kitchen for Gianna
Good for small spaces - LAURA: we have two that are half that tall, and one always gets stuck. My sister has one that tall and it ALWAYS gets stuck. I think the more weight they have in them, the more likely they are to get stuck. So better to have a few different ones stacked on top of one another, not one huge long big one.
toe-kick drawers - wish we had done them in our kitchen!!
I think this is fantastic! but not quite sure if it is easy to clean or will get shoved back in there before you have time to clean it, etc...
Figure out where you're going to stash your cleaning utensils, as we have no place for them and have to keep them on the balcony. It's a pain when you have a spill.
narrow nook around door
You could also develop UP if you have the height and keep things you use less often in the top, with a library ladder.
I'm a little fixated with library ladders at the moment because we're building a library... :-)
I love our skinny pull-outs but the top level is not deep enough - we always end up putting the olive oil on the bottom level because it's too tall to fit in the top part. Measure some olive oil bottles and see if they'll fit in the top part. Since most Italian families cook with it and use it every day, make sure it'll fit in the TOP of these skinny drawers - they are FABULOUS on the sides under the cooktop.
I love how this just melds all the way up to the crown moulding! We couldn't do that because we had visible vaults all over the place.
Just a note about fridges - Make sure the capacity actually has space for stuff. Ours has a lot of capacity on paper, but the back of each shelf is so far from the back wall to give air circulation that in essence we have tiny shelves in there or everything falls back behind. ugh. hate it. AND we should've gotten a separate freezer and just had both sides of the fridge be FRIDGE!
It might be nice to do white on the "kitchen" part of your room, and then do wood on the storage piece you have on the other side of the door.
I like the aesthetic of the doors (ante) on the cabinets and the little station as you come through the door on the left where you could have people put phones in that drawer, etc.. and have your recharging station. Then have the fridge there, and the back wall would have to be a bit different since there is not more room in that back corner. (And the island more in the middle of the room. It's crowding the cooktop. You're going to need passage space for two people in front of the ovens, cooktops and fridge if you don't want to kill someone! :-)
I have to say the Texas girl in me loves the bling of these gold fixtures! :-)
Could be something like you might like? Or too traditional?
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