During every foray into suburban renewal - no matter how well it may have turned out - the condition and size of our 1961 split-level kitchen always rankled. It had been built at a time when, according to our neighbor who was an original owner of an identical model, everybody was eating TV dinners. Cabinet and counter space really weren't issues. While it had been mildly updated by the former owners, and we had made some minor improvements, it still wasn't exactly user-friendly. Someday, we kept telling ourselves....
Last year, after listening to my husband who does the cooking complain yet again about having to prepare a holiday dinner under such dire conditions, we decided it was finally time to face the final frontier. But, no matter how many possible configurations we came up with, we were still looking at a 10 by 11 foot kitchen. So, we finally acknowledged the fact that the only solution would be to add on (this could help explain why we hadn't rushed to tackle this project earlier). Not having the room to extend the kitchen directly out back - which others in our development had done - because of the pool, we thought the next best thing would be to add a new dining room along side of the house and incorporate the existing dining room space into a larger and more functional kitchen. Clearly, we were about to enter a new category of home improvement or, as it's known around here, "Extreme Makeover - Homo Edition."
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