Kitchen Cousins Anthony Carrino and John Colaneri are back, and this time, instead of high-profile celebrities and clients, they’re lending their substantial kitchen-building chops to regular, average Joes across the United States.
We had the opportunity to sit down and have a brief interview with the two charismatic cousins, who are on a whirlwind nine-day tour to meet up and engage with their Southeast Asian fans in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, and Manila, about their latest show on cable television, America’s Most Desperate Kitchens.
According to the two, America’s Most Desperate Kitchens takes a step away from Kitchen Cousins, a show that covered the exploits of the cousins’ Brunelleschi Construction company, to being a show “about helping homeowners, rather than rich and influential clients.” In each episode, the cousins select one kitchen to transform, out of a pool of hilarious video submissions from desperate homeowners across the United States.
In addition to this, America’s Most Desperate Kitchens distinguishes itself from the standard, run-of-the-mill kitchen-conversion show by having an overall “happy, positive vibe,” with the reasoning being that “there is too much negativity on TV nowadays,” according to Colaneri.
Pressed for advice on Filipino kitchens, however, the cousins responded by saying that “if space is at a premium, you have to prioritize what you use the kitchen for … form follows function,” Carrino said. As for beating the combined summer and kitchen heat, the cousins advised kitchen owners to prioritize ventilation, so as to avoid the heat being confined in a small, cramped space.
America’s Most Desperate Kitchens, which premiered on April 26, airs every Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. on HGTV, on SkyCable Ch 88 (SD)/Ch 246 (HD), Destiny Cable Ch 88, Cignal Ch 101.