This time we will have my lovely wife Laura writing the blog, so Laura this post is all yours!
I love to have people over and have dinner with us! It´s great to hang out and talk and enjoy good food with friends- and even make new friends by doing that. I love to be hospitable in that way.
Sometimes it has been frustrating to try to cook in our tiny kitchen, and trying to fit everyone around our table that´s meant for 4 people- someone has to sit on our sofa table, because there´s not enough chairs:). Now, having the plans for the new house I´ve started to dream about the new kitchen. That I could actually fit to do everything in the kitchen area, and not needing to use the dining table, or sofa table to spread out my cooking pans, since I don´t have enough counter space. That we could have a bigger table where we could fit more guests to sit. And yes, I´m absolutely dreaming about having an isle in the kitchen (because they look so cute) and also I am dreaming of a dishwasher!! (I know Kimmo dreams about that one too, haha!) We will also put a Finnish “astiankuivauskaappi” (a cabinet for drying dishes), just because we´re Finns, I guess. We will also want to get an electric oven, because even though the gas stove is great and fast, I´ve had enough trouble of trying to bake in the gas oven!
It´s not very typical here that people buy a full kitchen, they rather just buy things that happen to be on sale or they like it, and many times they can quite mix and match combos. We´ve looked into some full kitchens, but the prices seem to be quite high. Not quite, I mean REALLY high. And those moments I really miss IKEA, where I could get an affordable kitchen. We have even considered of bringing a container from the States or somewhere and load it up with furniture and home appliances (and the kitchen) because those things are expensive here. But I guess the taxes and the transportation would make it quite high as well. Well, we just have to keep looking and hoping and praying we could find some affordable and nice looking options!
Thank you for reading!
Laura
PS. By the way, it just makes me really happy when I find something pretty (to my taste) with a good price here (not so typical!). One day I found a store, where they have reeaally cute lamps in good prices! I felt like a winner :D
I love to have people over and have dinner with us! It´s great to hang out and talk and enjoy good food with friends- and even make new friends by doing that. I love to be hospitable in that way.
Sometimes it has been frustrating to try to cook in our tiny kitchen, and trying to fit everyone around our table that´s meant for 4 people- someone has to sit on our sofa table, because there´s not enough chairs:). Now, having the plans for the new house I´ve started to dream about the new kitchen. That I could actually fit to do everything in the kitchen area, and not needing to use the dining table, or sofa table to spread out my cooking pans, since I don´t have enough counter space. That we could have a bigger table where we could fit more guests to sit. And yes, I´m absolutely dreaming about having an isle in the kitchen (because they look so cute) and also I am dreaming of a dishwasher!! (I know Kimmo dreams about that one too, haha!) We will also put a Finnish “astiankuivauskaappi” (a cabinet for drying dishes), just because we´re Finns, I guess. We will also want to get an electric oven, because even though the gas stove is great and fast, I´ve had enough trouble of trying to bake in the gas oven!
It´s not very typical here that people buy a full kitchen, they rather just buy things that happen to be on sale or they like it, and many times they can quite mix and match combos. We´ve looked into some full kitchens, but the prices seem to be quite high. Not quite, I mean REALLY high. And those moments I really miss IKEA, where I could get an affordable kitchen. We have even considered of bringing a container from the States or somewhere and load it up with furniture and home appliances (and the kitchen) because those things are expensive here. But I guess the taxes and the transportation would make it quite high as well. Well, we just have to keep looking and hoping and praying we could find some affordable and nice looking options!
Thank you for reading!
Laura
PS. By the way, it just makes me really happy when I find something pretty (to my taste) with a good price here (not so typical!). One day I found a store, where they have reeaally cute lamps in good prices! I felt like a winner :D