Though open kitchens may be all the rage, let me dare to say right here: I’m anti-open kitchen design.įor much of domesticated human history-until mid-past century-I wasn’t alone in the enclosed-kitchen camp. Walk into an American home built before the 1950s, and you’ll most likely find the kitchen tucked away in a far-off corner of the main floor. Who is going to see?”) To me, they aren’t isolated and inconvenient, but rather refined and gracious. (Remember Julia Child’s famous quip: If you drop something, “you can always pick it up if you’re alone in the kitchen. Because after having grown up in a New York City apartment where public and private spaces were blurred-both bathrooms were en suite, so guests had to traipse through our bedrooms to use the loo-I loved the idea of an older house’s separate rooms.
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