He-ey, good lookin, whatcha got cookin? How about cookin' somethin' up with me?

Here is a tour through my kitchen.

I shall start with things that bother me occasionally, or are imperfections. Not because I'm dissatisfied with my kitchen. It's just that it's on my mind now, since we were looking into redoing it sometime, and made up a plan of how to redo it. Not that it will happen, and if it does, not for a long time. So what's wrong with the lovely tile floor? Tile is OK, now that I'm extra careful never to drop anything, and now that I'm always too warm--so it's nice to have cool feet while I'm busy. BUT the floor is uneven, and the tile is bouncing up, and the grout is getting vacuumed up bit by bit. Maybe it was installed for light ultra thin model type women, or maybe it was just poor planning, or cheaping out. But it's not perfect, or wonderful.


Boric acid? That's for the roaches. As in cockroaches. Need my wonderful husband to open it up and dispense where needed. Bye bye old friends! (Well, I hope it's a farewell, anyways.)


Now, an oven is a wonderful thing. But it is also an electric thing with lots of potential for fires. I'm especially worried, because, three times now, my oven has turned off while I was cooking. Turning off is OK, and pretty safe. But what really worries my is the odd buzzing noise it makes every time it turns off. Not sure if this is what it's supposed to do, or not. But it makes me nervous. Maybe the cockroaches chewed some wires. They love living in the oven ranges (for food supply) and backs of fridges (for water supply--condensation).


I have only one outlet on this wall. And four things to plug in. I have (at least 4 times) unplugged my bread maker while it was halfway through cooking (and it can only be reset from the beginning) in my eagerness to use another appliance. Oops!


I feel that the layout of these shelves in my cupboards leaves room for improvement. You'd be surprised how adeptly I can catch a falling item while opening one of these. I have honed this skill through much practice.


The lights above the sink look kinda dorky, plus they're much too bright. Plus, it's all open wire threaded through the cupboards and dropped down to be plugged in by the crock pot. Kinda hokey. I never use these lights. I could just imagine myself electrocuting myself when unplugging it with wet hands. It's something I would do. :o


Anyone who has visited and taken the liberty to help themselves, or me, (it's allowed, don't worry) will remember my faucet. And how much fun it is to turn off. It also leaks when I turn it on hot. It's been taken apart and remedied by my wonderful husband, but it didn't stay good for long.


Enough of the bad stuff. Here is an overall view of the kitchen, starting from looking at it from the middle of our living room. As you can see, the window on the right used to be a doorway, and you could run through the kitchen in circles. The previous owners of our house thought that wasn't so nice--as they had children. Very wise! Unfortunately, the light switch for the kitchen (OK, so this is the LAST negative thing :o ) is by former door, and not by the remaining door. Alas.


I think it's just the right size kitchen, since I don't use it as an "eat in" kitchen.


I spend most of my time in the left corner here, from which I can glance out of several windows, and keep a nosy eye on the little ones.


The door to the balcony(shown later).


My one outlet wall. Since our house is at least 50 years old, when it was made, this was probably more than enough. Now we have too many appliances. I guess it's ME that needs to adapt. :p


The balcony looking left first, then right. The stairs, we suspect, were installed backwards, since they're really steep. It's rather too small a deck to be functional for much, except to store the barbecue on.

So that's my kitchen. I hope to spend very little time in there today. :o It's just lovely out again.