What would you want in a kitchen?

zsazsa-stl · June 2013

I thought there were multiple manufacturers now, but alas, I knew it was too good to be true.

PMeg819 · June 2013

Here's why I hate my sink-
1. It's black. That is the worst color for a sink. It shows everything. And when my husband is done with dishes, he doesn't always scrub the sink super clean and it looks grimy.
2. The countertop isn't truly flush with the sink so there is this little indent on the inside (I know I'm not explaining this good, sorry) where crap collects and you have to take a knife or some other object and run it around there to get the crud out. It's gross.

I like the aesthetics of the farmhouse sinks. Right now my sink just looks like a gaping maw in the counter.

hmonkey · June 2013

re: corner cabinets

the owners put the corner access on the other side of the cabinet. that way, i can actually take full advantage of the corner. there's a tiny useless door on the other side, but the accessible side has a wide open door.

in the other corner, there is the hated lazy susan. because it's right next to the sink, i just put by cleaning supplies there.

i would love to do this and waste some space just because i hate lazy susans so much.

VarunaTT · June 2013

I want all drawers underneath. I also would like a pantry that has the wire crank shelves, so that you can just rotate back to front and see everything. I would like a full refrigerator and a full freezer inside. I want a pot filler over the stove. I would like the flat top induction stove (shun me, but gas is expensive and too hard to deal with), that has the microwave in the top drawer and the oven in the bottom, thus alleviating the need to give counter space/over stove space to microwave. I want a hood over my stove (purely decorative for an induction). In the corners, I want the drawers that are corner drawers and massive. Also, corner cabinets to keep from wasting space (even though they're hard to put stuff in). If I can't have those corners, i want an old styled Lazy Susan to help me use that space efficiently.

*gasp*

I want 16x16 inch tile square for my flooring. I want my counters to be about 35" deep and just a little bit lower. I have no desire for an island as they get in my way. I want tiled countertops, so I can put my pots and pans directly on it with no problems about burning or cracking (I've also considered cement for this reason). I want a dishwasher with the disposal in it. I like a 2 side sink, but I'd like both sides to be huge, with a hot water spigot and a hose and a faucet.

I might've thought about this for a long time.

jojobrn · June 2013

I can't respond properly right now but, drawers all the way, we have granite and kept it wih the remodel, and my pull out broom closet is fantastic.

VarunaTT · June 2013

I'm dying b/c HMO has the exact drawers I was talking about...and hates Lazy Susans.

I don't "like" them, but realize how much they do create usable space.

6fsn · June 2013

@VarunaTT I laughed at that too. My sister has a big hinged door that opens and shows every last bit of her corner. No lazy susan. No weird drawers.

zsazsa-stl · June 2013

We have ANCIENT wooden lazy susans in our lower corner cabinets. Things fall off of them and get wedged in the back all the time. But it is better than having just a wide open space in there.

GBCK · June 2013

We used to have lazy Susans in the 'pantry' in our various RVs. And the pull-out drawer-thingies.

Which is the most idiotic design flaw of all time.

Imagine an (old, crappy) camper that has a lazy susan that is driven for 12 hours on bumpy, winding mountain roads. Now imagine that, not shockingly, one of the various canned goods bumps off the lazy Susan during hour 1. By hour 12, that sucker is wedged so that it takes literally hours to unwedge the sucker--and, of course, we can't get to any of the rest of the food until we un-wedge it because they wedge the suckers in place

I have a (rather unfair, because, really, my house doesn't bounce around on the back of a crappy Ford Chassis all day) fierce, undying hatred for these things.

(on the plus side, I am expert at packing into confined spaces so things don't move)

Wzz · June 2013

ditto on the 16x16 tiles, and a deep, huge, double sink. i would be very happy with having almost two standard sinks right next to one another. i'd love an island with useable storage, but that is assuming my kitchen will always be the size it is now.

zsazsa-stl · June 2013

As I look at houses I see A LOT of houses without double sinks. These are decently sized kitchens, no space conservation needed. So are these kitchens just "designed" by someone who has never washed a pot before?

Even in the rinky dink apartments I've had, I've always had double sinks. I'm afraid of life without them.

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