Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Ginny Urich. I'm the founder of 1000 Hours Outside.

And I got this incredible book in the mail. I was immediately drawn to it because it's called,

I just wish I had a bigger kitchen. And I feel like I'm a pretty content person, Kate,

but also I do wish I had a bigger kitchen. So the author Kate Strickler, founder of Nap Time Kitchen is here. Welcome, Kate.

Thank you. Thank you so much for having me. You are not alone in the desire for a bigger kitchen.

I'm right there with you. Okay. I am like the worst at interior design. In fact, the other day,

so we've got this island in the middle of our kitchen. It's kind of tall. It's not ideal. It's too tall for me. I can't do anything on it. Like I can't prep or anyway, in the sink cracked in the island. And it's all one piece, apparently, like the whole thing. You can't just like take the sink out and switch to another sink. Oh. No, anyways, we've been like, I don't even know, putting some sort of a glue thing in there, which is probably not like healthy. I don't even know what's going on with it. But anyway, I'm so bad at interior design that my girlfriend was like, well, this is some, this is whatever. And then the other one is like a composite like the other counter so she's

like if you change this out then you're going to have to change and I was like I don't even know

but here's what I do know the spot where our table is is so thin that like if you if you walk to

the back of the table you're stuck there there. Yeah. You can't get out.

So like, either everybody has to get out to let you out or you have to like ask for people

to get you stuff.

And I have thought so many times if I could just extend this one wall on the side, two feet.

That's all I need, Kate.

Yeah.

Just an easy little project.

Just knocked down that wall, you know, as if it's ever that easy. Yeah, right. It goes like into our driveway. And I was like, can we get two feet? What kind of a project would be? They'd have to like rip off the whole side of that house. And then you're painting your house. And you know. Then I read your book and I was like, I could just get a thinner table. Yes. There we go. That might be what we do. But to the point of like, I'm pretty content. I don't care that the island doesn't match the counters. It just kind of is what it is. It's where we live. I do all, I'm drawn in to these things. I think mainly because it would make your life easier, right? it would make your life easier. People could get out of the table and move around. So can you just give us a bit of your backstory about

this is a book about contentment. It's a book about the things that we wish. There's 10 of them in this

book and they're so relatable. Where did it come from? Yes. So I'm Kate Strickler. I run the

Instagram account, Nap Time Kitchen.

And so I've been online for about 10 years and I started to notice that every time I would

personally share anything kind of like revolving around contentment, something that I was struggling

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