The bedroom and bathroom are arranged to your tastes now in your brand new apartment. Your mother commented favorably about the removable wall decalswhen she dropped by on Wednesday, and your best friend loves your new table lamp.

You’re a little bit shocked that you could go on for days like this, eating out and coming home to crash luxuriously in your cozy bedroom suite.

But this is getting out of hand. You’ve just got to stop wasting all that money in restaurants, and you’ve been hankering for some nice home cooked macaroni and cheese. It’s time to make the kitchen useable.

The next Saturday morning, boxes of books and stacks of pillows and bric-a-brac get shoved from the kitchen onto the living room floor. A thorough cleansing follows, taking much longer than you planned, of course, because your standards are significantly higher than the previous tenants’.  You scrub and swipe to your heart’s content and then sit in the breakfast nook with a tall glass of milk and a watercress sandwich (yes, you popped over to the farmer’s market earlier this morning) surveying your culinary domain.

Energized by lunch, you get to work lining the drawers and cabinets with vinyl stickers so they’ll be pretty and easy to clean. Then it’s a breeze unpacking the several crates of kitchen ware. There’s a nice deep drawer for pots and pans; and you love the look of your crockery behind the glass cabinet doors.

You pause for a minute and watch the afternoon sun spill over the breakfast nook table onto the kitchen floor, and then you look to the sink, which is against the opposite wall, with no light. Not happy with this feature, you finish unpacking, and make a grocery list while the problem simmers in the back of your mind.

The apartment’s front door is adjacent to the kitchen, and there’s a bit of wall space beside it where you apply a chalkboard sticker for quick notes to yourself. Can’t miss important reminders if they’re right beside the door when you go out!

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