My Mother's Kitchen

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I love the plain simple cabinets and the checked curtains in the window and in the dining room beyond of this kitchen at Posie Gets Cozy.

Isn't it clean and neat and orderly looking?  I love simple and clean lines.
The school house lights are wonderful too.

My Mother's Sink was like this. 

My mother's kitchen was a simple metal sink/drainboard combo from the 50's.
 Above that sink were 3 cabinets like Posie's (the ones dead center in the photo)   held the everyday dishes and glasses and that was it for cabinets.
Other china was stored in the basement for holidays, etc.
Next to the sink was the stove and across from it, was the  kitchen table up against the wall under one of two windows that flanked  the "ice box". Because when I was a kid many still called refrigerators 'ice boxes'.
  At the other end was the entrance to an old summer kitchen that had a sink on the wall , and at first,  a pot belly stove.
 in Victorian times you cooked out there in the summer. It was a small room about 10 X 10 or so with a kind of sloping roof.
The stove was removed, a gas heater put in and my older brother lived in that room until he married and then it was a kind of little catch all /reading room that lead to the back steps.
 In the main kitchen was a long thin pantry wide enough for one person.  The  same base cabinets from the Posie photo with a formica counter top  were in there.  Three long  white shelves over that went  up to the ceiling in an "L" shape (they wrapped round the corner of the little room.)

Staples and canned goods lived on those shelves. Pots and pans were on an indentation in the room that was created by the outside door to the cellar.The bottom cabinets held tons of crockery and pie plates of all kinds.
The drawers held the everyday silver.
A door that had lead from the kitchen to the front hall ( it was a small Victorian house with many entrances, nooks and crannies, French doors and a tiny stained glass window on the stair well) was plastered in , much to my chagrin.  On that Mother hung her pots and pans.

The kitchen  was tiny.   One person at a time tiny.   But the best meals came out of that kitchen, unmatched anywhere else in my estimation.

Pie crusts were rolled out on the kitchen table. Vegetables were cut there, potatoes peeled and pans filled and set to cook on the stove.
There my mother cooked for the extended family and friends at every holiday. Big dinners that everyone raved about.
  The 'new' stove we bought when we first moved into that little narrow Victorian house on the hill was great..wide and had a warming oven on one side.  It replaced the old black coal stove that had been there.

 Kitchen's don't need size, they need a skilled cook and lot's of love to go into the meals prepared there.

What kind of kitchen is your dream?