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Stupid / non-functional layout. For example, the distance vetween the oven and a countertop requires walking more than 3 steps or going around a corner.
No pantry.
No ability to have trash cans installed next to sink, behind a cabinet door (think: rollouts)
A closed off kitchen. We LOVE the open concept.
I hope I NEVER have to live with a double sink again. Huge mistake I made when we built the house, and not fixable now without replacing a large granite countertop.
Wow, there's something for everyone thank goodness!
I built a pantry in a previous kitchen that I redid. So it wasn't a deal breaker to me, but that kitchen overhaul was expensive. Thank goodness we got the house for a steal basically.
I won't have a sink unless it's a double sink, with a divider so to speak. The last one I installed has a low divider, only about three inches or so high. I love it.
I really don't like open concept homes but it depends totally on the layout. I've had both and I prefer a kitchen to be out of sight from the main living area. Also, I like walls because I have furniture and art that both need walls. Of course, a house needs to be large enough so that it doesn't seem choppy or dark.
Stupid / non-functional layout. For example, the distance vetween the oven and a countertop requires walking more than 3 steps or going around a corner.
No pantry.
No ability to have trash cans installed next to sink, behind a cabinet door (think: rollouts)
A closed off kitchen. We LOVE the open concept.
I hope I NEVER have to live with a double sink again. Huge mistake I made when we built the house, and not fixable now without replacing a large granite countertop.
When I was in dream state to building my house, pictured a walk in pantry....where the rear wall was a door to a long larder. Dream then, but no in the reality of about $160/square foot building costs.
As it is, my pantry is nice for what it is but now, between blizzards and pandemic shortages, stockpiling has rolled out into about 6 cabinets, depending what it is, such as cat food in some. So I suppose in any house, in any place, at any time, it is essential that it has lots of storage space.
My house is built on the great room concept, so it is much like Yosemite Sam's place in "The Fair Haired Hare", just without walls around the kitchen. It has not yet been a problem but should I need to cordon it off, I have lots of floor screens.
A stove top in the island might be difficult for me for that robs of essential work space, of essential storage space underneath. I suppose in someone's thinking, they they see the justification....but I don't.
As it is no doubt been mentioned before, I am moved by what I see in movies and TV (Witches of Eastwick, Kiss the Girls, Charmed (that was one huge, cluttered, underused place....with an incredible stove top in that thin table serving as an island)) and magazines.....like with late Playboy Playmate Gail Stanton and, not late, Sandy Cagle.......but is what we see in such places just a fantasy without any practical purpose that we have fallen in love with? Such as cabinets with glass doors and over head pot racks?
On that note of the latter, over head pot racks, why do we do that? Is that our form, as cooks, to be like warriors and display our armaments? Or is there a more practical reason, going back to an old time, of always being ready to reach for a weapon, ie,
"Only it's wise to be handy with a rolling pin
When the landlord comes to call" (Oliver, "Consider Yourself")
Of course, when it comes down to it, it is because we want it, we like the way it makes us feel. In the theme of this thread, however, there is.................do other people like it? (will they buy if it is there)
I've lived in large houses and small apartments. I can confidently say I far more enjoyed being able to deepclean a kitchen in 15 minutes rather than spending an hour and still feeling like I'm only half-way done cleaning it.
I also don't need that much space. I buy food I intend to eat within the month, so I don't have large closets filled with food. And I don't own too many dishes, because if you do them regularly, you don't need that many of them anyway.
I forgot to mention my #1 dealbreaker - a clogged grease trap!
Yeah, I know, it's commercial - but unless you've cleaned out a grease trap that's prone to getting clogged up and backing up into the kitchen, you haven't really smelled stench.
I've been known to turn on my heel and leave a restaurant if I smell that when I walk in.
Lack of kitchen space. We use the kitchen and need a fair bit of it. A dishwasher (or, you know, at least the hookups for one) NEEDS to be present. Also, I can’t see myself saying yes to a kitchen which lacks a garbage disposal.
Otherwise I’m not that picky in the sense that if it has the things above, that makes it functional, and functional is the master key; anything else I can kinda live with. If I’m allowed to nitpick, here’s where my mind goes. These are wants, not needs: I don’t like gas stoves in the least (unpopular opinion), but I’m sous chef, so I guess I don’t really get to pick it. I haven’t really adapted well to them after never having been around a gas one for the first 35 years of my life. Other appliances are appliances to me. Tools. So I’m not even trying to pick sexy looking ones. If I’m going off into the weeds a bit, I like side by side fridge/freezers best; I really dislike the ones with the fridge on top and then a freezer drawer down below. At all. Or “smart” appliances of any kind whatsoever. I’m not a fan of white or gray as the theme colors of the kitchen, necessarily, unless there’s something like the backsplash with a lot of color. I’m a color guy, after all. I’m not sold on dark wood, either, but it COULD be done right. It’s hard to keep dark wood from looking heavy and dated.
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