My kitchen is bright with its two corner windows. Love the light in it. And it is fairly big – at least compared to my previous kitchen (some very small pictures here – will update those pages one of these days, it is on the agenda). I love my table and my chairs. And my ceiling-lamp. I’ve added the windowsill to the left, there wasn’t any originally. And the floor is very nice.
But.
The kitchen is not that well organized. Our flats at the ground-floor of this building were built in 2003 where there used to be a daycare centre. They used the existing areas and puzzled in four flats. Three inside the house, one outside. Mine is one of the inside flats. (See plan of flat here).
There are a couple of things I lack in my kitchen:
- a pantry. Presently solved by a low BILLY cupboard (above right). No, I don’t have space in any of the existing cupboards for the dry stuff, unless I throw out a lot of things. (I had a pantry in my previous kitchen).
- a bigger fridge and freezer. I’d love to have them fullsize. Question is where it would be possible to put them. Haven’t solved that yet.
The corner between the low BILLY and the cupboards is also somewhat problematic. I cannot put BILLY closer than it is as I would then not be able to open the door to the cupboard furthest away.
One solution might be to remove BILLY, put in drawers instead of shelves in the bottom cup-board closest to the wall, move what’s in that cup-board into another cup-board (make space first by getting rid of anything I never use). Could work… The bottom cup-board next to it is ready to swallow a tiny dish-washer. Has all the electricity fixtures and such. But I don’t really need a dish-washer.
There is very little space to work on. Very little. I use the space on top of the stove and to the left of the sink. And sometimes the kitchen table. And to a certain extent the small cutting-board that is under the worktop with the coffe-brewer.
There is one tiny worktop to the left of the stove, and another equally small, to the right of the stove. And one in the corner by the BILLY-cupboard, where the microwave lives (and takes up all the space). Then there is another one to the right above. Occupied by all kinds of things that are frequently used.
The worktops are fake oak. I’d love to have white ones. (Just outside the kitchen is my tiny office-space).
Above is the tiny fridge/freezer. And that size is not enough for me. Even a one-person household, needs more space than that. At least if you want to cook and freeze – I don’t cook one-person meals, that’s not efficient – and want to take advantage of the better prices for larger quantities. I’d at least want a bigger freezer. To be able to squeeze in a full heights freezer and fridge here, I would have to remove the cupboards to the left. That’s a lot of work.
Have seen solutions with built-in freezer or fridge in drawers. That maybe might be a solution for the bottom cup-board here if I keep the present fridge/freezer and add a freezer with drawers. Which would mean yet one less cupboard…
The number of cupboards is OK. I could probably get rid of some of the stuff I keep in them too… to get more space.
I changed the door handles in August 2010. The old ones were those brownish pinewood ones below. Couldn’t stand those. The new ones are in brushed metal. Made quite a difference. But I would love to also exchange the doors to shiny white ones that Ikea has. Cannot afford it presently though. It’s a lot of doors. At least they are standard sizes, which was not the case in my previous kitchen.
Conclusion: new fridge and freezer full size (or new freezer in drawers), new worktops, new cup-board doors (same handles)… Well. One can always dream, right? A new, modern, flattop stove would also be nice to have…
Suggestions? Opinions? Note: I don’t have the money for a total rebuild.
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