The kitchen area is important to my wife and I. She bakes bread and treats for me often and I want to make sure that she is able to continue. Having a wide open multipurpose space for her to chop, roll and make the magic happen is important to our design. The stove top and the oven have to stay under the fume hood and where the propane is run into the unit. The refrigerator need to stay in its original location as well since that is where the access panels and venting are located. This will limit the design of the kitchen.
We really like the HofArc Airstream blog and the open layout of his kitchen. One of the problems we are trying to deal with is the cost of the pulls, glides, closures and hinges. We prefer a clean more modern look and would like to avoid a country kitchen style. How to do that on a budget and novice woodworking skills? After a huge search, many calls, price list after price list and piles of research, we found the AS-IS area at IKEA. We scoured the seconds area for things we might be able to IKEA-hack. The biggest find was the white drawer and cabinet door faces for $1-$5. This will allow us to frame everything with our free wood and put the white doors and keep things looking light and clean.
Here you can see the new furnace and the round duct work. The hinges were really affordable and what you see here for door faces was about $4.00 for the pair. The big cost was the button locking catches.
The right side of the oven has the under the sink storage and the drop down compartment. The furnace needs the intake so this was built with that in mind. We ran the duct work under the bed into the storage so the warm air flows up around the bed perimeter keeping the cool air away from the person sleeping against the front window. It also tends to banish dampness from under the bed.
To the left of the stovemoving from left to right. We plan to mineral oil the cabinet framing. Right now the counter is birch plywood but that will be replaced with something else in the future. The glass tile idea came from the HofArc airstream and it is going to match the bathroom area too.
Clothing cabinet, cooking supplies pull out, trash and recycling pull out.
The trash and recycling pulled out. With us not having large amounts of storage we buy things with less packaging and therefore make WAY less trash.
Cooking pull out. My wife wants to organize the space better and use it more effectively but we haven’t devised a way to do it yet. Vintage pyrex bowls from my great-grandmother.
Veggies from the garden, and vintage Jadite dishes.
This is the end wall of the counter/closet wall.
All 4 burners with new pots that fit! Food was also purchased!
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