{"id":89,"date":"2007-08-19T10:07:19","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T09:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.serriste.de\/foodblog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2022-08-15T10:27:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T08:27:03","slug":"planning-a-new-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.serriste.de\/foodblog\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Planning a New Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been awfully quiet here for some time. I know it has been awfully quiet here before, but this time there&#8217;s actually a reason. My cooking adventures have come to a halt for the time being. I do cook every now and then, but when I do, it&#8217;s more or less out of necessity than out of true inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t worry, everything is fine. The reason I&#8217;m never in the right mood to cook up something really inspirational is because we&#8217;re moving. Yes, you&#8217;ve heard right. Peter and I started looking for apartments in D\u00c3\u00bcsseldorf in June and we actually got lucky very fast. For some reason when it comes to apartments, the third one&#8217;s always the charm with me. Or at least it has been that way for the only three times I actually had to find one.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re insanely happy with what we found and we sealed the deal after we came back from Krak\u00c3\u00b3w. Did I mention we <em>bought<\/em> the place? So naturally I&#8217;m still freaking out about that from time to time, but most of time I&#8217;m just looking forward to finally moving there. We already brought most of our books over, plus some shelves and a new big dining table we got from IKEA.<\/p>\n<p>Well, anyway that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s been so quiet here. I don&#8217;t really have the energy to make anything special for dinner these days, since all I can think of is how awesome life is going to be once we are at the new place, which &#8211; have I told you this? &#8211; has a 40 square meter roof terrace, by the way. If you hate me right now, I&#8217;d totally understand.<\/p>\n<p>Now of course there&#8217;s a kitchen to plan. In Germany kitchen&#8217;s are not a part of an apartment. Sometimes you are lucky and you&#8217;ll get an apartment or house with a nice kitchen already built in. Sometimes you&#8217;re not so lucky and the kitchen is really ugly or there&#8217;s no kitchen at all. Although I can&#8217;t decide which is worse&#8230; a really ugly kitchen or none at all?<\/p>\n<p>Well, we have none at all. So after going to three different kitchen stores and have someone plan a kitchen and tell us how much it&#8217;s going to cost and one crazy trip to Osnabr\u00c3\u00bcck about which I will write no more, because I just don&#8217;t have the words to properly write about it, we finally settled on what we want to have and who we want to do it. So the deal goes to&#8230;. my uncle, who happens to be a cabinetmaker and therefore we get all the customized furniture we need.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many ways to plan a kitchen. I know it&#8217;s modern these days to put the oven a bit higher so that you don&#8217;t need to crouch down to get anything out. But alas, we&#8217;ll have nothing of that. We&#8217;re just having a U-shaped kitchen with a beautiful wooden countertop and no freaking kitchen cupboards hanging on any wall. I hate these things. Plus, I&#8217;m very accident prone, so I know if some cupboard hangs at forehead level, I&#8217;m just going to hit my forehead there again and again, and does that hurt or not?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how long it&#8217;s going to be until I can dive head first into my first kitchen adventures in the new kitchen and I&#8217;m trying to steer my thoughts away from how much it&#8217;s going to cost, because I like to stick to happy thoughts these days. But I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s going to be great and then &#8211; naturally &#8211; I&#8217;m going to take pictures right away to make you all even more jealous. Because that&#8217;s the kind of nice girl that I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been awfully quiet here for some time. I know it has been awfully quiet here before, but this time there&#8217;s actually a reason. My cooking adventures have come to a halt for the time being. 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