Maybe You Can Barrel Through
We all knew it was bound to happen. I had that moment. The moment when I’m standing in my tiny new kitchen and I realize that I have two tiny drawers and no others. Y’all don’t know this about me, but I like to cook. And eat. Anyway, there is no way I’ll get all of my kitchen tools in the provided spaces. I’d thought about creative options and one by one, realized they weren’t practical. It looks like in the end, I can add two wire shelves, one in the laundry closet and one in the water heater closet and I may be able to figure the rest out. There are two cabinets beneath the counter and two beneath the sink, and three above the stove. One is blocked by the mangled plug for the above-stove microwave. I have nowhere to store dishes, or food for that matter. My counter is teeny, limited to my stand mixer, coffee maker and bean grinder, and the toaster oven. Add a dish rack and the water filter and I don’t know where I’ll prepare food. I cut open a spaghetti squash in the living room...