kitchen

May

2016

My third flat, Rondovägen 30

My third flat, Rondovägen 30. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2016

My third flat, was at Rondovägen 30, in Huddinge, just south of Stockholm. I lived there for about seven years.

It was a three-story, end of terrace house with a loft for storage at the top, three bedrooms and a large storage room at the bottom without windows. Small garden-area all around the house. It was the first time in my life that I lived directly on the ground with direct access to grass and nature. I loved it, but didn’t know all that much about plants then.

My third flat, Rondovägen 30, Sofa-chairs.

Janne and I moved in here on September 9th, 1986. Janne moved out and on to Eskilstuna some time in 1991 when we separated. I moved on from here on November 26th, 1992 as I couldn’t afford the rent any longer all by myself. I then moved on to Bäckgårdsvägen 31, also in Huddinge. (No pictures on that page yet, only the floor plan).

My third flat, Rondovägen 30, The stairs to upstairs. Photo:©nini.tjader.1992

For a plan of the house at Rondovägen 30, and all the pictures, go here.
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Feb

2016

My very first flat

In the kitchen. Very colorful. Photo. ©nini.tjader

I recently started a new department on my blog called Nini’s flats. I intend to publish pictures there from all flats I’ve lived in. The only one more or less finalized so far is my very first flat at Diagnosvägen 1D. Still lacking the flat-plan for that one though.

I moved into my very first flat in 1974 when I moved back to Sweden from Israel. It was a one bedroom flat of 67m2 on the 2nd floor at Diagnosvägen 1D, Flemingsberg, Huddinge.

Seeing picture of interiors from the 70-ties is quite shocking. The interiors are painfully colorful. I used a lot of red, yellow and green at the time. Even the coffee-brewer was yellow… Those were the colors of that time.

The sofa-corner. Witch cat-basket in it. Photo: ©nini.tjader

The sofa-corner in the livingroom consisted of two brown corduroy sofas and a square white sofa-table. I had lots of greenery and plants already then.

The daybed in the livingroom. Surrounded by greenery. Photo: ©nini.tjader

I loved that daybed. Unfortunately it broke when I once stepped onto it to reach something on the wall.

See all the pictures from my first flat here. All pictures are my own.

Jan

2016

The kitchen wall is finally done

Kitchen wall, before. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

I today finally fixed my kitchen wall. At the beginning of the summer we (I and my neighbor) bought two reinforcing bars. The intended use was to be trellis. One for the rosebush, and one for my neighbors clematis. I put up the one for the rose. My neighbor regretted the buy and didn’t want it any longer. So I bought it from her. Thinking that it would be perfect to put onto the wall in the kitchen to hold various small things.

Kitchen wall, before. Photo. ©nini.tjader.2015

It has been standing there in the kitchen ever since, waiting to be put onto the wall. Today I finally put it up. This is the result.

Kitchenwall, after. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

I got some decorative clothes-pins for hanging things with onto the bars.

Clothes pins. Photo:©nini.tjader.2015

Also had to slightly re-arrange the plates on the wall and some of the other things. i’m quite pleased with it. This part of the wall is pretty damaged with holes from pins and other things that have previously hung on the wall. Those marks became much more invisible with this solution.

Next time I’ll do something to the kitchen-walls will probably be to give them new wallpaper, or paint them. That will have to wait until I can afford it.

Kitchenwall, after. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

Nov

2015

In the kitchen

Plants in one of my kitchenwindows. Photo. ©nini.tjader.2015

The above is one of my kitchen windows. My hanging plants there are getting big.

Kitchenwindow November 11th 2015. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

On November 11th the other kitchenwindow looked like this. And the amaryllis on the table were all very small them. Since the light in the window had a sudden death and could no longer be lit so I removed it.

Kitchenwindows 2015-11-11. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

The two windows are cornered to each other which give real good light in the kitchen.

Oxalis on the kitchentable. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

My oxalis has been moving around from one to the other and is now on the kitchentable. Seems that is the best place for it. For a while there I thought it was dying. Since it moved to the table, a bit into the kitchen from the windows, it came to life again.

On the kitchentable. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

Above some of the items kept on the kitchentable.

On the kitchentable. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

Some more items on the kitchen table… The radio is partly giving up. It has a rechargeable non-removable batteri, which enabled it to be move from here to elsewhere. It has stopped recharging the batteri and now only functions with the electricity cord put into the wall. No more radio in the bathroom.

Oranges on the kitchentable. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

On and off there is also a bowl of oranges, or grape-fruit, or clementines on the kitchen table. I have two of those thread bowls. They are excellent for keeping fruit in as they are airy.

Pasta jars. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

I keep my different kinds of pasta – yes, I eat pasta. love pasta – in various glass jars. Pasta is decorative. The jars are kept in an old Billy bookcase I have in the kitchen for cookery books and other stuff that belongs in the kitchen.

Tea. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

My collection of teas are kept on these small shelves from Ikea (they no longer sell them). Well… not only tea. Bottom shelf to the left is a jar with cocoa, and the red one to the right on the same shelf contains regular coffee (which I almost never use nowadays s I use coffee capsules).

Experiment. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

In one of the kitchen windows I have an experiment. When we cut the bushes outside the house, I kept some of the sticks we cut off. Wanted to try if I can produce new bushes from them. I know it sometimes works. at this time of the year (winter) the sticks are red. I put them in a vase with water that I change regularly. Now, a few weeks later, one of the sticks got leaves… I see no roots on the sticks yet, but…

Amaryllis 25th November 2015. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

My amaryllis on the kitchentable are growing. Too fast again… The tallest one has started to show its red flower.

Star in the kitchenwindow. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

As it is the season for stars in the window one of my kitchen windows got the big, white star that I had in the bedroom window last year. No space for it in the bedroom… The light from it when the daylight is gone is nice. I control that with a timer. We need those lights in this dark season.

Star in the kitchen window. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

Nov

2015

New, oval plates

The old plates. Photo:©nini.tjader.2015

For years now I’ve been looking for oval plates. I’ve hade those grey ones from Ikea for ages, but never really liked them. That is, I’ve never really liked the look of them. I’ve always liked their size and how much you can put on them at the same time.

The old plates. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

They are heavy. The surface started looking cracked (if you look closely) quite some time ago. I normally like the color grey, but not on these plates. Problem was, there were no other oval plates to be had when I bought these ones at Ikea years ago.

New oval plates. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

But last week I found the perfect plates. At Åhléns. SEK 149 a piece. I was in town and thought I’d look if they had any oval plates. And they did. Called “Bon”, one of several models in a whole series of plates.

The new plates. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

They are white, simple and oval. Just the model I’ve been look for the last couple of years.

New, oval plates. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

Perfect. Just the right size to have salad, potatoes and a steak on them at the same time.

I didn’t look closely on the other plates of the same series, but I will next time I’m in town.

More new plates. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

I recently also bought two new plates at Ikea. Also oval, but with a higher edge.

New oval plates from Ikea. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

These ones are good for wetter food or pasta with a sauce or a salad.

Oval plates from Ikea. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

Used them last time Ulla was here and we had meat casserole which was rather wet. They are too narrow though for salad, potatoes and a steak.

New plates. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

It isn’t easy to find nice, oval plates. But don’t give up, they are out there. I’ve seen several over the years when I’ve been looking, but then most of them have been too big and not meant to eat from but only to server from. My new ones of course can also be used for serving the food, but they are also the right size to eat from. Depending on which food of course.

And I love white plates. Not colored, not patterned. White.

The old grey oval plates will be thrown out next time we go to the recycling station.

The new plates. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

Oct

2015

Plants and Flowers

Plants and flowers. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

The above is from my kitchen. The plants and flowers are taking over my kitchen windows this time of the year. And part of the table on and off.

Plants and flowers in the kitchen. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

I normally do not cut off flowers either from the garden or from plants. I usually think they look the best where they grow and not cut off.

Plants and flowers in the kitchen. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

This time of the year though it is necessary sometimes to cut off flowers. It is getting cold outside (-1C° this morning) and the pelargonias die when the temperature drops to under 0C°.

Their mother plants had to be cut off when moved inside as they were too tall and wide to get placed on the window sill in the livingroom. Some of the cuttings have been planted into soil and with a bit of luck they might root themselves and survice. I doubt the cuttings with the flowers will sprout roots, but you never know… I know you are supposed to cut off all flowers of pelargonias if you want them to get roots.

Plants and flowers in the kitchen. Photo. ©nini.tjader.2015

I’ve just made space for the flowers in the window instead of on the table (by cutting off all basil leaves from the basil plant and freezing the leaves and thereby getting rid of one pot in the window).

To the right of the pelargonia flowers (the pelargonia is called “Mårbacka”) is my huge hanging Australian Violet, which also has been moved inside. That one too does not survive in frosty weather. It is full of flowers. If it survives the winter indoors? We will see. It started its life as an indoor plant. If I get company I have to temporarily move the violet away from the window where it gets the most light as one of the chairs at the table cannot be used if it is there…

Below the present state of parts of my kitchen windows.

Plants in the kitchenwindows. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

Aug

2015

Small change – new chair cushions in the kitchen

New chair cushions in the ktichen. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

I made a small change in the kitchen. Changed the chair cushions. Ikea finally had chair cushions in green. Sometimes a small change like that is enough to change the impression of the room. I’ve been waiting for Ikea to introduce green chair cushions of the model above which I like. It has taken years for them to get green ones…

Jul

2015

Some color to the kitchen

Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

The other day I added some color to the kitchen.

With this lousy summer where the rain comes and goes all the time and never stops for any longer period, it is darker than it should be in the summer. And gloomier.

I felt the need for some color also inside and not only outside in nature.

Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

I found a very colorful oilcloth on sale. SEK 39/meter is very cheap. I only needed one meter for the kitchen table.

Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

I grew up with oilcloth on the kitchen-table, but have never before had one on my own tables. It is practical and easy to clean.

I normally do not like flower-patterns, but this one I love, mainly because it is wildly colorful, which normally isn’t something I like… Exceptions allowed, right?

Colorful oilcloth. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

Apr

2015

Choosing a kitchen carpet

My old kitchen carpet. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

I’ve been busy lately to choose a kitchen carpet. My Finnish cotton carpet has been with me and used for more than 35 years and it starts to show. I will not throw it out, but it gets worse with each wash. Last time I washed it (we have a washing machine for big thing sin the housing community where I live) I had to cut off the fringes as they were coming off.

My old kitchen carpet. Fringe cut off. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

The alternatives I was looking at were these:

Kattrup from Ikea. Candidate for kitchen carpet.

This one is flat-weave, wool. Nice, Available in several sizes. Monica used to have one in her kitchen and I always liked it. I have the impression though that its colors have changed over the years and that Monicas was more red than the current version of it at Ikea.

Waves from Horredsmattan, a plastic rug. Candidate for kitchen carpet.

This one is a plastic carpet. Can be practical in a kitchen. It had the right width – I liked it tio be as wide that it could contain the chairs on it also when used. Plastic carpets are much too expensive though. This was turnable. Pattern the opposite on the other side.

Lohals from Ikea. Candidate for kitchen carpet.

I’ve always liked this carpet. Natural fibers (jute). Natural color. For a while there I thought it might be too bland and too close in color to the floor in the kitchen.

Emma from MIO. Candidate for kitchen carpet.

This one, Emma from MIO, is also wool and flat-weave. No fringe (which is good, I do not like fringes on carpets). It has nice colors, but somehow, it reminds me of knitted or crocheted sweaters from the 1960-ties or 1970-ties… I almost bought this one though…

After much thinking back and forth, I decided on LOHALS from Ikea, the cheapest of them. Natural materials (jute), big, 200 cm x 300 cm. SEK995, which is a very good price for carpet this size. Any one of the other carpets would have costed double the price for that size.

The new carpet is now on the floor and I am happy with it. It is about 5 cm too long so it had to slide up on the wall a bit, bu that is no problem. The edge nearest in the picture will hopefully, eventually, come down and reduce risk of stumbling on it…

LOHALS from Ikea. Photo. ©nini.tjader.2015

Apr

2015

New kitchen-stove

Problem started here. Damaged hotplate. Photo. ©nini.tjader.2015

I’ve never before had to choose and buy a kitchen-stove. They’ve always come with the flat I’ve moved into. No choosing or buying. But now I had to do just that, choose and buy a kitchen-stove. As I now live in a cooperative housing community, we are all personally responsible for keeping our living quarters functional and working and in good condition. The housing community is responsible for the outsides of the houses and the common areas, but we, the owners of our homes, for the insides. That includes the kitchen-stove.

My kitchen-stove was installed in the flat in 2003 when the flat I live in was built (the house itself was built in 1985, but in 2003 the ground-floor, which previously was a day-care center, was transformed into four flats, mine among them). The kitchen-stove which was installed then started to have problems some time back. The hotplates were worn and dysfunctional, Particularly one of them kept blowing fuses and got extremely slow. No wonder, considering the look of it…

The old hotplates. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

You could of course hide the look of the hotplates, but that didn’t make anything for their functionality…

Hotplates under cover. Photo ©nini.tjader.2015

I used to store things on top of the stove too. Things I use daily.

Extra storage-space on the stove. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

So for some time I’ve had only three hotplates to cook on. The fast one (lower right) not advisable to use. And IF used, really slow to heat up and always with the risk to blow a fuse.

The old stove. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

When also the oven started to be really slow to get warm, I realized that I needed to exchange the kitchen-stove for a new one.

So I googled stoves, compared prices and functions and customer opinions. And checked which kind of electricity connection I have for the stove so it was the right one. And of course my own needs were important. In the end I settled for an Electrolux EKC5051BOW.

At first ordered it on a Wednesday at MediaMarkt, including transport, taking away of the old stove, installation. Seller was unable to give me a date of delivery but would come back to me about that. Payed and left the store. By Monday I had still not got any news about date of delivery. Called customer support. Someone would get back to me. Nobody did. So on Tuesday I called customer support again. They had no notes about my call on Monday. Someone would again get in touch with me. Nobody did. So on Wednesday I went back to MediaMarkt and cancelled the purchase. Went across the road (more or less) to ElGiganten instead. Explained the situation to the seller there and bought the same stove from them instead. It got SEK1000 cheaper there… including transportation, removal of old stove and installation.

And with a date of delivery for yesterday, Wednesday April 8th. All the way to there, they’ve been really good in informing me of where in the order process the stove was by sending SMS messages.

In preparation for the delivery I had to make free way into the flat. You have to pass two small hallways, one of them being my work-corner, on the way to the kitchen, so had to empty all that space before delivery.

Way into the kitchen, hallways emptied. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

Gave me a chance to vacuum the hallways and get the floors real clean there…

View from kitchen to door. My emptied work-corner to the right. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

I removed the old stove myself and rolled it out outside the flat to get the opportunity to clean behind and under it in preparation for the new one.

The empty space for the stove. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

And yesterday, they delivered, on time, fast and efficient. The new stove is installed and in its place.

The new stove in place. Photo. ©nini.tjader.2015

The bottom drawer of the stove is smaller than the old one, but not too small. The oven is larger than the old one. 72 L.

The new stove, oven. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

I have to stop using the top of the stove for storage so the surface doesn’t get scratched/damaged. It is a ceramic hob. I intentionally choose that so I wouldn’t have to exchange all my cookware… which an induction cooker would have meant.

Tested the oven last night (after earlier in the day having done all the burn-in of a new stove procedures needed). Only tested the regular function of the oven, and it worked just fine. Still have to learn how to use the top of the stove… and the hot-air functions and other to me new functions of the oven.

It is nice to have a new stove.

Mar

2015

The clock-wall in the kitchen

The clock-wall in the kitchen. Photo:©nini.tjader.2015

When I removed the Billy cupboard from this location in the kitchen (threw out the very broken cupboard and sold the doors to it on Blocket) in favor of drawers in the cupboard to the right in the corner, the wall there got all “off”. All decorations too far to the left and too high up.

So, I took it all down and started new.

The clock-wall in the kitchen. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

Noticed that the board below the clock was a bit too high up and a bit too much to the right. In doing that I also noticed that the clock didn’t work any more. Found that its clock-work had broken. New batteries had no effect.

The clock-wall in the kitchen, without a clock. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

Fixed the placement of the board, added two copper plates I had in storage (handmade by a friend of my father), and started to look for a new clock/new clockwork. In brief: couldn’t change the clock-work for a standard one as it is a SEIKO clock. Needs a SEIKO clock-work to be able to get put in and work. Bought a new clock instead. This time with black background and white numbers and no hand for seconds. Typography of the numbers not as nice as the previous one, but this was the best I could find (bought at Clas Olsson).

Wall now done. Approved?

The clock-wall in the kitchen with new clock. Photo:©nini.tjader.2015

Mar

2015

New shelves in the kitchen

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Small, new shelves in the kitchen. Photo. ©nini.tjader.2015

I’ve put up two small shelves in the kitchen. Bought them already before Xmas and have been planning to put them up ever since. Now they are up on the wall. I moved all my different kinds of tea (+ one decorative can with cacao) to the shelves which created better space in the Billy cupboard to the right.

The shelves are white lacquered steel and come from Ikea. They are called ENUDDEN and cost SEK39 a piece. Or USD 7.99. They can be put either as I did, with the sides pointing up, or the other way around with the sides pointing down. I’ve also seen examples when two combined are put with the top one with sides pointing down and the bottom one pointing up. They they can become a good little shelf for pocket books for instance.

Feb

2015

Hanging Plants

My kitchen has two windows. One facing south, one facing west. They are ideal for plants and most of them love being there. The only problem is that the window sills are so tiny. On the south-facing window to the left, there originally was no window sill at all. I added it later. It cannot take heavy plants though, so only light-weight ones there.

As I don’t use curtains in the kitchen, but I still have the curtain rods, I started to hang plants from them. And one of them, the climber to the left and below, even hangs directly on the curtain rod.

The windows have see-through blinds from Ikea to protect the plants from the sun when necessary. The climbing plant that hangs directly on the curtain rod loves it here and is getting bigger and bigger. Fortunately it doesn’t grow TOO fast… It has a slow-growing hanging plant as company on this window.

In the west-facing window I also have a hanging plant. More conventional one. It used to hang in the livingroom-window but almost died there. Made it start over by cutting off its tips and planting them in new earth and moved it to this window. It is now happy again.

I have tried having some of the orchids hanging too, but that is more difficult as they get pretty heavy. One actually crashed down … Both the pot and the plant survived as it fell on the table and not all the way to the floor. What held the pot up broke (leather cords).

There is still room for one more hanging plant in the west-facing kitchen-window. Might hang one more there.

Feb

2015

Drawers instead of shelves in the kitchen cupboards

For a very long time I was irritated by my largest kitchen-cupboard. Why? Because it is a lower cupboard stuck against the wall which made it very difficult to see what was in it and to move things in and out of it. I also needed some kind of pantry as this flat doesn’t have one. I’ve so far used a low Billy shelf with doors as pantry. It’s been Ok, kind of, but it took up valuable floor space and it lately began to fall apart (the backside I nailed to the shelves from the back as it kept falling out).

The dining-table much needed to be moved closer to the right to get enough space to sit on the other side. Also, the space to open the door to the cupboard was not sufficient at all.

So I checked alternatives and came to the conclusion that drawers instead of shelves in that cupboard would be a good solution. I could then get rid of the Billy cupboard, move the table to the right, and get good overview in the drawers of the content. The drawers would act as pantry.

Unfortunately I could not use Ikea drawers in the cupboard as my cupboards are from Marbodal and the measures are not the same. That made it much more expensive. I ordered them a couple of weeks ago and got them last week.

Emptied the Billy cupboard, removed the doors, took out the shelves and put the Billy cupboard out into the bicycle shed… waiting for the spring-container for large stuff to throw it away.

All the pantry-content on the table and the floor…

Billy now gone from this spot. I then removed the door and the shelves of the cupboard that was to receive the drawers and cleaned the space.

The drawers came partly assembled so I only had to attach the front and to put up the rails for the drawers.

After some struggle with the drawers I got them in. The pictured description of how to do that was not all that clear, but after some testing and swearing I learned that the rails were to be inside all the way and not out to be able to attach the drawers. Success!

To get the drawers in the right way I also had to adjust the next two doors slightly to get it right.

Mission accomplished, except for the handles.

No, the broom is not standing there any more. It has moved to the walk in closet to be out of the way…

Dining-table was moved to the right and the ceiling-lamp too. It is no longer hard to get in behind the table at the left side.

I then put in Ikeas drawer mats in the drawers and filled them with all the pantry stuff (dry goods). I then created the templates for the holes for the handles and taped them to the drawers. It is a question of measuring carefully and finding the middle of the drawer and the distance from the top of the drawer-front and where the holes for the handles should go. It is somewhat scary to drill holes into the all new fronts…

Had to go out to buy an appropriate drill-head to be able to do the holes for the handles. Below the result after drilling the holes and attaching the handles.

I am happy with the result. I finally have drawers instead of shelves and useful drawers for all the dry stuff easily seen and reached. And I no longer have to crawl on the floor to be able to see what is in that cupboard… Neither do I have to remove half the content to get at what I need. This is how it ought to have been from the beginning. By the way, the drawers are self-closing and very silent too.

I still have to rearrange the decorations on the wall now that Billy is no longer there. It looks off as it is now.

The whole thing costed SEK 4215 for the parts from Marbodal. Delivery took about two weeks. The drawer mats from Ikea costed SEK 39 and the new drill head for wood with sharp tip SEK 28. The Marbodal fronts are 13 mm thick. Had I chosen the thicker ones – which they at first quoted to me – the whole thing would have costed another SEK 2000… so I chose the simpler ones, which are the same as the doors to all the other cupboards.

The doors to the Billy cupboard are for sale. Contact me if you are interested.

Dec

2011

Does my dreamkitchen exist?

Kitchen from HTH-kök.

The kitchen of my dreams, does it exist?

The one that just works and has space for everything you need in a kitchen.

Where the worktops always are just big enough (so you won’t have to use the kitchen table or cover the sink with a chopping-board).

Where there of course is space enough for a big kitchen table (which can be used as a worktable for other things when needing a large, flat area).

Where you can be social and sit for a long time and eat and talk or read the paper when you are alone there.

Where there are enough shelves and cupboards for everything you need in a kitchen both for cooking and eating.

Where there is space for full height freezer and fridge.

Where it is easy to keep it clean.

A larder would be great…. and drawers in the bottom cupboards instead of shelves.

Kitchen from HTH-kök.

No open shelves that collect fat from the cooking.

No open plan open to the livingroom so that fat and the smell of cooking spread into the livingroom.

Kitchen without upper cupboards.

If you look in Swedish kitchen catalogues the trend with very few or no upper cupboards is reigning.

If you look in Swedish – or other – decorating magazines, they often don’t have any real cupboards either. I fail to see where they keep all the stuff that is needed in a kitchen.

Presently the trend is that walls do not have any cupboards and eventual shelves are open.

The present trend also is a lot of country-kitchens (which I don’t like), and shabby chic (which I don’t like either).

Or terrible, pleated cloth in front of the bottom cupboards instead of doors. How dirty and not fresh looking will that be after the first time you do the dishes or cook or prepare the food?

And chest panels (or other panels) are also frequent.

Kitchen

Plane and easy to clean is how I would want it. And white (or light grey). And fresh. And I do not want any fat-collecting shelves on top of the upper kitchen cupboards please (I’ve had that i some of the flats where I’ve lived). The upper cupboards need to go all the way up to the the ceiling.

Good lighting both over the kitchen table and worktops is a must. Space for cookbooks and canned and dry goods is needed. I’d love to have a kitchen island. But not an industrial kitchen with stainless steel. Covering cupboard doors (no glass windows in the doors where you see the content). Built-in oven and microwave in a comfortable height from the floor.

And who is it that has come up with the idea that a smallish household or a one-person household only need a small combi-freezer-fridge? Particularly then you need full-size fridge and freezer (so you can take advantage of the cheaper prices for larger packages of food-stuff etc.).

Kitchen

And who wants a cut-glass chandelier in the kitchen? How greasy will that become after a while?

Will have to keep on dreaming. And get amazed over the kitchens that today are shown in most decorating magazines. Practical? No, they aren’t. Good-looking on pictures? Well, to a certain extent, yes. But just to look at, not to use.

Top two images are from HTH-kök, the others from Sköna Hem kitchen-galleries).

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