House Hunters International - kitchens. - Page 2

bmorechick · ‎03-11-2010

I grew up in a rowhouse in Baltimore City. Our washing machine was in the kitchen, wedged in between the sink and the stove! No dishwasher, no clothes dryer. My mom had a clothesline on a pully and in winter she would have the wash basket in the deep sink and she would hang out the window, pull the clothesline along and hang her clothes like that. But we made it work.

haddon9 · ‎03-09-2010

I'm always surprised at how small the kitchens are...the refrigerators are really tiny too compared to what we are used to! I've seen episodes of HH International where kitchens aren't really part of the sale. In some countries cabinets are taken with the sellers to their new home....very strange!

My son lived in a regular apartment in Rome with other students (not student housing) for a semester. The apartment was spacious enough but there were no clothes dryers. Everyone had drying laundry hanging all over the place!

islington · ‎07-04-2018

Born and raised in London at the begining of World War we had to go out into the garden for the toilet and bring in the bathtub in front of the fire for bath night. No running hot water and no electric iron. Just reading all the comments on travel in Europe brought back many memories and I can understand Americans who have never had to experience going without the luxuries we enjoy. It is quite an adjustment but I think it is so good for young people to travel, there is so much to learn from other cultures.

house_cat · ‎03-09-2010

When my boys were little, we lived in an apartment in NYC. We had a washer and dryer in the kitchen and were very happy about it! It was either that, or the common laundry room... blech.

~ house cat ~

jeanlake · ‎03-10-2010

In Europe, if there are no oven in homes, is this why there are so many great bakeries in the community? Sounds good to me.

I grew up in 1950s tract housing after WW2. 1000 sq ft ranch homes were built quickly to accommodate returning veterans. Our washer was in the kitchen. The timing had to be accurate for washing -- never when company was at the house -- not during dinner and not while the living room TV was on (our only TV.) Later, dad added a closed-in patio at the back of the house and we put a dryer back there. It was a trick getting the wet closed to the dryer. Heavy basket for young arms. Makes me smile. I wouldn't like that at all now. Love my laundry room -

"I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees." Henry David Thoreau

froggy · ‎03-10-2010

@proudlyfromNJ wrote:
@froggy wrote:
The thing that surprised me the most was that many have the washing machine in the kitchen. After thinking about it I theorized that a lot of apratments or old houses did not have sufficient plumbing to put the washer elsewhere. I would hate having my washer in the kitchen. We are so spoiled. If I were looking for a house now, not having a separate laundry room (and I don't mean the garage!) would be a deal breaker.
@froggy. My sister in law lived in Queens NY and her washer was in the kitchen.
@proudlyfromNJ
Was it an older apartment building that did not originally have a laundry area in the individual apartments?

proudlyfromNJ · ‎05-01-2010

@froggy wrote:
@proudlyfromNJ wrote:
@froggy wrote:
The thing that surprised me the most was that many have the washing machine in the kitchen. After thinking about it I theorized that a lot of apratments or old houses did not have sufficient plumbing to put the washer elsewhere. I would hate having my washer in the kitchen. We are so spoiled. If I were looking for a house now, not having a separate laundry room (and I don't mean the garage!) would be a deal breaker.
@froggy. My sister in law lived in Queens NY and her washer was in the kitchen.
@proudlyfromNJ
Was it an older apartment building that did not originally have a laundry area in the individual apartments?

@froggy. Wasn’t an apartment bldg. It was an old home. Most of the homes in the area were built in the 30s and 40s with two floors plus attic and basement. Many created apartments in the home for family.

GeorgiaJanet · ‎02-04-2019

That's right, come to think of it, Mom's washer was in the kitchen right next to the free-standing stove/oven. In fact, the kitchen table in there took up so much room, my chair probably almost hit the washer when I pushed outward. Mom had to hang clothes outside and in the winter had to hang them down in the basement near the furnace. I know she would have loved to have had a dryer and dishwasher.

Janet in Georgia

kivah · ‎03-11-2010

@Kachina624

I'm a small female but those kitchens, bedrooms and bathrooms in foreign countries are tiny!!!!!! I'm claustrophobic - so I'm staying in California in my beautiful house with high ceilings and lots of space to move around - plus my laundryroom..

kivah · ‎03-11-2010

My grandmother lived in a small apartment on the lower east side of NYC (now torn down and very expensive buildings put up).

There was a kitchen and 1 bedroom --- and the tiniest bathroom - where the toilet had a pull-chain. No sink in the bathroom. You had to wash ur hands in the kitchen sink. The bathtub was also in the kitchen - and it had a metal cover, which was used for food preparation.

I remember the ice man walking up 3 flights of stairs to deliver ice for the small refrigerator.