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Rob Ingold not only loves to entertain at his home just off of 16th Street
atop the mesa, but he loves to cook
for his guests in his spacious kitchen full of spices.
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overlooking the Yuma valley might make you think that you are about to enter a house filled with trophies from Africa. Wrong!
L “I had been to Africa years ago, and the animals
intrigued me,” says Rob Ingold, the owner of the home with its hippos, which he acquired from a downtown Yuma gallery. “I thought it was kind of fun, and I bought them.” On the east side of the house is a life-sized javelina made from an old oil drum.
The javelina is more in keeping with the home’s interior
décor, and is better described as rustic Southwestern, not African. Ingold, who admittedly enjoys entertaining at his dwelling just off 16th Street atop the mesa, completely remodeled it to suit his taste.
His construction skills are evident, too. He built houses
for about 25 years before moving to Yuma, where he purchased the home with its back yard pool and patio in 1985. Upon entering his home, you will see that his taste in some of its vibrant interior walls and cabinet colors
correspond to the home’s
exterior colors — a deep bluish red and slate blue, for instance.
Nor is his taste limited to colors. 18
ooking at
the rusted, steel
plates of a sculpted hippopotamus mom and baby near
the entrance to a home
“I don’t use salt the way most people use salt; I use
pepper. I like things hot. I make chili,” he adds. “No beans in it. My daughters say, ‘Dad, that’s really good, but I just can’t eat it’.”
Within handy reach, additional flavor enhancers
suggest the kitchen of a gourmet, too. Ingold built a spice rack in the matching cabinet color — slate blue — onto the outside end of one of the cabinets in what he said was originally a “dead space, and I decided to use it.”
Various styles of wooden, ceramic or marble bowls,
containing pestles or salt, grace the area near the kitchen sink, also lending themselves to a gourmet atmosphere. Some are of olive wood; one is from Italy. Some are antiques, some new. One is white porcelain.
“I used to be a Coors distributor,” Ingold said, holding up
the white porcelain bowl with its matching pestle. “They made porcelain during the Prohibition, and this one is from Coors.”
In the center of Ingold's kitchen is an exceptionally heavy antique wooden butcher block, resting on its custom stand, with a towel rack on the side. It originated from France, although Ingold found it in Idaho.
It extends to his cooking as well, something he loves to do for his guests. To the right of the home’s entry, the pots and pans suspended from his kitchen ceiling are not just for show. For that matter, neither is the gallon jug of Tabasco sauce that rests on top of one of his cabinets.
“This is kind of fun,” Ingold says with a grin, as he holds
up the Tabasco jug. “My grandkid bought it. It has my name on the back: ‘Made for Rob Ingold.’
Kitchen clean-up are not too much
of a problem either, regardless of the number of guests that Ingold entertains. The counter tops and kitchen bar of molded concrete are coated with polymer, which provides a smooth, shiny, durable surface that would delight anyone who loves to cook and entertain.
In the center of Ingold’s kitchen
is an exceptionally heavy antique wooden butcher block, resting on its custom stand, with a towel rack on the side. It originated from France, although Ingold found it in Idaho.
“It had little feet on it,” he said. “I bought the top, and
I had a guy here in town make the bottom.” Metal legs support the structure, which also has a metal shelf about a foot off the floor. “It’s hard to stabilize,” says Ingold
SouthweSt Living - CeLebrationS 2011
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