The big little lie of the TV kitchen island
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#2"Over the decades, as versions of this housewife’s setup have eliminated dining rooms, pass-throughs, and farmhouse tables, the open-concept kitchen, centered around an island visible from all sides, has become not a labor-saving device but a stage on which (mostly) women are forced to perform."
I gave up here. This is so stupid that I'm not sure what is the premise that I should critique.
Also Im a guy who cooks in a kitchen with an island and I love it.
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#3Sitcom actors are always more attractive than normal people, and the sets they act in are usually way up there in terms of what it would cost to actually buy a house like that. It's because TV is aspiration with a little (a lot) of consumerist guilt mixed in.
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#4I read through this a couple of times, and I still can't figure out its point beyond the idea that the author doesn't like kitchen islands/open floor plans, and even that I'm not sure of?
I've found to really like open floor plans and an open kitchen. When I visit my family, we tend to congregate in the kitchen as someone is cooking (or several of us are cooking) and we don't want them to feel left out. An open floor plan allows this.
When we go to someone's house that doesn't allow it, it tends to either a) divide people who are cooking and people in the living room, or b) have everyone in a small kitchen for socializing.
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#5I'd love to have a kitchen island. Our house has a tiny kitchen, and everybody congregates there, so it's impossible to do anything without people constantly bumping into one another. I could say, "get out of the kitchen," but then I'm separated from the conversation. Then, somebody wants a drink, or a snack, or whatever, and they're all back in the kitchen again.
The island lets people socialize in the kitchen, which is where they want to be, without getting in the way of the cook.
I don't care about being able to hide the mess. The rest of the house is a mess.
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#6> As a portrait of modern family life, it is more than a little bleak—just like the show. The kitchen island is the new hearth, as the kitchen long ago replaced the living room as the center of the home.
Modern? Many families have elevated the kitchen to main room status for generations.
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#7I read through this a couple of times, and I still can't figure out its point beyond the idea that the author doesn't like kitchen islands/open floor plans, and even that I'm not sure of? I've found to really like open floor plans and an open kitchen. When I visit my family, we tend to congregate in the kitchen as someone is cooking (or several of us are cooking) and we don't want them to feel left out. An open floor…
This article is a preference about interior design masquerading as a social critique.
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#8how could this possibly be on the front page? or any page. this is pure drivel.
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#9Sitcom actors are always more attractive than normal people, and the sets they act in are usually way up there in terms of what it would cost to actually buy a house like that. It's because TV is aspiration with a little (a lot) of consumerist guilt mixed in.
I think it has less to do with anting to be aspirational and a lot more to do with how sets are decorated. Take an interior designer and give them an unlimited budget with the only requirement being it has to look good on camera and you’ll get amazing results every time. My house has bare walls because we don’t have a professional decorator. And everything else is slapdashed together because that is how real homes work.
Now logistics: you need space for cameras lighting and crew to move in. No way in hell is a multi camera show going to be shot in a real New York apartment kitchen. Walking through a real living room would have the camera operator bumping into all sorts of things. So homes and sets are huge. They aren’t filming bathroom confessionals.
Re: The big little lie of the TV kitchen island
#10Sitcom actors are always more attractive than normal people, and the sets they act in are usually way up there in terms of what it would cost to actually buy a house like that. It's because TV is aspiration with a little (a lot) of consumerist guilt mixed in.
> Sitcom actors are always more attractive than normal people
You mean 'actors are more' (no need for 'sitcom').
Most people in entertainment (maybe with the exception of musicians and radio personalities) are more attractive than normal people.
What I always find interesting though is when a prisoner is played by an actor. That is a big paradox.