Interesting

I was reading an article on MSN about what's "hot" for homes in 2008 and one of them was:

Concealed appliances

"Real-estate agent Nash says he's seeing more homeowners opting to hide kitchen appliances such as the dishwasher and refrigerator. "A lot of people think that appliances are ugly," he says. What's making it possible to hide a fridge behind cabinet doors is technology, which allows a big appliance today to be "broken apart" into separate, smaller pieces, he says. "A lot of people want beautiful kitchens, who never use them," Nash explains. The kitchen is evolving, he says. "A kitchen is becoming an aesthetic room."

I found this very interesting, since to me this is not new technology. Every apartment I have lived in in Italy has had a concealed refrigerator and almost every house I have been to out here has a concealed dishwasher too, it's just normal out here. I mean even the student apartments I lived in out here had it. It seems very normal to me, but now that I think about it, things are different in the U.S.

When I walk into a kitchen here and need something from the fridge I generally just look for the biggest cabinet panel and open that, and lo and behold it's the fridge... funny how things that are so commonplace out here are "new" technology in the U.S.

There was something else that I thought about the other day, but I don't remember anymore, when I do, I'll post about it!