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Originally Posted by svandamme
I have cooked 5 course meals for 30 people with a single oven and 4 burners..
I now have an old kitchen as my house was formerly a rental, it's 3 meter by 2 and a half, i have about 80 x 70cm free working space (microwave, cookers, sink take up the rest). Yet i've hosted for 15 + people in that tiny kitchen.. It's main drawback is poor layout.
When i build my new kitchen, i'll go only marginally bigger then what i have now.
I will add maybe 1 meter of kitchen top, but i will optimize things for usability.
I cannot see me spending more then 6 K for the kitchen top + the oven, built in MW, sink, cookers.. It's crazy how much money women spend on kitchens, even more so if you see how rarely and poorly some of them cook.
Then i know others that can cook , but they have spent 25K on a kitchen when they can afford 10 K... Same for bathrooms.. it's crazy to see the prices on that too. It's snobism , so they can show the girl friends, look at what i got.
And they all compete with eachother for it..
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My father use to tell me that thank goodness because women love big shinny diamonds and custom jewelry. This way, he was able to feed me and put cloths on my back. My dad is a retired custom jeweler. Now, I thank goodness there are people like you mention so we can keep the fire burning. I do lots of regular thing for regular good folks too. Don't forget, we drive Porsches. Do we really need a over priced Volkswagon? Another reason is resale value on these large homes. It must have the high end kitchen. I will not go on anymore. There is no right or wrong, just how you see fit.
I grew up in a small starter home with a small kitchen. My mother made it work for all our relatives during the holidays with a regular GE stove.