Try using your crockpots, skillets etc. to cook with when there is no COUNTER TOPS in your kitchen. Even the coffee maker was in the bathroom because the kitchen table was in the living room. You are talking bare kitchen, as in NO kitchen. You can use the stove, when it's plugged in but nothing to sit anything else on, as mixing bowls, etc. Also crocks from pots and electric skillets do no wash well in a itty bitty lavatory sink. Maybe if one lives in a mansion, you could get through it with no problems, but not in a 1500 sq ft house, no basement either!