Kitchen's Kitchen

Why wouldn’t you have built in white goods if you’re having a super nice kitchen? That just doesn’t compute

I am a function over form person.

Besides... built-in appliances come with minor compromises I don't see the point in accepting. Like smaller capacity washing machines and fridges as they need to accommodate reduced depth.

I also think there is a lot of beauty in something being seen to be what it is. i.e. exposed infrastructure within architecture showing the skeleton of the building, or exposed ceilings in cafe's etc showing how the ducting and air works. I think that when you show things for what they are that they also have to be higher quality to withstand being visible like that.

This will be expressed as: visible boiler, white goods being visible, all cupboards being fairly basic cupboards, etc.

But this also means stepping up the quality of those things as the magic of it all goes away and the quality has to stand alone.