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Big kitchens with islands and casual dining space add so much value to a home today. People absolutely love making the kitchen a centerpiece room. It can be use
by nemo44x 5y ago
Big kitchens with islands and casual dining space add so much value to a home today. People absolutely love making the kitchen a centerpiece room. It can be used for so many things.
I think in older homes the thought at the time was that the kitchen was a utility room meant for cooking, food storage and dishes. And that the living room was the center of it all.
- ghaff 5y ago>I think in older homes the thought at the time was that the kitchen was a utility room meant for cooking, food storage and dishes. And in some cases, it was where the servants dealt with such things out of site of any guests. The house I grew up in had such an arrangement. And although we didn't have a cook, etc., in the sixties, my parents did a lot of large dinner party entertainment. While my mother did the cooking, it would still have been pretty much unthinkable for guests to be hanging out in the kitchen much less helping to clean up etc.
- OJFord 5y agoMy ideal/dream/lottery home would be laid out as though I had a decent sized staff, utilitarian rooms out of sight, clear division between things. I won't turn down the staff if you're offering, but note that's not what I'm saying - I'd just like each room to be efficient/appropriate for how I'm spending my time when I'm there. A functional kitchen that's easy to clean but can be left in a mess while I send the food up in the dumbwaiter, and myself through the baize, to a more 'form over function' dining room. (Functional as a dining room of course.. I just mean that's decorated for comfort etc. rather than being a work area.)