What do you have on your kitchen windows and window sills?

[Tumblefluff]

I have two large windows with long wide sills.

I've taken the nets down to wash them, but this needs doing frustratingly frequently. I have decluttered the sills as well and they look awfully bare.

I do a lot of cooking on the hob and everything gets really greasy/ faded because they are really sunny spots.

I also cannot keep plants alive indoors.

What do you have on your window sills and how are your windows dressed?

I grow basil on the kitchen windowsill, as it doesn’t cope with the frost in my herb garden (Scotland).

I have roman blinds in my kitchen. Nothing on the window ledges because we have a cat and he would knock everything off.

If stuff is getting greasy then I suggest you get an efficient extractor fan (and use it) and/or reduce the amount of oily/greasy food you cook

Roman blind my mum made 🥰 a cream jug with flowers, hand wash and cream and a wax melt burner... also cream 🙈

Roller blind at the window.

Three tomato bushes, one aloe Vera plant, one basil plant.

A Roberts radio.

A ceramic cactus.

A load of dog meds

I've got glass shelves. Made of glass and for glass. I got them for storage purposes but they look good.

Basil plant, supermarket tomatoes, a pot of utensils, two mugs with pics. of grandchildren on, a flower jug. Some seedlings for grandson to watch growing. In the sitting room, photos and a bronze bust. Bathroom some crystal, fancy boxes for potions and lotions and toothbrush holder.

A basil plant that gets replaced about once a month (Lidl).
A clock propped up against the frame that we still haven't got around to putting on the wall.
Two large cocktail glasses that won't fit in the cupboard.

An IKEA pull down blind, plain white. A bottle stopper set. Sometimes a vase of flower, currently a baby chilli plant. A McDonald’s free hot drink card (full). There was 3 seedling trays of carrots, tomatoes & chillis but they’ve just been moved outside and chillis passed on to new homes (except one I’ve kept).

There was, until very recent, the inside of a musical biscuit tin which played “let it snow” when the lid was lifted. I pulled it off when I put the tin in recycling. It sat on the windowsill with the McDonald’s card covering the light sensor. Every now and again it would randomly play for a few seconds. It made me smile so I left it for about two years. The battery eventually struggled and it sounded distorted so finally I binned it. Dear reader, I miss those opening bars...

My kitchen is in a large room that is kitchen / diner / family so the windows aren’t exactly in the kitchen. They have white wooden blinds. The one in the sitting area which is the one I look at from the kitchen area has a big orchid and some other decorative jars / plants in pots on it; the dining area window has some seedlings the dc are growing but is usually empty as next to a busy dresser so enough going on in that area of the room.

When I had a stand alone kitchen I favoured a clear windowsill as prefer the uncluttered look personally and have a dh who will take one thing being left on a surface as a sign that it’s a free-for-all to leave everything lying around!

Two orchids, a rose scented geranium and some little ornaments

Orchids, mostly. Not difficult to keep, they like to be ignored I think. And anything else I'm trying to propagate. It's a bit of a mess but there's more to life than tidy windowsills.

Nothing
No blinds etc
No plants
About 4m long
I am not fond of clutter
Granite following on from same worktops and splashbacks

The one I'm standing opposite right now has three Lego moon landing figures on, in a tableau

Cats usually here too

Here they are

They are bare

Nothing. I have a window that looks out into the garden and I don’t like anything to get in the way of my view

I have a small plant ( despite the neglect, it has lived on for years! ) , a willow tree figure, a lantern with a tea light and a mosaic thing my Dd made me. I have a slatted wooden blind which has always stayed up!

Roller blind, herbs in pots, my treasured Emma Bridgewater hen on a nest that I don’t actually keep eggs in and a tub of medicines that need to be kept out of reach of smallest. Also a small jug where his paint brushes live.

I've got pots of herbs and a vase of flowers on mine, plus a pretty piece of pottery for keeping washing up stuff in. On the other kitchen sill are jars of pens and coloured pencils and a penny jar which earns us about £12 a year!