Tour

Well, I think it's time for a little tour of our home/farm. Today I'm sharing our Kitchen. This kitchen is not necessarily the most user-friendly space I've ever had in any house that we have lived in. I suppose that kitchen functionality wasn't a high priority way back in 1937 or maybe the original owner of this house wasn't much of a cook. Who knows?

Anyway, we are trying to fit modern appliances and work tables into the layout of the kitchen. To do that we had to take part of a cabinet away to get our updated refrigerator into the space. The stove is a stand alone, so it didn't require anything special. Come to think of it, the house came with the stove and fridge. The previous owner/realtor left the appliances for us. There isn't a lot that we could do to make this space more usable other than adding the Ikea table in January 2020. That table has made being in the kitchen more enjoyable. I can leave my Kitchenaid out and it has been used more this year than ever before. Before the table I would have to lug the mixer from a bottom cabinet and hoist it up on the counter. Okay, it's not that bad, but still. After a year of having this table I wonder why it took us so long to figure this out. 

When we first got the table we  had it situated as an extension of the counter. That was fine and all, but only one side of it could be used. So because I'm a thinker, I decided to make an "L" at the end of the counter and move a couple of things (coffee cart) to make things work out. Because of this move we are now able to get into the cabinet that houses the storage containers more easily. There once was a cart that sat near the stove, but blocked the cabinet. The cart also made it easy to be lazy about not putting containers away. The easy access makes the kitchen less messy now. 

The one thing that I would like to do is update the cabinets - not so much get new cabinets, but get new drawer pulls and maybe paint. The counter is super ugly, but we've lived with it since 1998. So, it's safe to say that we'll continue to live with it a while longer. 

One day we'll update the kitchen. For now we'll continue to make do with the space that has worked since the beginning. So many projects - so hard to choose. The kitchen is an important space, but the animal infrastructure is a little more important right now. 

Being retired really isn't so rough...:)