I haven't noticed a landline in a kitchen that I have done for some time now. Personally, I can easily count the people I know one one hand that still have a landline.

I would place it in a home office or other out of the place way if possible and place a charging cradle somewhere in the kitchen if needed.

A Docking Drawer in the kitchen is a nice option to keep the electronic clutter off the countertops.

We had the phone jack installed in the back of a wall cabinet, just in case we needed to plug in a phone.

Police and fire dept says there is one required for emergencies. If there is a power outage you need a rotary phone to plug in somewhere. jmm1837 doesnt everyone need one for internet connection?

Many rural areas, places with rugged terrain, do not have cell phone coverage.

Place it where it is convenient for you. Where would you put keys, chargers, etc?

Forgot about rural areas with no cell coverage. I haven't been in one of those for some time. I would still opt for the base station in another room and only the handset in the kitchen keeping the counters clutter free.

@joelcoqui, No. You can get internet over your Cable TV line as well. Also with 5G coming soon, you'll probably have wireless internet to your home so no cables will be needed at all.

Why does anyone need a landline for an internet connection? Is dial-up still a thing?

Scott G I have Fios in NY

Many rural areas do not have cable. And no other access to high speed broadband.

https://www.cnet.com/news/why-rural-areas-cant-catch-a-break-on-speedy-broadband/

I had my contractor remove my phone line in my kitchen. I have 3 others in the house if I never need them for internet access or ,heaven forbid, for a phone.

I kind of miss mine...now that my kids are old enough to stay home alone (10 and 12) but do not have cell phones. We make due with another cell phone that is our 'home phone'.

I try to get to areas with no cell coverage (or electric lines, or city water) as often as possible ;-).

have smart tv with internet but what does this have to do with a landline hardwired phone?

We have a phone outlet in the space between the kitchen and the breakfast table. If we still had a landline (and sometimes I kinda wish we did, just for our own use and not a published number), that would be the perfect spot for the phone; that's probably why it was put there in the first place. It's near the spaces where I spend most of the day but also to the stairs, and if I'm working in the kitchen or hanging out at the table it's handy.

I haven't had a land line in 20 years. I haven't done a kitchen where someone kept a phone jack in 15 years. If people still have such a thing, it isn't in the kitchen. It's the equivalent of that obsolete home intercom panel. It gets decommissioned.

We get it. Not everyone has a land line.
That is not the same as NO one has a land line, many of us need them.

The OP had a question about a land line, and responses that say they are not needed are not helpful.

The point is that's it isn't needed IN THE KITCHEN. If someone needs one, put it somewhere else.

I don't have a land line anymore. But when we did have one in the kitchen it hung on the wall.

Mine is on the wall.

We have VOiP and wireless phones. You can have the telephone jack whereever your internet line is and simple wireless phones that connect only on an electrical line whereever you want). I dont have one in t he kitchen, but we have one on a shelf in the living room.

Actually, this is not even a telephone jack, just an USB port on the computer.

If you don't plan to use it regularly, do you have a pantry or home office off the kitchen?

We wanted a landline for our new house in rural western Canada even though it was't a requirement for fire/police or internet. In fact, we had to battle with the phone company to get one lol. But the power does go out every so often, 911/ambulances doesn't work well in this area with cell phones, and my husband doesn't have/want a cell phone. We have ours in the office off the kitchen, with a few handsets scattered around.

We have a landline in the walk-in pantry with an old phone that does not require electricity. We don't give cell phones to our kids til they are 16; after that we might get rid of it, but maybe not because of power outages and emergencies during hurricanes. The pantry is the only interior room with no windows, so that's where we would be in a hurricane. We also have one in DH's office because he conducts a lot of conference calls and needed one with a better speaker than his cell phone.

Those of us with them usually just put them on the wall, which is the traditional old school location (as someone old enough to experience a party line). If there is an existing jack on a wall somewhere, you can just mount it directly on the jack. It's out of the way and doesn't take up space. Most landline phones have screwholes on the back of the base designed to mount directly on the jack plate. That's assuming you have a mount style jackplate like this one:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Commercial-Electric-1-Line-Phone-Wall-Mount-White-219-4C-WH/203715296

Mine is on the wall. I still like to have one in my kitchen as if it rings and I'm cooking or letting dogs in/out, I can tuck it between my shoulder and my ear and not disconnect the way a cordless phone is wont to do. I don't want a cordless on my countertop anyway. I finally found a nice white landline phone on Amazon and am quite pleased with it.

I have a landline, poor cell reception due the geography of where I live. My kitchen phone is on the wall.

This is going to be such an individual thing.

My landline is hung on the wall by the door to the dining room, first because back when the handset had a cord, that let me walk from the kitchen to the dining room with the phone to my ear.

Then, when we went cordless, we put it there, because the jack was in the kitchen, and we wanted to be able to answer the phone as soon as we stepped in from the dining room.

Now it's there, but mounted on the refrigerator panel NEXT to the wall because that's where the jack is, and because mounting it on the wall wouldn't work now w/ the way the refrigerator panel is so close to the door.

I'm thinking of eliminating the $80 fee for a landline and going with Voice Over IP--my Internet comes through the cable TV company, bcs it's the only source of a fast connection on my block (the phone companies FIOS hasn't been installed where I am).

That will mean I won't have a phone if the power goes out. Well, a cell phone (though in the huge blackout a while ago, no one's cell phones worked because all the electrical backup was from nearby cell phone towers instead of from generators the way it is in the country), unless the power outage is even more widespread.

If I do that, there's almost no need to have the phone unit there on the refrigerator panel. Though I'll probably leave a base unit there, mostly because the hole is already in the panel, and also because we're used to going there to get the phone.

There's some power in having the phone be in the place you are personally most used to finding it!

Incidently, those phones with wireless handsets do not work if the power is out. You need either a cell phone or an actual plug in phone.

Our main landline phone is corded, not cordless or wireless, and the charging handsets are each by an electrical outlet.

Ours is also on the wall. I love it! We have power outages often, and live 'out in the sticks'. I also tuck it under my ear and chat when I cook, like Anglophilia.

Joel: if you have FIOS, you do not have a landline. You have VOIP, or voice-over-IP. You do not have a copper pair of wires that goes from your house to the central office. You have a glass fiber. On the side of your house somewhere, there is a 'box' called an Optical Network Terminal (ONT) which breaks out the TV, internet and voice into 3 connections. Your wall phone plugs into this terminal.

I still have a landline (copper pair). My internet is DSL at the moment. I went wireless inside the house years ago, so only one phone jack works and it is in the kitchen, on a wall in a corner. My wireless base station is plugged into it and hangs on the wall.

I still have a landline, with the most basic service, although that is getting so expensive now that I am considering going to just cell. I kept the landline for work related calls, to have a working phone during power outages, and to not be bothered when I am away from work or the house by work.

When I re-did the kitchen, I moved the phone from the wall because it would interfere with the swing of the pantry cabinet door. I moved it to the wall at the 15" cabinets next to the refrigerator; however the crew didn't install the jack on the correct side of the electrical outlet so there isn't enough room for the phone to actually be on the wall -- I switched to one that sits on the counter, in the corner next to the fridge. It is out of the way there but still convenient. (For those of you who say it doesn't belong in the kitchen -- that is a central location and furthermore, the only phone jack in the entire downstairs of my small house.)

In my former kitchen, it was on the wall. In this kitchen with more counter space than I really need, I have a small base set on the counter under one of the upper cabs. There are accompanying small charging base sets discreetly in my living room and my office. We both have cell phones. I keep a corded landline in the master bedroom. Coastal location and I should describe the storm we had one year that had people lined up to use it, calling family to tell them they were OK and calling their insurance agents ;0).

Anne, my entire community was without power for 3 full days minimum. Most neighborhoods were more like 7 and some longer. We happened to be on the same grid as our hospital so were first in line for restoration of service.

You can put the outlet inside a cabinet up near top and place phone inside drawer.

We are having ours placed in the butler's pantry. We have a very open floorplan and I didn't want it in the kitchen. We live in a very rural area where there is no cable company. Cell coverage is spotty and satellite works in good weather so landline is our best bet for a realiable phone.

Ours was installed on a wall in the kitchen and behind it was the coat closet. We flipped the box around and had the jack in the coat closet in case we or a future owner ever wanted access to it again.

Ours is on the wall also. Land line is bundled with our cable internet and is probably VoiP. When the power go out it has a battery back up (the service not the device). Both cell and DSL are very spotty here.

Nothing to be embarrassed about. We live most of our day in the kitchen. I think it is silly to place it in another room. Sounds like the kitchen is the most convenient place for it. weedmeister I have had Fios for years and it includes the landline with long distance. It is on my bill. It includes internet, TV and landline services.

I've always had one on my kitchen wall, actually replaced it with this vintage rotary five years ago. It's fun, but I don't use it as much as the other phones in the house unless I'm cooking and need to watch the stove. The ring will make you jump!

I've got the same one as dunnjn, same color. I've converted, however, by using VOIP and just connecting the old phone house wiring to the VOIP box and disconnecting the outside line. Of course, it's depends on power to operate. Also, rotary dial to place a call doesn't work, only touch tone. But I've got a few of those connected as well.

I've lived in rural areas without access to either. Not recommended : ) We never use the landline (except when I can't find my darned cell phone, so I call myself)... But I'd never want to be without it. Hardwire in the office and bedroom. Keep the corresponding plug-ins in a few other rooms - including the kitchen. The hardwired ones would be where I'd go for emergencies, if needed.

I'd agree with many here if you want to keep clutter down... have it hardwired where it's not noticeable, and if you don't use a landline then tuck it away where you can access it. Otherwise, perhaps inside a drawer, small phone? : )

Are you referring to the traditional landline that plugs into an RJ11 jack in the wall or the phone service that you get with triple play from the cable company? If the latter, then if you have a multi-handset system, you can put the main phone in another room and put one of the phones, in its tiny cradle, in the kitchen in an out of the way place near an outlet, if that works.