Meditation on homemaking

Monday, March 23

Over at Apartment Therapy there is a beautiful meditation on The New Homemaking, “one where home is appreciated, redefined, and brought back into the center of our lives.”

Chris and I have a house in real need of loving homemaking, we merely existed in the house when we last lived there due to distance, work, and other priorities. I cannot comment on events between then and now, but we have suddenly found the new identity of “home renovators” injecting new materials and life into the house.

While I will write more in detail at a later stage, I want to briefly contemplate one thing: the kitchen. This house has a beautiful galley kitchen with lots of bench space but not much storage space, and we are now contemplating what to do. We last lived here when we were cooked vegans and faced with a potential need to replace appliances, I’m wondering if we should just remove them and go for a completely raw kitchen?

That’s if we move into the house, as selling is a potential option. Assuming that we would move in, what would you say to an oven-free kitchen? Is it too weird?

What would be your idea raw kitchen? What would you have in it, how would it be laid out? I would LOVE to know!

~Kate :)

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    Now there's a question!!!

    I actually drew renovation plans for my kitchen (which of course you've seen). I was creating more bench space and under-bench cupboards in the kitchen and was going to move the pantry into the laundry.

    I was going to leave a space between cupboards for a stove to potentially go if we were to put our home on the market, but planned the bench to go right across in the meantime so I could benefit from it. Then, in the event of selling, we'd just have to cut out that piece of bench and put an upright stove in the hole.

    Those are my thoughts anyway.

    Love
    May
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    Hi May - that's a great idea about the kitchen bench! I wondered if I should do that myself, just leaving a space for the oven and for now it could just be a drawer or something!
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    My dream kitchen?
    A semi-outdoor kitchen, for sure, partly under a huge grapevine canopy with a long table with lots of workspace and room for many guests! Overlooking an amazing veggie garden peppered with fruit trees and herbs.

    Semi-outdoors so the dehydrator noise would be kept down inside but still be usable in winter without the worry of weather woes.

    I keep all my dry goods in beautiful glass jars - it would be great to have these on display.

    Hmmm, what else?
    Places to tuck away appliances when not in use.
    Cupboards / spaces to tuck away bulk buys.
    Powerpoints in handy places so you can power a laptop.
    Composting system.
    Sun-drying trays with mesh screens to keep out the little bugs. Bookshelves for all those beautiful raw cookbooks.
    Part industrial looking (basic and pared back), part rustic and welcoming.

    I'm working on manifesting all of this right now :)
 

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