haha thanks guys
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It's not necessarily our taste per se, but we just wanted to pick something more modern and plain so that it would appeal to the majority of people viewing our house (but that doesn't matter now!....if only we had known that we would've had a buyer for the house "as is"!)
Galley kitchens are useful in that regard, but I hate that the kitchen is so isolated from the dining room as you can't really have people around and easily carry on a conversation unless everybody crowds in the kitchen and then they get in the way. I wanted more of an entertaining space. We have the lounge, but when we play boardgames, we kind of need a proper table and it's just nicer having one, bigger, functional kitchen.