Kitchen for now or future?

greenbee

lostinrates wrote: »

Your mother's kitchen seems just how I want mine. Its good to know my theory can work in practise!

I've never thought of having the dishwasher in the kitchen....its a good idea not having dishes waiting, but doesn't it make extra work going to and fro with them before and after?

It's exercise

As the utility room is just off the kitchen it really doesn't make much difference, and it means we don't have to look at dirty dishes, we can just hide them from our guests (and ourselves). We have quite a bit of storage out there, so some of the stuff it unloaded straight back into the cupboards out there (dishes that we don't use daily). My utility room was designed with as much care and thought as the kitchen, and its what makes the kitchen work so well in many ways as my kitchen isn't huge. Things that don't need to be in there are elsewhere!

misskool

lostinrates wrote: »

I used search function and this seemed closest to my question, though I wondered if it should be its own thread...

anyway..

we're refurbishing a house and I am getting a kitchen from scratch. Mine will have a dishwasher unlike the OP ...but there are other oldstyle considerations...e.g. a larder...I have room for one, but what size should it be? I also wondered if having ventilated cupboards with sockets that I can use things like mixers/breadmakers/juicers pretty much in situ are worth considering (I know they still have to be cleaned, but cluter free/easy clean benches and no waiting for DH to put away heavy things seems blissful).

I'm wondering what oldstylers would do in a kitchen that isn't nowadays bog standard to make it function most optimally?

Larder...yes
I have a 1950s one (the vent is drilled through straight outside and it's on the coldest wall of the house). Wouldn't live without it. It's only small so as much space as you can fit in the larder. With shelves. And space for pull out trolleys.

Another thing that I love is a pull out tap.

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

Another thing that I love is a pull out tap.

Yes, useful. I always underestimate how useful.

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Don`t bother with the dishwasher. I have one and it is a waste of space. We are frugal with water and none is wasted. They might be reasonable re water consumption but added to that is energy plus a dishwash tab. So we handwash every day and use the water for the toilet and it is far quicker. So OP go with what YOU want

misskool

lostinrates wrote: »

Yes, useful. I always underestimate how useful.

And apologies if preaching to the converted but please get the best taps you can afford. Replacing taps is a pain and cheap ones don't last.

I have Hansgrohe taps (but I'm counting them as cost per year of use)

guineapig

I am the OP and I went with my gut and got a 2 and a half sink with spray tap, it cost more than the oven!!! We wash by hand and use the water to flush the toilet as we are on a water meter.

We save on dishwasher products and electric and of course save all those litres of water when we flush with the washing up water!

We are very happy with our choices.

Mojisola

guineapig wrote: »

I am the OP and I went with my gut and got a 2 and a half sink with spray tap, it cost more than the oven!!! We wash by hand and use the water to flush the toilet as we are on a water meter.

We save on dishwasher products and electric and of course save all those litres of water when we flush with the washing up water!

We are very happy with our choices.

It's always nice to know what is decided after a range of advice is offered. Thanks for telling us.

dopester

lostinrates wrote: »

I used search function and this seemed closest to my question, though I wondered if it should be its own thread...

anyway..

we're refurbishing a house and I am getting a kitchen from scratch. Mine will have a dishwasher unlike the OP ...but there are other oldstyle considerations...e.g. a larder...I have room for one, but what size should it be? I also wondered if having ventilated cupboards with sockets that I can use things like mixers/breadmakers/juicers pretty much in situ are worth considering (I know they still have to be cleaned, but cluter free/easy clean benches and no waiting for DH to put away heavy things seems blissful).

I'm wondering what oldstylers would do in a kitchen that isn't nowadays bog standard to make it function most optimally?

I found this thread having just viewed Misskool's 'recent posts'. (Wanted to see if you'd posted anything about how you're finding your new car).

A breadmaker in situ in a cupboard? Ours says not to cover the top, and it does get a bit hot.. but if cupboard is ventilated.. it might work. We couldn't live without our dishwasher.. gets used almost every day.

My sister tells me if we do ever club together to buy a new kitchen, the doors have to be unlike the ones we have now, but flat faced, unfussy designs. Apparently they are easier to keep clean, and greasy stuff doesn't get into the bevelled sections of the kitchen unit doors we have now. She says big improvements have been made in kitchen design (especially for intelligent use of space) since our last one fitted in 1997. I had an Ikea magazine on my desk but it seems to have gone walkabout. It was all about "planning a kitchen". Not that you would choose IKEA (maybe we wouldn't either - but it was to give us ideas). Good luck lir.

dopester

misskool wrote: »

And apologies if preaching to the converted but please get the best taps you can afford. Replacing taps is a pain and cheap ones don't last.

I have Hansgrohe taps (but I'm counting them as cost per year of use)

I fitted a new kitchen mixer tap myself last month. The one we had fitted with the kitchen in 1997 had broken beyond repair.

Hansgrohe? Sounds German and expensive. Yep, just checked and is German with some good looking taps. Did quite a bit of research myself before buying a kitchen tap (£45) and felt more comfortable buying a WRAS approved tap. I'd still bet your tap is better than ours though. I'd be very wary of kitchen taps that look the part on ebay but which are just shoddy Chinese build.

I'd love a kitchen with 2 sinks. One for use in preparing food, the other for general cleaning about. It's low-tech but we've got a £2 strainer in our kitchen sink. Amazing the amount of gunk it prevents going into the drain, potentially causing a blockage. Just have to manually tip it out into the bin once every couple of days.

Edit: I now see the kitchen taps with "pop-up waste" function do the same job? I might have bought one of those but was unsure how effective the waste bit would be, how to use it, and also thought it might be a bit too complicated for me to fit. Was proud enough just fitting the kitchen mixer tap itself as the tails were different from existing fittings.

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we had a waste disposal already in our last house. That was another waste of space and also a water guzzler so we had it removed. We have one shallow sink in our new house plus a half sink and I find a cheap bowl in the sink indispensible. I also have thisdishrack which sits to the end of my draining board and the water drains via the adjustable spout. It is the best thing ever
http://www.simplehuman.co.uk/products/dishracks/plastic-compact.php