Toaster Storage

Do you keep your toaster on the counter? I mean, does it live on your counter?

I remember my sister telling me about her friend who stores her toaster in a drawer.  Back then, I thought that was the craziest thing ever. Who does that?!

Well, I never thought I'd be this way, but...our toaster lives in the cabinet. We drag it out when we use it, and we put it away after it cools down. There are three reasons (listed in order of importance):

1. A toaster takes up too much space.

2. Toasters in regular use are unattractive and, in our case, ugly.

3. The kitchen looks cleaner without our toaster on display.

That countertop is made from a real bowling alley. Back when we had our coffeeshop (we sold it), we found out our landlords had a cache of discarded bowling alley in storage. They converted the bowling alley into a bar (which was reasonable because there are tons of bowling alleys), and they had the intelligence to save the bowling alley lanes/wood/planks. We traded food and coffee for enough to redo our kitchen and two others! Pretty cool.