Subject: [Homestead] the homestead kitchen-what would you design?
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 08:50:25 -0400
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.