In article >, susan_r23666
@yahoo.com says...
>
> On Wed, 21 May 2014 13:16:50 +1000, Jeßus > wrote:

> >When I was looking for a property 6 years ago, I saw this one on the
> >Internet and it looked good to me. But when I walked into the kitchen
> >here IRL... that sealed the deal. A good kitchen was essential to me.
> >I would hate to go back to an average, tiny kitchen again.
>
> Sounds like me. About 10 years ago we were looking for a house. After
> several looking at several places and having our offer refused on at
> least one, the Realtor said "There is another house I can show you but
> it is a bit over what you wanted to pay." We'll look. We walked into
> the house and into the kitchen. I said "We'll take it." The rest of
> the house is equally nice fortunately.

Complete opposite here. We bought this place without ever seeing the
kitchen. When we viewed, its owner had locked herself in the kitchen and
was slamming around refusing to open the door; she and her husband had
obviously just had a major row. The husband (also in a vile temper; the
entire viewing was a whistle stop tour in 5 mins flat) just said "You
can't go in there". He didn't give a toss about us; the sale closure was
the following week and he already had five serious auction bidders lined
up.

Didn't matter because the minute I stepped in this house I knew I was
going to live here. So a week later we bid and bought it.

When we eventually got access to see the mystery kitchen it was
awful.. a dark stuffy interior room with terrible old fittings and no
exterior door or window . But it had one wondrous surprise feature; I
opened an unexpected door, and found.... a big walk-in cool pantry
which had never been mentioned, with its walls lined with shelves. I
still rate finding that pantry as one of the best surprises of my life
:-) We've since knocked down a kitchen wall to extended and refit the
kitchen to a lightfilled comfortable and efficient one, it's now my all-
time favourite.

Janet UK