La nostra Cucina (Our Kitchen) (Picture Heavy Post)

Stinky The Clown

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Tue Mar-08-05 05:34 PM
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La nostra Cucina (Our Kitchen) (Picture Heavy Post)

Edited on Tue Mar-08-05 05:59 PM by Husb2Sparkly

A while ago I promised to post some pictures of our kitchen. The cleaning lady was here yesterday, so la cucina was all gussied up. The color in the pictures is a bit off. The red on the soffits is actually more a brick color than it appears. The darker yellow looks a bit orange-ish. The light yellow is about right.

Anyway ..... here we go ......

The first picture is the cooking area, taken from a high angle. The big black thing is a wok we tend to use a lot. The sinks are extra deep (10") and each has a depression around it that fits cutting boards that go flush with the counter, expanding the work space if we need to. Sparkly tends to always work to the left of the sinks. I tend to work to the right of them. (Is that a political statement??? :shrug: Probably not!)

Next is the same area more from eye level. This shows the wall shelves that replaced the old wall cabinet with the microwave that used to be there. This is a *much* better use of that wall. The pot rack was also a huge help in getting our cabinets more organized. The pots we leave out are only a part of what we have. The cabinets are still full of more of them! You can also see a bookshelf where we keep a few of our more well used cookbooks. There are also some small appliances there (fryer, rice cooker, blender ..... and more books below that ....).

The next one is what I call the baking area because the mixer lives there and I sometimes clear the counter for larger baking efforts (but usually my baking gets done on the stretch of counter between the sink and the oven).

As you can see, the espresso maker and the cooking liquors also live on the "baking" counter, so maybe I need to rename it. Ya think? This is the same area, from an eye level perspective:

And this is where we eat daily meals. This picture also shows well the three paint colors Sparkly chose. The dining room, just beyond the oven in the pictures above, gets used a time or two a week, maybe when the kids area here. We still plan to get a new table for the kitchen. There used to be a custom six foot table that, with the church pew, allowed us to seat up to 10 people in that tiny space. It was just too big for Sparkly and me, so it is in the garage now, taken apart, and we have this small table. The church pew stayed. We have a neat old chrome "cracked ice" 50s set, but one of the chairs needs reupholstering. I found the old vinyl, so someday ....... anyway, this is it:

So that's it. That's our indoor kitchen. Hopefully we'll get started on the outdoor kitchen this Spring. Electricity, running water .... gas grill ...... one or two gas burners .... refrigerator ...... and a brick oven! If my back holds out and I can persuade my two strapping sons to help dear old Dad lay block and brick .........