Very little which is why it will soon be ripped to the walls and redone!

Currently we are relocating for a job transfer, and therefore, until I find a new house, I am using the kitchen in a 3rd floor apartment.

So I have to say that I miss having "my own" kitchen as I have enjoyed them; all of them in Vermont and New York when I was a child, my kitchens in Ohio, One "old world" style in Arkansas, and will love my next home and kitchen, now that we are back home in Ohio. (When we find one!) But the kitchens in my life have been a favorite family and friend gathering spot, a wonderful collection of items passed down and shared in food preparation, a fun place to start new collections to be passed down to my children and grandchildren in their food preparation or other activity. The greatest place to complete school projects is always the kitchen.. As we pass through the kitchen we are aware or become part of whatever activity is currently taking place, and so it is a fun place to travel to and through. Keeping them open and centralized is very much an important feature to any home..I miss all of my kitchens...and look forward to my next one and the exciting things that my family and friends will share there.

My waffle iron. It reminds me of many great breakfasts with my family in the past and lets me look forward to more in the future.

I just love everything about our kitchen. We just took out two walls and totally renovated the kitchen. Now it's open to the dining room and living room with a large penninsula between the kitchen and living room. Now when we have people over they sit at the penninsula and I can be in the kitchen cooking which I love to do and I am still part of the conversation. I also love the window seat overlooking our perennial filled back yard. For Christmas my husband bought me a new lap top computer for the kitchen so I can look up new recipies for dinner without having to go downstairs to the other computer. It's my dream kitchen.

My English basement kitchen always looks warmly inviting because of a small shaded lamp on the window sill. The lamp does more than add light. It offers a soft and cheery note of welcome to the room, where the window faces a brick window well.

When I count my blessings, I most love the fact that I am a modern woman, who has access to all of those wonderful gadgets that make life so much easier and that I live in modern times. Thus, I am able to appreciate electricity, gas, and running water and having the kitchen in the house instead of how it was in days long past. It may not be up-to-date or glamerous, but it meets my needs.

I love love love my refrigerator magnets. They are inspirational.

What do I love most about my kitchen? My husband. We make fresh blueberry jam together from the berries grown on our farm. He handles the lids and rims, and I mind the jam. It’s a team effort from beginning to end, and the results are delicious.

An antique pastry table sits front and center in the kitchen of my 100-year-old farmhouse. I bought the table, with its work-worn enamel top and huge, curved bottom drawers (originally meant to hold 50 pounds each of flour and sugar), years before I had a kitchen with room for it. When first I saw my current kitchen, it was dark and dirty and had no redeeming features, save one: an open space perfect for my version of a kitchen island.