BS: Kitchen question for the ladies

Subject: RE: BS: Kitchen question for the ladies
From: Celtaddict
Date: 27 Mar 08 - 03:11 PM

A walk-in pantry for food storage, with a really big freezer in it.
A second, butler's pantry, for linens, serving dishes, 'special' china I don't use every day.
Glass front cabinets for things pretty enough to show.
A book case for cookbooks (also glass front) and a desk/work station with computer.

Subject: RE: BS: Kitchen question for the ladies
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 27 Mar 08 - 03:20 PM

a BOOK STAND FOR MY COOK BOOKS SO THAT I DON'T GET IT COVERED IN STICKY GOOOO!

SAL

Sorry to shout, mistake,honest!

Subject: RE: BS: Kitchen question for the ladies
From: Thompson
Date: 27 Mar 08 - 04:20 PM

Ooh, I want an appliance tower.

I have a great book stand - got it in Waterstones or Hodges Figgis, forget which - but it takes *big* books. Very, very handy.

I also want some firemen to stand around and flirt, and eat what I cook.

Moving out of the kitchen, I already have a shoe cupboard in the hall, which is very handy, but I now want one of those drawers for gloves and caps and scarves.

Subject: RE: BS: Kitchen question for the ladies
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 27 Mar 08 - 05:07 PM

I have been looking at books and articles on kitchens for quite a while. Rarely do I see a kitchen I would want to have.

The emphasis is mostly on looks. We get the kitchen with expensive wood cabinets that look vulnerable and hard to clean. Or there's the sterile-looking stainless steel job that looks like an operating room.

I can't believe the people who want the kitchen to be completely open to view. They must not cook. As for me, when I want to sit down with my guests, I don't want anybody looking at the used pots and pans in the kitchen.

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A few months ago, my newspaper had an article about a kitchen which appeared in a movie. (Wish I could remember the name of the movie!) Evidentaly the movie was nothing special, but the kitchen struck a chord in the hearts of Americans. It had white wooden cupboards with black handles - and glass in the doors. The cupboards connected to the counters with curved, wooden uprights. There was a central island, and the island stood on legs with ball-shaped feet at the bottom. It had a clean, cozy, yet practical look.

Designers were amazed when people started showing up with pictures of that kitchen and copies of that movie. They wanted a kitchen like that! But apparently the set designers who assembled it for the movie thought nothing of it. They didn't know they had touched a chord somewhere.

My kitchen, whose upper cupboards are little changed from 1915, has many of the same features.

Subject: RE: BS: Kitchen question for the ladies
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 27 Mar 08 - 05:16 PM

Here's an article about the kitchen in the movie.
(cut and paste)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/homegarden/2003655346_designkitchen07.html

Is it just the photography, or are the kitchens in the article half the size of a railway station?

Subject: RE: BS: Kitchen question for the ladies
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 02:47 PM

that was really interesting, thanks for that.

Sal

Subject: RE: BS: Kitchen question for the ladies
From: Thompson
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 05:42 PM

I only saw one photo in the movie kitchen piece but I've noticed that many movies have droolable kitchens - think of the one in Home Alone.

Subject: RE: BS: Kitchen question for the ladies
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 03 Apr 08 - 09:50 AM

Ok let's throw in the house boy!

Sal

Subject: RE: BS: Kitchen question for the ladies
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 04 Apr 08 - 07:58 AM

I'm payng sepcial attention to this thread because I know that when we eventually move house I'll have to design and build a new kitchen.
And I'm having a system that slides out in all the low down cupboards so that I can see what's in them! (see the dishwasher thread)

Subject: RE: BS: Kitchen question for the ladies
From: gnu
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 02:18 PM

Some GREAT ideas here.

Subject: RE: BS: Kitchen question for the ladies
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 08:23 PM

Wow, now that's really interesting. I want one of those.

Sal

Subject: RE: BS: Kitchen question for the ladies
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 13 Apr 08 - 04:47 AM

Any more thoughts before you cook the Sunday roast?

Sal

Subject: RE: BS: Kitchen question for the ladies
From: gnu
Date: 13 Apr 08 - 07:29 AM

Go to grocery for roast. Thanks for the reminder.

Subject: RE: BS: Kitchen question for the ladies
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 13 Apr 08 - 12:07 PM

What a great thread!
I know of a family of four in Africa who have one ageing gas ring and one saucepan with which to prepare the family repast. They have wooden bowls which have been hewn by the husband and they use their fingers to eat the not so ample food available...this family are the lucky or blessed ones...some have no heating for food bar an open fire which is outside the mud hut and have to make do with whatever food they can scavenge. The family of four are comparitively well off as the husband has a job...earning a pittance but enough to feed the family adequately.
Wonder how they would cope with a modern kitchen as we know it?
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: Kitchen question for the ladies
From: M.Ted
Date: 14 Apr 08 - 01:04 AM

I've mentioned this before, I think, but when people actually have the money, and finally build that dream kitchen, they seldom use it, because the kids are grown and out, and they've gotten tired of cooking--

Subject: RE: BS: Kitchen question for the ladies
From: Rockhen
Date: 14 Apr 08 - 08:39 AM

A large ocean-viewed room with a steamproof piano(?!) divided by a clear screen, (with soundproofing so none of the narrsty dentist-like sounding kitchen appliances can be heard.)With a view of the resident chef, who just happens to look extremely like a young Mel Gibson, who prepares wonderful healthy meals, which strangely include items which in the real world are BAD for you,at the drop of a hat...and clears up afterwards...with an extra large fridge for desserts and chocolate...ok, someone already put this, right? I knew I should have taken time to read the whole thread, properly! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Kitchen question for the ladies
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 14 Apr 08 - 11:44 AM

Dream on Helen........you're more likely to get some old geezer like me doing your cokoing than a Mel Gibson lookalike! On the other hand...you do look pretty good.....perhaps.....perhaps.......perhaps..














I better dream on!!! LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Kitchen question for the ladies
From: Rockhen
Date: 14 Apr 08 - 02:48 PM

Lol! What's cokoing, Mike?!

Subject: RE: BS: Kitchen question for the ladies
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 14 Apr 08 - 03:57 PM

Whatever it is is in my gos aven.