Well, we finally moved from the Westside of Los Angeles to beautiful Pasadena and are absolutely loving it. This is our front upstairs balcony that looks over a very quiet, tree-lined street.
It’s so peaceful, the local traffic is a breeze, the homes are beautiful and elegant with tons of mature trees, the people are very friendly and community-minded and they seem to be more interested in cooking rather than eating out all the time.
Pasadena seems to have better and more interesting restaurants than the Westside of LA too. (I may get some push-back on that comment, but I stand by it)
We love our new home, but knew pretty much straight away that we would be doing a big kitchen/dining room renovation and reconfiguring a laundry room, maid’s room and bathroom behind it, hopefully installing a good-sized butlers pantry that would also hold my 1000+ recipe books and many folders of downloaded recipes from various websites.
I will be posting pictures as the work progresses but at this point we are narrowing down an architect. All suggestions and recommendations for new kitchen ideas would be extremely helpful.
Someone suggested an “appliance station” the other day which sounds fabulous, so that has gone onto our “dream list”
To be continued…