Now that I’ve shared with you what I did in my own home to make my less-than-perfect kitchen function better for me, I hope I’ve inspired you to think of ways to make your own kitchen more efficient for you. There are some things that you can do to make the planning unique [...]

One of the things that motivated me most to re-work my kitchen was my desire to have an efficient baking center.

I had, over the course of the first few years we lived in this house, tried to establish a baking center in a couple of different areas. None of these really worked because [...]

If I keep my pots, pans and frying pans under my kitchen sink, then where, pray tell, would I keep the items that are *supposed* to go in and around the sink?

Again, I studied how I used my kitchen for a week or so. Where did we make coffee and tea?  Where [...]

I have had my share of less than reliable stoves over the years.  Funny as it may seem, my mom’s O’Keefe and Merritt stove, which now is on display in my dining room, is the oldest stove I’ve ever used. If I had natural gas in my current home, I would still use this [...]