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| Thursday, April 20, 2006 |
| Home Improvement Hooey |
This Bankrate Remodeling Room by Room interactive piece caught my eye. I was reading the kitchen section when I came across this sentence: The newest trend for those with a lot of money and enough space: adding a smaller kitchen, away from the showier area, where the real work takes place. Let me make sure I am reading this correctly. The latest trend for the wealthy who don't know how to spend their money is to build a second kitchen in their home. One kitchen for show and the other for work? Let me guess, the work kitchen is preferably located in the basement with a set of back stairs for the "help" to use? This sounds oh so Edwardian to me... |
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Ah..but this trend has been going on for a while now. One of my friends told me that her aunt in Vancouver has a beautiful, newly renovated kitchen. But she does her messy cooking (e.g., stir frying large quantities of food), in the mini-kitchen near the mud room. If you've ever visited an Asian household, you'll know that grease from stove top cooking settles onto just about everything in the kitchen, including the kitchen cabinets and walls. A vent hood helps, but it's still a pain to clean grease off the walls. If you bake or steam most of your food, then it really doesn't make sense to have a show kitchen.
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Pfft. I guess I better start cooking all my meals in the bathroom then.
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Ah..but this trend has been going on for a while now. One of my friends told me that her aunt in Vancouver has a beautiful, newly renovated kitchen. But she does her messy cooking (e.g., stir frying large quantities of food), in the mini-kitchen near the mud room. If you've ever visited an Asian household, you'll know that grease from stove top cooking settles onto just about everything in the kitchen, including the kitchen cabinets and walls. A vent hood helps, but it's still a pain to clean grease off the walls. If you bake or steam most of your food, then it really doesn't make sense to have a show kitchen.