Tinfoil Chef

The kitchen window in our house isn’t technically a “kitchen” window because it’s on the side of the room that’s designed as the dining area. The problem with this is that it’s on the front of the house facing the street. That wouldn’t be all that bad if it ad least had a set of roller shades or blinds…. something, that could provide a little more privacy than the sheer-thin curtains up there now.

As it was, that window got covered up with heavy plastic sheeting our first winter here to keep the cold out and we never bothered to take it down. From the outside it pretty much looks like there’s a heavy-ish curtain there. Inside it’s a bit more noticeable but since it’s not where anyone sits for any significant amount of time near it we never figured it was worth the bother. Besides’ there’s a big bay window in the next room that we do keep open a lot.

I remember when I was a kid the kitchen window would always be positioned right over the sink. This was so your mother could watch out the window while she’s doing stuff in the kitchen and give you what for out the window if you were caught doing something you shouldn’t have.

Modern houses don’t seem to have that kind of layout anymore. In ours for example, to put a kitchen window over the sink would give us a view of the hallway in the middle of the house. Maybe it’s just me but that’s just wrong.

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