My kitchen

Would ya'll rather hear about my kitchen at home or work? I'll take votes here or by e-mail. WER

Tossup. Both.

Well, let's see. My kitchen at home is kind of piece meal, being converted from the former kitchen and part of the garage. We do have twenty linear feet of shelves for cookbooks which, unfortunately, is not enough. The color scheme is white and gray. More soon.

My kitchen is more a kitchenettw, with heaps of add-ins as I learn a new cuisine... the electronic wok, a coffee maker, grill... I lack a dishwasher but that's where the boyfriend earns the food he eats!!!

Very small kitchen just fits the five of us. I pull the table in and out to seat the children. Only have room for a 18inch dishwasher,{would not be without it} very little counterspace of which my very large micro,toasteroven, food processor, stove in between takes up. One good thing I don't have to spend hours mopping the floor. It was very nice to hear from you Stephanie.

The kitchen in the new abode is pretty durn tiny. Copper tile on the walls and copper knobs. Hmmm... goes real well with all my stainless steel.

Tell us more about your new abode and your kitchen, how is it laid out?

1930s Art Deco, hacienda style home with arched walkways, hardwood floors and HUGE windows. Actually the kitchen is pretty much the low point -- functional but not luxurious. We do have a kitchen in the basement as well -- formerly used for canning! Odd setup but lots of character!

That's cool, a kitchen in the basement. That's cool that you have a basement at all, almost unheard of around Austin. Are there a lot of basements in your new neck of the woods?

yup. The majority of the homes have basements. And DYK, basements Do NOT count in the square footage of a home! So our minimal sounding 1600 sf is really twoce the size when you count the basement room!

Wow, that's great. What else do you use that basement for?

Can't tell you that... Just teasing! Brandon paints down there, laundry room, ironing room, storage...

Best place I could think to post this... outside my kitchen window... I see snow! Yep, big, fat, fluffy wet flakes of sheer delight! Snow on my pumpkins that will hopefully turn into jack o lanterns tonight. Then I'll have plenty of pumpkin guts to start cooking with!! Gotta love roasted pumpkin seeds, pumpkin bread, pumpkin spice cake, baked pumpkin with butter and brown sugar...

Damn you, girl, damn you! WER

That does sound overly idyllic.

Shit... was I wrong. We got twenty-three inches of snow in under 36 hours. The blizzard of 1997 according to the powers that be. Completely snowed in on Saturday, so we split a case of beer with the neighbor and then went sledding! My kitchen is the warmest place in the house... after I roasted the pumpkin seeds (and we ate them all) I made cookies, I made pasta and I made a mess. The oven really warmed up the house though.

Wow, I've seen the pictures of cars strewn about the Denver highways. You got hit big time.

yup. careful what you wish for...

..........Can I get an Amen? WER

AMEN.

Amen.

My kitchen is the size of a submarine galley, no kidding. I can open the fridge, oven, and dishwasher without taking a step. And by the way, basement kitchens are not real uncommon here in the East--they're usually for keeping kosher.

I too can open the refrigerator, stove and dishwasher from the same position, trouble is, the dishwasher doesn't have room to open if the refrigerator is open.

Wow, I though I had a small kitchen.

We must have the same floor plan! My dishwasher & fridge can't be opened simultaneously either, and my fridge is even a side-by-side.

You do have a small kitchen, Autumn!!! OK, mine is in the works of refacing and really looks like crap. Bob Vila would have a field day embarrassing me on tv. It's a galley, just twist around and you're either at the stove or sink. No counterspace. Can't open the fridge and dishwasher. Can't open the fridge and expect to get out of the kitchen either! The side with the stove has a new countertop (plus the new stove), new wallpaper, but old cabinets. Other side has painted cabinets (which have to be redone) and the old one piece glue down up the wall wood veneer counter- top/backsplash. No wallpaper there. Oh, and my new kitchen sink has been sitting in my bedroom for 3 years!! No basements here in Louisiana. You'd have to fight the alligators for the bogs!!

Yum! Louisiana and kitchens... make me thing of good food!

What kind of thing you want?

*giigle* oops!

Why don't I believe that oops!?

*smirk*

If'n you could only change one thing about your kitchen, what would it be?

Add a solarium dining room and convert the present dining room to dry goods storage and second fridge.

Want to entertain the masses, huh?

everything. (hey! only named one thing!!) Wer, I think you'd like this--my new kitchen sink is still a sculpture in my bedroom. Oh, I would like to actually have a dining room!

just expand on that dining in the bedroom motif...

not gonna go there, wer *grin*

but you want to, I can tell... does anybody make a combination slip/apron/bib?

just eat naked, don't hafta worry about it then *hehheh*

*blush* (told you you wanted to go there...)

that would be an interesting article of clothing to be had, for sure :)

probably, so would be whoever was wearing it...

suppose it would be easy to whip one up, can't guarantee you'd be on the runways for the spring/summer season, but who knows! look at the junk they parade there now!!

how true...

Swiss kitchens stink! They're all the size of a loo, but with fewer luxuries . . .

how true...

How do you know?!?!

Bern is my hometown. I learned how to build loos and kitchens there. I miss it so. Maybe tomorrow I'll go back there and bring along a longhorn steer. I'm quite the vagabond, y'know, but would that be a bum steer?

You've lost me. You're not really from Bern, are you?! Because I couldn't bear the thought of having ranted on about the Swiss while sitting on his lap on a bouncing couch! Oh God, I'm so sorry, Jim!

I shouldn't have said that. Because there was a second hometown I had. Tsumeb. I'll give ya the big lowdown on it, if you have time. See, okay, this is different, but I'm just so used to it cuz it happened to me. My parents were arms smugglers. They sold prostheses on the black market for an artificial limb company. And well, not that I wanted this or had any say in the matter, but mom & dad would go back and forth between Bern and Tsumeb just all the time. From the age of like 0 to 13, I probably didn't stay in either city for more than 3 weeks at a time, going back & forth, back & forth, back & forth, back & forth, back & forth, back & forth, you get the idea. It happened a lot. I really want, Riette, for you to see Namibia some day. You'd fall in love with it, especially out in the country. My parents would let me roam by myself for days in Etosha National Park. That sure beat Bern all to hell. I wish we could talk sometime.

Oh, you are infuriating!! I was actually worried all evening that I might have offended you - I mean, with your name being Gross and everything! I won't go see Namibia with you now, even if you payed me in sexual favours! And anyway, I'm not sure I'd like Namibia at all. It sounds like the arse of the world . . . is it a town somewhere in Texas? What does it look like there? Come, lure me your way . . .

aww, Riette, don't you know Texas is just a state of mind?

yeeeeee haaaaaw!

The more I see of Jim the more sense that statement makes.

I am actually in the process of building a new kitchen in the cottage in Cedar Creek, now that Mahalene's onboard and wants to live there someday, I'm sure she'll have some suggestions.

I'd like to know more about a "work" kitchen mentioned in Response 1 Please.