A.D. Cantelmo Property Management
Our Business is Property Management in Orange County California
Don’t crowd the Island
The Kitchen is such a popular place, probably the most
popular room in the house and a kitchen with an Island can be a very crowded
place.
Food is the number one reason the kitchen is a great room to
congregate in, we all need and most of us love to eat and being in a place that
has food makes us feel comfortable.
Whenever you have a party, you will have
people always crowding around the kitchen and if you are like me and you are
doing the cooking, I really don’t like people near me when I cook. The Kitchen
Island is a very reasonable compromise for the cook who wants to have their
space.
If a kitchen has an Island people will congregate around the
Island and leave the cook alone, but in all seriousness, a kitchen Island can
be a very important place for the family to gather. Think about what takes
place on a kitchen Island that has seating capabilities. The kitchen is usually
the most well lit room in the house, so kids can do their home work on the
Island and Mom and Dad can also do their work on the Island. Of course much of
the eating can be done on the Island and depending on the configuration of the
kitchen even some TV watching can be done from the Kitchen Island
I think it is easy to say that the Kitchen Island is a great
modern invention and there are some beautiful and creative Islands. Some have
sinks and faucets on the Island, some have stove tops on the Island and other
modern appliances built in the Island, but there is also a problem that a
kitchen Island can create and this problem is the crowding of the Island and I don’t mean people.
A kitchen Island can be the catch all for everything. As I
said people do everything from the Island and they like to leave there stuff on
the Island. The kids will leave the papers from their homework and Mom and Dad
also leave whatever they were doing on the Island. Then there is the kitchen
stuff, dishes, glasses and everything else can end up on the Island so the
beautiful Kitchen Island can become so cluttered that it looks more like a bad
episode of Gilligan’s Island then a Kitchen Island.
In my business of Property Management in Anaheim Ca. I see
the results of a crowded Island all the time and It’s not pretty and as much as
I love the kitchen Island concept, when I see the cluttered mess I want to re-think my endorsement of the Island, so the next time you want to buy a home with
a kitchen Island, just pause for a minute and think not of how nice it looks
now, but how cluttered it will be in the future.
A.D. Cantelmo Property
Management Specializes in Property Management in Orange County
Ca.