The placement of the stove would make me not want to cook
Reminds me of my grandma's kitchen growing up. Way more character than the soulless granite countetops, stainless steel appliances, and neutral cabinets that is in vogue now.
Thank you for saying exactly what I was thinking. If they painted it and changed those ugly ass cupboards it wouldn't be a bad kitchen.
There's a salmon colored room at the back too. My entire house was pepto bismol pink with green rugs when we bought it, and I thought that was bad. This place might actually be worse.
I must be weird. I kinda like it. It keeps the grease and heat away from the rest of the prep space.
Really depends where the fridge is... Triangle is optimal, but if the fridge and sink both require walking around that counter it's gonna get annoying fast.
Also lets them have a little breakfast area as well.
Seems like the most efficient use of space to me.
It looks like a good use of space if you have never really used a kitchen before. Very difficult to use in any real world cooking scenario.
There should be laws stopping people who don't use kitchens from designing them. I see so many terrible choices like this.
Oh fucking please.
The sink situation is easily solved with either filling up that kettle, or using a stock pot. The fridge being out of frame means you're not having to go around the partial island.
This is a nice utilization of an awkward space. The stove placement means you don't have to teach young and/or stupid housemates 'hot behind' because there's space for both mis en place and to set a hot dish, in a way that doesn't mean someone has to scooch behind you and bumping butts.
This is far from the worst design this room layout could have and is actually pretty damn smart given the layout.
The kitchen is overall hideous, but I do like that generous prep space adjacent to the cook top.
Turn oven 90° counterclockwise, counter along the wall left of the oven instead of where it is now.
Bonus: You can now have storage above the counter!
I'm with you. I kind of like it over there keeping its mess to itself. Kind of dig the green too.
Placement of the oven does not concern me, what does and always do, is that pathetic exhaust fan above it, which may or may not be connected to the outside by a duct, but in either situation, it's a low quality system that does not even remove 50% of the cooking aroma, it's like no one has ever figured out how to make one for home use that is effective and not sound like a jet engine. I've seen $2 million dollar condos that have that problem.
Ok it's not just me. The one in my house clearly had a duct but the previous owners removed it. Now the range hood exhausts out the front directly into your face.
Maybe they had an olfactory disability and needed assistance with identifying when they were poorly cooking their meals
I've lived in a couple of apartments in Norway where they had a genius solution to the problems you mention (except the jet engine sound): it sends all odours to your NEIGHBOURS who have their kitchen right above or below yours 😎
(warning:it works both ways. So if your neighbours are cooking you better turn it on, and you better set it to superjet mode, because the strongest decides where the odours go.)
I love to imagine the excitement of these listing agents when they see a spike in views hahah
yeah I sorta liked it. I can cook while someone else is grabbing stuff from the fridge or lodaing/unloading the dishwasher and we are not in each others way. Just have to prep well with stuff on the counter to the right.
I kind of like the place one of the oven.
You can open the door and there's no way it's going to block the path for anybody else who's walking in the kitchen. So you got a lot of people in there cooking say for Thanksgiving no worries.
It would also be very hard for say a kid to come in on the side and potentially get hurt. I know there have been many times I've had to keep a sharp eye on some very curious young ones.
Cleaning it might be a bitch though.
This house is pretty cute (and priced within reach!), but that kitchen would annoy me...https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2429-Woodley-Rd-Montgomery-AL-36111/72810736_zpid/
Wow, houses are still cheap in AL, I remember when they were cheap here (near Nashville, TN)
I dig the oven placement. If I need to chop something, the counter is right there and I can have a beer closeby. Less space for people to crowd around you getting to other areas of the kitchen.
Agreed. Husband and I are constantly bumping ass because the space around our stove is just a hair too small. There's plenty of space to prep and drop cooked dishes.
I would enjoy a cubicle cooktop, i think
Tear out that oven, hood, and the extended counter to its right.
Replace with new oven and hood, rotated 90° so they're facing into the kitchen.
3: STRIP OFF THAT FUCKING PAINT.
That's an.... odd... placement. I do like the counter immediately next to the stove like that, but, yeah .... no.
It's the sink being so far away from the stove that bothers me. Those two things need to be together
It's like they built the kitchen, then suddenly remembered after the fact that maybe a stove would be a nice idea.
I think doing that little loop around the counter every time you tend to the stove would get real old real fast.
It's weird. But could be conducive to good kitchen practices regarding ingredient prep/mise en place and sticking to a recipe instead of cooking on the fly and cutting stuff up when you should be at the stove. You'd need to stick to a workflow... But I mostly agree. I prefer cooking chaotically.
Maybe those are fake cabinets that are just hiding the channel for the vent?
Probably not, but it's nice to dream I guess.
They're not fake since they have hinges, but the wall they're against looks to be exterior considering the placement of the window, so they might have an actual vent and some extra storage around the outlet.
It's so you can easily get to the vent for maintenance or repairs, I've seen this sort of "fake" cabinet before.
Maybe but I've seen a lot of real cabinets above these too. The house I grew up in was like this and my GF had one in the house she was renting too. Seems very common unfortunately.
This is what I have almost always had in my place. Almost identical range hood with a cupboard around the vent tubing to give some storage for spices and shit. I assumed that's how it was in the picture cause that's literally all I've known.
I would advise against keeping spices there. Heat and humidity are bad for them. Or store most of your spices somewhere else and only small amounts near the stove.
I keep my tamale steamer/giant stock pot in there because it fits nowhere else and I don't use it often. Also the coffee pot from my old coffee maker, as insurance against breaking the one that came with my new coffee maker. It's an awkward space, perfect for awkward items.
It's too small to fit anything else up there and I don't have anywhere else to put them unfortunately
I mean, it could be a good fake and the hinges are just there to really sell it, but yeah, that seems super unlikely
How did you know the hood is fake? Mine has a cabinet above it too but the hood duct is run through the cabinet and boxed in leaving room around it to still store things
It looked too thin to be venting. I've lived in places with hoods like that which just blow the hot air in your face
Fake hoods have a vent on the front to helpfully blow the steam and fumes back into your face. This doesn’t appear to have that, so it’s probably real.