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YES! I have a small kitchen with a huge window and I love it. I love having it wide open on a sunny day, especially Sunday mornings when I can hear the Buddhists chanting in the temple across from the alley.

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As the earth has tilted and the winter sun has changed, I've been rhapsodizing to myself more and more about how awesome my two kitchen windows are. In the morning on a sunny day they are just like little blasts of happiness (that cat likes them too). Early in the morning, before the sun, they give the kitchen a real sense of opportunity, like you're up before the entire world. And since one is on a fire escape, I can put the lamp that sits on the kitchen table on the escape, flick it on and close the window on the cord, and then use the entire table for seating people at a dinner party, without losing the light.

Lovely little house bipolarbear.

That bouganvilla is perfect! I've never seen one in a pot with so many blossoms.

We have some crazy, almost transom-height windows in our house, including one in the kitchen. They're about 4 feet wide and 15 inches tall and are a few inches from the ceiling. They provide a good, long sunbeam, though, which contributes to the brightness of the kitchen, along with the kitchen-length, frosted skylight that runs at an angle along the ceiling corner. Around July, however, I'll start cursing at them for the amount of heat they let in.

Answered "no", but I do have two big glass doors next to the kitchen... now if only I could get some sunny days... =)

Really, it's not in the kitchen, but the kitchen is open to the living room and the far wall facing the kitchen is all windows. It's quite pleasant on a sunny day and really keeps things bright.

We don't have a window in the kitchen, but we just renovated and opened up the kitchen to the living room. The sink is located at that opening, so I can look out the french doors in the living room or wash dishes and watch tv.

I have two screenless, woodframed casement windows in my 1959 ranch. The glass is wavy and sagging towards the bottom. The right window hasn't opened since we bought the place 6 years ago.

Standing there doing dishes, I'm reminded that there was an entire life here before we owned it. 22 years of a woman who's husband built the place with his own hands... and she looked out on a different landscape. A subdivision has sprung up around us, but I'm still taken back to a simpler time when I stare out that window.

No window in my kitchen, but it's completely open to the living and dining rooms. We have a whole wall of windows and another wall of sliding doors. If I look right when I'm standing at the stove, I can see the ocean.

We bought the place because of its windows and light (even if we did have to tear out all the walls in the kitchen)!

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I have a huge window, which is great for both inspiration and light-- makes it easier for me to photograph food.

A gun slit, and I could see into my neighbors' kitchen (and they into mine) were we rude enough to do so. Beats no window at all. For a while I was putting a narrow vase of flowers there--yellow, to fake more light. Why did I stop doing that? Must start again!

No kitchen window, but right next to the sink is the door to the patio steps, which happens to be all glass, so it's like having a floor-length window. I love the sun streaming in on a blustery day because it brightens up the yellow accent wall.

I do indeed. This is the view out one of the two over my kitchen sink here in East Central Illinois. I took this picture two years ago, but it looks exactly the same today, the pond all frozen and snowy.

Holy shiza!

Bitchin' remodel bitchincamero!

Lot's of inspiration there. You kicked major ass.

I was thinking to myself, is that a Florida ceiling? And then I saw some outside shots which actually looked like Florida. Did you have a Florida ceiling in Florida?

That place was downright hideous!

That kitchen with stacked stone accents is one of the best I've seen. And I love the way you carried the cabinetry into the bath.

Source for the vanity tile?

We have a kitchen/dining area, which has two windows and a door to a little tiny side yard. I LOVE it. I can cook in the sunlight, and it's great for having people hang out while you cook. The kitchen becomes the center of the whole apartment. It's going to be really hard if I ever have to go back to a windowless kitchen.

Thanks, art! We had to live with my parents for a year to be able to afford it, but it was worth it in the end :)

What's a Florida ceiling? Born and raised here and never heard of it!

The bathroom tile and stone backsplash are both from Porcelanosa.

Oh man I don't have a window, but I sure wish I did! On my list for my next place of residence:

lots of windows
a fireplace
kitchen larger than a postage stamp

@bitchincamero,

I did a search on Florida ceilings and it seems that popcorn ceilings are called Florida ceilings. I thought FL ceilings were illuminated drop ceilings like the one you used to have. I have seen pretty elaborate versions in kitchens. They were supposed to simulate the effect of being in a sun room. Something that arose out of the 70's or 80's I guess.

I'd say a year of living with the folks paid off pretty well!

Anything Florida sounds pretty good right now.

Here's my world:
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@art

We had no popcorn - thank GOD! But we did have a couple of those drop ceilings. They were the first to go! I don't envy your weather. I lived in Boston for 4 years and NYC for 4 years and am very glad to be back in the sub-tropics :)

I remember the kitchen in this photo (and the video), by far and away one of my favourites.

I have a small, cramped kitchen that no-one would envy, except that from the day I moved in, being able to cook with not only the window open but the door to the garden, was such a bonus - being in London and from having been in an attic flat before...

I love the potted plant solution at the window. Perfect if you don't have deep windowsills.

not a window per se, but the door to our deck has a small window in it, and is at one end of the kitchen. it does help with light.

I *heart* this kitchen - I saved it in a folder for favorite rooms/ideas when it was first posted. Still love it.

I have 2 windows in my kitchen, but none as large as the lovely one in this photo! I wish my south-facing window was that big - I'd have twice as big a kitchen herb garden.

answered yes, when in fact I have two massive (the width of the kitchen) all glass doors leading out to the balcony.
and the kitchen faces the brightest side of the appartment, which means that in spring and summer, from 12 till 4 in the afternoon I actually often have to lower the shutters half way to avoid being blinded by the sun, and turning the kitchen into a roasting oven!
but oh, how I love them

I love the green paint on the walls. What brand and color?

I have a large, long window in the kitchen that faces the public park in front of our building. I can watch the little league games and kids playing while I am chopping vegetables. It is a west exposure so we often have to close the blinds in the afternoon.

I have 2 windows in my kitchen, so I answered 'yes.' But does it really count when they look out at brick walls in an air shaft? I appreciate being able to have an air-conditioner in the kitchen, but I think I would appreciate natural light even more.

From my kitchen window I look out onto airshaft, glorious airshaft. And sometimes we get to watch the college boys in the apartment across the airshaft filling their bong in their own kitchen. Very inspiring. Better than the college girls who used to live there who were inexplicably constantly topless.

@FromTheFuture,

Are you sure you're being truthful? About the second part?

This is a **small** kitchen?! Maybe in some alternative universe.

I have a window and a view of the largest island in the Channel Islands National park. I love it! Especially after NO window for 9 years in NYC.

I LOVE bitchincamero's beautiful remodel. Bravo!

I live in an apartment with a window over the kitchen sink. I don't ever want to move.

I can see the Chicago skyline from mine. I love it!

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