Most important things about your kitchen?

[LouS84]

Just wondered what people feel is the most important thing about their kitchen? Could be a particular appliance or a way that a certain space is used… looking for inspiration!

I'd love to see pics of kitchens. Some of these sounds amazing.

We've inherited a tatty kitchen that we can't afford to replace, so there's not much I do like about ours tbh.

The most important thing about my kitchen (to me) is how happy I feel every time I'm in it. I bought a house with the most rotten, shitty kitchen (the shitchen as I called it) and after 18 years finally saved enough money to have it transformed into the kitchen of my dreams.

Deep drawers, boiling water tap, waste disposal and the wine fridge. And the fact it's now a sociable light space instead of cramped and dark after taking down a wall. Also a second sink by the backdoor as I don't have a utility. That's a godsend for dirty stuff and when entertaining.

I don’t have to cook in it.

We also waited years to do ours so really appreciate it. Deep drawers instead of cupboards on the bottom; beautiful granite worktops; created a walk in pantry that also houses the laundry; 2 ovens; separate large fridge and separate freezer; lovely sofa. I wish we’d got an ice making drawer as my friend has one and it’s brilliant. Same friend also has two dishwashers, but she does a lot more cooking than me!

I dont understand the love for drawers, I only have a couple for utensils and cutlery, I find them to be nasty slidey things 😂. Give me big cupboards any day! I love my range oven and the 1.5 sink, which are both really useful.

Double width fridge with pull out freezer drawers, it's only Samsung but it's so much easier to use especially if I'm prepping food, I can easily get trays in there. With hindsight, I wouldn't have had the water or ice maker part, I don't like the cloudy ice! Writing that sounds really pathetic 😂

Drawers are lovely slidey things, and if they are deep enough will take a stand mixer, saucepans etc. The advantage over cupboards is that when you pull them out, the stuff at the back comes to you.

Digital radio because of 6music

The velux windows in the ceiling. Our kitchen is a single storey extension and it has remote controlled velux windows which let in so much light and let me watch the stars in the evening.

An easy clean worktop.
I couldn't cope with wood.. have seen too many wooden worktops/counters with darkness/mould around the sink, and chips and scarring.

An easy clean sink. Had previously a very expensive, composite sink which would turn brown while your back was turned.

Boiling water tap. I'd consider that essential now. Plus I'd never have laundry in the kitchen (I moved it to the hallway upstairs to a cupboard I enlarged by taking space away from bedroom behind).

It's a bright, homey space where we all gather. It's the heart of our home.

Deep pan drawers and a waste disposal unit are things I wouldn't be without now.

The fact that we relocated it from a horrible dark, window-less room in the centre of our very old house to a lovely (bright by comparison) space with three windows and rural/garden views.

Then, in no particular order....

The island

Steamvalve Originals articulated tap

Soft close drawers throughout

Cabinets I can repaint whenever I fancy a colour change

Sofa next to the Dovre Vintage woodburner

The two different wallpapers we've incorporated

What I wish we'd done differently....

The Bertazzoni Professional range - we both hate it!

Having all drawers is amazing imho....no more reaching into the backs of cupboards, groping blindly for something often on your knees!

I wouldn't swap ours for anything.

I'd like more lights fitted underneath the cupboards overlooking the work surface. I would find that beneficial when cooking.

Island - very sociable.
Ice machine - used every day
Induction hob on island instead of sink - tidier.
Qwooker tap - v easy.

My husband, preferably cooking my dinner or doing the dishwasher after it.