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conulythe kitchens did not come with installed counters. There's one counter in each kitchen that's really a dish shelf with a small cabinet underneath, and it's carefully located on the opposite wall from the stove and also super small and inconvenient if you wanted to use it as a prep station.
Back before the 1930s in the USA, kitchens generally didn't have built-in counters and cabinets. You used furniture for those things, like the ever-popular Hoosier cabinet. On the plus side, this makes it easy to move things around if you don't like the layout, and I feel the same way about wardrobes instead of built-in closets. On the downside, nobody is used to this idea anymore so even if you want your kitchen in this old-fashioned style the next owners of your house or your heirs probably wouldn't. But, just to be clear, I'd absolutely get one if I found one going cheap at a garage sale or thrift store or whatever.
(On a similar "I honestly dislike that American houses are built this way" complaint, who on earth decided to put all the toilets in the same room as the showers and bathtubs? Quite aside from being inconvenient if you have more people than bathrooms, when you think about it it's all a little gross.)
Back before the 1930s in the USA, kitchens generally didn't have built-in counters and cabinets. You used furniture for those things, like the ever-popular Hoosier cabinet. On the plus side, this makes it easy to move things around if you don't like the layout, and I feel the same way about wardrobes instead of built-in closets. On the downside, nobody is used to this idea anymore so even if you want your kitchen in this old-fashioned style the next owners of your house or your heirs probably wouldn't. But, just to be clear, I'd absolutely get one if I found one going cheap at a garage sale or thrift store or whatever.
(On a similar "I honestly dislike that American houses are built this way" complaint, who on earth decided to put all the toilets in the same room as the showers and bathtubs? Quite aside from being inconvenient if you have more people than bathrooms, when you think about it it's all a little gross.)
