Kitchen Layout Selected

Well, our great Kitchen Layout debate has been decided. Actually, our lack of budget and space decided it for us. We will be going with layout Idea 1.

You can read my long rambling about our kitchen’s short comings here.

1) We have decided to cut costs by working within our existing space.

2) We will save money by reusing our existing refrigerator and stove.

3) We will be able to vent the stove through our back porch ceiling. The back porch is on the other side of the wall where we will place the stove.

4) No matter how much I loved the idea of an island – even though I found magazine photos of beautiful shaker inspired islands that I fell in love with – we do NOT have enough space for an island unless we recess our fridge into a wall. $$$$ = not going to happen any time soon.

I began to consider the unthinkable – ripping out an original built-in cupboard or two in order to gain more usable space for stove and/or refrigerator placement! Ok, it was a brief consideration. I mean where trying to figure out every possible configuration.

Yes, things would be so much easier if we didn’t have those beautiful built-in cupboards to deal with. Actually, the built-in cupboards have been greatly abused but I can imagine them restored and beautiful some day.

I keep thinking of the vow I made to myself when we purchased the house. Our house seemed so forlorn and neglected that I promised myself we would try to bring it back to its former quiet beauty. Most importantly, I swore that we would do it no harm. Those built-in cupboards have been in this house for 92 years and in this house they will stay.