I also think that stainless steel appliances and polished black worktops are stupid things to have in a kitchen, as they will always look sh** because of fingerprints.
I'm one of those people who regards a kitchen as a place of work.
It's not somewhere to sit and read.
It's not somewhere to sit and use a laptop.
It's not somewhere to charge mobile phones and MP3 players.
It's not somewhere to just look at through an open doorway.
It's somewhere to fry/bake/grill/roast/steam/boil things.
It's somewhere where fridge, freezer, drawers & cupboards get opened and closed a lot.
It's somewhere where work surfaces are used to prepare food, not to display an artful arrangement of dried flowers.
Yes, of course I clean up, but I can sure do without the extra work (frequency, duration and difficulty) of getting marks off brushed stainless steel and polished black granite.
The kitchen is the hub of my house - it's the primary communal area.
Your list is almost the opposite to mine
It's not somewhere to sit and read.
We do
It's not somewhere to sit and use a laptop.
We do
It's not somewhere to charge mobile phones and MP3 players.
We do
It's not somewhere to just look at through an open doorway.
Well, it gets used as well as looked at!
It's somewhere to fry/bake/grill/roast/steam/boil things. It's somewhere where fridge, freezer, drawers & cupboards get opened and closed a lot.
Well yes, that is the primary purpose of a kitchen
It's somewhere where work surfaces are used to prepare food, not to display an artful arrangement of dried flowers.
There is nothing on any of my work surfaces except the coffee maker, kettle and toaster.
Yes, of course I clean up, but I can sure do without the extra work (frequency, duration and difficulty) of getting marks off brushed stainless steel and polished black granite.
I'm not sure I really understand this point because stainless steel and granite are very easy to keep clean.
It looks like it's BAS who's the odd one out. Maybe he's only got a small kitchen — mine's 40ft long.
It's not somewhere to sit and read.
We do
It's not somewhere to sit and use a laptop.
We do
It's not somewhere to charge mobile phones and MP3 players.
We do.
It's not somewhere to just look at through an open doorway.
We don't.
It's somewhere to fry/bake/grill/roast/steam/boil things.
It's somewhere where fridge, freezer, drawers & cupboards get opened and closed a lot.
It's somewhere where work surfaces are used to prepare food, not to display an artful arrangement of dried flowers.
Yep, it's all of those things too.
Yes, of course I clean up, but I can sure do without the extra work (frequency, duration and difficulty) of getting marks off brushed stainless steel and polished black granite.
I have lots of brushed stainless steel and a polished black granite table top. Not found any propensity to attract fingermarks though. It seems to me that BAS has not based his opinion on experience.
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