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I have this galley kitchen. It is a pain in the arse - seriously. If you have anyone over 120 lbs, 5'2, and small boned, it is hard to cook. It becomes an exhaustive and anxious prone dance of hazards. I have lived with this type of kitchen for 23 years and 4 kids. Yes, we have had fun in the kitchen but more often than not, it has been difficult and almost daily, I yearn for an eat in kitchen. Even the little table that was there in the "before" photo. Having a place to sit down and eat in a kitchen as the before picture showed is worth way, way more than the too many cabinets and narrowed space the "after" renovation created. The kitchen is always the heart of the home, and it is a nice place for kids of all ages to sit and chat with you while you cook exposing their minds and bodies to cooking and it's attendant lessons of taste, measuring, joy of creation.
It would be a nice place to just sit with my husband when he makes his breakfast, when I have a friend over and we don't want the formality of the living room. I think it was a big mistake to configure this kitchen to a slick modern and what essentially is, a one person kitchen. It is a show piece. I would have rather to have seen an architect perserve the space as an eat in kitchen and upgraded accordingly with less typical choices.
I cry when I see that table in the before and the narrow, functionality of the "after".
I wished I had the "before"- It looked like a warm hearted kitchen and an upgrade could have incorporated this sensibility with design and functionality.
I am telling you, I have the "after" kitchen and it sucks.