Kitchens, more than one way to stir the pot.

When Joe and I were planning our hopefully last home together we spent a LOT of time discussing details.  We both like multifunctional rooms.

Kitchen in 'Deer Chase'

The room  I think we spent the most time on was the kitchen. When we joined households back in 2001; we both had large collections of books. Not surprisingly they were a lot of the same books; duplicates were donated to friends and our local ‘friends of the library’ bookstore. We STILL have an inordinate amount of cookbooks – they take up four selves in our pantry. (It is on our to-do list - to go through and thin them out, hopefully soon…before their numbers creep up to five pantry shelves.)

Kitchen Island in 'Deer Chase'

Now that we have cooked separately and together all these years, we think we have a kitchen design that now works well for us. We do have a walk in pantry where we store a lot of our serving pieces and small appliances that would normally in the kitchen or on the counter tops. Luckily we both like clean counter tops and space to sprawl out when we are cooking.  We have two sinks in the kitchen so we can work on separate prep projects.

Kitchens are very individual- that’s why your kitchen design has to work for YOU, or you both. When I find a recipe that works, I really don’t like to muck around with it; Joe is always saying, “How can we make this better?”

We have a piece of crewel work in our kitchen that’s says ‘The kitchen is the heart of the home.’

Company, close friend or not seem to find there way into just about everyone’s kitchen.

In the years we have been building homes for people, couples I have yet to hear “the kitchen in our house is too big, I want a smaller kitchen.” That said, it is probable that you will spend more time on this room than any other when planning your new home or re-model.

Click here to view some of the kitchens in timber frames we have built over the years.