Something I just now thought about. The proverbial kitchen workspace triangle layout for your stove, sink, regrigerator. is what most builders shoot for. Having had one home with a linear layout (not a galley, which I do like) of those 3 areas, I agree the triangle is preferable. That's NOT what I'll have at the BOL. Everything is way spread out on the 1/2 acre yard around the cabin.
Our BOL is very simple, well fairly primitive really. Sits in the (roughly middle) of an acre fenced yard (a guy leases our 42 acres for 10 cows). The fire pit is off in 1 corner. There is a cast iron small stove with cooking burner top on the front porch the last owners just left. Never used it to date. We have a camping 2-burner Coleman we can use on back or front porch. There's small but fully functional kitchen with a most novel cast iron stove refurbed to be electric, which is totally useless with power outages. We have a Camp Chef propane oven.
I'm trying to imagine running, back and forth 50-60', to the sink, fridge & pantry inside, the cobbler I'm monitoring way over in the corner of the yard by our flagpole. Oops! I forgot something I need, and have to run back inside;, back to the firepit to be sure the cobbler isn't burning. Well...........you get the idea. I'm going to have to get really organized and take everything outside UP FRONT if I'm gonna pull off this feat. I'm ordinarily a VERY organized person, but I'm forgetful when it comes to lining up my ingredieints by the stove. I invariably forget an item, food or utensil, and have to walk just 8-10' to get it. At the BOL, that will be about a 50-60' walk each way, and I'm getting old! Lord help me help me with this if it starts raining really hard in the middle of all this running in and out of the cabin. By then I'll be to exhausted I'll just want to sit down in my easy chair and too tired to eat. LOL
Of course, I could recruit the husband to help, but after 52 years, I haven't see a lot of aptitude in that department.
Our BOL is very simple, well fairly primitive really. Sits in the (roughly middle) of an acre fenced yard (a guy leases our 42 acres for 10 cows). The fire pit is off in 1 corner. There is a cast iron small stove with cooking burner top on the front porch the last owners just left. Never used it to date. We have a camping 2-burner Coleman we can use on back or front porch. There's small but fully functional kitchen with a most novel cast iron stove refurbed to be electric, which is totally useless with power outages. We have a Camp Chef propane oven.
I'm trying to imagine running, back and forth 50-60', to the sink, fridge & pantry inside, the cobbler I'm monitoring way over in the corner of the yard by our flagpole. Oops! I forgot something I need, and have to run back inside;, back to the firepit to be sure the cobbler isn't burning. Well...........you get the idea. I'm going to have to get really organized and take everything outside UP FRONT if I'm gonna pull off this feat. I'm ordinarily a VERY organized person, but I'm forgetful when it comes to lining up my ingredieints by the stove. I invariably forget an item, food or utensil, and have to walk just 8-10' to get it. At the BOL, that will be about a 50-60' walk each way, and I'm getting old! Lord help me help me with this if it starts raining really hard in the middle of all this running in and out of the cabin. By then I'll be to exhausted I'll just want to sit down in my easy chair and too tired to eat. LOL
Of course, I could recruit the husband to help, but after 52 years, I haven't see a lot of aptitude in that department.