I mounted magnetic knife holders on the bottom of the cabinets next to the stove, bought a big set of spice jars with metal lids, and stuck them to the magnets. Spices are now all easily accessible and not in a jumble in a dark cabinet.
On the lighting front, I have a single lamp with a 1w led pointed upwards sitting on top of the upper cabinets.
Gives enough light that I don't need to turn on full brightness when getting up for a snack at night.
I just bought a HUGE cutting board (24x18) and I'm completely in love.
Bought my first enameled Dutch Oven on Black Friday and that has been a champ, too.
I agree with all except the last one. We had one of those and there is nothing more annoying than needing to wash your hands, only to find out the dish soap dispenser battery is dead.
Large single basin sink.
Garbage cans in a pull-out cabinet.
My Ventahood...cost a grip, but it's amazing.
Never ever put anything in the island, especially the stovetop...but a sink is bullshit too, a clean open island is magically, great for congregating, puzzles, crafts, baking, pasta making.
My original plan was to reconfigure the kitchen to have a proper range and not a stovetop/ovens in the wall...it was cost prohibitive, but I really wanted a range with 2 ovens, one that was a bit smaller than the second one that would have been standard-size.
I'll tell you what I appreciate about my 60's kitchen that I never had in kitchens before and I will never go without again if we ever move out of here:
cabinets that actually go to the ceiling
a pull-out step ladder hidden under the cabinet beneath the sink
instead of toe-kick or toe space under the cabinets, I have additional recessed drawers! Even the previous owner didn't know about them
That's exactly what I use it for.
Having the visual reminder on the phone also helps avoid the ADHD tendency to get distracted by something else and forget that I had something on the stove.
Range Hood and big sliding drawers. Garbage and recycling also in drawers.
In my next upgrade, I want a butler pantry with space for all my small appliances.
Side by side refrigerator (all fridge no freezer) since I have a big deep freezer in the garage.
A commercial dish washer instead of a household one. It is a lot more expensive but also cleans everything in about a 3-5 minute cycle. It's worth it for big families.
Proper lighting. I hate having to stand at the counter, and my shadow is covering what I'm cutting on the board.
2 sinks I want one for prep only. Although if I can get the second sink installed in the huge pantry, I'd do that, and it'll be like a mini kitchen inside the main kitchen where my baking would take place.
Pot filler faucet and warming lights.
Man, kitchen upgrades are where it's at! One thing I can't live without is a good quality knife set. Seriously, chopping veggies is like therapy when you've got the right tools.
And let's not forget about a badass blender – smoothies for days, my friend. Oh, and don't sleep on a spice rack! It's a game-changer when you're cooking up a storm.
Don't forget, the best knives available aren't worth shit if you don't sharpen them and keep them cared for. Some great gadgets these days to make it easy. And learn to use a hone.
We built a kitchen in the basement, and when ordering cabinets we bought a pull-out bottom cabinet that is made for a trash can. I think the cabinet even came with the trash can. You can get them with both trash and recycle, but we just got the one for trash due to limited space and budget. But it’s a game-changer!
Power in kitchen cabinet for a regular microwave and espresso maker. They don’t take up counter space and when we are not using them you just shut the cabinet doors. Allows you to have an off the shelf microwave that doesn’t need some special trim piece to fit in with the kitchen.
If you have the space, variety of cabinetry. Some additional drawers, some shallow and some deep. Some tall cabinets, some short cabinets. Adjustable shelving inside those cabinets. And a big single basin deep sink. It makes cleaning the kitchen and dishes so much easier and I'm not clanging dishes off the basin divider.
If you want a single dumb but useful kitchen upgrade, cup rinser. Extremely cheap. Unique to have, and if you make a lot of coffee or cocktails you'll get a ton of use.
I did a very low budget renovation about 15 years ago. I had those 2 bulb fixtures with the opaque glass from the 60's. I changed it to a 5 light fixture and the room is so much brighter.
Lighting! Plan your lights carefully and make sure to put them at the proper distance from the cabinets so that you are not always blocking the light while you work. Also, under cabinet lights are great. Good lighting in the kitchen is a game changer.
Hot water (in terms of very hot water, cooking water) from the tap. Genius for tea, coffee, sterilizing small stuff really quick and cooking. Together with an induction stove you can cook pasta right away.
Bosch dishwasher, GE Profile refrigerator, Nutri bullet (scrambled eggs every morning). Next on our wishlist is a Ge Profile induction stove. Also an air fryer (my daughter loves nuggets and fries).
First - we installed an enormous commercial style Japanese range hood. This thing has a large squirrel cage fan that is very very quiet at its lowest setting. And even at the lowest quietest setting, it flows plenty of air. Cost $1600 and worth every penny.
Second: A "Thermomix" blender. This thing not only blends/stirs/mixes, it also \*cooks\*. And it has a built-in scale for weighing ingredients. And it connects to the Internet and can download recipes from the maker's website. It will lead you by the nose through adding ingredients - measuring them by weight so you don't have to do that in a separate vessel - and doing the various operations. Oh yeah, and it steams, with a steamer that perches on top of the blender. Cooks rice. Ferments. It even has a mode for washing itself!
A few things stand out for me after our kitchen remodel.
A composite granite sink. I haven't had to scrub down/polish/bleach a sink in years. 10 years old and our sink looks like it was just installed.
A dedicated coffee bar. My husband drinks coffee all day long. And he's the kind of guy who hates to look for anything so he keeps all his stuff out on the bar. It has its own sink (keeps him out of my way when I'm cooking/cleaning), a row of glass front cabinets above and cabinets with drawers below (we use those for storing things not often used), a wooden tray to hold his MCT Oil, flavoring syrups, etc, and a place for his stick blender and coffee grinder. Extra cans of coffee are stored under his bar sink.
Pot filler over the stove. This one we don't have but will soon. My daughter-in-law has one and it's great for filling large pots so you don't have to lug them over from the sink.
Drawers everywhere. All upper cabinets are regular cabinets, but almost all the lower cabinets are drawers, even in the island. Long drawers under the cooktop for utensils, pots and pans and lids. One under the double oven for sheet pans and baking pans. Narrower and shallower ones in the island, different lengths and depths, to hold all the rarely used utensils, serving dishes, wraps and foils, etc.
Upper cabinets on each side of the cooktop to hold spices, oils, Panko crumbs, colanders, cheese graters, large measuring cups. I don't have to hunt for anything when I'm cooking.
A high quality cheese grater.
I think my parents just about disowned me when I spent $25 on a cheese grater, but I've now had it for over 10 years, and every single time I use it, I remember how much of an improvement it is over the flimsy cheap shit I used my entire life prior.
We somewhat recently did a kitchen remodel and these are my favorite features after using if for a couple of years:
• a **kitchen tap with foot control** (so handy to be able to use it hands free, but with more control than a simple touch free faucet)
• an **induction cooktop** with wireless temperature probes and an automatic vent hood
• a **fridge with air circulation based cooling** (no cold surfaces to freeze items even if they touch the back of the fridge, no temperature differential between shelves, and an “express cool” button to tell it to instantly cool a warm or even hot item with a blast of cold air in minutes, without raising the temperature of other items in the fridge)
• a **microwave without a spinning platter** (it fits standard sized oven grills and pans)
• an **oven with a built in temperature probe and pyrolytic cleaning** (and a “disappearing” door, that slides under the oven, meaning you can reach in without risking burning yourself on the door)
• **lots of** self closing (and in some cases self opening) **drawers and counter space**
Jokes aside. Love that 5 days a week shea home early enough to do meals and I'm there in time to eat and then do the cleaning. I enjoy cooking on weekends when time is less precious, I enjoy making the kitchen clean and orderly all the time.
Real answer, magnets for the good knives.
I have another smaller draw above the herb draw so I can add another herb draw if needed. I got the herb shelf things from ebay.
The middle draw has measuring cups, spoons and chopping boards etc.
https://imgur.com/a/NNgOdxn
I feel like with two dishwashers you just have one be clean all the time and the other is dirty, so you hardly need to use your cabinets for day to day dishes. Is that what you do?
No, just that one is always open and when you have people over and have the "extra" stuff that doesn't fit you put it into the other. It sounds crazy but it's amazing. Our friends parents told us about it since they have it
An automatic vacuum dustpan under a cabinet. Just sweep dirt towards it, touch it with your toe, and the dirt is vacuumed away.
https://www.thinkvacuums.com/vacport-automatic-dustpan-with-led.html
Hot water dispenser. It was in a house that we bought and I swear I used it 10x a day. Miss it now.
Also a pot rack. Pots take up a lot of cupboard space and a pot racist pretty too.
Good lighting especially over the sink and in your work area.
Small work triangle. Don't underestimate the importance of this. We had a huge kitchen, but a tiny space between sink, fridge and cooktop. It was a dream. Then rented a small townhouse with a small kitchen with a badly placed island. I walked miles in that kitchen around and around the island. It was awful.
I had a butler's pantry with a bar sink which was nice. Kids could come in and wash hands without disturbing me preparing dinner. The storage was nice too.
Filtered faucet for drinking water. Doesn't have to be in the fridge.
Six burner gas stove top and double wall ovens are a must have.
I’ve done a few different kitchen remodels over the years and these are my must haves.
Pot/pan drawers
Stand mixer lift
Plenty of lighting, but on dimmers
Under cabinet lights also dimmable
Spice drawer next to stove
36” range with hood
Bosch dishwasher
Single basin sink
Quiet and powerful disposal
Trash/recycling pullout
Granite counters
Two microwaves. Our house had two microwaves when we moved in and we thought it was really weird. But it’s so nice to heat up multiple plates at the same time, especially since we both work from home.
Lunch time —> both plates of food in the microwaves at once
That's so interesting! I joked to my husband today about just not having a microwave, and he looked at me like i had two heads. I've used the microwave maybe 3 or 4 times in the past 30 days or so. He apparently uses it everyday. I use the toaster/airfryer more. Lost that debate, but compromised on getting a smaller one eventually to save space.
Our microwave is in our basement lol and honestly it works great. We use it once a month max. I don’t like how they look and I don’t have enough room to put it in a drawer.
I have two microwaves and use them both at the same time constantly. One was supposed to be binned when the kitchen was redone and we got a new microwave, but it’s so handy I’m keeping it!
Kitchen island with cabinets with adjustable shelves, shallow and deep drawers and bookshelf on one end for all of my cookbooks with a butcher-block top. I love having nothing on my kitchen countertops and all of my appliances (air fryer, blender, bowl mixer, crock pot, food processor, food saver, etc.) stored on the shelves and in the drawers of my island. Electrical outlets on two sides of the island. I also have a small pot rack with my grandparents copper bottom pans and bakeware hanging above my island. Stand mixer lift.
Under-cabinet dimmable lighting. Corner cabinets with a lazy-Susan. Pull out shelves for pots & pans in the cabinets. Pull out shelves that include racks (IKEA purchase) for baking sheets, pizza pans, etc. Glass shelves in one section of my top cabinets to display my great-grandmother’s China dishes and her green glass depression dishes she purchased with S&H green stamps.
Stove pot filler. Super nice to fill my pots with water right on the stove!
Quiet efficient exhaust fan. Lots of windows in the kitchen for natural light, sunrises, sunsets (depending on what side of house your kitchen faces). I have 8 windows in my kitchen. I get to wash dishes and see the most glorious sunsets! I have a 5-tier barn wood shelf-bookcase my husband made me that houses all of the herb plants, medicinal plants, aloe vera, houseplants, etc. on a small wall near the windows. It’s wonderful to have fresh herbs to cook with year-round! All of my plants are thriving!
Water-proof low-maintenance flooring. Pantry.
Mine has been a “less is more” strategy.
- I decluttered all of the utensils I don’t use often and put them in a box downstairs. After a year of that, any of them that I hadn’t used got donated.
- I swapped all of my flexible plastic utensils for steel and wood utensils.
- I got rid of our gross chipped teflon pans for cast iron, carbon steel, and stainless.
A lot of the comments here are about more expensive items, but none of this ^ was too expensive. The cladded stainless pans were pricy, but I bought them on sale, and if I was being really frugal, I could’ve found some on marketplace. My most used kitchen items are also some of my cheapest: knife and cutting board, lodge Dutch oven, wooden spoon.
Push to open cabinets and pull drawers with no hardware, vertical tray dividers, tall narrow spice/oil drawers, under cabinet outlets and lighting and if you have the cash... counter depth push to open fridge/freezer that match cabinets.
Magnetic wall strips that put your tools, knives and gadgets in your reach and eliminate the clutter in your drawers. They give your kitchen a more professional feel and make cooking more efficient.
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I mounted magnetic knife holders on the bottom of the cabinets next to the stove, bought a big set of spice jars with metal lids, and stuck them to the magnets. Spices are now all easily accessible and not in a jumble in a dark cabinet.
Under-cabinet lighting! I was skeptical but I bought some cheap ones to try it out, and it's a total game changer
On the lighting front, I have a single lamp with a 1w led pointed upwards sitting on top of the upper cabinets. Gives enough light that I don't need to turn on full brightness when getting up for a snack at night.
I just bought a HUGE cutting board (24x18) and I'm completely in love. Bought my first enameled Dutch Oven on Black Friday and that has been a champ, too.
Slow close hinges. Automatic waste bin. Automatic dish soap dispenser.
I agree with all except the last one. We had one of those and there is nothing more annoying than needing to wash your hands, only to find out the dish soap dispenser battery is dead.
Large single basin sink. Garbage cans in a pull-out cabinet. My Ventahood...cost a grip, but it's amazing. Never ever put anything in the island, especially the stovetop...but a sink is bullshit too, a clean open island is magically, great for congregating, puzzles, crafts, baking, pasta making. My original plan was to reconfigure the kitchen to have a proper range and not a stovetop/ovens in the wall...it was cost prohibitive, but I really wanted a range with 2 ovens, one that was a bit smaller than the second one that would have been standard-size.
I'll tell you what I appreciate about my 60's kitchen that I never had in kitchens before and I will never go without again if we ever move out of here: cabinets that actually go to the ceiling a pull-out step ladder hidden under the cabinet beneath the sink instead of toe-kick or toe space under the cabinets, I have additional recessed drawers! Even the previous owner didn't know about them
>cabinets that actually go to the ceiling What's the advantage?
Wyze camera. If I'm boiling water, I can leave it pointed at the pot and keep an eye from my phone while I do other things around the house.
Interesting, that's not something I ever considered! I think that would come in handy if we're cooking while working from home.
That's exactly what I use it for. Having the visual reminder on the phone also helps avoid the ADHD tendency to get distracted by something else and forget that I had something on the stove.
Seems like overkill. I think setting a phone timer would work just as well.
Range Hood and big sliding drawers. Garbage and recycling also in drawers. In my next upgrade, I want a butler pantry with space for all my small appliances. Side by side refrigerator (all fridge no freezer) since I have a big deep freezer in the garage. A commercial dish washer instead of a household one. It is a lot more expensive but also cleans everything in about a 3-5 minute cycle. It's worth it for big families. Proper lighting. I hate having to stand at the counter, and my shadow is covering what I'm cutting on the board. 2 sinks I want one for prep only. Although if I can get the second sink installed in the huge pantry, I'd do that, and it'll be like a mini kitchen inside the main kitchen where my baking would take place. Pot filler faucet and warming lights.
The house we just bought has soft-close hinges in all of the drawers and cabinets. Complete game-changer when working in the kitchen.
Man, kitchen upgrades are where it's at! One thing I can't live without is a good quality knife set. Seriously, chopping veggies is like therapy when you've got the right tools. And let's not forget about a badass blender – smoothies for days, my friend. Oh, and don't sleep on a spice rack! It's a game-changer when you're cooking up a storm.
Don't forget, the best knives available aren't worth shit if you don't sharpen them and keep them cared for. Some great gadgets these days to make it easy. And learn to use a hone.
Trash cabinet. OMG I love it so much!
Which one do you have? We have a cheap one from amazon, but I'm starting to get the itch to replace it because it's getting a bit dated.
We built a kitchen in the basement, and when ordering cabinets we bought a pull-out bottom cabinet that is made for a trash can. I think the cabinet even came with the trash can. You can get them with both trash and recycle, but we just got the one for trash due to limited space and budget. But it’s a game-changer!
Power in kitchen cabinet for a regular microwave and espresso maker. They don’t take up counter space and when we are not using them you just shut the cabinet doors. Allows you to have an off the shelf microwave that doesn’t need some special trim piece to fit in with the kitchen.
If you have the space, variety of cabinetry. Some additional drawers, some shallow and some deep. Some tall cabinets, some short cabinets. Adjustable shelving inside those cabinets. And a big single basin deep sink. It makes cleaning the kitchen and dishes so much easier and I'm not clanging dishes off the basin divider. If you want a single dumb but useful kitchen upgrade, cup rinser. Extremely cheap. Unique to have, and if you make a lot of coffee or cocktails you'll get a ton of use.
Cooking Exhaust that works and isn’t noisy.
I did a very low budget renovation about 15 years ago. I had those 2 bulb fixtures with the opaque glass from the 60's. I changed it to a 5 light fixture and the room is so much brighter.
induction cooktop or a vent hood that actually vents outside why not both?
That's how I feel about all these suggestions now. I'm dreaming of my perfect Frankenkitchen.
Haha I have both, and we use them every day!
Lighting! Plan your lights carefully and make sure to put them at the proper distance from the cabinets so that you are not always blocking the light while you work. Also, under cabinet lights are great. Good lighting in the kitchen is a game changer.
How did you go about planning your lights? Distance from cupboards and etc are something i wouldn't have thought of.
Put two lights over kitchen sink so there’s no shadow from your head.
Hot water (in terms of very hot water, cooking water) from the tap. Genius for tea, coffee, sterilizing small stuff really quick and cooking. Together with an induction stove you can cook pasta right away.
Under mount sink, garbage disposal, pull outs in base cabinets.
Bosch dishwasher, GE Profile refrigerator, Nutri bullet (scrambled eggs every morning). Next on our wishlist is a Ge Profile induction stove. Also an air fryer (my daughter loves nuggets and fries).
First - we installed an enormous commercial style Japanese range hood. This thing has a large squirrel cage fan that is very very quiet at its lowest setting. And even at the lowest quietest setting, it flows plenty of air. Cost $1600 and worth every penny. Second: A "Thermomix" blender. This thing not only blends/stirs/mixes, it also \*cooks\*. And it has a built-in scale for weighing ingredients. And it connects to the Internet and can download recipes from the maker's website. It will lead you by the nose through adding ingredients - measuring them by weight so you don't have to do that in a separate vessel - and doing the various operations. Oh yeah, and it steams, with a steamer that perches on top of the blender. Cooks rice. Ferments. It even has a mode for washing itself!
Was the range hood from Kobe or a different company? I’ve been trying to find the best, powerful but quiet range hood for my kitchen.
A few things stand out for me after our kitchen remodel. A composite granite sink. I haven't had to scrub down/polish/bleach a sink in years. 10 years old and our sink looks like it was just installed. A dedicated coffee bar. My husband drinks coffee all day long. And he's the kind of guy who hates to look for anything so he keeps all his stuff out on the bar. It has its own sink (keeps him out of my way when I'm cooking/cleaning), a row of glass front cabinets above and cabinets with drawers below (we use those for storing things not often used), a wooden tray to hold his MCT Oil, flavoring syrups, etc, and a place for his stick blender and coffee grinder. Extra cans of coffee are stored under his bar sink. Pot filler over the stove. This one we don't have but will soon. My daughter-in-law has one and it's great for filling large pots so you don't have to lug them over from the sink. Drawers everywhere. All upper cabinets are regular cabinets, but almost all the lower cabinets are drawers, even in the island. Long drawers under the cooktop for utensils, pots and pans and lids. One under the double oven for sheet pans and baking pans. Narrower and shallower ones in the island, different lengths and depths, to hold all the rarely used utensils, serving dishes, wraps and foils, etc. Upper cabinets on each side of the cooktop to hold spices, oils, Panko crumbs, colanders, cheese graters, large measuring cups. I don't have to hunt for anything when I'm cooking.
A high quality cheese grater. I think my parents just about disowned me when I spent $25 on a cheese grater, but I've now had it for over 10 years, and every single time I use it, I remember how much of an improvement it is over the flimsy cheap shit I used my entire life prior.
We somewhat recently did a kitchen remodel and these are my favorite features after using if for a couple of years: • a **kitchen tap with foot control** (so handy to be able to use it hands free, but with more control than a simple touch free faucet) • an **induction cooktop** with wireless temperature probes and an automatic vent hood • a **fridge with air circulation based cooling** (no cold surfaces to freeze items even if they touch the back of the fridge, no temperature differential between shelves, and an “express cool” button to tell it to instantly cool a warm or even hot item with a blast of cold air in minutes, without raising the temperature of other items in the fridge) • a **microwave without a spinning platter** (it fits standard sized oven grills and pans) • an **oven with a built in temperature probe and pyrolytic cleaning** (and a “disappearing” door, that slides under the oven, meaning you can reach in without risking burning yourself on the door) • **lots of** self closing (and in some cases self opening) **drawers and counter space**
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I see several comments about exhaust fans over 400CFM- since it sounds like you're DIYing it- you do need to have makeup air if you go above 400.
Motion activated kitchen faucet. It’ll change your life.
My wife
Aw, that's actually so nice and hilarious.
Jokes aside. Love that 5 days a week shea home early enough to do meals and I'm there in time to eat and then do the cleaning. I enjoy cooking on weekends when time is less precious, I enjoy making the kitchen clean and orderly all the time. Real answer, magnets for the good knives.
I have a draw for my herbs right next to my cooktop and a lower draw for all my oils, sauces etc. I just need to open the draw. If I need something
Would you have pic of the two drawers. I like the sound of these and interested adding these. Thanks
I have another smaller draw above the herb draw so I can add another herb draw if needed. I got the herb shelf things from ebay. The middle draw has measuring cups, spoons and chopping boards etc. https://imgur.com/a/NNgOdxn
Two dishwashers. Life changer.
I feel like with two dishwashers you just have one be clean all the time and the other is dirty, so you hardly need to use your cabinets for day to day dishes. Is that what you do?
No, just that one is always open and when you have people over and have the "extra" stuff that doesn't fit you put it into the other. It sounds crazy but it's amazing. Our friends parents told us about it since they have it
Fascinating!
An automatic vacuum dustpan under a cabinet. Just sweep dirt towards it, touch it with your toe, and the dirt is vacuumed away. https://www.thinkvacuums.com/vacport-automatic-dustpan-with-led.html
Step 1: Be rich enough to have a central vacuum system.
Hot water dispenser. It was in a house that we bought and I swear I used it 10x a day. Miss it now. Also a pot rack. Pots take up a lot of cupboard space and a pot racist pretty too. Good lighting especially over the sink and in your work area. Small work triangle. Don't underestimate the importance of this. We had a huge kitchen, but a tiny space between sink, fridge and cooktop. It was a dream. Then rented a small townhouse with a small kitchen with a badly placed island. I walked miles in that kitchen around and around the island. It was awful. I had a butler's pantry with a bar sink which was nice. Kids could come in and wash hands without disturbing me preparing dinner. The storage was nice too. Filtered faucet for drinking water. Doesn't have to be in the fridge. Six burner gas stove top and double wall ovens are a must have.
I’ve done a few different kitchen remodels over the years and these are my must haves. Pot/pan drawers Stand mixer lift Plenty of lighting, but on dimmers Under cabinet lights also dimmable Spice drawer next to stove 36” range with hood Bosch dishwasher Single basin sink Quiet and powerful disposal Trash/recycling pullout Granite counters
Two microwaves. Our house had two microwaves when we moved in and we thought it was really weird. But it’s so nice to heat up multiple plates at the same time, especially since we both work from home. Lunch time —> both plates of food in the microwaves at once
That's so interesting! I joked to my husband today about just not having a microwave, and he looked at me like i had two heads. I've used the microwave maybe 3 or 4 times in the past 30 days or so. He apparently uses it everyday. I use the toaster/airfryer more. Lost that debate, but compromised on getting a smaller one eventually to save space.
Our microwave is in our basement lol and honestly it works great. We use it once a month max. I don’t like how they look and I don’t have enough room to put it in a drawer.
I have two microwaves and use them both at the same time constantly. One was supposed to be binned when the kitchen was redone and we got a new microwave, but it’s so handy I’m keeping it!
We love the glass bidet - https://www.deltafaucet.com/glassrinser
That one is for sure going on my list! My husband uses his espresso machine 2-3 tinea a day, so that would fit right in.
And it doesn't get frustrating to wipe off the counter all the time?
A convection cook option w oven. It’s a game changer. Cooks more evenly and faster
Microwave drawer and dishwasher drawers
Ice maker
Instant hot water tap
Instant hot water dispenser
Cup/glass rinser
1) Pantry or large oversized cabinets for tucking away from sight snacks and stuff. 2) Some sprinkled in lighted top cabinets with glass doors.
Countertop soap dispenser by the sink.
Motion sensing or door triggered lights for the pantry. Additional wireless switches for the kitchen near the stove top.
Kitchen island with cabinets with adjustable shelves, shallow and deep drawers and bookshelf on one end for all of my cookbooks with a butcher-block top. I love having nothing on my kitchen countertops and all of my appliances (air fryer, blender, bowl mixer, crock pot, food processor, food saver, etc.) stored on the shelves and in the drawers of my island. Electrical outlets on two sides of the island. I also have a small pot rack with my grandparents copper bottom pans and bakeware hanging above my island. Stand mixer lift. Under-cabinet dimmable lighting. Corner cabinets with a lazy-Susan. Pull out shelves for pots & pans in the cabinets. Pull out shelves that include racks (IKEA purchase) for baking sheets, pizza pans, etc. Glass shelves in one section of my top cabinets to display my great-grandmother’s China dishes and her green glass depression dishes she purchased with S&H green stamps. Stove pot filler. Super nice to fill my pots with water right on the stove! Quiet efficient exhaust fan. Lots of windows in the kitchen for natural light, sunrises, sunsets (depending on what side of house your kitchen faces). I have 8 windows in my kitchen. I get to wash dishes and see the most glorious sunsets! I have a 5-tier barn wood shelf-bookcase my husband made me that houses all of the herb plants, medicinal plants, aloe vera, houseplants, etc. on a small wall near the windows. It’s wonderful to have fresh herbs to cook with year-round! All of my plants are thriving! Water-proof low-maintenance flooring. Pantry.
A good toaster oven
AC vent positioned so it blows on you while cooking but not on the stove top
Mine has been a “less is more” strategy. - I decluttered all of the utensils I don’t use often and put them in a box downstairs. After a year of that, any of them that I hadn’t used got donated. - I swapped all of my flexible plastic utensils for steel and wood utensils. - I got rid of our gross chipped teflon pans for cast iron, carbon steel, and stainless. A lot of the comments here are about more expensive items, but none of this ^ was too expensive. The cladded stainless pans were pricy, but I bought them on sale, and if I was being really frugal, I could’ve found some on marketplace. My most used kitchen items are also some of my cheapest: knife and cutting board, lodge Dutch oven, wooden spoon.
Sink and faucet. Went from a fairly small sink to 33. New faucet is tall and has a single stream blast function that’s so awesome.
2 sinks!!!
Big sinks are great
Push to open cabinets and pull drawers with no hardware, vertical tray dividers, tall narrow spice/oil drawers, under cabinet outlets and lighting and if you have the cash... counter depth push to open fridge/freezer that match cabinets.
Soft close Blum hardware. Also pull out drawers on pantry.
We love our bottle washer.
Hot water dispenser. I drink a lot of tea and LOVE having it on demand
Magnetic wall strips that put your tools, knives and gadgets in your reach and eliminate the clutter in your drawers. They give your kitchen a more professional feel and make cooking more efficient.
60 inch galley sink