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I am designing and redesigning ideas in my head for my new kitchen.  
It's basically just a few cabinets attached to one wall and the oven  
plugged in right next to the sink, right now. It wouldn't even take a  
sledge hammer to take it all apart, it's all so temporary-looking.

If you were going to design a kitchen, what things would you include?

My Dad always said he'd build in two dishwashers and no dish  
cupboards...he'd just rotate dishwashers. This is the same man who  
made a recyclables chute out of pvc pipe in the middle of his kitchen  
to the bin in the mud room in the basement underneath.  : )

One thing I really want is a big old pantry, which I think I can get  
out of this space. Also, I am short so I am thinking about making the  
work surfaces lower. I'm also thinking about no upper cabinet space at  
all, just windows all the way around wherever I can get them and a lot  
of under surface storage space. I want a roll away top, too, so I can  
leave the small appliances I use all the time out on the surface, but  
I can put them "away" without having to heft them all the time. My  
Kitchen Aid gets a lot of good use.

I am also going to ask Roy to wire the place for sound.

Whoo! I would like "warming rack" somewhere, a warm place to let bread  
rise, etc. I have marble countertops in this kitchen and they suck the  
life right out of any yeast I put to rise because they are so cold.  I  
end up letting things rise in the dryer, it's just a question of time  
till my 15 yo "bakes" a loaf of bread in the tumble dryer. I think I'd  
like one marble/granite work surface for non-yeast baking and the ease  
of handling hot stuff.


These are two small pics of the current kitchen space.

http://www.hopefieldfarm.com/freeimages/newhouse/housepics/housepics/126102_9.jpg
http://www.hopefieldfarm.com/freeimages/newhouse/housepics/housepics/126102_8.jpg

I have been amusing myself looking at used appliances/restaurant  
supply on the net. I've been looking at dual fuel ovens, very spendy!