Our kitchen is oddly large for the size of our house. It's roughly 22'x12 1/2', with a 14'x2' section bumped in because of the bathrooms (west wall), and a 9'x3 1/2' bumped in because of the stairway to the basement (south wall).
First, because dishwashers weren't standard in the 1960's, there was a section of drawers removed by the previous owner where the dishwasher is now. The drawers were turned into half the base for a workbench in the garage. Because of that, we have 6 upper cabinets with doors, a lower cabinet with carousel, the sink base cabinet, and a large corner base cabinet... And 1 drawer, in the entire kitchen. Also, because of the U-shape, the kitchen occasionally lacks counter space for food preparation. We hope to solve both issues by adding a base cabinet with drawers and countertop, to the left of the oven.
Secondly, there's a section along the basement stairway wall that is just somewhat dead space. We have a buffet (IKEA Norden, of course!) along the wall now that quadrupled our kitchen drawer storage. The top works great for holding food when friends are over for potlucks, but open storage on the bottom means that we can't really store anything ugly. So our plan is to replace the Norden buffet with the same style cabinets as the rest of the kitchen (AKURUM cabinets ÄDEL medium brown), but with frosted glass doors on the upper cabinets, and regular doors on the base cabinets. Countertop for food serving, base cabinets for hidden storage.
We're not knocking down walls, or building an addition on, or anything like that. We will be removing the soffit over the existing cabinets, which will probably be the most difficult part of the task. More on that soon, maybe the next entry.
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