money. Since I’m not going to replace my kitchen stove, it’d be worth it to invest in a really amazing grill!

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I’m not someone who pays a lot of attention to fancy gadgets. Since I barely even cook at all, I certainly don’t pay much attention to fancy gadgets for my kitchen. Nevertheless, if I do come across them then they often interest me. There are some really cool designs and functions for things that I probably don’t need but can be impressed by anyway.

For example, I recently wrote an article about how to buy a cooker hood for your kitchen stove. When researching the article, I discovered that there are all kinds of really cool cooker hoods that I didn’t know existed.

A great example of some of the coolest ones can be seen by checking out the website for Elica Cooker Hoods. They have cooker hoods designed to look like lamps or chandeliers (as seen above). They also have cooker hoods with a more standard design but that have been modernized in some way. Really cool designs for a product that most people think of as being all about function.

Tags: appliances, cooker hoods, design, elica, hubpages, kathryn vercillo, kitchen, stove