Yeah totally agree kitchen is a good place, but not with leads and chargers everywhere, it's horrible. Everyone to their own, but if I'm spending 40k on a kitchen diner with a killer contemporary look – even going to the expense of having 2 dishwashers cos with 5 kids, when it's on there always a gathering of more dirties cluttering up the lovely clean look – then hidden gadgets which ain't permanent items should be outa sight!
Repeat the following over and over again until you get it and start to act accordingly:
"A kitchen is a place of work."
"A kitchen is a place of work."
"A kitchen is a place of work."
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As far as 'writing proper words' is concerned - I don't see anything wrong with how I have typed, unless you've never been exposed to a mobile phone of email b4,
I have been exposed to mobile phones for quite some time, and to the limitations of SMS which make abbreviations necessary.
In emails, and posts on forums, they are not necessary and should be eschewed. Writing emails and forum posts should not be regarded as an opportunity to dispense with correct grammar, punctuation and sentence construction etc, and as much care should be taken crafting them as any other form of written communication.
it's not any harder to understand.
That isn't the point.
I'm a designer, not a secretary (hence I like the clean look
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There's nothing wrong with wanting to achieve a clean look, or indeed any look which you find attractive, but the #1 cardinal sin that any designer can commit is to sacrifice function for form. If the functioning of anything is compromised by making form more important then it matters not one iota how attractive the item is - it doesn't work properly and that's that.
And sadly kitchens, and kitchen appliances, seem to attract more than their fair share of design which is so stupid that things aren't just compromised but are practically unusable.
