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Kitchen Plan

When I saw this topic, i got very excited at first. I have been designing my ‘ideal’ kitchen in my head and on paper for the last two years. My husband and I (mainly I) are in the process of designing our own home. I have begun with the kitchen and don’t really care about anything much else (except maybe a craft/art room – where I don’t have to clear stuff up to eat our meals, etc). But I have been feeling quite ‘line drawing-y’ lately – hence today’s entry which is very sketchy but imparts the main information about my proposed kitchen. I’m short, so I hate high cupboards. I also detest corner cupboards because of the potential for them banging into each other, getting caught or trapping fingers, etc. I don’t like having nowhere to put hot things when they come out of the oven or microwave, and I don’t like putting away appliances which I will spend an eternity taking in and out of cupboards again.

Call it risk assessment, but if I’m building the house of my dreams, it will also have the kitchen of my dreams. I don’t really know what I want it to look like – in terms of style – shaker, english country, modern, etc, etc. I just know what components I want. The first page of my entry listed all the things I like about kitchens and their purpose – call it brain storming…..art value??