Kitchen #6, Renton WA.
This is by far my favorite kitchen. As the title indicates, this is my sixth kitchen. Of the six, three of them have been here in Renton.
The first two kitchens here were nearly identical, with counter space along the wall with a window above and an island. Seemed large to me. So when I saw this kitchen, I was a concerned about two things:
1. my future office was going to be right next to the kitchen, making it too easy to ‘work and cook’ (aka ‘work and burn food’).
2. I had no place for my pantry
I was quick to solve both problems. The most visible is the muslin painting in the door way. I rigged up a fabric divider painted with an image that I took. I love it. And the pantry, which was all in an enclosed area with a door, was divided into the four cabinets on the far end of the kitchen: savory ingredients in the top cabinets and baking type stuff in the bottom two. Oh and there’s one more thing. There was no more space inside the cabinets for the coffee cups and I didn’t want to put holes in the cabinets. So I got some adhesive hooks which were applied to the underside of the cabinet.
I quickly adapted to this smaller kitchen. I don’t know if I’ll like one much bigger. All my tools are quickly within reach. I use my food processor probably two or three times a week. Cookbooks are easy to get to, and I can also use my iPad in the book holder on the counter. I really thought would not have enough room here, but rolling out dough for crackers is easy. And because it’s small, there’s less to clean!