I’d go for the smallest one possible that still has a decent amount of counter space, and features a place or two for non-cooks to sit.* Do whatever you have to for a decent amount of light: skylights, bright recessed lights. Buy a fucking lamp if you have to.
Marble counters rawk for rolling out pie dough, but I’m happy with my Corian: it stays just as cool as marble for rolling out crusts. And it goes with everything.
In fact, updated appliances and just a bit more counter space would make my kitchen perfect, since it was built in the 1970s by people just old-fashioned enough to put space in here for a tiny table.
If I can talk my HOA into it, I’d love to remodel enough to create a counter on the dining room side of the wall, and a window to push the food through: that’s the one thing I saw while we were condo-shopping that I wanted, but couldn’t get. (Well, that and a second study; we’re sharing an office, which is also our guest room. This means that we are sleeping in the smaller bedroom, right next door to the screechingly loud children of the otherwise rather nice family next door, which is almost [the family, that is] as vampire-like as I am; the younguns keep my husband awake rather viciously late, as their high-pitched voices bounce off the opposite wall. Our next investment will be a white noise machine, and I shall be installing triple-paned windows in that room as soon as I can get the scratch together. If they HOA has any problem with that, they can talk to my .40.)
* At a counter, perhaps, or in a corner—so my mom and/or husband can talk to me while I cook. I mean, my mom; who’m I kidding? I’m thinking of getting a small TV for that space, for when my mommy and our child [Mandy] cannot make it over, and I’m cooking all alone. The trick is to insist that the dog must not get human food, and that my mother is training her all wrong. Then, when Mom isn’t looking, I sneak Mandy some turkey meat—but it’s okay, because it’s in the dog dish rather than from the table.
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No need to replace the window with triple glazing.
Call your local glass company and have them replace the existing glass with laminated glass (like the windshield on your car)
Cuts noise down in a big way and is a better insulator as a bonus.
Safer too, unlike raw glass or or tempered glass, if it breaks it stays in place.
“If I can talk my HOA into it”.
I will never understand why anyone would buy a place under those constraints.
What passes for “owning” prorerty is a joke.You own nothing but the mortgage.
Yeah–well, we don’t HAVE a mortgage, and this place cost us half of what a house would have in this neighborhood. If we move to a single-family dwelling, we can rent it out. I’m perfectly happy with the investment, myself.
One absolutely critical element of an ideal kitchen is a good sink. Deep enough to clean big pots, with a good pull down faucet, think a restraunt’s wash station.