This is after pulling the cabinets and deciding to put an equipment closet midway to section off the dining area. The walls are now coral in the direction of view, white trim, and will have a grey slate flooring. Cabinets are quiet brown, fittings are ruddy copper, backsplash will be mixed glass tiles, countertop black. We were going to do flooring today, but our faithful carpenter is now starting another job, and needed to be off and took a needed tool with him. [He is really incredibly generous about letting two amateurs use his gear.] We had fallen in love with this gadget and can see future uses. So we ordered one of our own, which is the biggest honking dremel you can manage to hold in both hands. Its virtue is being able to cut a hole in the middle of a panel: a half-moon disk vibrates its way through the wood. Takes a little learning curve to do it without a gash on the corners, but its the most useful thing Dremel ever came up with. We have their little ‘hobby’ kit, which has trouble with balsa wood. This baby can buzz its way through hard floor paneling and cut weird shapes. 
It looks brighter than I thought from the descriptions – really good!
A larger version of the picture:
https://www.cherryh.com/WaveWithoutAShore/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/P1210038-1080×721.jpg
I think you can change the Size setting of any image to display it larger. If you put it on the largest setting, it will automatically shrink it if necessary for small screens.
See
https://codex.wordpress.org/Inserting_Images_into_Posts_and_Pages
Thanks for making the picture bigger, GW; I could tell there were windows and a person working in the previous one, but that was about all 🙂 You folks really have a galley kitchen, long and narrow, and I can see why you wanted to change it up. One hopes the new layout will let 2 people work in the kitchen at once without stepping on toes!
Thank you! I finally located those controls. Now we can have actual pictures!
Pictures are good! When you said coral this is the color I thought you meant, like a coral necklace that’s part of a Dutch traditional costume. The pale yellow looks much nicer than that fiery red!
It looks much roomier with the cabinets on the opposite wall removed, but of course you do need storage and working space.
The color is actually orangey pink…this is before the paint.
GreenWyvern, thank you for the link to the larger size photo. When I click on the small photo in CJ’s post itself, it returns a “Not Found” error. The larger photo is _much_ easier for me to see what’s going on.
Hah, no wonder Shu is guarding the kitchen against further purloining of the cabinetry and inventory! Haha. — However, in that photo, it looks brighter than my new (-ish) apartment kitchen. (At the end of this month, I will have been here 8 months. Man, time flies.)
@Hanneke — Thank you! I just saw your earlier comment and have emailed you about the green wordlist with phonetics and the grammar book. — I just checked Amazon and I will be ordering next week an inexpensive Pimsleur intro audio CD, which may include a book. I’m puzzled, in that the dictionary I found, from Cassell’s, another well-known foreign language bilingual dictionary publisher here in the US, had only “used” and no “new” copies of the dictionary shown, and only in hardcover. But by getting a “used, good condition” copy, the cost was OK, about $25. So I intend to order these next week. I found a Barron’s 201 Verbs book for Dutch, another usual foreign lang. reference series here; however, I’m going to search again, as the 501 (LanguageName) Verbs books are a better help for serious language geeks studies.
@CJ — Yay, the ebook of The Book of Swords, in which you’d said you have a new short story, downloaded to my Kindle app this past week. The book discussion has reminded me that I have that to read. 🙂 Thanks to you and the other authors and the editor! I have a weakness for short stories. (Oh, who am I kidding? I have a weakness for books, period. Haha.)
Random Cool Thing: I got a YouTube random recommendation for a Sesame Street documentary in three parts, over the weekend, which led to a “Sesame Street Unpaved” documentary from about 1999. This (ahem) let me down the rabbit hole of watching a few Sesame Street skits from, oh my, childhood memories. — Aside from the behind-the-scenes documentary stuff, very cool, one of the skits had a bit at the end with a “Librarian” character doing a rhyme, not quite hip-hop, but, haha, it was great fun at the tag-end of the scene. You may be able to find these by searching YouTube for “Sesame Street” plus “Librarian” or “behind-the-scenes” or “documentary”. I’ll see if I can turn up links again from my YouTube viewing history. (I believe the bit with the librarian had Ernie in the overall skit, either alphabet learning or books. It’s been since the weekend. Apparently, having binge-watched and slept since then has, hmm, overly fuzzed my memory. Or maybe it’s all that felt!)
@BCS, better hold off on ordering dictionaries. There’s a CDrom with a good bilingual bidirectional dictionary (Van Dale) in what I’m sending you, as well as a basic Dutch dictionary for people learning Dutch as a second language. I’m hoping the bidirectional dictionary on the CD has the phonetics, as it turns out the green wordlist doesn’t (they put the syllables in square brackets after the word, which misled me into misremembering they had the phonetics there). I also hope you can use the Dutch CDrom, and it’s not limited to a geographic distribution like DVDs are.
I can also include a USB drive with the MP3s of my dad reading aloud, mostly kids’ books for his grandkids, and put in one of those books if you want to try and follow along. He’s not speaking at teaching speed, so following along might not work until you get fairly fluent.
Wow, I’m glad I didn’t get the dictionary yet! Yes, the CD dictionary and books sound good. Hmm, I don’t _think_ the CD will be geographically limited, but I’m not sure. — The USB drive with a book to follow along would likely help me. — In any case, thank you, this is unexpected and really nice of you!
Dutch OU, when it appears to be from an earlier OL — I have this urge to say it, oh-oo or oh-ww, where that’s a long, close ó right up next to a strong English W, as though “crud” were Koh-OOD or KohWD. I’m going to have to train myself that OU = AU /ah-oo/ in Dutch. The EI = IJ, I think I’m used to now. Seeing UI/UY as AU is also going to take some getting used to, but I think huis as house will help me do that.
Aha! Follow-Up on the Sesame Street tangent…alleyway?
The 3 clip documentary title is, Sesame Street – Behind the Street, part 1, 2, 3, for which to search on YouTube.
I found the clip with the Librarian, in which he says, “That’s a novel idea!” and then sings, “A Librarian can help you look / for a magazine or book.” — The YouTube clip is titled, Sesame Street – People in your neighborhood. But a YouTube search for ( Sesame Street librarian ) or ( Sesame Street library ) turns up that as well as several others. (Nuts, I think there was a two-beat, two-syllable word between “a” and “magazine,” maybe, “special” or “fav’rite” ?) The clip has one of the 70’s guys who played Gordon, I think. (Man, there is a definite Motown funk vibe goin’ on there, haha, 70’s sideburns and shirt and all. 🙂 It is not, however, a Qiana fabric shirt. )
I couldn’t help but think of the librarians and teachers here in the Wavy Navy who might want to use that or others.
Edit To Add: { Link to the Librarian clip: https://youtu.be/YZlC-GhzNos. }
The original galley kitchen (this view is from the living room doorway), the kitchen sink was under the window to the left, the stove was across from the sink. The refrigerator was just to the right of the picture and was the first “obstacle” you cleared when you took a short zig to the left to enter the kitchen. The area where Jane is working is where the table was situated, along with the wine cabinet. There is a doorway to the basement around the corner of the cabinets on the right, more cabinets were on the far wall (beyond where Jane is at), and there was a step-down to a mudroom to the back yard. It was a cozy kitchen, but might have been just a bit too cramped. We had some fairly good parties there during Shejicons, though. Hopefully, they’ll get exactly what they want from this remodel.
When I think of working in a narrow galley kitchen, stepped on toes is not the hazard that comes to mind as much as inadvertent “meetings of the minds” — backsides backing into or side-swiping each other. However, this space seems excessively narrow as in “having to climb over each other to do stuff,” which would be a PITA. Of course, when the house was built, mom would not have had anyone helping her cook. Still, I can see why you’d want to remodel it to more users-friendly dimensions.
I have a galley kitchen, the distance between opposite counters is 1 meter, but there is plenty of room for another backside to fit through there – alas, no significant other,though. (separate issue 😉 )
That rather depends on the people involved, I’d say 🙂
Me being more “traditionally built”, to speak with Mme.Ramotse (for those who like Alexander McCall Smith’s No.1 ladies detective agency too), two people my size in a 1 meter wide area would definitely be a squeeze!
Tommie, I like your phrase of “a meeting of the minds” for the inevitable bumping involved when more traditionally built ladies are moving around in one small kitchen 🙂
Sorry, I cannot claim the honor of being Tommie . . .
I’m one of those full-figured gals from the flatlands of TX . . . mostly full of fried chicken, tater salad, beef barbecue and TexMex food. Built solid and low to the ground so as not to blow away. . .
…and I can’t take credit for the phrase and be honest at the same time… Don’t forget the vegetables cooked in cream or butter, WOL!
I recall reading women who carry their weight in hips and thighs are at less risk of coronaries than those who carry it in their belly like men, whose risk is like men’s. Not that it should lead to complacency. My Mother died of a coronary and she never gained weight–she was a smoker and never quit. “I’m cutting down,” wasn’t good enough.
p.s. Streets are washed of oil and fires out. We got 1.65″ of rain yesterday, and another 0.70″ between midnight and 6AM. “Can you spell ‘firehose,’ boys and girls?”
I’m chuckling over the “traditionally built ladies” phrase. That is very nicely put, and likely quite true.
Come to think of it, most women I’ve known are more wide-hipped. My grandmother on my mom’s side and only a few other women I’ve known have been petite (short and thin with medium or narrow women’s hips). My mom was “big-boned,” a medium to chunky build but not overweight, in college and somewhat thereafter, but by the time I was a little guy, she was overweight, and always struggled with it. So based on college-age photos of her, I’d have to say she was “traditionally built.” (She was 5’6″; I don’t know what her college weight was, but it wouldn’t be overweight. She thought it was, though, partly because my grandmother was built so petite.)
Traditionally built, for a lady with medium or wide hips, regardless of height, though possibly not so tall, seems like a good way to put it; it’s a natural build, and possibly healthier. Ample hip room would help if a woman’s going to give birth, for both mom and baby, and most women do.
Current beauty standards for women and girls, and men and boys, really are fairly extreme and not good for body-image.
The person in the pic is our carpenter, who stands about 6’5″ — and has had to do a lot of crawling about in our very low attic, brave fellow.
And there will be cabinets on both sides. Two people can pass each other in the kitchen but not if any appliance doors are open. 😉
I can hear the cry of ‘Door!’ and ‘Closed!’ in my mind’s ear. I wonder if astronauts have similar problems.
One of our favorite local restaurants has a couple of blind corners leading out of the kitchen. All the servers yell ‘Corner!’ as they come around.
Maybe a pair of strategically placed convex mirrors?
Aha! Applied Intelligence! I like it.
Sorry, WOL and Tommie, for confusing your names and not scrolling up on my phone to check. I’m notoriously bad at remembering names, and you both occupy a similar niche in my memories, namely sensible women with interesting things to say and sometimes memorable phrasing, whose remarks I enjoy reading on this blog.
No slight was intended to either of you!
I could prize being mistaken for WOL!
I was flattered . . .
Please pass along to Jane my birthday congratulations. I sent her an electronic card, hopefully she’ll like it.
She loved it!
She sent me a cute one in reply. 😀
Happy birthday to her Janeness!
Jane is the cat’s meow.
Jane obviously precedes my second daughter in year, but the lottery gave her the same day; may your each natal day be happier then the last!
Oh, gosh — I’m so sorry I forgot Jane’s birthday! Many happy returns!
We had a huge series of squalls, complete with torrential downpours, lightning and thunder, blow through last night. The wet is finally officially here, but lightning strikes blew the entire island power grid. We were woken at 3 a.m. when every UPS in the house screeched at once, announcing loss of power. The island has been getting back online piecemeal, but it was 12 hours later before we got power again. This really messed up the library’s day; Admin couldn’t decide if we should come in to work or not. They finally let us go home after we were all there but the electricity wasn’t. We also had a big children’s program tonight that had to be canceled and rescheduled later. All in all, we got a day off, but it wasn’t altogether satisfactory.
We’re having a little cold snap. Down in the 40s (4+ C) during last night, no higher than the mid 60’s (15+ C) today. We’re in that see-saw time of year when it’s too cool for the AC but too warm for the heater. I leave it on AC until the inside temperature drops below 68 F (20 C) which is the trigger temp for the heater. That’s when I switch over. I hear from my cousin that Houston got a might nippy too, BCS.
Jane thanks you one and all—her fingers are all over polyurethane and stain….and she’s not touching my computer! 😉
When I was using industrial PL adhesive for my construction projects, inevitably it would get on fingers, hands, arms… After the project was done, it was slow to peel off (it’s industrial adhesive meant to stick to tiles, plywood, and cement blocks!) My hands could have doubled for a movie monster’s.
We wonder about the adventures of certain house elflings with the strange and mysterious things going on in ‘that room with the coffee fountain’. Or at least I do.
Birthday greetings are wending their way northwestward. Many happy returns of *every* day, not just that yearly birthday thing. . .