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defrocked warped primitive can function in weird kitchens
« on: January 16, 2012, 03:22:07 PM »
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Redoing my Kitchen

A friend of mine just redid her kitchen and it's pushing me to redo mine which is an original 1954 ranch style.

Needs. Help. Badly.

She turned me on to a site called Houzz.com. She calls it 'addictive house porn'. It is so full of pictures and ideas, she haunts the site and her ideabook.

If folks have other ideas or advice here, I am all ears.

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2. oooh, you have an authentic mid-century modern house

Very much in demand. Does your kitchen have any original details? Or was there a remodel in the 70s?

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3. The folks who built the house died in it on social security income. I had window units and old carpeting covering hard wood floors. My kitchen had disgusting indoor outdoor carpeting covering the funky linoleum. They were also smokers.

You don't want to know how bad this house was when I got it. My 5 year old thought I had lost my mind moving from our nice previous house to my new project. LOL!

The cabinets are a medium stain plywood. The kind that went with those black wrought iron look door and draw pulls. Nothing fancy, except a cute built in corner hutch in the dining room. Red brick with small front porch on 9 tenth of an acre.

The defrocked warped primitive, she with the face like Hindenberg's:

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14. The people who had my place were also smokers and there was disgusting carpet over hardwood. The carpet was made disgusting not only for the 15 years of hard wear, it was decorated by 3 dogs, 3 cats, and an incontinent bird. There were little piles of shit everywhere.

I just left it all there and painted the walls and ceilings, happy to drip on the filthy carpet. Then I took the carpet up and got rid of it and had the floors refinished as much as they could be, some areas were badly stained by animal piss. Good thing I'm a weaver, strategically placed rag rugs hide a multitude of other people's sins.

I just put down fresh tile in the kitchen, right over the avocado green that was there. There are mistakes but what the hell, it's better than it was.

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4. I can function in all sorts of weird kitchens and have, from the kitchen in a closet with the fridge in the living room to the Victorian kitchen with plenty of space and nothing but a stove and a frestanding double sink--no counter space, no storage, no nothing.

I do insist on two things: first, formal diners can't be allowed to see the havoc I create when I'm cooking, the mess in the sink and on the counters and the drips on the stove and floor. I don't want to see piled up dishes when I'm trying to enjoy dessert. I also don't want the whole house to reek of fish or cabbage. Open plans are OUT, I hate them. In the kitchen, itself, the one thing I desperately need is a place right next to the stove for a decent sized cutting board. The rest of it is negotiable.

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6. I used to be of the same opinion about open kitchens and my havoc. I am considering rethinking this since my kids will soon be gone and I may be able to think straight again.  Not sure yet what I will do, but two folks have come by and pitched that opening up idea.

Regardless, of whether I decide to open the kitchen-dining areas or not, I'm still going to make sure the bedroom wings will be able to seal off from that living, dining and cooking area.

I agree about the cutting board area next to the stove. Sounds like we have lived in similar places!

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9. If you have a bar area/island/peninsula separating you from another area make that bar a full foot higher than the counter behind it. That will allow people to rest their drinks and make small talk from the next room but won't give you a clear view of the detritus that a flat countertop would.

There is nothing that fouls up my appetite than looking at a messy kitchen and knowing I'm the one who will have to clean it up when everyone has gone home.

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12. Yeah, I have thought about that as a possible compromise, but then there is the fact that I am 4'11 inches and get frustrated with all the high counter tops to balance that thought. So you can see why I am so torn on the the whole concept.

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13. I'm 5'6" and agree they're too high for most things. If I had to knead dough, for instance, I'd put it in a shallow pottery bowl in a chair or on a low table if I had it so I didn't get that spasm between my shoulder blades.

Maybe finding a contractor who does kitchens for the handicapped might be an idea, have him build those counters at least 6" shorter. I'm thinking out loud here because my kitchen also needs redoing. The strategies to avoid the stove sticking up would be to have either a cooktop or use a drop in range without a kick space.

It's crazy to stick to standard heights that don't work just because some man decided they were comfortable for him.

^^there the defrocked warped primitive goes again, hating men.
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Re: defrocked warped primitive can function in weird kitchens
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2012, 03:33:54 PM »
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Maybe finding a contractor who does kitchens for the handicapped might be an idea, have him build those counters at least 6" shorter.

Yeah, a Barbie kitchen would do wonders for resale value.

The Lollipop Guild would love it.

She should get a little oven, too, heated by a sixty-watt bulb.

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Re: defrocked warped primitive can function in weird kitchens
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2012, 03:42:34 PM »
She shouldn't worry.  No man in his right mind would want that old hateful hag.

I guess DUmmies cook like they clean house.  Messy.  I clean as I go.  I don't dirty every frickin' utensil I own either.  As for spills, please. If you see it, clean it.  That's why DUmmies have roaches. They're nasty.

Easy bake oven.   BWAHAHAHAHA !!!!

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Re: defrocked warped primitive can function in weird kitchens
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2012, 03:45:23 PM »

Yeah, a Barbie kitchen would do wonders for resale value.

The Lollipop Guild would love it.

She should get a little oven, too, heated by a sixty-watt bulb.

You know, she with the face like Hindenberg's should perhaps move to one of the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants where things weren't always ergometric.

Think of stairs, please.

Steps. 

Someone sometime in our evil capitalistic system--I'm thinking maybe it was during the 1800s--figured out the ideal "height" for steps, and generally they're used all over.

In the socialist paradises, nobody thought of that, and so as a consequence, one is always stumbling over the first step, which appears to be 3" high, then the second step, which appears to be 6" high, then the third step, which appears to be 4.5" high, then the fourth step, which appears to be 7.25" high, and so on.

It can make going up or down stairs a real pain.....especially in socialist-built tall buildings where the elevators are always out of order.

There's a reason countertops, stoves, desks, chairs, and whatnot are the heights they are.  Someone sometime determined they were the ideal heights for the overwhelming majority of people who wanted to use them.

Well, okay, so the defrocked warped primitive's short, and such things aren't ideal.

Boo-****ing-hoo.

It would be superfluous to point out that most things in the world are made for hearing people--as the vast overwhelming majority of people are hearing people--but franksolich adjusts, no "customizing" for his particular circumstances necessary.

Too bad for the defrocked warped primitive.
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Re: defrocked warped primitive can function in weird kitchens
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2012, 03:53:06 PM »
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12. ...there is the fact that I am 4'11 inches...

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13. ...Maybe finding a contractor who does kitchens for the handicapped might be an idea,...

.......really got a way with words!
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Re: defrocked warped primitive can function in weird kitchens
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2012, 04:09:24 PM »
There's a reason our parents warned us away from things that would stunt our growth.

DUmmies did not always have the benefit of that kind of advice.

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Re: defrocked warped primitive can function in weird kitchens
« Reply #6 on: January 16, 2012, 08:29:13 PM »
You know, she with the face like Hindenberg's should perhaps move to one of the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants where things weren't always ergometric.

Think of stairs, please.

Steps. 

Someone sometime in our evil capitalistic system--I'm thinking maybe it was during the 1800s--figured out the ideal "height" for steps, and generally they're used all over.

In the socialist paradises, nobody thought of that, and so as a consequence, one is always stumbling over the first step, which appears to be 3" high, then the second step, which appears to be 6" high, then the third step, which appears to be 4.5" high, then the fourth step, which appears to be 7.25" high, and so on.

It can make going up or down stairs a real pain.....especially in socialist-built tall buildings where the elevators are always out of order.


Victory Over America Palace had an array of different height and size steps inside.  Saddam had the style copied directly from the Tudor era palaces and castles in England.  Apparently, the thought was that no one living there would be surprised by the height of the stairs and would be able to go up them much faster than an invader no knowing the height of the steps would be able to follow.  The palace was never finished and there were no hand rails on the stairs, it made climbing five stories to the roof in unlit stairwells interesting. 

It got laughs from my co-workers, I was barely fazed by a mortar going off fairly near, but afraid of walking in a stairwell in the dark.   
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Re: defrocked warped primitive can function in weird kitchens
« Reply #7 on: January 16, 2012, 08:45:16 PM »
.......really got a way with words!
I hate to say this but being short is not a handicap!!!!
Not directed at you marv, but at the DUmmy you were quoting!!
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Re: defrocked warped primitive can function in weird kitchens
« Reply #8 on: January 16, 2012, 09:20:49 PM »
Oh crap, that's one of my favorite decorating websites too.

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Re: defrocked warped primitive can function in weird kitchens
« Reply #9 on: January 16, 2012, 09:55:46 PM »
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4. I can function in all sorts of weird kitchens and have, from the kitchen in a closet with the fridge in the living room to the Victorian kitchen with plenty of space and nothing but a stove and a frestanding double sink--no counter space, no storage, no nothing.

I do insist on two things: first, formal diners can't be allowed to see the havoc I create when I'm cooking, the mess in the sink and on the counters and the drips on the stove and floor. I don't want to see piled up dishes when I'm trying to enjoy dessert. I also don't want the whole house to reek of fish or cabbage. Open plans are OUT, I hate them. In the kitchen, itself, the one thing I desperately need is a place right next to the stove for a decent sized cutting board. The rest of it is negotiable.

See...I told you she was a pig.

Clean as you go, it does wonders.

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Re: defrocked warped primitive can function in weird kitchens
« Reply #10 on: January 16, 2012, 10:22:20 PM »
See...I told you she was a pig.

Clean as you go, it does wonders.
Do you suppose she observes the five-second rule when she drops something?

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« Reply #11 on: January 16, 2012, 11:18:41 PM »
Do you suppose she observes the five-second rule when she drops something?

I'm positive.

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« Reply #12 on: January 17, 2012, 01:56:32 AM »
Do you suppose she observes the five-second rule when she drops something?

Well, since she with the face like Hindenberg's is short, it takes her less time to reach down to pick something up, than it does for those of us more altitudinally blessed.
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Re: defrocked warped primitive can function in weird kitchens
« Reply #13 on: January 17, 2012, 05:00:58 AM »
JohnnyReb likes an open kitchen...very open, like out in the woods somewhere. Funny, but I can cook on/over an open fire but have problems in the kitchen. That metal cabinet thingy with all the knobs just doesn't work for me. :-)
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Re: defrocked warped primitive can function in weird kitchens
« Reply #14 on: January 17, 2012, 07:54:51 AM »
See...I told you she was a pig.

Clean as you go, it does wonders.
I like being able to rinse and pop the dishes in the dishwasher when I am done eating. You have to stay in the kitchen to keep an eye on things anyway. Why not clean up while you are in there? If I went to someones house that had a nasty kitchen I don't think I would be able to consume any food that came out of there. :bolt:
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Re: defrocked warped primitive can function in weird kitchens
« Reply #15 on: January 17, 2012, 08:02:11 AM »
Every once in awhile I get some positive out of the DU.

Today an neat site:  http://www.houzz.com
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