The kitchen in our 1908 Foursquare was neither original nor convenient. Cabinets and most of the appliances were shoved into a small space at one end of the 12' x 21' room. Tiled countertops were mismatched. The room was full of annoying quirks: drawers that wouldn’t fully open or led nowhere, spiky sunflower-motif cabinet knobs that occasionally drew blood. It was impossible for both of us to work comfortably in the kitchen at the same time.
Because the room is longer than it
