A Kitchen Issue: Window vs. Cabinet - Week 16, Sunday

As the rooms are becoming defined within the house, it is now easier to analyze the layout and visualize the spaces. We have been spending more time walking around the house and discussing the placement of cabinets, doors, walls, lighting etc. One issue we discovered was the lack of overhead cabinets in the kitchen. Originally, I didn't see this as an issue because we were going to have uppers next to the range. Because we chose to go with a double wall oven, these were eliminated from the design. Currently the kitchen has 3 windows along the side wall, 2 windows along the back and a set of french doors next to them. (see below)

Upon our last visit to the house, Oliver met us to discuss some options of how to fix this problem. We tried brainstorming various different solutions on how to have good glassware storage without upper cabinets as well as other places we could put them. Oliver's suggestion was to remove the far left window (of the 3 on the side wall). We saw that as a last resort because we really didn't want to loose any of the integrity of the design or a light source. He also told us about one of the trends right now in kitchen design of putting everything in drawers. Plates, glasses, pots, everything! To keep things orderly and from breaking, there are little rubber dividers inside. Sounds cool, but I just can't do it! When I want a glass of water, I want to open a cabinet to get the glass...

We took a night to sleep on it and consider our options. As soon as we got home, I hopped on Houzz for my daily dose of interior design and found this photo. It was a sign from the Internet Gods! A corner kitchen with 4 windows, exactly what we were considering! It looked much nicer than I thought it would so we decided to go with Oliver on this one.

Kitchen windows - Bye, bye window, the piece of plywood marks the one we are removing.

Kitchen - yellow marks are the placements of the the lighting and island.
Please ignore our lovely substitute doors. The real ones will be all glass :)

This week the window will be removed. It truly is the best way to have traditional storage for our glasses by the sink. I think there will be plenty of light with the 4 windows and two glass french doors.