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a second kitchen design

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By Natalie


Taking into account comments, good ideas, and original plans I think we have a new contender.
No, before we hadn't thought about where the microwave would go or the trashcan. :)

Originally Sara had us putting the range on the chimney and running counters all around it. We couldn't figure out how in practise that would work and started dreaming about dual ovens and cooktops in counters and all sorts of things that are fancy and pretty, but not really needed for how we live now or plan to live later.    This one gives Harris a gas cook top and me a convection oven. Dual fuel from bosch and we're both happy.

 
 
It also creates two separate work stations on either side of the range and will fit around the door that will exist for the next year, but not forever. I like that this way we're not building out something that will have to be torn out in 12 months. I really really hate that.
 
We also removed the surrounding cabs from the fridge, as those three cabs cost more than everything else in the kitchen and were no longer desired once we settled on range instead of cooktop/oven.  We have a couple of things in the kitchen that we use (a cart and cutlery/tool chest) that we've also planned spaces for.
 


And here in glorious 2-D. Sink gets counters on either side and looks out a window, range can be vented outside through the chimney (here's hoping), and the fridge sits on the other side of the wall which is totally ok, because we're rocking a fridge we found in the house for at least a little while.

This comes functionally with Harris and I working together. When we build with legos I make patterned cubes, fitting pieces together in blocks. He builds cars, spaceships, ducks, etc. This is meaningful because when we went to pick out the ikea cabs, I couldn't get things to fit into patterns so gave up on the range placement. Harris was like, well, why don't I build a box over there if they don't make one that fits it? I look and see "workspace should be XXX inches" and think, that's what it needs to be while Harris sees it, gets the ruler out and says, yeah, but you can work in that space, it will be cozy.  Very helpful combination for the kitchen.
 
 
 
 

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  1. vespasaraOctober 16, 2013 at 7:01 AM

    yeay! much improved. I give it two thumbs up.

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  2. NatalieOctober 16, 2013 at 7:15 AM

    And when we looked back on the schematics, it's almost exactly what you originally designed. We made it way hard on ourselves but it was totally worth it to do it on paper different ways and see practically and in the space why the original design worked so well.

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  3. Mike SpringOctober 16, 2013 at 9:00 AM

    No biggie, but what are the numbers on the 2D floorplan for?

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  4. NatalieOctober 16, 2013 at 10:00 AM

    The small orange numbers are there to denote different cabinet bases for ordering or something.

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