Squirrel26 I've just watched an episode of 'Shop Well for Less'. Thank you so much for mentioning it! I am extremely thrifty myself, and I was astonished at the amount of money the Ingram family were splashing around.
Earlier, I took DD3 on a trek to see her campus (she was online all last year) and we timed our train trips there and back, as well as the walks from station to campus. Plus she found all her lecture venues.
My kitchen is a small, separate room with a three-season porch out the back door, a deck off that, and the outside stairs to the back yard off the landing outside the porch door. There's a charming built-in china cabinet in the kitchen along with the rest of the cabinets. I squeezed a small, drop leaf/gateleg breakfast table with (which I found in an alley and cleaned up) and folding chairs into the space, and I have wire rack shelves for pots, recipe books, mixing bowls, big jars of couscous and rotini, etc. I really like a separate kitchen. It bothers me to have people looking on while I cook or bake and create an unholy mess.