Kitchen Design

I don't have great thoughts about this. When we had our kitchen remodeled, I liked to say that we went from a kitchen with storage, places to prep food, and places to cook food to a kitchen with some more storage, some more places to prep food, and places to cook food. Oh, and its prettier. I do like it, but alone I'd likely never have done it. Since I've been keeping a spreadsheet of house thoughts, though, a couple have come up more than just a few times. They just make sense to me, and, like much of the list, I hope we can do it with the Next House. One of those is a scullery.

I have never liked storing dirty dishes in the sink. If the dishwasher is empty, thats where they should go (a philosophy not shared by my daughter). But when its not -- well, okay. But sometimes they stay there a long time (by my standards), and fairly often they sit on the counter, too. Nothing gets your day started better than having to push aside the spaghetti sauce pot so that you can find space to make the morning coffee. And it looks so appealing the next day, too.

So, the scullery (area): someplace to get dirty dishes out of sight and out of the way. Of course, not too far, or one day we'll be saying "Hey, where did all the glasses go?"