Teeny Retro Kitchen
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Comments (6)I second the wow! But I couldn't see what she did in the two corners... could she access the space there, either side of the oven? I looked and looked, but couldn't see if she had piano hinged corner cupboards on the bottom. Perahps they open out the back into another room? And someone on the website asked about her stepladder, but I couldn't find it either. Does it go into more detail in the magazine itself? I loved the mirrored backsplashes too, but I'm glad it don't have to clean them LOL....See MoreRemodel of my teeny kitchen - seeking input!
Comments (30)Wood floors - We put in natural Sassafras floors where the new kitchen is going - no stain - stain will DEFINITELY need touching up sooner than later in a kitchen. Sassafras is a light-colored wood with interesting grain, but it is soft (just barely harder than pine). Natural Maple is light-colored - very little grain though, so it is a more modern, clean look. Ambrosia Maple has character - worm holes and darker streaking. Where the new floor meets the antique Fir floor in the DR we will be adding a decorative strip between (probably Walnut and Ash). We hand-finished all our floors with Tung Oil; the benefit is that any wear-and-tear can easily be touched up with a bit of steel wool and new oil on just that area, rather than needing to re-do the entire floor. Search this forum for Tung Oil - there is one thread where I posted all the details on how to properly do it (April or March 2011). River rock tiles - the average price for those is about $10-$12 / sq.ft. Your link is in Polish Zloty, but I don't know the current exchange rate. I'm not Jewish, so I don't know the rules, but I agree that a small oven sucks! We have a 37" wide vintage Chamers Range, and the oven is SMALL! If I cannot get a separate baking center (where the laundry is supposed to go), we'll be putting one extra 30" electric wall oven under the counter in the island. Not so convenient, but a necessary evil - we NEED the counterspace, so wall ovens are out in our small kitchen. My kitchen is an "L" with an island - open fully on two sides to DR and FR; the cab walls are only 12' and 13'6" long. I am still able to fit a separate 33" fridge and 33" freezer, an extra 27" 3-burner electric cooktop with storage below, the 37"w Chambers range, one smaller 21-24"w sink with double dish-drawers next to the range, and a large 36"w sink for pots and pans and prep (next to compost drawer) on the island. Both sinks will be at least 9" deep, the smaller one maybe 12" deep because that will be the dish sink. Do you need 2 separate dishwashers? What about a double dish-drawer unit? They take up less aisle space when open, and for us the benefit is that smaller loads can be done more often, rather than waiting to fill up a standard D/W and running out of coffee mugs and spoons in the meantime ;)...See MoreTeeny cabin kitchen redesign advice!
Comments (4)This is not a remote little nothing cabin, given the full kitchen suite of appliances. However, you have not told us how you will use the adjacent space(s)--do you have an encroaching living room + dining area? Where is the view? How many in family? How frequently is the place used? In the mountains, at the lake, at the ocean, on acreage for hunting? I'm a lake cabin person and I know how our family used our cabin over time. You orient yourself to the view usually. Wouldn't want to sit with back to the outdoors unless it was necessary. Family activities changed as kids grew up--when young we spread out to play on floor but when older and when the place was electrified the position of lights over tables dictated usage of the adjoined rooms--board games, cards, overflow seating for meals. Wood stove also was a fixed thing--couldn't have children by it, and wood needed to enter through door and go directly there. My point here is that the more fixed things, the more fixedly you use the place. Reconfigurable pieces allow a variation in use. We had a long trestle table with two benches and some spare chairs--we sat many people there and all conversed and enjoyed one another. That is many peoples' primary memory of the time at the lake, outside of being outside. Consider a substantial but moveable cart to create a floating corner to the kitchen space at the junction of a line from rt of outside door and left of inside door. It can be towed to side to create various configurations, including buffet service. Forget seating at it. Maybe put microwave on it if you can put a plug into the floor there. The thing about recreational cabins is that the activities of the family dictate the use of the space; if you put a sit-down island there you won't be able to have a full family sit-down supper elsewhere. Your problem with making a peninsula perpendicular to the big window in these photos is that the walkpath from outdoors is too tight there. Pedestrians will need to go into the area now taken by the table, which is unfortunately already taken. If you could bump the refrig to the right, you could have more plunk space at the range--perhaps a piece of butcherblock or something with a narrow storage unit below it; if these are cabs that you can mess with, move or replace the upper over the refrig to bring back feeling of completeness up there, but what will you store there anyway? Another option: bump the whole range area including uppers to the left (is that a real vent with complete outside channel in wall or a recirculating one?) Put open shelves or something into the gap between old cabs and this new splice--open cubbyholes for wine bottles at bottom and pigeonholes at top or something. You're clever and you'll figure it out. Then the person at range doesn't do the fanny bump with person at sink. Microwave should go elsewhere--into the dining area on a cart/bookshelf/whatever. That space next to doorway is too precious to give to a microwave. Or, get an over the range one, but this will bring more traffic into a room that you're trying to route traffic around. You will need rules--such as nothing non-kitchen stays on countertops for longer than 10 minutes. No fishing gear, no luggage from car, no agates from the beach or whatever. No no no. You need an alternative landing spot for this stuff and unfortunately your door swings wrong way to use the corner for it. Is there a weatherproof plunk space outside this door? Banquette seating under window might be helpful--when it's just two people there, the banquette becomes the plunk and storage place for coolers, fishing poles, whatever, and the table can be pushed up against it....See MoreTeeny Tiny (but New!) Kitchen
Comments (18)The oven is smaller than what I was used to and some of my baking items (large cookie sheet and a lasagne pan which held enough lasagne to feed my neighborhood) are too wide/deep to fit. So I've downsized on those items. But I'm cooking for 1 most of the time, and up to 4 tops, so I'm fine with it. It does hold my turkey pan. I've roasted chicken already and had no problem cooking an entire chicken. The trouble would come with Thanksgiving side dishes, but my place is too small for the Thanksgiving gathering anyway, so that won't be an issue. I can roast a whole chicken and get one side dish in, but I have to use the right casserole. I live in a small space, so I'm used to working these things out. Hope this helps....See Moreelebea2
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