Kitchen Illusion

[mizkit]

So the thing about Irish houses is they mostly have laundry facilities in the kitchen. This is because even up until about five years ago, “all mod cons” - all modern conveniences, including, say, a washing machine (but not a tumble dryer; those are more than Modern Conveniences) - were stil fancy enough to be mentioned in house ads, and most of

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[merlinofchaos]

I really like separating the kitchen with the butcher block the way you did. I've stepped into a number of kitchens built the way yours is, and always felt like they were colossally wasting space by having this huge open space but little storage space.

Also I'm not sure the washing facilities being in the kitchen is a purely Irish thing. I seem to recall seeing rather a lot of that in Europe in general. Many of the apartments I've rented while on trips have had the laundry in the kitchen. It's something I just shrug and go "Oh yeah, I forgot about that" about, like that smell European sinks get because they don't use American style p-traps.

[mizkit]

We now have ambitions of getting another butcher block cut to size and fitting it over the appliances/against the other one, so that we actually have a massive *workspace* there. *looks greedy* :)

[merlinofchaos]

You say greedy, but that was exactly my thought and it's not that hard for someone with a bit of skill at word-working to create.

[mizkit]

Fortunately I have great skill at word-working!

Not so much with wood-working, though... :)

[mizkit]

I will post pictures for you when we've accomplished it. Assuming we do. :)