Wednesday, January 27, 2010

another room for me to not cook in




Dream kitchens.  Don't we all have one?  My only problem with kitchens is that I don't know exactly what to do in them. Yes, it is where we open the wine, pop the popcorn, and store my pretty dishes.  But not being much of a cook I find all these 'free range ovens' a bit unnecessary.  Don't get me wrong, I want to like to cook. I think cooking is awesome.  In fact, if I was on a speed date, under 'hobbies' I might even say that I love to cook and garden because I really want  to love to cook and garden - those people are rad (i'm talking to you, Jeanne Kelley).  So, I found this kitchen, above, and I like it very much, but it might be a bit 'modern loft' for me.  I like a quiet kitchen in theory, but for me, I need a bit more color/energy/mess. I have loved this tile, below, for a long long time  and I thought if I could put this tile in this kitchen with the open shelves and those beautiful wooden drawers, then that could be my dream kitchen.



Maybe add a maiden hair fern in a footed brass pot and all my pretty wooden bread boards stacked vertically against the backsplash and my crazy don't-touch-they-are-handmade dish collection haphazardly shoved in the shelves.  Ooh and the vintage '60's wine rack that my friend Cindy bought me that I love, love, love sitting on the counter.

Isn't the saying, 'If you build it, then you'll start to like to cook sometimes'?
It worked for Kevin Costner, no?

4 comments:

  1. Haha, Field of Dreams joke! It's true though...if you build it, and you like it, you will gravitate towards it. How can you not?

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  2. I feel the same way! I'm so thankful my fiance loves cooking so much. I think a space can really make you inspired though! xo

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  3. i sit amazed, i have thought these things many times but you have phrased them in a way cooler and stylish manner. i bow to superior expression of kitchen love, food love, and cooking disinterest.

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  4. Methinks you used that wine rack in the first ep of your show!
    But I l-o-v-e it. I also love that you have used the phrase "shut the front door" in your blog b/c it's another hilarious Zoe-ism that I am so desperately trying to incorporate into my vocabulary.

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