Tales From the Box

The design of our kitchen was something that we mulled over for many a night and day – because we tend to be the sort of people who live around our kitchen. The arrangement of our kitchen was the first thing we designed in our reno process, but was one of the areas that was constantly being changed as it was being built. The island bench was important, and the position of the cooktop in the middle was a stroke of genius, but the alignment of the bench with the rest of the kitchen and room (roof beams in particular) was causing hurty brain issues. It wasn’t until we changed the design of the kitchen – moving the floor to ceiling cupboards so that two of them were at the oven end of the kitchen rather than the sink end. This smoothed things out quite nicely and thus our kitchen felt much more balanced.

We added to the same IKEA kitchen that we bought in 2004 and used it to build off for our new space. We had customize the kitchen a far bit to make it fit and look integrated with the design of the house. A few people have asked what appliances we used – our cooktop is a Fisher and Paykel CT560X, oven is a Fisher and Paykel BI603E .

We still have the little matter of a dining table – size and where to put it….