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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
I love a good kitchen. The best things we did with ours was to put the kitchen opening into a big family room, so we can have 25 or 30 people virtually in the kitchen if we want to, and build the gas stove into an island, so I can face the room while cooking. If I could do one thing differently, I'd put a higher countertop in on the side with the sink - I have to bend over to do dishes and chop, because the counters are built to the right height for someone who is about 5' 5" or so.
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When my parents built their dream house, they made the kitchen the center focus of the house. There's a sitting area with a small settee, two large comfortable chairs and a coffee table off to the side of the massive island, and six stools opposite the cooking area on the island itself. There's a six burner range, and they refurbished an old refrigerator from the 40s or 50s that a neighbor gave them. The counterops are bright red tile and the cabinets are plain white with no ornamentation, and they have about five or six separate areas for food preparation, if you don't count people sitting at the island snapping peas or asparagus (and that's not counting at all the outside areas). They have two large sinks: one next to the dishwasher and one about two feet from the range on the island. I think probably four or five cooks can comfortably work without too much bumping into each other, though there is a little bit of a bottleneck by the refrigerator.
I think the only thing that they'd change is that they'd skip the electric griddle that's built in next to the range. I think they foresaw more pancakes than were ever made. In the 18 years that they've been there, I think I've seen them use the the griddle twice. They'd also probably put in more bookshelf space, but then that's a chronic problem for every household I've ever lived in.
I've seen as many as 40 people in that room at one time, though that's pretty crowded (and admittedly usually those people are in there to stand in a food line for a party). It can do 15 with no problem at all, and two or three almost feels empty.
