Comments on: My little corner.

By: tokyoterrace

tokyoterrace — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:01:45 +0000

Danielle: I’m glad it looks organized! Sometimes I feel like it is the most unorganized place on the planet! Thankfully, my husband is great at helping to keep the dishes done, etc, so it isn’t as hard as it could be to keep everything in tip top shape (especially considering all the messes I make!)

By: Danielle

Danielle — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:28:10 +0000

I can sympathize with a cramped kitchen – we moved from a two bedroom apartment with a full kitchen to a 1-bedroom cottage with a counter and small stove so there was a lot of creativity involved in storing our numerous pots and pans But yours looks far cleaner and neater than mine, so a big pat on the back for that!

By: tokyoterrace

tokyoterrace — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:58:12 +0000

Hi Aunt J!
I have been thinking about your comment for the past couple of days- imagining Grandma’s porch and how much I loved when I was a little girl. Listening to the birds and various bugs in the summertime was a great comfort to me. I would give anything to have just one more day of being 7 or 8 years old with not a care in the world at Grandma and Grandpa’s house in Tennessee. Thanks for bringing me back there for even a moment… I love you!
Rachael

By: tokyoterrace

tokyoterrace — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:20:49 +0000

Fuji Mama:
Wow! Sounds like you were definitely cramped! Our kitchen is about the size of half of our apartment- so I guess we are cramped in other ways. I do like the face that I can move around in my kitchen though.

By: Fuji Mama

Fuji Mama — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:55:29 +0000

LOVE your kitchen! I miss my little Tokyo kitchen, even though it was even more cramped than yours! (It was long and narrow–I could stand sideways and one hand on each wall!)

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By: tokyoterrace

tokyoterrace — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:43:04 +0000

It sounds like you will have some adjusting to do when you move into your new place! Good luck!

I love fireplaces. That is one thing that I definitely miss here in Japan. That is definitely not part of the culture! Maybe with yours that you are not allowed to use you could light a couple candles inside the fireplace to give the illusion of a fire?

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:12:11 +0000

Your kitchen is just perfect and memories of it will dwell in years to come.

Favorite spaces, for me, are seasonal. During the long Minnesota winters, I am drawn to the maroon wingback chair by the fireplace. There I read, listen to the crackling fire and sip tea. During the cool spring months, I move to the sofa to gaze through the window at the flowering crabapple tree and the weigela bush. Summer, in a perfect world, would find me under the pin oak tree, in the hammock, book and glass of lemonade in hand. Fall, glorious fall, is hard to pin down. Maybe under the apple tree. Maybe in a pile of raked leaves under the maples. Cider, apple pie, apple roll-overs … YUM! In years past, my favorite spot was on the business side of the kitchen island carefully preparing meals and delectables for my husband and children.

By: cocopuff1212

cocopuff1212 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:39:53 +0000

My sister in Osaka also has a very small kitchen, and I’ve always been amazed at the yummy things she creates in it.

I’m about to move into an apartment, and the kitchen there might have a little more counter space than yours, but two peole won’t be able to pass each other in it. The refrigerator won’t even be there — it will be in the laundry space, separated from the kitchen by a wall! Oh, and the French controls…

My favorite place, in the house we moved out of two months ago, was the counch in the space off the kitchen. It was by the fireplace and I loved sitting there alone with a book, or with my family after dinner. That comfy couch is now in storage in California, and there are fireplaces in the soon-to-be-our-home apartment but we aren’t allowed to use them.

By: Aunt J in Hendersonville

Aunt J in Hendersonville — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:40:50 +0000

Loved this post, loved that it made me stop and think about favorite places to relax.
My first – and all time favorite – place to find serenity is on Mom’s front porch – in the morning, just Mom and me, strong, hot coffee in hand, listening to the birds sing, enjoying just ‘being’. When I need to center myself, I sometimes picture this in my head.
Second – the many times I sat on deck, coffee in hand, watching the sea, truly appreciating God’s creation; feeling small but oh so blessed…
And third – the moments (actually, sometimes hours) I rocked my ‘babies’. That was perhaps the truest contentment of all; all else ceased to exist, I had the world in my arms…