Having the kitchen and lounge in the same room
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glasgowdan wrote: »Yawn to the people suggesting that your wife cooking belongs in 1953... whatever, she tends to cook, he tends not to, who are you all to judge? Everyone is different.
Shut up, Dan. Shouldn't you be repairing a car, chopping down a tree, or off hunting in the woods for dinner?
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I am a messy person. It can take me some time to get around to washing up - I need a door to close on it all so that visitors aren't sussing out what a dirty mare I am.
Plus I hate people watching me cook. You can't drop something then give it a quick rinse under the tap when guests are watching.
Separate areas for me all the way.All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.
Pedant alert - it's could have, not could of.0 -
Shut up, Dan. Shouldn't you be repairing a car, chopping down a tree, or off hunting in the woods for dinner?
Random post of the day. Have a medal. :T
Haven't you got some anti-equality pro-feminism website to be spouting off on instead of here? Why are some people so sensitive to anyone suggesting something as evil as a wife who, at a given time of day, happens to be cooking while the husband watches tv? Two people tend to get in the way of cooking, and if the husband's cooking is awful...logic dictates the wife does it. I am the cook in my house and never once think it's old fashioned/modern/sexually equal or imbalanced. It's just cooking.
It doesn't make them luddites. There's only one of those on here that I can see.0 -
glasgowdan wrote: »Yawn to the people suggesting that your wife cooking belongs in 1953... whatever, she tends to cook, he tends not to, who are you all to judge? Everyone is different.
Yes- what a lucky woman she is, husband providing for her.
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It's just personal preference. I like separate rooms so I can disappear into the kitchen and cook/bake in peace, plus smells and mess are contained. A friend's home is open plan but she socialises as she cooks and is much tidier than me!
If space is tight, it makes sense to have it open plan as you can spill out of one room as needed. When we lived in a flat, the kitchen was open plan but in a separate area if that makes sense - you could have had a wall and door across to separate it but that would have taken up valuable space.0 -
A few years back when I was looking to get on the property ladder with my now wife, we were looking at new build apartments in our area, all but one that we looked at had the kitchen in the same room as the lounge, we couldn't understand why anyone would want this either and was the main reason we purchased the apartment with the seperate kitchen, even though it was a tiny kitchen that when opening the door you'd knock out anyone who was currently in there,... but atleast you could shut away the cooking smells and dirty pans,0
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I'm just in the middle of a renovation and have opened up the living room to make a huge kitchen/dining/sitting room...
I do have a separate utility which has the washer/dryer and dishwasher, plus another sink for hiding dirty dishes if we have people over.
Works for us and makes the house much more saleable given the house had a tiny kitchen before, makes the room fell much bigger too as you can see out of both sides (and an end) of the house.
Developers do it because people buy it, simple as that. Their sales stats will show exactly what they need to built to maximise their profits, and building one less wall and door doesn't sound like much of a saving but over a whole development it works out not too bad a saving!0 -
glasgowdan wrote: »Haven't you got some anti-equality pro-feminism website to be spouting off on instead of here? Why are some people so sensitive to anyone suggesting something as evil as a wife who, at a given time of day, happens to be cooking while the husband watches tv? Two people tend to get in the way of cooking, and if the husband's cooking is awful...logic dictates the wife does it. I am the cook in my house and never once think it's old fashioned/modern/sexually equal or imbalanced. It's just cooking
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I was having a lark stereotyping sexes in response to the previous posters; hence the wink, and the like of your previous post. Like I give a rats !!! about being PC.0 -
Didn't pick up on that!0
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