Saphellae
Head Chef
Well, it's almost 5pm, time to get to work in my dinky kitchen lol!
Well, it's almost 5pm, time to get to work in my dinky kitchen lol!
DH took some pix for me. They turned out pretty blurred so I'm disappointed but you can sorta tell what it looks like.
What you'll see if I can upload these that is.......
1. my ''kitchen store'' aka pantry, yep, full and bulging at the seams
2. the door that closes the pantry which is also full
3. some pots I got at yard sales or used stores on my 6 burner KitchenAide
4. a small percentage of my collection of cookbooks and on top the very old balsamic vinegar and the various truffle oils, plus old kitchen gadgets
5. my island with marble insert for breads/pastry dough/cookies/etc
6. and just for kicks, I know you all want to see some of my newest prized possessions............aka.................butter dishes! I have two more from today and two more coming from eBAY
oh thanks, we had it made in sunny southern Californiai love the blue sofa. where did u get it?
babe
for the 3 years of my residency, i was renting a little rowhome in baltimore. the kitchen was a whole lot like the one you've posted, Saphellae: microscopic, craptacular paint job, NO storage for anything. only difference was if you'll imagine yours stretched out into a straight line in a little skinny room instead of a box. NO counter space, literally: apparently, in the 50s, they figured that all you needed was a half-meter drain board molded as one piece of metal with the single sink. i had to buy a ginormous counter-depth cutting board from ikea to serve as a counter, and sat it on one side of said drain board (other side being used for it's intended function, to hold the dish drying rack, as there was certainly no dishwasher in that tiny cave). i had to flip the cutting board every time i scrubbed it down completely because it would warp due to the underlying tilt of the drain board. the microwave and toaster oven were balanced on a very tiny, very narrow cheap pine shelving unit on the non-applianced wall...you could easily touch everything by standing in the center.
but i've since moved down to the burbs of d.c. for my real job, and the kitchen was one of the things i loved best about this house:
it's not my super dream kitchen, but it suits me just fine...it is after all, just me living here. i love my big sunny back porch door, my warm sandy-colored tile, my shiny new gas stove, and that lovely mahogany color to the cabinets. and of course, plenty of space for the 44-bottle wine rack! i like the big, open feel to it, which means when i'm having a dinner party, everyone piles up in the kitchen to chat while i cook. someday, there will be a bigger space, with a lovely butcher block island (i'm jealous for sure of some of the amazing pics upstream in this thread!), but it works great for now.
Bloo is always underfoot. LOL
Oh, I love looking at everyone's kitchens! The kitchen is always my favorite room in any house. I have posted a pic of my kitchen on another thread, but here it is. To appreciate how far we have come, I've also posted a picture taken the day we moved in, almost two years ago,
I love the brightness in my little kitchen - it is not fancy, but it suits my needs perfectly.