“Remoted – Hybrid” – Day 731 (Thursday) – kitchen puzzled

The Facebook ads are delivering the puzzles this week. Today featured another head scratcher. A screen shot was grabbed, thank goodness, because when it was looked for later, it wasn’t found. There needs to be a section of Facebook that holds the ads you scrolled by too fast previously and finally want to look at. These are never the same ads that appear 100 times a day in the feed.

Anyway. The ad seems to be for kitchen remodeling and features a photo of a fresh, modern kitchen. There are plain white walls with no upper cabinets. I’m not an architect, designer, or chef, so perhaps I misunderstand the stylish kitchen. My point of view is that of a person who cooks at home regularly and has enough dishes and silverware to only need to run the dishwasher once a week.

The kitchen depicted in “A 5-star menu of cooking inspiration” features a half-mile long rod on the wall with S hooks and five utensils centered over the stove. Two cabinets and two drawers sit below the nearly empty, carefully staged counter holding a few jars of pasta and a half-empty knife block.

A stove, dishwasher and refrigerator are pictured, but no toaster, microwave oven, coffee maker, air fryer, or any other of the trendy appliances du jour. For now, let’s assume they are elsewhere in the kitchen, which probably extends for a mile to the left and behind the camera.

Shelves mounted on either side of the range hood hold a few colorful dishes, mugs, and white bowls. Therein lies my problem and puzzlement. The lowest shelf seems to be the height of the top of the refrigerator and it seems potentially impossible and quite uncomfortable to access the items. The breakage rate must by very high in this kitchen. Maybe one of the lower cabinets or pull-out drawers contains a step stool.

The only logical conclusion based on the evidence presented is that the kitchen in the photo belongs to a professional basketball player, a member of the Boston Beanstalks Tall Club, or someone who doesn’t cook at home. Sure, it’s kind of pretty, but if the photo is supposed to inspire me want to spend thousands of dollars to update my kitchen, it’s not working.