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by hotnfresh 3y ago
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The “before” picture with the oak cabinets somewhat down the page comes the closest to what most of these look like, in the wild.
Often their placement is even worse than that, though.
They almost always end up a chaotic dump-area for miscellaneous crap, in my experience, and usually end up even worse-off if the owner attempts, initially, to use them as an actual desk, because then they’ll have the clutter of a desk chair and maybe even a monitor and keyboard among the pile of other junk.
They are basically never better than having more ordinary counter space or a cabinet pantry in the same spot. Usually they occur in houses that are plenty large enough to have other desks in several places, not little space-constrained apartments.
They come from a fundamental misunderstanding of why kitchen tables end up used the way they do. I’ve never seen them successfully replace the kitchen table as the shared family desk and hub-of-organizational-activity, because they’re much worse for that than the table is.
- solardev 3y agoWhat was the reasoning behind this...? Why would anyone ever want to work on a tiny desk by the fridge? Lol I feel like I'm getting a history lesson from aliens. It's so bizarre!
- hotnfresh 3y agoStudies revealed that the kitchen table is the hot-spot of family life at home (at least in the US) and that most of the time it’s used as a desk and/or document dumping area, not for eating. Some designers and architects reacted to this by deciding this meant people wanted a shitty desk in the kitchen, so started adding them, presumably thinking they’d done something very smart and helpful. … actually this could probably be used as the basis for some kind of presentation or article about how data-driven design or decision-making can go very wrong, now that I think about it.
- solardev 3y agoWhoa. That's fascinating. I never knew this was a thing. Thanks for the details! > could probably be used as the basis for some kind of presentation or article about how data-driven design or decision-making can go very wrong Lol, exactly!