What happens when you need an office or garage and have no where to go? This homeowner created a rather extensive tinkerers workstation in what might seem like the most awkward of places — the kitchen. Now we've had our kitchen covered in projects before, but never have we set up something like this!
Make reader Kenneth Lee removed the existing cabinet doors and added an additional top to preserve the surface underneath. By adding a computer, some tools and other necessities, this awkward kitchen nook has turned into a full out work space.
Even though we cook far too much to have our stove so close to our work station (Johnny 5 can't come alive when covered in grease) it obviously works out just fine here. When life gives you lemons, or rather no where to work, you do what you have to!
(via: Make)
(Image: Kenneth Lee for Make)
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Comments (8)
lol, it seems this would be a home with no rug rats...the two or four legged kind.
Would love to know what kind of work is getting done here. Lots of tools and things, but not sure what it's all for. ??
I would really hate cooking next to all that junk, but I guess if you are an IT guy and need the office space...
At first, I thought it looked like a disaster but the more I look at it the more amazing I think it is, very practical and would be an amazing work setup if it is what you would need, however I would imagine that it could be very dangerous for other people.
That looks very cumbersome and dangerous. Gotta be a better way!
bluepanties - We thought the same thing, once you start truly looking at everything and how it's sorted and stored, it's actually a really functional area.
Might not be the prettiest spot ever but I am drooling at the functionality!
Hope he has some good solid cover for his computer, though --- it would be a pain to take off the monitor every time you wanted to do something messy there.
@mdevans: if you look closely, it looks like there's a covered litter box (?) and a jug of litter in the picture, so there might be four-legged furries about. (I may be wrong -- am dog person hugely allergic to cats, so my exposure to cat-ccoutrements is admittedly limited.)
This makes me think this is a single guy -- a family might want the space for a place to sit/color/do supervised homework, a female partner might be averse to a workbench and its associated electronic jumble (former wife to a video guy here) in the kitchen, and I don't suspect there's much cooking going on here, or there might not be such an eagerness to put so much stuff where it'll get kitchen-grime-y. If you jump to the single-guy conclusion, this is a pretty unsurprising thing to see done, and kudos to Kenneth for making his home fit his life!
Oooh it's a corner! And it has shelves with stuff in them! Why didn't I think of that. Oh wait, I did when I was 12. Right next to the oven/cooktop is a disaster, atleast put up a wall. More things wrong: No legroom underneath the table, sitting with the back to the room staring at a corner= fail, office-chair designed for leaning back not working in this setup as theres no legroom. I guess this has to do when you don't have anywhere else to do it, but I would have put up a wall between the oven and the officecorner.
I do however like the lamp!