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I find it interesting that the open kitchen and living area has become so popular during the past few decades. Back in the says, rich families had servants cooking for them, so those kitchens would be very detached from the living area. After the Second World War, when many families couldn't afford servants anymore, the invention of the Frankfurt kitchen brought formed our modern understanding of kitchens and cooking: "We’re used to thinking of kitchens as a universal kind of room that almost everyone has—as essential as a place to sleep, or a bathroom. Our great-great-grandparents were not." https://www.citylab.com/design/2019/05/modern-kitchen-histor...

Really insightful story. I do hope that we'll soon find a way to solve the California housing crisis!

I agree with your point and I think that what your wife does is impressive and a thousand times better than a little free library. However, I don't think that there is anything wrong with placing books that you no longer want in public place and exchange them with another book. It's not the idea of little free libraries that's problematic, but the execution. I was living in a small French town from 2013 until 2015 and there was something similar to a little free library on one of the main downtown plazas. Old and young people from all demographic and socio-economic backgrounds seemed to be participating, taking and leaving books. I really loved it and I think it's a pity that over here, the little free libraries are only to be found in privileged neighborhoods.