August 19, 2015
If you had to redo your kitchen to look like the kitchen on a TV show, what show would you pick?
"The Simpsons"?! It's an insane color scheme — and where do you even get corn-cob fabric for the curtains? — but one Canadian couple is doing it and claiming to find comfort.
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I having trouble picturing a TV kitchen clearly enough to copy. Most of the ones I can are "open concept" where the kitchen is some cabinets and a counter to the side of the living room.
Donna Reed's? I can't remember what her kitchen looked like, but I do like the white Youngstown steel kitchen cabinets that were popular in the 1950s.
"The Simpsons for me is actually a baby blanket. If I'm not feeling very well, if I'm depressed, if I have a bad day — I come home and pop The Simpsons on... and everything is alright."
It's probably more socially acceptable than getting drunk.
Open concept is a fading design trend. People are finding that they like having the kitchen as a separate room. It isolates the smells and the mess of making dinner to one area.
The Waltons. Full retro.
"Open concept is a fading design trend. People are finding that they like having the kitchen as a separate room. It isolates the smells and the mess of making dinner to one area"
Someone tell HGTV. Ours is open but not to the entire first floor, just to an 'eat-in' area and a large family room with the TV mounted to the far wall (so you can eat and watch TV if you'd like.)
It isolates the smells
A good exhaust fan helps with that.
Anyway, if someone is frying bacon in my kitchen, I want to know about it! Say No to Smell Isolation!
Little House on the Prairie
Just give me an open fire. I'll do the rest.
The wife might not agree.
The Jetson's!
Scott, if you need to isolate the smells coming from your kitchen, then open concept is not the problem. I would be very surprised if the "movement away" isn't just a niche hipster thing. That's certainly not the message coming from real estate agents when discussing renovations.
Personally, I don't really care what the movement is, I like having the kitchen as part of the social scene of the house.
The "Don't eat off the floor" embroidery would be a nice touch.
The Sopranos. Only TV show I've ever watched where anyone spent much time in the kitchen.
The separate kitchen is what you'd want if you have servants.
If the cooking and cleanup people are family members, then the isolation is unpleasant.
Another approach is the "eat-in" kitchen, where you've got a table right there in the kitchen and you end up eating your meals right there. That takes a lot more space, and you're still going to want a dining room -- a dining room that you won't use much. I grew up in a house that had that set-up, but in my family we absolutely never used the kitchen table for family meals — not even for breakfast.
Harvey Specter's kitchen from Suits, and only because of the view and the fact you'd probably never cook in it. Niles Crane's on Frasier seemed like a good layout for a smaller space. There was a great double island kitchen on the show The Killing with a view of Vancouver. The Brady's for the ultimate kitsch. After that I'd cheat and go with a Food Network Kitchen- Giada's or Ina's. Martha's or Julia's only if they cooked in it.
The New York Times: The Separate Kitchen Makes a Comeback
HGTV doesn't always know what's right.
The New York Times: The Separate Kitchen Makes a Comeback
That confirms my suspicion that it's a niche hipster thing.
I agree that a separate kitchen is about having servants, a role that wives used to fill, but now that they have gotten uppity and all, they demand to be part of the socializing while dinner is being prepped! The nerve!
I will take HGTV to have the pulse of the average American over the NYT six ways to Sunday. But sure there are people who take their cues from that paper who wish to be seen as part of a certain class.
We went for the Barefoot Contessa style kitchen, though, to be honest, I think ours is nicer.
The separate kitchen is what you'd want if you have servants.
Exactly. It's what the servants would want too, rather than having to be in a room with the boss all day.
Pee Wee Herman's Kitchen. Makes me laugh. Love the whimsy. What engineer doesn't find Rube Goldberg set-ups wildly fun?
I find I prefer small galley kitchens with maybe a big pass-through to the dining room. I want everything an arm's length away. You should see the elaborate meals I've made in actual boat galleys. But not under sail. Never under sail.
I'd swear those huge kitchens are designed to accommodate a caterer and staff.
The curtains in Everybody Loves Raymond were out of a wallpaper and fabric collection I had used in my kitchen. I used a different fabric, though. Fresh Prince of Belair used my dishes.
"- a dining room that you won't use much."
No shit, dining room owner here. I also have a formal living room I glance at once in awhile.
Don't forget the cat clock in the Simpson's kitchen.
Thanks for the link to that strange NYT article. I t begins with some young woman who wanted a place like grandma's and found it for $200,000, then shifts to talking about condos that cost $8 million and up, which I assume gets us into the territory where there are servants.
"It's nice, but it doesn't have granite counter tops or stainless steel appliances."
--Every HGTV House Hunters episode, like everrrrr
The Underwood's in House of Cards. Bad people but great taste.
Bewitched.
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