@yakkoTDI My stove, sink, and refrigerator are all centered against three different walls, meaning there is no one single contiguous segment of countertop long enough to be useful for anything. I have to do most food prep sitting on the floor to have enough room for more than one bowl. No room for a folding table, living room is too far away to carry things back and forth.
@phendrick The center (mostly counter space) has the light and is well lit. The outside “half” by area is dark (more counter space and the oven and other appliances).
@chienfou Same - when we built our house (after an exhaustive search for a house plan that fit most of our needs and desires), my wife worked with the cabinet maker to get the kitchen layout we (mostly she ) wanted. It has served us well for 28 years (and counting).
Randomly well-lit with the occasional grease fire.
Generally yellow with overtones of orange.
“Alexa, can you turn off the range and locate the fireman’s blanket and give me some cooler colors!”
Very bright with harsh lighting from poorly positioned LED can lights so every work surface has whatever you’re working on be in your shadow, just like the rest of the house.
My 100 year old house has in the kitchen great morning light from the sun, evening and night really bright shop lights set into the drop ceiling; so bright you could do surgery! Not often just with fresh catch proteins
Lots of counter space and room for a table. We traded in the table for an IKEA butcher block island/cart and backless barstools. My daughter the chef loves it.
We have a very bright led ceiling light that looks like a skylight. I had it put in to replace the shop light like fluorescent tubes that were originally there. We also have led undercounter lights we put in when the house was built 12 years ago.
Small and poorly designed.
@yakkoTDI In the modern U.S., This Is The Way. It shouldn’t be, but it is.
@yakkoTDI My stove, sink, and refrigerator are all centered against three different walls, meaning there is no one single contiguous segment of countertop long enough to be useful for anything. I have to do most food prep sitting on the floor to have enough room for more than one bowl. No room for a folding table, living room is too far away to carry things back and forth.
@brennyn @yakkoTDI I pull out my kitchen drawers and lay cutting boards on them and on the edge of the sink to create counter space.
@Kyeh @yakkoTDI Dang, thanks, the drawers are a great idea. As it is, my cutting board is wider than any part of my counter.
Finally about what I wanted most of my life.
Half well lit. The other half not so much.
@Mehlachi Which one is well lit, you or the “better half”?
@phendrick The center (mostly counter space) has the light and is well lit. The outside “half” by area is dark (more counter space and the oven and other appliances).
Natural light by day, unnatural light by night. Well lit both ways. And since SWMBO and I designed it and I built it, it’s exactly what I/we wanted.
@chienfou I really wish yall didn’t live so far away. Methinks we’d hang out a lot.
@chienfou Same - when we built our house (after an exhaustive search for a house plan that fit most of our needs and desires), my wife worked with the cabinet maker to get the kitchen layout we (mostly she
) wanted. It has served us well for 28 years (and counting).
Dark and dank. Just the way I like it.
@ratman I don’t think I’d like a dank kitchen.
Randomly well-lit with the occasional grease fire.
Generally yellow with overtones of orange.
“Alexa, can you turn off the range and locate the fireman’s blanket and give me some cooler colors!”
Very bright with harsh lighting from poorly positioned LED can lights so every work surface has whatever you’re working on be in your shadow, just like the rest of the house.
Can’t reach the lights to change the bulbs even with a step stool. Dark it is.
@brennyn wow, so what do you do when your lites burn out?
@brennyn bigger step stool?
I have two sizes of stools.
You could join the gift exchange and include one in your wishlist
My 100 year old house has in the kitchen great morning light from the sun, evening and night really bright shop lights set into the drop ceiling; so bright you could do surgery! Not often just with fresh catch proteins
Lots of counter space and room for a table. We traded in the table for an IKEA butcher block island/cart and backless barstools. My daughter the chef loves it.
/showme Cats cooking in a well equipped and well lite kitchen
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We have a very bright led ceiling light that looks like a skylight. I had it put in to replace the shop light like fluorescent tubes that were originally there. We also have led undercounter lights we put in when the house was built 12 years ago.
On wheels.
Happy Camper.