Home Improvement

Kitchen Reno Idea

First published August 9, 2014 at http://www.alleygardening.blogspot.ca

Snippets of the Kitchen Design

This post might be a bit of a stretch for alley gardening, but I swear there's a connection. Here's our kitchen now.

It's okay. Like most of our house, we can certainly live in it. With limited funds for improvements (and limited man/woman-hours available, too), it's definitely not at the top of the priority list.

But here's my issue. This wall is on the alley side of the house! The south side! The side with light and warmth in this cold, dark, bitterly cold northern land.

Why is there no window???!!! Clearly a case of no one thinking about the environment the home would be positioned in.

For urban dwellers, we are immensely lucky. When considering buying this house, I was worried the alleyway might be a big draw back. Now I can't believe how short-sighted I was!

For an Urban Area, What a Great View!

It's like having a corridor of parkland right in our backyard! And that's the basis for the kitchen reno idea: convert the southern wall into a long window so the alley becomes the backdrop for the kitchen.

So here it is! My kitchen reno idea! My husband has had a few choice words...not appropriate to this blog...for the colour scheme. So that's probably a no-go. But the window? Definitely!

The Kitchen After . . . Someday