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Cosy living in a 4-room creamy home with Japandi touches
Our Galley Kitchen: Simple, Functional, Easy To Clean 🍚
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Hello everyone! Here’s a closer look at our galley kitchen. For context, I love to cook and bake – usually light cooking – so this kitchen was designed with that in mind. Due to the layout of our home, having a sizable island was out of the question. So we made do with a bigger dry area to act as a convertible “island”. On a day-to-day basis, we use it as a space for our regular kitchen appliances and also unload our groceries here. We have also used it as a space to hold mini buffets too! First, let’s talk about the skeleton of the kitchen that gives it its form: 🤍 Flooring: Tiles. It was a no-brainer for us because of easy maintenance. 🤍 Countertop: Quartz. Sintered stone would definitely give us a wider variety of designs to choose from, but the fact that it chips easily held us back. 🤍 Backsplash: Crystal white glass. I loved the idea of having kit kat or subway tiles, but having a seamless finish saves us a lot of pain when it comes to cleaning after cooking. If you want a finish like ours, remember to request for crystal white. Otherwise, glass will have a bluish tint by default. 
We wanted cabinets on the top and bottom to maximise storage. While the idea of displaying items on open shelves screams Pinterest board, keeping things dust- and grease-free were a priority. Realistically, we would not put any pots and pans on top too, because I always have that fear that lizards or cockroaches may run around them at night. 
Opted for a single-door fridge because we didn’t want to be restricted by potential space constraints that a two-door fridge might have. For example, some two-door fridges may not be big enough to contain a whole cake. There are some that can, but those are too big for the both of us and definitely out of our budget. So if you do not cook on a regular basis too, the capacity of the fridge is something to think about. I also like the idea of being able to see everything at a glance, and a single-door fridge allows me to do just that. Here, you’ll also see my favourite part of the kitchen – the fluted door. Besides giving the kitchen some character, it gives us some privacy and lets a bit of light pass through too. 
An area of the kitchen that gives homeowners room for debate would be the dish drying rack. Without a doubt, covering the drying rack gives the kitchen a more seamless look. But it just didn’t make any practical sense to us because: 🍉 We wanted natural airflow to dry all the dishes and whatnot, so we probably wouldn’t close the door after placing wet dishes inside 🍉 I am 158cm so I cannot reach the door of the dish rack when it’s opened lol Our ID did also suggest a drop-down dish rack initially because of my height for easier access. But I’ve decided to do away with it for aesthetic purposes. Do I have to tiptoe to reach the top rack? Absolutely. But I say this is the price of beauty. 
This is one of the husband’s proudest areas of the home because his research saved us a lot of trouble. Our water dispenser may not look as fancy and sleek as the usual suspects, but he found out that in-built water dispensers also come with wastage – for every one litre of water you dispense, you are wasting another litre of water as well. And that didn’t sound very environmentally- or wallet-friendly to us. This led us to our water dispenser, but one big pain point? We’d have to manually refill the water tank on our own. The husband found out that Hansgrohe has kitchen taps that come with an extended wire and that was exactly what we opted for. We just had to factor this into the renovation ahead of time so that our ID could cater some space for the box containing the excess wire under the sink. With this addition, refilling the water tank is a breeze, like what you see in the photo. 
Horror stories of non-compatible cookware exploding on induction stoves were too much for me, and cooking already gives me anxiety, so we went with gas stoves. Plus, being able to see the fire gives me some level of assurance that my food is actually cooking. 
Fun fact: our built-in oven was from my parents’ home. My uncle is a contractor so he helped with the dismantling and transportation. We just had to give the measurements to our ID for the carpentry. 
Requested for a much deeper drawer under the oven to store all the bakeware – no regrets! That’s all for our kitchen tour! Thanks for reading till here 🫶🏻 Follow us on Instagram for more: @cosyhaus.jpg
18 August
