A beach-inspired Crown Point kitchen is currently being featured in Connecticut Cottages and Gardens Magazine!  With a color palette borrowed from the nearby sand and surf, this kitchen brings the laid back, beachy feel indoors.  Kinda makes us wish we were on a beach right now!

Cabinetry in this Darien, Connecticut kitchen was handcrafted from Flat Sawn French Oak and finished in Oceanside, a wash that was custom created for this kitchen.

Crown Point Cabinetry is teaming up with the folks over at Daily5Remodel for their July contest: Old Home Renovations!

If you’ve completed a renovation in a home built before 1960, we want to know about it.  Whether it’s a kitchen, master bath or even just a really beautiful detail, submit your entry today, and you could win an iPad2!

One of the Crown Point Cabinetry Scholarship recipients, Alex Goss, receives his diploma

Each year, the Crown Point Cabinetry Charity Committee awards a scholarship to a local graduating high school senior.  This year, our Charity Committee chose to award two scholarships in the amount of $1,000 each.  Recipients of the 2011 Crown Point Cabinetry Scholarship are Jacob Van Velsor and Alex Goss!

The scholarship is an employee funded award, given to a graduating student continuing his/her education in general construction in the areas of woodworking, electrical, plumbing, heating, engineering, architecture or computer assisted drafting.  Recipients also had to meet criteria including a grade point average of 2.5 or higher, demonstration of financial need plus submitting two letters of recommendation and a personal interview with Crown Point Charity Committee members.

Let’s meet our 2011 recipients!

Jacob Van Velsor lives in Charlestown, New Hampshire and recently graduated from Fall Mountain Regional High School.  Jacob has been actively involved with 4-H for many years, and has also participated in track & field, band and football all while working part time and tending to his parents’ farm.  Through 4-H, he has given back to his community by building and donating a playground, participating in clean up day, making quilts for children’s hospitals and much more.  He is looking forward to attending the Lakes Region Community College in Laconia, NH where he plans to get an Associates Degree in Applied Science in Electrical Systems Installations and Maintenance.

Alex Goss lives in Goshen, New Hampshire and graduated with the class of 2011 from Newport High School.   Since he was little, Alex has been interested in the field of engineering and its application to space travel.  He has taken pre-engineering courses at the high school level and was selected to participate in the St. Paul’s Advanced Studies Program during the summer of 2010.  His first choice school is Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York where he plans to study Aero Nautical Engineering.

Congratulations Jacob and Alex!  We wish you both the best of luck!

The grillers for today's barbecue are (from left) Ted Nemetz, Tammy Aldrich, Todd Scranton and Jeff Schneider

Although the construction industry was off as a whole, Crown Point is ending our fiscal year on a high note at a twenty percent gain over last year! A celebration was in order, and we all love a barbecue!  Rain couldn’t dampen our spirits as we ignored the downpour and enjoyed grilled chicken, burgers, salads and desserts underneath the covered receiving area.  The sun may have been absent, but smiles abound!

Peter Ippedico, Matt Faro and Mark Wirta pause for a photo

Crown Pointers make their way down the line

Crown Point President, Brian Stowell, offers up an umbrella for the walk back to the building

Check out more photos of today’s barbecue on our Facebook page!

This Crown Point kitchen is featured in the current issue of Lake Living!

The Summer 2011 issue of Southern Maine’s Lake Living Magazine features a colorful Crown Point kitchen!   The homeowners of this Waterford, Maine farmhouse chose Soldier Blue Milk Paint over Cherry Stain for their cabinetry, adding an unexpected burst of contrasting color to the timberframe style home.

Read the article at lakelivingmaine.com!

For more photos of this Crown Point kitchen, check out our Gallery, album number 50.

A stunning hutch from Crown Point’s recently introduced Prairie line is featured in the Summer issue of Arts & Crafts Homes Magazine!  Handcrafted from Sapele, this beautiful hutch was custom designed to showcase Crown Point’s recently patented Squared Channel face frames and the new Ellsworth door (design patent pending.)

Want to see more?  Cabinetry from the Prairie line was also featured recently on www.homeportfolio.com!

We are excited to join forces with OldHouseOnline.com to bring you a free webinar: Approaches to Classic Kitchen Design! Join us Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 8pm ET.  Sign Up Now!

Patricia Poore, editor-in-chief of Old House Journal and Arts & Crafts Homes, will lead the 45-minute webinar.

From the comfort of your own home, (PJs anyone?) you will learn about the different approaches to period kitchen design, the hallmarks of specific periods, which elements to avoid and much more!

As an added bonus, one of our Crown Point Designers will be on hand after the webinar to answer any of your period style design questions in an open Q&A!

Sign Up Now!

The Crown Point Ramblers pose for a picture as they prepare for the 5K Walk

The 2011 Turning Points Network Steppin’ Up to End Violence 5K Walk was held on April 16th in Claremont.  TPN is a private, non-profit agency offering crisis and support services to female and male survivors of domestic violence, sexual violence and stalking.

Crown Point was a major sponsor of this year’s walk and the Crown Point Ramblers joined the other 475 walkers to help TPN reach their goal of $40,000 raised!  These funds will go to violence and stalking survivors, as well as the agency’s prevention education programs for local schools.

Photos from this year’s walk are now on the TPN website!

We are looking forward to Steppin’ Up again next year!

We are excited to announce the unveiling of our new and improved online Gallery of Images!  With larger thumbnails, more advanced navigation options and a clean, fresh look, the new gallery is certainly bookmark worthy!

The gallery is organized in reverse, showing the most recent photographs first, so you’ll always know what’s new at Crown Point!   (We just posted photos from our most recent photo shoot-a beautiful small kitchen, with cabinetry finished in Farrow & Ball’s Wimborne White.)

Read on for some tips for easy navigation of the new gallery:

1)  Once you click into a particular gallery, there are five(!) choices for browsing all images:

• Click the triangle to play them all as a slideshow.
• Tap the Space bar on your keyboard to play all as a slideshow
• Click the left/right arrows at the top of the screen to advance or go back one image
• Click each individual thumbnail
• Use the Arrow keys on the keyboard: Left/Right or Up/Down, either will work to browse each image in sequence

2)  If viewing a gallery on a smaller screen, the image can be made full size by either:

• Clicking the zoom icon
• Tapping the “F” key on your keyboard

3)  To close out of a gallery, you can either:

• Tap the Close icon
• Hit the “ESC” key on your keyboard

For all you mobile techies out there, the new gallery is non-Flash based and works on the iPhone, iPad, and the iPod Touch!

Making its debut on the new Gallery of Images is a brand new drop down menu.  The new menu stays accessible-even when scrolling-yet it remains discreetly out of the way.  You’ll be seeing this menu throughout the site as we continue our “remodel!”

The blue “Open Menu” button is shown here, still visible, though we have scrolled down the page.

We click on it, and our full site menu is accessible! Choose your link, or simply click the blue button that now says, “Close Menu”.

Now that you know how to navigate around the new gallery, it’s time to give it a whirl and see it for yourself!

Our trade show season is coming to a close; last stop, Boston! The Residential Design and Construction Show is a two-day convention and tradeshow for builders, architects and other professionals in the design and construction industry.

Crown Point will be exhibiting at this year’s event, April 28-29, 2011 at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston.  Our designers will be at booth number 570, ready to answer any questions.  This year’s display includes a new Victorian Style Hutch crafted from Quartersawn White Oak, and much more!

We would love to see you there!

Give us a call or go to www.rdcboston.com for more information.