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The 1950s miracle kitchen of the future

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"whether you're tiny, typical or tall." I love the alliteration here in place of short, average, tall. Dad is proud of this letter, the one that told him he was too innovative, even for the most Jetsons-like of dream kitchens. I think that's a cool thing to be proud of. I also wish we would kind of go in the opposite direction and find solutions that work well for most people while being simpler and having fewer movi…

Arguably the single faucet design has positives and negatives - it is easier to use (if designed right) but it also has a much more complicated "cartridge" vs a simple rubber washer.

It also tends to be imprecise.

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It’s interesting to me that most people, even when renovating their kitchen in a home they never intend to sell, don’t bother adjusting the counter heights to that most compatible with the user. Multiple heights are appearing in more designs now.

At least in the USA, most undercounter appliances and cabinetry and designed for a common height. Anything else is custom or ADA-compliant which costs more.

Re: The 1950s miracle kitchen of the future

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A much-better “Kitchen of the Future” article was posted on TreeHugger in 2021. Decrying kitchen designs by people who don't cook, the article referred to a lesson by the USDA about applying experience from the US Army to home kitchens; the video is available at https://youtu.be/2N9RCQjPqh4.

It introduces the now-common idea of a “work triangle”; organizing everything needed to cook a meal around a single station.

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