(Also...the countertop with bar-height on one side and your sink on the other...did/does that get good use? I'm trying to figure out if something like that, with just a prep station/storage area since our sink is on the other side, would be a good addition once the new entrance/door is in place in our kitchen.)
It is too high to use as a prep area. (At least for me, I'm not quite 5'2".) The counter below it, next to the sink is where I do most of my prep work, so that I can have easy access to the sink and garbage disposer.
We don't use it as a breakfast bar, but there are people in our neighborhood with a similiar set up that do.
Typically, all of my fruit bowls are up there, and I have a 3-tiered plate holder where I also hold fruit and it goes up there.
I do like that it overlooks the family room, so I can stand at the kitchen sink and watch TV, or talk to DH and DS.
Dawn
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I looked at the "after" pictures for a few minutes before I posted the first response, deciding where I'd put my spice rack, where the knife magnet would go...and then realized you'd accomplished exactly what you mentioned in another thread about your house--making it so people can visualize their stuff in there. Good job on that
(Also...the countertop with bar-height on one side and your sink on the other...did/does that get good use? I'm trying to figure out if something like that, with just a prep station/storage area since our sink is on the other side, would be a good addition once the new entrance/door is in place in our kitchen.)
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Thanks everyone. I am really pleased with the new look.
Also, what you can't see in the photos I took, is that the front of the breakfast bar had horizontal green and white striped wall paper. The kitchen was REALLY, really busy.
I can't believe I lived with that kitchen for 4 1/2 years. You can better believe, in the next house we buy, I'm going to have to like everything the way it is, because we are not good about getting around to changing things.
Dawn
"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire." anonymous
Posts: 4303 | Location: Indianapolis, IN | Registered: March 15, 2004
Very nice, Dawn! Like the others, I love the clean and open look. Very fresh and welcoming.
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