Kitchen desks: absolute necessity or absolute waste of space?
So the yahoos at Apartment Therapy ran a post last week that touched a nerve. The post was about kitchen desks, but that's not grand enough so they refer to them as kitchen offices. "We spend lots and lots of time in out kitchens and we're so busy nowadays we'd be lost without being able to run our empire from a super cute kitchen office like this one." I'm paraphrasing but not really.
The gushing turned into directed toward the desk in the photograph above. I suppose that in case you're a nine-year-antique and your empire consists of a front yard lemonade stand, a desk along with that might be quality. For every person over the age of 9, it'll arise pretty quick.
I rip out kitchen desks so often it's practically a side line. I rip them out and replace them withsomething meaningful, like a pantry, because nearly every kitchen desk I've ever encountered was the size of the one above. The current owners can't use it as a desk so it ends up the repository for the junk that has no other place to go. Here are a couple of shots from my Before files.
The owners of those desks could be mortified to see them plastered across the display like this, but they show a factor. Kitchen desks are a waste of money and space. Besides, who sits at a table in the kitchen anymore? Am I wrong? Do you have got a table to your kitchen that you use and love? Or is it the junk repository?