The other day we decided to re-do our layout of the kitchen. It’s in “planning” stage still, but now we have it knocked out as to best functionality of it with space considerations taken.
We decided to move the refridgerator so that it’s the first thing on the left when entering the kitchen via the left enterance, the one near the steps to upstairs. Actually not the FIRST thing, but a small broom closet will be there first, THEN the refridgerator, in actuality. We moved it there and put the 70″ length of cabinet that we have right next to it for now, with a 15″ space on the left of the refrigerator for the “broom closet”.
One of these days we’ll have new cabinets to install into the kitchen and all the old stuff will be divided between going into the laundry room and garage and junked.
We’ve planned a Double-L-kitchen for awhile, but now have decided to do an L-kitchen with a square or rectangle island floating next to it.
We’ll get a slide-in stove and that will be on the island, facing out into the living space, the sink behind it to a degree down, looking out the window into the backyard on the long L portion of cabinets, and the fridge will be on the short L portion of cabinets. We’ll do the “L” firstly, and get the island built afterwards (it’s the most expensive part of the proposition, with the functionality of the kitchen being alright without it, but being exceptional once the island is put in.)
The biggest deal about the whole thing is countertops. We don’t know what we’ll be doing. I know what I would do if we could, but doubt we can do solid surfacing. I’m almost thinking of doing tile on the long L where the sink will be, and an oak counter from IKEA on the short L. But then as for the island, I don’t know … but it’s all up in the air in the first place … nothing nailed down about it until we are at the point to be able to get things going to make a countertop decision.
In any case, just moving the fridge as we did the other day has made the kitchen feel the best yet. The refridgerator has never lived there before, and it makes more room for how the middle of the kitchen feels, and keeps a nice triangle work area going (once the sink is installed in it’s final place.)
It’s also great to have a dishwasher that works. It’s easy to use, just have to hook it up to run it, it’s an easy click on hose deal to the faucet, and plugin to electricity. It works well, isn’t noisy like our old one was, and well, it’s just something nice to have to convince DH to stop using paper plates (as he was in the habit of doing since we both hated hand washing dishes, and couldn’t keep up with the masses of dishes …)
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