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Good lord... a show kitchen? Not to doubt you, but I have never heard of this. Clearly I don’t travel in rarefied circles. But, it’s hard for me to imagine bei
by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Good lord... a show kitchen? Not to doubt you, but I have never heard of this. Clearly I don’t travel in rarefied circles. But, it’s hard for me to imagine being held hostage to the psychological drive to own such a thing.
- ryandrake 7y agoYou’ve seen show living rooms, right? Where the furniture is new and pristine, nobody’s allowed to sit there and kids aren’t allowed to play there? Even some middle class people do this thing. Probably a similar concept, especially in bigger houses. Beyond some size, I suppose you have more space than you can effectively use, so rooms start emphasizing display rather than function. Nice problem to have I guess!
- jacobush 7y agoIt's a horrible problem to have signifying spiritual death.
- lqet 7y agoThe living room in my grandparent's house was basically for show and never used, and they were by no means affluent. It was (and still is) a collection of antique and early-sixties furniture, often inherited, thick carpets and baroque wallpaper. They gradually stopped using the room and converted the dining room into a second living room after their children were out of the house, and by the time I was a child, the room was basically a museum where children were not allowed. My grandpa is 90 and lives in the house alone now, he still never uses the room. There even is an alibi television set in there that was last used in the 70ies.
- jacobush 7y agoMy grandparents had a room exactly like that!
- Animats 7y ago"The new home trend - two kitchens"[1] [1] https://www.housebeautiful.com/uk/decorate/kitchen/news/a134/the-new-home-trend-two-kitchens/ https://www.housebeautiful.com/uk/decorate/kitchen/news/a134...