Apart from cooking, how else do you/your household use the kitchen?

HouzzUK

4 years ago

last modified: 4 years ago

We know you're probably cooking in there, but what is the other main use for your kitchen? (Please choose one)

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Baking

Doing work/homework

Entertaining

Watching TV

Reading

Eating/dining

Other (let us know below!)

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Daisy England

4 years ago

Since it’s a mixture of those options we should be allowed to click on several not just one.

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HouzzUK
Original Author
4 years ago
Hi @Daisy England, apologies for that but thanks for the feedback! What are the options you would have chosen?
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Daisy England
4 years ago
All of them.
Sonia
4 years ago
Now that I’ve swopped the dining table (it’s in the living room) for a sofa, I love snuggling on the sofa in the kitchen with a good book or Houzz on my iPad!
Ellie
4 years ago
My kitchen is for the cooking, eating, kids doing homework while I cook. After dinner we go into living room
jireh javan
4 years ago
Mostly, Baking, in my case) Of couse Eating/dining

and cleaning up kitchen accessories
georgiancottageliving
4 years ago
All of the above plus the kids love to do crafting and play wherever I am!
Alicja Hughes
4 years ago
All of the above. Didn’t realise you can click on one option only...
Jan Evans
4 years ago
it's the place the family naturally gravitate to when we're all together - I need an extension!
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The Rigid Kitchen Company
4 years ago
Most people use the kitchen for all sorts. It is certainly the place to have a catch up
deborah eade
4 years ago
What's the difference between cooking and baking? Our kitchen is small and functional - there's room for two cooks but no more than that.
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The Rigid Kitchen Company
4 years ago
Same process i guess but cooking is cooking dinners and baking is baking cakes. Why we use two different words - I have no idea.
deborah eade
4 years ago
Well I don't make any difference - if something goes in the oven, whether it's a banana cake, a crumble, a quiche or a bean stew, it's just cooking! Of the other options no TV (got rid of it), children are grown up but did homework in their bedrooms or the living room; my work stays in my home-office and doesn't migrate! Our breakfast room is just off the kitchen with no door in the way, so that's where the family eats. If I entertain, it's in the dining room or sun room - whatever, well away from the kitchen!
Eleanor MacLaren
4 years ago
I cook and eat my breakfast there while I put away dishes. There's not enough room for anything else.
Debbie Byard
4 years ago
I use my kitchen for baking dining studying and playing with my grandson who loves doing his puzzles at the kitchen table whilst looking out to the garden.
C S
4 years ago
The back door is the main entrance to the house (too awkward to leap straight into the sitting room through the front door) so my kitchen stores shoes. It's also a mudroom in wet weather. It's also quite small.
Diane Wilson
4 years ago
Everything except watching TV
shamer9797
4 years ago
We work in the kitchen, all the family with our laptops, I prefer to study in the kitchen too
Jo Hicks
4 years ago
laundry
shamer9797
4 years ago
we work, eat, ,our daughter study if nobody is there, we socialise with friends. It is the heart of the house.
Susan Walsh
4 years ago
The place where it’s all at , except for watching TV . This is very much our biggest social family space .
midwalesparky
4 years ago
Didn't realise the "voting" was one thing only - might explain why "baking" rates so highly as I don't doubt that others went for that first, thinking they could "vote" for others afterwards! Ddddduuuuuhhhhhh. Anyway, we live in the kitchen as it's always warm thanks to an approx. 60-year old solid fuel AgA (runs on anthracite). We sleep in the bedroom, ablute in either the bathroom or shower-room and don't retire to the drawing room until we've lit the multi-fuel stove in there and then enjoy a pre-dinner drink and after dinner TV before going to bed. It may sound a little stuffy or old-fashioned, but that's just too bad. We like it. Oh and I nearly forgot: the dining room is for when we entertain to dinner/lunch only and the study is for.... you guessed it: studying (well, storing books, desktop PC, and as a 3rd spare bedroom if truth be told).
Eve Collen
4 years ago
How is baking not cooking?

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