Thoughts on small kitchens and high ceilings
Tuesday, March 14th, 2006 10:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lethargic_manDoes anyone else find that a small kitchen retains smells? I first discovered this in the place I was living a couple of years ago: the landlord told me off because he'd be showing prospective tenants the place, and the kitchen still smelled of what I'd cooked the previous day.
My current flat, also with a very small kitchen, is the same:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
curious_reader came around on Sunday to make homentashen (because she only has milky utensils, and the oven in her place is meaty), and the place still smelled of them last night.
I'm guessing the shape of the room leads to poor convection between the area above the level of the door and window and the rest of the room; i.e. air in the lower half exchanges at a normal rate, air in the upper portion remains largely immune to open windows &c, but gradually releases odour down into the lower half.
Speaking of which, why do people build houses with such high ceilings so often? Obviously, people don't like very low ceilings; it makes a room feel claustrophobic, but given that heat rises, surely a room with a ceiling above eight or nine feet, particularly one with single glazing, is simply asking for high heating bills: you've got to spend ages heating the air up in the inaccessible upper portion of the room before the hot air begins to reach down to floor level.
My current flat, also with a very small kitchen, is the same:
curious_reader came around on Sunday to make homentashen (because she only has milky utensils, and the oven in her place is meaty), and the place still smelled of them last night.I'm guessing the shape of the room leads to poor convection between the area above the level of the door and window and the rest of the room; i.e. air in the lower half exchanges at a normal rate, air in the upper portion remains largely immune to open windows &c, but gradually releases odour down into the lower half.
Speaking of which, why do people build houses with such high ceilings so often? Obviously, people don't like very low ceilings; it makes a room feel claustrophobic, but given that heat rises, surely a room with a ceiling above eight or nine feet, particularly one with single glazing, is simply asking for high heating bills: you've got to spend ages heating the air up in the inaccessible upper portion of the room before the hot air begins to reach down to floor level.
