{"id":6,"date":"2011-09-24T14:07:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T14:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/remodel\/2011\/09\/24\/the_existing_kitchen\/"},"modified":"2011-09-24T14:07:25","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T14:07:25","slug":"the_existing_kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/remodel\/2011\/09\/24\/the_existing_kitchen\/","title":{"rendered":"The existing kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a picture of the kitchen from when we first saw it; this is still the previous owners&#8217; stuff.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parkercat.org\/remodel\/remodel\/DCL_3116.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DCL_3116.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.parkercat.org\/remodel\/assets_c\/2011\/09\/DCL_3116-thumb-500x332-4636.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-none\" height=\"332\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parkercat.org\/remodel\/remodel\/DCL_3116.JPG\"><br \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<br \/>And here is the current floorplan:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parkercat.org\/remodel\/assets_c\/2011\/09\/existing-4639.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.parkercat.org\/remodel\/assets_c\/2011\/09\/existing-thumb-300x574-4639.png\" alt=\"existing.png\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" height=\"574\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>You can clearly see that it&#8217;s straight out of 1983, including all the appliances.&nbsp; There&#8217;s a short list of things we like about this kitchen:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the floor (not visible here): 12&#8243; square quarry tiles, set on a diagonal. Durable, well-installed, attractive.<\/li>\n<li>spaciousness: the physical room is large, accommodating a lot of people.&nbsp; That&#8217;s important because, of course, everybody always winds up in the kitchen at parties.<\/li>\n<li>room for a table: Lis and I eat in the kitchen most nights.<\/li>\n<li>pantry storage: the adjacent bump-out contains an extremely useful pantry cabinet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just about everything else here could use improvement.&nbsp; I won&#8217;t even go into aesthetics, just functional issues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>insufficient working space: given the amount of counter in the room, you would not think that&#8217;s a problem. But the primary working space is between the sink &amp; the stove, and it&#8217;s tiny.<\/li>\n<li>insufficient cabinet space: this room is somewhat bigger than our old kitchen, but we had to struggle to find a home for everything. We also have more stuff in offline storage (basement) than we did.<\/li>\n<li>cabinets: they are 1983 builder-grade. One tried to fall off the wall.<\/li>\n<li>fridge &amp; sink: 25 years old. We&#8217;ve replaced the rest of the appliances, which I&#8217;ll describe in another post.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now about that decor.&nbsp; This house is 120 years old.&nbsp; You would think there would be some hint of that in the kitchen (besides the far-from-level floor, I mean). But no, it&#8217;s crappy 80&#8217;s builder-grade modern. I think we can do much better.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a picture of the kitchen from when we first saw it; this is still the previous owners&#8217; stuff. &nbsp;And here is the current floorplan:You can clearly see that&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/remodel\/2011\/09\/24\/the_existing_kitchen\/\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/remodel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/remodel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/remodel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/remodel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/remodel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/remodel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/remodel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/remodel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/remodel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}