If kitchens are so expensive to remodel or even update, then why don't more people try to design a kitchen that is timeless? (This picture and caption below just won't center!)
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Maybe we just don't know what makes a timeless kitchen yet? The modern kitchen, after all, hasn't been around for very long.
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| White House Kitchen 1910 |
The way we use the kitchen socially has evolved quite a bit. For most of the 20th century, the kitchen was designed to be like a laundry room or a wood shop in the garage: a place for the expert to do their work and then present the finished product to the end users (the rest of the family).
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| blogs.warwick.ac.uk, February 08, 2006 |
Why do we see the kitchen as such a gathering place now? Is it because we have made cooking so simple that everyone can be involved?
I think that the role women in the family has changed the kitchen.
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| retrorenovation.com, 16 Vintage Kohler Kitchens |
What colors and finishes and materials make a classic kitchen? I haven't seen a kitchen yet that could fit into many different decades of design. But some vintage kitchens are coming back into style. This is a good sign that we won't be reinventing kitchen styles over and over again every decade.
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| kitchenbacksplashes.blogspot.com, Retro Kitchen Colors |
Checkerboard floors seem to be timeless:
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| blogs.warwick.ac.uk, February 08, 2006 |
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| kitchenbacksplashes.blogspot.com, Black and White Kitchen Tiling Ideas |
Can you tell that I am thinking philosophically about the choices I am making for our kitchen?!
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