As the hopper fills with ideas about what COULD be included in Custom Housing, I wanted to get this idea out there.
A bit of preamble: I, like I know many of us do, cook in our homes, and when we do, we cook in bulk. In my usecase, what this means is I've laid down many piles of stuff. Some is oriented around making Awesome Stew. My "cocktail center" is strewn with items related to making Flaming Humbabae and Earthshakers. Then there's the whole herb thing: piles of hooch, extracts of herbs, and suchlike.
What I'm imagining for (let's just call it) the Cookery Center is in a way inspired by the Still. One can stock the still with items, and let it perk, then stuff it full of corn, grain, or potatoes, then retrieve hooch at your discretion. I'm imagining a Cookery Center that one can build using Tinkering. Then one can EQUIP the Cookery Center with saucepans, awesome pots, knives & boards. In turn, the Cookery Center can also be equipped with Storage. In other words you can CHARGE the Center with meat, veggies, beans, bubbles, and various gasses. The good news is one can get all the stuff off the floor, and execute your dishes in bulk, as long as the goods last.
The open question is how much storage? I think this would allow for buying/making storage to the Cooking Center, ala cupboards (stores beans and other semi/non perishable items), fridges (stores meats, cheese, milk, beer, veggies), which would allow for additional storage to be added on as folks wish to expand. I think in a perfect world, probably 300 meats, 500-1000 beans, and tons of veg.
A similar idea could be executed as a Cocktail Center/Wet Bar: Again, one would charge the Cocktail Center with fruits/bubbles/gasses/juices/etc., and equip it with shakers & blenders.
A workbench would be similar in that it would store raw goods, bubbles & gasses and be equipped with gassifiers, bubble tuners, and the like.
The end state of all of this are fully functional bits of house equipment, that would get all these stockpiles off the floor, and into the furniture where we could then utilize the equipment to make stuff more easily.
Looking forward to your feedback.
All best,
~Crash